{"id":14083,"date":"2016-08-19T09:19:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2016-08-19T09:19:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:19:58","slug":"dont-these-people-understand-the-term-craft-beer-has-no-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/dont-these-people-understand-the-term-craft-beer-has-no-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t these people understand the term &#8216;craft beer&#8217; has no meaning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And these are just the headlines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/dining\/drink\/ct-beer-delivery-chicago-food-0824-20160818-story.html\">Beer on demand: Craft breweries like Piece, Half Acre start delivery service<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decanter.com\/wine-news\/opinion\/news-blogs-anson\/craft-beer-bordeaux-wine-326181\/\">Bordeaux wine for craft beer drinkers<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/triangle\/news\/2016\/08\/18\/whats-it-like-when-your-startup-craft-brewery-gets.html\">What&#8217;s it like when your startup craft brewery gets bought by Anheuser-Busch?<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftbrewingbusiness.com\/ingredients-supplies\/hopsteiner-picks-top-hops-craft-brewing-professionals\/\">Hopsteiner picks its top hops for craft brewing professionals<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/lifestyle\/food\/hopping-mad-about-craft-beer\">Hopping mad about craft beer<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/where-to-drink-thai-craft-beer-in-bangkok-thailand.html\">Illegal Alcohol: Where to Drink Thai Craft Beer in Bangkok<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/slideshow\/13679449\/1\/10-california-craft-beers-that-cost-a-bundle-on-the-black-market.html\">10 California Craft Beers That Cost a Bundle on the Black Market<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not an argument about the validity of whatever definition of &#8220;craft beer&#8221; you want to use. I find it generally easy to simply use the word <em>beer<\/em> myself. When I write a story for one of the Brewers Association publications (<em>Zymurgy<\/em> or <em>New Brewer<\/em>) I use the term because it is defined within that context of the magazine. I just wrote a sentence in a story for <em>All About Beer<\/em> magazine where it would have been easier to use the term than not. But I found a way not to, because that&#8217;s the <em>AABM<\/em> philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>But, and you knew that was coming, as the headlines that took me  litttletime to collect indicate the term must mean something to <em>somebody<\/em> (even though you can easily strike the word craft from most of them).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And these are just the headlines. &#8211; Beer on demand: Craft breweries like Piece, Half Acre start delivery service &#8211; Bordeaux wine for craft beer drinkers &#8211; What&#8217;s it like when your startup craft brewery gets bought by Anheuser-Busch? &#8211; Hopsteiner picks its top hops for craft brewing professionals &#8211; Hopping mad about craft beer &#8230; <a title=\"Don&#8217;t these people understand the term &#8216;craft beer&#8217; has no meaning?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/dont-these-people-understand-the-term-craft-beer-has-no-meaning\/\" aria-label=\"More on Don&#8217;t these people understand the term &#8216;craft beer&#8217; has no meaning?\">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":[17,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3F9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","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=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14086,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions\/14086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}