{"id":11526,"date":"2013-07-12T11:56:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/?p=11526"},"modified":"2013-07-12T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T21:07:01","slug":"a-brews-who-of-the-millennium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/a-brews-who-of-the-millennium\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brew’s Who Of The Millennium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember last January when First We Feast<\/em> posted a list of The 20 Most Influential Beers of All Time,<\/a> inspiring Martyn Cornell, Mr. Zythophile, to counter with The REAL 20 most influential beers of all time<\/a>?<\/p>\n

More than 200 comments followed, and way toward the end somebody suggested, “Perhaps Martyn could start another list of the 20 most influential people!”<\/p>\n

And he answered,<\/a> “I am indeed considering that very thing.”<\/p>\n

Every day I get up thinking, “Today will be the day.” Then I check Zythophile. I have learned to live with heartbreak.<\/p>\n

Then today, while I was researching a pretty much unrelated story I bumped into the 1999 issue of American Brewer<\/em> in which Greg Kitsock assembled such a list. “A Brew’s Who Of The Millennium: 25 Of The Most Significant Figures In Brewing Over The Last 1,000 Years” actually includes more than 50 names. He ended up with two lists of 25 (and in some cases had more than one name in a position), dividing them into B.J. and A.J. — Before Jack (McAuliffe) and After Jack. Kitsock explained in the introduction that the focus was on the profession of brewing.<\/em> And when reading A.J. remember the list was compiled in 1999.<\/p>\n

The top 25 B.J<\/strong>.
\n1) Louis Pasteur
\n2) Ferdinand P.A. Carre
\n3) Williams IV, Elector of Bavaria
\n4) Arthur Guinness
\n5) Adolphus Busch
\n6) Joseph Groll
\n7) Sir William Gladstone
\n8) George Hodgson
\n9) King Ludwig I
\n10 James Watt
\n11) Ralph Harwood
\n12) William Bass
\n13) Gerard Adriaan Heineken
\n14) Emil Hansen
\n15) Daniel Wheeler
\n16) Gabriel Sedlmayr the Younger and Anton Dreher
\n17) Jean Primus
\n18) Wayne Wheeler
\n19) Michael Combrune
\n20) Maximilian I
\n21) Jean De Clerck
\n22) Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
\n23) Carl Joseph Napolean
\n24) Saint Hildegarde
\n25) Robert Burns<\/p>\n

The Top 25 A.J.<\/strong>
\n1) Michael Jackson
\n2) Jim Koch
\n3) August Busch III
\n4) Bob Lenz
\n5) Henry King
\n6) Bert Grant
\n7) Michael Hardman, Graham Lees, Jim Makin and Bill Mellor
\n8) Charlie Papazian
\n9) Fritz Maytag
\n10) Paul Shipman
\n11) Paul Camusi and Ken Grossman
\n12) Bill Coors
\n13) Robert Uihlein
\n14) Jack McAuliffe
\n15) Candy Lightner
\n16) Dave Bruce
\n17) Charles Finkel
\n18) Rich Yuengling Jr.
\n19) Dave Rehr
\n20) Pierre Celis
\n21) Alan Bond
\n22) Joseph Owades and Karl Strauss
\n23) Alan Forage and Liam Byrne
\n24) John Mitchell
\n25) Bill Owens *<\/p>\n

* For this one it seems best to include the explanation, since Owens owned American Brewer<\/em>. “His Buffalo Bill’s Brewpub was the first establishment of its kind in the U.S. (a bar where beer is pumped directly from the serving tank to your glass). Owens has revived the old colonial style of pumpkin ale, and is publisher of American Brewer<\/em>, a magazine about the business of beer that bridges the gap between knowledgeable consumer and professional brewer. Most important of all, his of-the-wall style adds some fun to an industry that takes itself too seriously much of the time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember last January when First We Feast posted a list of The 20 Most Influential Beers of All Time, inspiring Martyn Cornell, Mr. Zythophile, to counter with The REAL 20 most influential beers of all time? More than 200 comments followed, and way toward the end somebody suggested, “Perhaps Martyn could start another list of … 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":[],"class_list":["post-11526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2ZU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526","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=11526"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11538,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions\/11538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}