{"id":12127,"date":"2014-02-17T05:49:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T11:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=12127"},"modified":"2014-02-17T05:49:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T11:49:59","slug":"the-obscure-versus-the-classics-beer-or-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-obscure-versus-the-classics-beer-or-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"The obscure versus the classics (beer or wine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 02.03.18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I had in the way for expectations related to <a href=\"http:\/\/craftwriting.as.uky.edu\/?p=20\">Craft Writing: Beer, The Digital, and Craft Culture<\/a>, but they were in any event exceeded this weekend in Kentucky. More about that Wednesday. Spoiler alert: Some really excellent beer being brewed in Kentucky. So on to a few links &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/31c989da-8829-11e3-8afa-00144feab7de.html#axzz2tNJZqg3D\"><strong>Bottle fight: Novelty v classic wines.<\/strong><\/a> Full confession, I crossed out the word &#8220;wines&#8221; to make it clear you could insert &#8220;beers.&#8221; From Jancis Robinson, &#8220;The desire for ever more obscure ferments seems to have also taken hold across the Atlantic. Experienced restaurant-going friends just back from southern California reported recently that they didn\u2019t recognise anything on the wine lists of the smartest establishments.&#8221; Or as Teri Fahrendorf said Saturday at <a href=\"http:\/\/craftwriting.as.uky.edu\/\">Craft Writing<\/a> (more from there in a couple of days), the highest rated beers are the ones with the most alcohol, the most hops and &#8220;the ones nobody can get.&#8221; Reminding me of a T-shirt spotted at a beer festival a while back, &#8220;I listen to bands that don&#8217;t even exist yet.&#8221; <strong>[via Financial Times]<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/02\/camra-and-future.html\"><strong>CAMRA and the future.<\/strong><\/a> Trust me, you want to read any blog post that begins, &#8220;Tim Webb has set the cat among the pigeons.&#8221; <strong>[via Tandleman&#8217;s Beer Blog]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2014\/02\/16\/3939507\/craft-beer-business-bubbles-up.html\"><strong>Craft beer business bubbles up in South Florida.<\/strong><\/a> Wherever Evan Benn goes, it seems, craft breweries follow. <strong>[via Miami Herald]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classickicks.com\/2014\/02\/shaun-hill-interview\/\"><strong>Shaun Hill.<\/strong><\/a> Your weekly Shaun Hill and Hill Farmstead Brewery fix.  <strong>[Via Classic Kicks]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/we-drank-beer-concentrate-so-you-dont-have-to-1523144310\"><strong>We drank beer concentrate so you don&#8217;t have to.<\/strong><\/a> Hey, I&#8217;d take this review from Gizmodo over the average <em>Consumer Reports<\/em> analysis anytime. <strong>[via Gizmodo]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 02.03.18 I&#8217;m not sure what I had in the way for expectations related to Craft Writing: Beer, The Digital, and Craft Culture, but they were in any event exceeded this weekend in Kentucky. More about that Wednesday. Spoiler alert: Some really excellent beer being brewed in Kentucky. So on to a &#8230; <a title=\"The obscure versus the classics (beer or wine)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-obscure-versus-the-classics-beer-or-wine\/\" aria-label=\"More on The obscure versus the classics (beer or 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":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-39B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127","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=12127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12130,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions\/12130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}