{"id":13503,"date":"2015-08-11T08:32:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=13503"},"modified":"2015-08-11T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T18:47:09","slug":"fred-eckhardt-just-plain-generous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/fred-eckhardt-just-plain-generous\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Eckhardt: Just plain generous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Eckhardt <a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutbeer.com\/remembering-fred-eckhardt-dean-of-american-beer-writing\/\">died yesterday<\/a>. No matter how many descriptions you read in the next few days of what a generous man, just plain generous, he was I doubt any will do him justice. More accurately, I&#8217;ve typed and deleted enough attempts I know they won&#8217;t came from me.<\/p>\n<p>So I recommend you pull <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1613743882\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1613743882&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=beertravelers\">&#8220;The Audacity of Hops: The History of America&#8217;s Craft Beer Revolution&#8221;<\/a> off the shelf and read the six pages Tom Acitelli devoted to him. Then see what treasures <em>All About Beer<\/em> posts from its archives (<a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutbeer.com\/article\/freds-been-grungy-from-the-very-beginning\/\">this is a good one<\/a> to start with).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Added Tuesday afternoon:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/beer\/index.ssf\/2015\/08\/the_late_fred_eckhardt_he_was.html\">&#8220;The late Fred Eckhardt: &#8216;He was the cosmic giggle of craft beer'&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nRelated:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/bottled-beers-types-and-categories-1977\/\">&#8220;Bottled beers types and categories (1977).&#8221;<\/a>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Eckhardt died yesterday. No matter how many descriptions you read in the next few days of what a generous man, just plain generous, he was I doubt any will do him justice. More accurately, I&#8217;ve typed and deleted enough attempts I know they won&#8217;t came from me. So I recommend you pull &#8220;The Audacity &#8230; <a title=\"Fred Eckhardt: Just plain generous\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/fred-eckhardt-just-plain-generous\/\" aria-label=\"More on Fred Eckhardt: Just plain generous\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3vN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503","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=13503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13507,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13503\/revisions\/13507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}