{"id":11009,"date":"2013-02-04T17:41:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T23:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/?p=11009"},"modified":"2013-02-04T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T23:41:45","slug":"best-beer-name-of-the-year-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/best-beer-name-of-the-year-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Best beer name of the year &#8211; so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sort of thing you find when you read too many journalism-related blogs. Who names a beer Unemployed Reporter Porter? Can&#8217;t quite fit it all into a tweet, so from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ct.com\/news\/advocates\/wtxx-former-hartford-advocate-writer-brews-unemployed-reporter-porter-20130201,0,4560877.story\">CT.com<\/a> (meaning Connecticut): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jon Campbell, who briefly made Hartford a more interesting place with his presence and reporting for the Advocate, has entered the homebrew game with his signature Unemployed Reporter Porter (pictured).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Porter style beers were first popularized in the nineteenth century by merchant sailors and manual dock laborers,&#8221; the label reads. &#8220;Unemployed Reporter is crafted in the same tradition, honoring a profession likewise doomed to decline and irrelevance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For this new class of &#8220;expendables,&#8221; the label goes on, &#8220;we&#8217;ve included chocolate and roasted barley malts that are as dark and bitter as the future of American journalism, and a high alcohol content designed to numb the pain of a slow, inexorable march toward obsolescence. While Unemployed Reporter is especially delicious as a breakfast beer, it&#8217;s still smooth enough to be enjoyed all day, every day. And let&#8217;s be honest: what else do you have going on?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now head there to read the rest and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ct.com\/news\/advocates\/wtxx-former-hartford-advocate-writer-brews-unemployed-reporter-porter-20130201,0,4560877.story\">look at the label<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sort of thing you find when you read too many journalism-related blogs. Who names a beer Unemployed Reporter Porter? Can&#8217;t quite fit it all into a tweet, so from CT.com (meaning Connecticut): Jon Campbell, who briefly made Hartford a more interesting place with his presence and reporting for the Advocate, has entered &#8230; <a title=\"Best beer name of the year &#8211; so far\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/best-beer-name-of-the-year-so-far\/\" aria-label=\"More on Best beer name of the year &#8211; so far\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[622],"class_list":["post-11009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-beer-names"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2Rz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11014,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009\/revisions\/11014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}