{"id":12024,"date":"2013-12-23T06:54:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T12:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=12024"},"modified":"2013-12-21T17:45:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T23:45:26","slug":"monday-beer-links-musing-12-23-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-beer-links-musing-12-23-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday beer links, musing 12.23.13"},"content":{"rendered":"

– Terroir and the Making of Beer into Wine.<\/strong><\/a> I commented on the original post (leaving a typo; sigh) because it is a topic obviously dear to me. However, and I might wear you out with this, using the word terroir<\/em> when talking about beer from a place<\/em> just confuses the conversation. To cite Jamie Goode<\/a> for the second week in a row,<\/a> he once described the concept of terroir<\/em> in wine as “blindingly obvious and hotly controversial.”<\/p>\n

Find a word to use other than terroir<\/em> and the conversation may change. Read the other comments<\/a> and also head over to a discussion that popped up at Beer Advocate<\/a> with that in mind. And particularly this post from VitisVinifera<\/a>, which takes things in another direction.<\/p>\n

until a brewer:
\n-grows their barley\/wheat\/whatever right there
\n-grows their hops right there
\n-gets their water on-site
\n-completes all of this with a contiguous on-site brewery<\/p>\n

I will consider this an unanswered question<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My argument would be that a beer can taste of a place, represent a place, and be unique to a place without every damn ingredient being from that place.<\/p>\n

– Does beer need editing?<\/strong><\/a> Boak and Bailey ask that question and more: “Who is there to stop a brewer releasing a bad beer? To say, before it reaches the public, that it is simply not good enough?”<\/p>\n

– International Gruit Day.<\/strong><\/a> Circle the date on your calendar: Feb. 1. But celebrate responsibly, because there’s little nastier than a Ground Hog Day hangover.<\/p>\n

– There are at least two different “wine communities” \u2013 and they don\u2019t talk to each other.<\/strong><\/a> Arguably at least three beer communities. Can you name them?<\/p>\n

– Best Beer Writing Contest.<\/strong><\/a> Sponsored by the Beer Bloggers Conference and the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA). Twenty-five entrants receive free registration to the 2014 Beer Bloggers Conference and the overall winner gets a free trip for two to attend NBWA\u2019s 77th Annual Convention in New Orleans. A new blog post, dated after Dec. 19, is required, one that discusses the topic of “America\u2019s Beer Renaissance: Consumer Choice and Variety in the U.S. Beer Market.” One of the suggested topics — and if you want to win you should consider their agenda — is, “How can beer writers partner with brewers, beer distributors and retailers to promote beer in their communities?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– Terroir and the Making of Beer into Wine. I commented on the original post (leaving a typo; sigh) because it is a topic obviously dear to me. However, and I might wear you out with this, using the word terroir when talking about beer from a place just confuses the conversation. To cite Jamie … 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":[36,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hops","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-37W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024","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=12024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12027,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions\/12027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}