{"id":12061,"date":"2014-01-13T06:22:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T12:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=12061"},"modified":"2014-01-13T06:22:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T12:22:48","slug":"monday-beer-links-musing-01-13-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-beer-links-musing-01-13-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday beer links, musing 01.13.2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/column\/177951-beer-is-the-new-music\/\"><strong>Beer Is The New Music.<\/strong><\/a> Lots of analogies to be made, like &#8220;The catch is that, like &#8216;indie music&#8217;, &#8216;craft beer&#8217; can seem like an ambiguous term.&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those who spent hours meticulously categorizing albums and reading music blogs will nod their heads at the hallmarks of the current craft beer craze: Obscurity and novelty are celebrated, the mainstream is mocked, and trends change regularly, with old tastes discarded and fresh genres added to the mix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<strong>Via PopMatters<\/strong>, one of my first reads each morning, and apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brewer_a\/status\/421268137590280193\">Andrew Mason&#8217;s<\/a> as well]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/literatureandlibation.com\/2014\/01\/09\/announcement-the-session-84-alternative-reviews\/\"><strong>Announcement \u2013 The Session #84: &#8220;Alternative&#8221; Reviews.<\/strong><\/a> It might be interesting if everybody <em>reviewed<\/em> (or didn&#8217;t <em>review<\/em>) the exact same beer, but it also would be a little too much like a school assignment. <strong>[Via Literature &#038; Libation]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boakandbailey.com\/2013\/12\/beer-geek-media-agenda-2014\/\"><strong>Beer Geek Media Agenda for 2014.<\/strong><\/a> And best comment of the week:  &#8220;If every blogger just posted that list, it would save everyone a lot of time.&#8221; <strong>[Via Boak &#038; Baley&#8217;s Beer Blog; comment from Tyson]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/good-brewers-make-brewery.html\"><strong>Good Brewers Make A Brewery.<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;Can a small brewery lose three of their star brewers over  a relatively short time and still be on top of their game?  Chances are they can&#8217;t.&#8221; <strong>[Via Tandleman&#8217;s Beer Blog]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/joeberkowitz\/why-i-feel-okay-about-falling-off-the-wagon-after-years-of-s\"><strong>Why I Feel OK About Falling Off The Wagon After Years Of Sobriety.<\/strong><\/a> Pete Brown wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/petebrown.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/dry-january.html\">&#8220;Dry January&#8221;<\/a> and Alan McLeod about <a href=\"http:\/\/beerblog.genx40.com\/archive\/2014\/january\/whydryjanuary\">&#8220;Why &#8216;Dry January&#8217; Makes Sense.&#8221;<\/a> And you have this: &#8220;Not drinking for two and a half years gave me the gift of never having to think about controlling myself. Starting again brought back the recurring epiphany that I need to be more present and aware in all my appetites.&#8221; <strong>[Via BuzzFeed]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beer Is The New Music. Lots of analogies to be made, like &#8220;The catch is that, like &#8216;indie music&#8217;, &#8216;craft beer&#8217; can seem like an ambiguous term.&#8221; Those who spent hours meticulously categorizing albums and reading music blogs will nod their heads at the hallmarks of the current craft beer craze: Obscurity and novelty are &#8230; <a title=\"Monday beer links, musing 01.13.2014\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-beer-links-musing-01-13-2014\/\" aria-label=\"More on Monday beer links, musing 01.13.2014\">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-12061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-38x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061","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=12061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12064,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions\/12064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}