Beer Blogging Friday: The Session is a monthly event for the beer blogging community, begun in March of 2007 by Stan Hieronymus of Appellation Beer and Jay Brooks of the Brookston Beer Bulletin . This month, Tom Cizaukas of Yours for Good Fermentables poses beer bloggers of the question What is a Beer Garden? Is it a specific type of place, or is it a feeling? It's not exactly an existential question, but it is something that baits a beer geek's sense of order. Beer writers classify the beverage into hundreds of styles, with very specific and at times subtle distinctions. We're all too happy to point out details that keep something true to style, and where it all goes wrong. Maybe this comes from beer's Teutonic heritage. Today's phrase of interest is appropriated from the German biergarten . I'll approach my discussion of the term by starting with the root, exploring traditions and alternative terms in it's native tongue, and the...
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