{"id":11557,"date":"2013-07-25T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=11557"},"modified":"2013-07-25T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T17:01:55","slug":"how-much-is-too-much-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/how-much-is-too-much-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"How much is too much variety?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20130725-pig.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"235\" alt=\"Musing, ala pig\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Joe Stange tackles the <em>how many are too many breweries<\/em> question in the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/draftmag.com\/\">DRAFT<\/a> magazine (July-August). <\/p>\n<p>Yes, the topic has been talked to death (the <a href=\"http:\/\/business.time.com\/2013\/07\/04\/too-much-of-a-good-thing-concerns-about-craft-beer-saturation\/\">Time<\/a> and Denver Post &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.denverpost.com\/beer\/2013\/06\/27\/why-cant-there-be-a-brewery-on-every-corner\/10715\/\">&#8216;Why can&#8217;t there be a brewery on every corner?&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; summaries will get you caught up if you&#8217;ve been in the south of France drinking wine the last few years). But Joe gives us more to think about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . and variety&#151;not quality&#151;might be the real secret to craft beer&#8217;s recent success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If that&#8217;s true does it mean the real question(s) might be <em>is there such a such as too much variety?<\/em> and if so, <em>how much is too much?<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>My guess is &#8220;yes&#8221; and &#8220;we don&#8217;t know yet.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Stange tackles the how many are too many breweries question in the latest issue of DRAFT magazine (July-August). Yes, the topic has been talked to death (the Time and Denver Post &#8211; &#8216;Why can&#8217;t there be a brewery on every corner?&#8217; &#8211; summaries will get you caught up if you&#8217;ve been in the south &#8230; <a title=\"How much is too much variety?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/how-much-is-too-much-variety\/\" aria-label=\"More on How much is too much variety?\">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":[684],"class_list":["post-11557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-thirstypilgrim"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-30p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557","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=11557"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11565,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions\/11565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}