{"id":14687,"date":"2017-05-30T19:32:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T01:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=14687"},"modified":"2017-05-31T07:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:37:52","slug":"pay-no-attention-to-the-man-with-the-big-moustache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-with-the-big-moustache\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay no attention to the man with the big moustache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20170531-jimboyd.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"295\" alt=\"Jim Boyd, Roy Farms\" class=\"alignright size-full\" \/>I apologize, because what follows is strictly American hop industry inside stuff. But I&#8217;ve reached the hops section of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1603587691\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1603587691&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=beertravelers&#038;linkId=4c7be8f0991a8bc6888ab6fea0fdb10d\"><em>Miracle Brew: Hops, Barley, Water, Yeast, and the Nature of Beer,<\/em><\/a> which has left me a bit giddy.<\/p>\n<p>In the introduction, Pete Brown writes, &#8220;I&#8217;ve made it very easy for you to dip in and read first about the ingredient that interests you the most, which is probably hops, but I wouldn&#8217;t recommend that.&#8221; So I started with barley, read about water, and now I&#8217;m surrounded by hops. And page 245 a bigger-than-life character is introduced. Pete never gets around to using his name, but industry types will recognize who it is immediately. And the whole exchange makes me laugh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20170531-miracle.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"710\" alt=\"Excerpt from \"Miracle Brew\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If nobody adds the name in the comments I will in the next day or two.<\/p>\n<p>While you are here, a reminder you might want to sign up for Hop Queries, a newsletter that should appear in your email box once a month. It will contain more useful information than the identity of Giant Moustache.<\/p>\n<form style=\"border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center;\" action=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/fortheloveofhops\" method=\"post\" target=\"popupwindow\" onsubmit=\"window.open('https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/fortheloveofhops', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=800,height=600');return true\">\n<p><label for=\"tlemail\">Enter your email address<\/label><\/p>\n<p><input type=\"text\" style=\"width:140px\" name=\"email\" id=\"tlemail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input type=\"hidden\" value=\"1\" name=\"embed\"\/><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\" target=\"_blank\">powered by TinyLetter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize, because what follows is strictly American hop industry inside stuff. But I&#8217;ve reached the hops section of Miracle Brew: Hops, Barley, Water, Yeast, and the Nature of Beer, which has left me a bit giddy. In the introduction, Pete Brown writes, &#8220;I&#8217;ve made it very easy for you to dip in and read &#8230; <a title=\"Pay no attention to the man with the big moustache\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-with-the-big-moustache\/\" aria-label=\"More on Pay no attention to the man with the big moustache\">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":[8,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-hops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3OT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687","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=14687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14691,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687\/revisions\/14691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}