{"id":12280,"date":"2014-04-21T04:17:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=12280"},"modified":"2014-04-21T04:17:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T10:17:12","slug":"who-gets-to-decide-what-is-bad-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/who-gets-to-decide-what-is-bad-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Who gets to decide what is bad beer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 04.21.14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-04-14\/constellations-surge-in-corona-sales-relies-on-selling-consistent-image\">The Corona Coup: How Constellation Sells So Much Bad Beer.<\/a> Just a thought. It would be interesting to see the results of a blind tasting where the same people who give other Mexican beers a higher rating and rip Corona to shreds compare the two. Could they tell the difference? <strong>[Via Businessweek]<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/business\/Passion_for_beer_pales_in_Belgium_.html\">Passion for beer pales in Belgium<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/sns-rt-us-germany-beer-20140418,0,7663074.story\">Glass half empty for Germany&#8217;s proud beer industry.<\/a> Guess there&#8217;s no beery reasons to visit those places any more. <strong>[Via Associated Press and Reuters]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/arts-and-lifestyle\/2014\/04\/masochists-heres-hops-flavored-soda\/8880\/\">For Masochists, Here&#8217;s Some Hops-Flavored Soda.<\/a> &#8220;It&#8217;s a frustrating beverage designed for frustrated people.&#8221; Quite an endorsement, don&#8217;t you think? <strong>[Via The Atlantic Cities]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2014\/04\/20\/new-beer-old-cans-why-investors-should-pay-attenti.aspx\">New Beer, Old Cans: Why Investors Should Pay Attention to Miller Lite.<\/a> So why did it take so long for somebody at Miller to think, &#8220;This retro thing that worked for Pabst &#8211; why don&#8217;t we try that?&#8221; <strong>[Via the Motley Fool]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/rg\/news\/local\/31370817-75\/hops-hop-brewing-beer-oregon.html.csp\">Beer spills into history books.<\/a> The story states the Oregon Hops &#038; Brewing Archives is the first of its kind in the country. From my perspective, it is a good thing that and <em>agricultural<\/em> historian at New Mexico State University is an unofficial adviser to the Oregon State University project. <strong>[Via Register-Guard]<\/strong]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY BEER LINKS, MUSING 04.21.14 The Corona Coup: How Constellation Sells So Much Bad Beer. Just a thought. It would be interesting to see the results of a blind tasting where the same people who give other Mexican beers a higher rating and rip Corona to shreds compare the two. Could they tell the difference? &#8230; <a title=\"Who gets to decide what is bad beer?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/who-gets-to-decide-what-is-bad-beer\/\" aria-label=\"More on Who gets to decide what is bad beer?\">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-12280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3c4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280","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=12280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12282,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions\/12282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}