{"id":149,"date":"2007-01-25T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T12:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/now-its-playboys-turn\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T21:25:30","slug":"now-its-playboys-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/now-its-playboys-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Now it’s Playboy’s turn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Playboy magazine has assembled a list of the top 10 American “microbrews.” I don’t have more to say on the subject of such lists than I wrote in September<\/a> when Men’s Journal published its “25 Best” list.<\/p>\n

Although I will note I like the MJ list better simply because it had 25 beers, allowing the authors to pick a wider a range.<\/p>\n

Jack Curtin has a nice summary at The Beeryard <\/a> (where I learned about this), including who was on the panel that picked the beers and the methodology behind the choices. Or you can read “Brew Romance<\/a>” at Playboy Online – if you’re not in a public library or someplace else that will surely have the website blocked.<\/p>\n

The idea of naming a Best 10 or Best 25 is just as silly now as it was in September, but the trend here – mainstream publications with “desirable” demographics paying attention to the beer we drink – is almost exhilarating.<\/p>\n

I feel positively cutting edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Playboy magazine has assembled a list of the top 10 American “microbrews.” I don’t have more to say on the subject of such lists than I wrote in September when Men’s Journal published its “25 Best” list. Although I will note I like the MJ list better simply because it had 25 beers, allowing the … 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":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9898,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}