{"id":12050,"date":"2014-01-06T05:40:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T11:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=12050"},"modified":"2014-01-06T05:40:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T11:40:03","slug":"monday-beer-links-musing-01-06-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-beer-links-musing-01-06-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday beer links, musing 01.06.14"},"content":{"rendered":"

– “I Had Just Three Things To Do.”<\/strong><\/a> Alan McLeod’s contribution to The Session #83. Because he’s being hounded by spammers, comments are unfortunately closed. So I’ll ask the question that pops to my mind here: If beer writing becomes less about community and more about individuality could that have an impact on the communal aspect of beer? <\/p>\n

– Beers: Baltic and imperial porters, strong enough for cold winter nights.<\/strong><\/a> A story in which flavorful beer and humans interact. <\/p>\n

– Beer Business Daily Predictions for 2014.<\/strong><\/a> Since it seems there’s no escaping discussions that are really about business — will “craft” sales continue to increase? how many openings? how many closings? rising or falling prices? — might as well read what Harry Schuhmacher has to report, because these are things he probably knows more about than anybody. BTW, he’s not the only one asking of legalizing weed will affect beer sales in Colorado<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Schuhmacher’s column in the current (dated January) All About Beer<\/em> magazine is also an excellent read. Headlined “The Light of My Life is Dimming” it begins:<\/p>\n

Everybody I know these days hates light beer, except those who don’t. It’s not just that they don’t prefer light beer or that they like more flavorful beers: They actually actively and morally despise light beer. It’s as if light beer was once a significant other who wronged them somehow — cheated with an import, say — and forgiveness is out of the question.<\/p>\n

And of the cheating tarts out there, none is more despised these days, it seems, than poor old Miller Lite. You can forgive Bud Light, who was just a friend with benefits… You can forgive Coors Light because that was just a youthful dalliance… Corona Light was just a hookup on the beach, and Amstel Light was an uptown girl you couldn’t afford anyway. Natty Light and Keystone Light? Well those were just one-night stands and you consider yourself lucky for not getting the clap.<\/p>\n

But Miller Lite? That’s the one you thought you’d marry for life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The column itself is worth the price of the magazine (although as a bonus you get my story about “The Class of ’88”).<\/p>\n

– Another prediction: Wine will continue to lose market share; craft beer is on the rise.<\/strong><\/a> Yep, linking to wine writer Jamie Goode for the third time in four weeks. And not just because he writes, “You can now get some great flavour experiences from beer for relatively little money. The same isn\u2019t true of wine, and those who make mid-priced boring wine are the ones who will suffer loss of market share.” The whole list of wine predictions is worth reading, but remember he’s in the UK. The US “craft beer” market is arguably more mature, so we might wonder if the “commoditization of wine” he writes about could spill over into beer.<\/p>\n

– German brewers push into the craft beer market with new hops.<\/strong><\/a> Pardon the hubris, but I told you so.<\/a><\/p>\n

– You Are Not A Brewer, You Are A Panhandler With A Kickstarter Account.<\/strong><\/a> I aim to post five links a week here, bookmarking contenders during the previous week or saving them to Pocket<\/a>. This popped on my radar Thursday and by Friday it had, as we used to say back in the day, “gone viral.” I expect you may have already seen it, but in case it got overlooked in the holiday bustle . . . a “bonus” sixth link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– “I Had Just Three Things To Do.” Alan McLeod’s contribution to The Session #83. Because he’s being hounded by spammers, comments are unfortunately closed. So I’ll ask the question that pops to my mind here: If beer writing becomes less about community and more about individuality could that have an impact on the communal … 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":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-38m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050","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=12050"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12055,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050\/revisions\/12055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}