“Sure, there are oyster stouts, but we are a clam town. Are there any clam beers?”
“Not that I’ve ever heard of.”
“Stout wouldn’t make sense. Let’s make it super pale. We can lean on the stoniness of our water to show the clams.”
“We could salt it like a Gose, the salt would help push the clam idea even further.”
“Nice. How should we hop it?”
“Something very simple but pretty, like Green Bullet.”
“Let’s add something to the boil to make it more like a pot of steamed clams, something like lemongrass.”
“Okay. So a simple ale dressed up with Cherrystone clams with a touch of Green Bullet hops, tied together with lemongrass.”
“It should be cool when it gets nice and hot in July, like a day at a clam shack in a shaker pint.”
Drink Digger because that happened.