{"id":11640,"date":"2013-08-20T05:05:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=11640"},"modified":"2013-08-20T05:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:05:22","slug":"if-beer-were-the-new-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/if-beer-were-the-new-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>IF<\/em> beer were the new wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I prefer discussion about beer <em>and<\/em> wine, as opposed to beer <em>versus<\/em> wine. (And there is the matter of <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/new-beer-rule-7-beer-is-not-the-new-wine\/\">New Beer Rule #7: Beer is not the new wine<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/i-m-h-o\/9447c8e8bfb7\">&#8220;Why beer is the new wine, and wine the new fur coat&#8221;<\/a> is so nicely written you should take the next six minutes (it is posted at <strong>Medium<\/strong>, that&#8217;s why I know long) to read it. Three sentences that might motivate you . . . <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Unlike wine, beer is subversive and lewd and witty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; You know what the wine section looks like after you&#8217;ve strolled through the beer section? Like black-and-white TV after watching hi-res color video.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/i-m-h-o\/9447c8e8bfb7\">Go enjoy it.<\/a> One reservation: I don&#8217;t consider wine an anachronism.  Because the essay celebrates <em>advances<\/em> (I agree advance are good, just so you know) it would be easy to see some readers mentally substituting in &#8220;pale lager&#8221; for &#8220;wine&#8221; in the second excerpt. Pale lager is not an anachronism. So make that two reservations. Still a fun six minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I prefer discussion about beer and wine, as opposed to beer versus wine. (And there is the matter of New Beer Rule #7: Beer is not the new wine.) But &#8220;Why beer is the new wine, and wine the new fur coat&#8221; is so nicely written you should take the next six minutes (it is &#8230; <a title=\"IF beer were the new wine\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/if-beer-were-the-new-wine\/\" aria-label=\"More on IF beer were the new wine\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-31K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640","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=11640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11642,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11640\/revisions\/11642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}