{"id":1444,"date":"2009-04-30T05:18:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T12:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2009-04-30T05:18:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T12:18:05","slug":"french-laundry-loves-local-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/french-laundry-loves-local-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"French Laundry loves local beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it&#8217;s not <em>the<\/em> French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley ($240 tasting menu, hard-to-get reservations, $50 corkage fee if you bring your own wine), but French Laundry Caf\u00e9 &#038; Market in Fenton, Michigan, has announced it will pour only Michigan beers.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, bartender Jon Foley says the restaurants&#8217;s nine handles will offer &#8220;the spectrum of styles, coming from a variety of Michigan breweries including Arbor Brewing, Arcadia Ales, Atwater, Bell\u2019s, Darkhorse, Dragonmead, Founders, Frog Island (Michigan Brewing Company), King\u2019s, New Holland, Sherwood, Short\u2019s and The Livery.&#8221; Featured selections will be posted each week at the restaurant as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/LunchandBeyond.com\">online.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This marks a major triumph for us as a business, especially in our solidarity with the Michigan brewing industry,&#8221; says owner Mark Hamel. &#8220;We believe Michigan makes the best beer in the country and now there\u2019s finally going to be a place to get consistent Michigan draft in Genesse County.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looks like a place to head for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beertown.org\/events\/acbw\/index.html\">American Craft Beer Week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><code>&nbsp;<\/code> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it&#8217;s not the French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley ($240 tasting menu, hard-to-get reservations, $50 corkage fee if you bring your own wine), but French Laundry Caf\u00e9 &#038; Market in Fenton, Michigan, has announced it will pour only Michigan beers. In a press release, bartender Jon Foley says the restaurants&#8217;s nine handles will offer &#8230; <a title=\"French Laundry loves local beer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/french-laundry-loves-local-beer\/\" aria-label=\"More on French Laundry loves local beer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[5,17],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-food","category-beers-of-conviction","tag-local-beer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-ni","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","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=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}