What's Session Beers? 

They are sooooo amazing. Pumped to see brewers coming up with new innovative recipe. Glad you loved this deep dive, more coming up! 👌🍺

Would agree with that, it always depend on the individual affected. It’s still somewhat of a grey area when you look at the laws surrounding the situation!

Ohhhhh that’s who they are. Thanks for pointing out, it’s actually quite big brands in the independent scheme of things. (If they are still independent)

@@bringyourempties They are, in the sense that they're not owned by another big brewery, however they are listed on the Toronto stock Exchange, so they aren't the smallest player in town. They are independent, just like Moosehead is, but given their scale, there's a reason Laker is with domestic beers, and Waterloo with "national craft" (a meaningless term to differentiate vis-a-vis Ontario Craft Brewers) such as Mill Street and Creemore, at least at my LCBO.

Alright, sounds a lot clearer now for my little Quebec head haha. Thanks for the info, cheers!

@@bringyourempties Thinking about it, I'm not sure I can think of a Quebec-based brewery that quite fits that same profile as Waterloo Brewing (large but independent). Les Brasseurs RJ is probably the closest example, but even then, the product mix is different.

Agreed on this point, wouldn't qualify Gose or Berliner Weisse as a session style of beer but would qualify them as "sessionable" when well balanced and not overwhelming with the tartness of the beer.

@@bringyourempties so how do you differentiate "session style" from "sessionable" exactly?

Really quick: it would be the ABV volume. But again, depends on the recipe. I would say the Pale Ale is supposed to have better mouthfeel and a stronger malt background.

Definitely has mostly to do with the malts used. A pale ale starts out with 2 row pale malt, and will have some sweeter malts as well. A session IPA will likely have pale 2 row, but can also have Pilsner malts or maybe even some oats for body. The goal of a pale ale is to have some balance , and American Pale Ale will have balance with the hoppy edge. While the session ipa should be really light bodied and low abv with a perceived ipa flavor. So to get the Hopped up IPA taste brewers typically do not use Cara malts or other sweet malts in the Session IPA’s. I work for Destihl Brewery, we make a seasonal session IPA called Soundboard.

Thanks for pointing extra info Brandon. The brewer half of H&B is busy at school this morning. Extra brewer help is always appreciated. There’s a lot of intricacies with malts and it’s definitely something I need to learn more about it. Thanks for the great info and cheers!

Hops & Bros you guys are doing 👍

Thanks, we’ll have to pay your brewery a visit soon! 👌

not sure to get what you mean by that? please explain.