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What is Flagship Friday?

If you’re reading this, you’re probably already familiar with the project that Stephen Beaumont and I launched in February of this year called Flagship February. One of the aspects of that effort was inviting beer writers from around the globe writing essays about their favorite flagship beers. We felt it was a great success and may, many people responded very enthusiastically. We’re planning on continuing it next year, but in the meantime, we wanted to figure out a way to keep the conversation going, at least a little bit, between then and now.

In the final essay of Flagship February, more of a dialogue, Stephen and I came up with the idea of Flagship Friday to continue the flagship conversation. We chose the first Friday of each month because that’s when we used to hold Beer Bloggers Friday, a.k.a. The Session, and there was a gap in the calendar since Stan Hieronymus and I decided to discontinue the Session.

So the plan is simple, like The Session, on the first Friday of each month (excluding February, of course) we’ll invite anyone to write about a flagship beer of their choosing. And unlike the old Session, there’s no round-up to write. Stephen and I will spread the word on social media, and if everybody uses the hashtag #FlagshipFriday, we think we can keep people talking about flagship beers.

How to Participate in a Flagship Friday

If you write a beer or beer-related blog, please consider joining us on the Flagship Friday/February project. It couldn’t be easier.

  1. Reserve the next free month or any specific month not yet taken. To do this, please contact me via Jay (.) Brooks (@) gmail (.) com. The schedule is at the bottom of this page.
  2. Choose your flagship beer to write about. See the list below of past flagship beers both for ideas and also to insure you pick something we haven’t already done.*
  3. On the first Friday of your month, post it on your platform, and spread the word on social channels using the hashtag #FlagshipFriday. Also, please send Stephen and/or myself an e-mail or DM, etc. to let us know it’s up so we can also help spread the word.

*NOTE: I think given the nature of this project, there can be multiple essays/posts about the same flagship beer precisely because they’re often very personal. So your experience with a flagship beer will undoubtedly be different than anyone else’s so it’s conceivable we can have as many stories about the same beer as there are storytellers. But for the beginning, at least, I’d prefer to explore new and different beers while there are still so many unexplored. At least for the next year or two, then I think we can open it up to any and all flagship beers. But apart from that, the sky’s the limit.

Past Flagship Beers

Flagship Friday Schedule

  1. April 2019: Lagunitas IPA by Jay Brooks
  2. May 2019: Alaskan Smoked Porter by Stan Hieronymus
  3. June 2019: tbd by Gary Gillman
  4. July 2019:
  5. August 2019:
  6. September 2019:
  7. October 2019:
  8. November 2019:
  9. December 2019:
  10. January 2020:
  11. March 2020:
  12. April 2020: