{"id":1183,"date":"2009-03-18T16:54:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T23:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2009-03-18T16:54:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T23:54:30","slug":"here-we-go-again-defining-craft-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/here-we-go-again-defining-craft-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Here we go again: Defining craft beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick tip of the cap to Andy Crouch for a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerscribe.com\/2009\/03\/18\/the-brewers-associations-quiet-war-on-blue-moon-leinenkugels-goose-island-and-maybe-even-elysian-new-belgium-and-your-brewery\/\">looking behind the curtain,<\/a> otherwise known as first-rate beer journalism. (And, as Alan will tell you, I&#8217;m a curmudgeon who doesn&#8217;t rush to such judgment.)<\/p>\n<p>OK, Crouch doesn&#8217;t get an &#8220;A&#8221; for headline writing &#151; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerscribe.com\/2009\/03\/18\/the-brewers-associations-quiet-war-on-blue-moon-leinenkugels-goose-island-and-maybe-even-elysian-new-belgium-and-your-brewery\/\">&#8220;The Brewers Association\u2019s Quiet War On Blue Moon, Leinenkugels, Goose Island, and Maybe Even Elysian, New Belgium, and Your Brewery  &#8230;&#8221;<\/a> is a mouthful &#151; but please go read the post.<\/p>\n<p>You and I might feel like we&#8217;ve beaten the &#8220;what is craft beer?&#8221; horse to death, but I&#8217;m big on knowing <em>about the place<\/em> where a beer is brewed. Of course, then <em>I get to decide<\/em> whether to call it a craft beer. <\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><code>&nbsp;<\/code> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick tip of the cap to Andy Crouch for a bit of looking behind the curtain, otherwise known as first-rate beer journalism. (And, as Alan will tell you, I&#8217;m a curmudgeon who doesn&#8217;t rush to such judgment.) OK, Crouch doesn&#8217;t get an &#8220;A&#8221; for headline writing &#151; &#8220;The Brewers Association\u2019s Quiet War On Blue &#8230; <a title=\"Here we go again: Defining craft beer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/here-we-go-again-defining-craft-beer\/\" aria-label=\"More on Here we go again: Defining craft beer\">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-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-j5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","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=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}