{"id":15361,"date":"2018-10-08T04:21:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T10:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=15361"},"modified":"2018-12-13T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:59:30","slug":"accept-no-substitute-these-are-not-regular-monday-beer-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/accept-no-substitute-these-are-not-regular-monday-beer-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Accept no substitute: These are not regular Monday beer links"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am flattered that Alan McLeod misses the Monday links<\/a> and musing sometimes posted here, but I\u2019m not inclined to resume weekly posts until I am certain they will be weekly. That <\/em>might be December. But a few things I\u2019ve read recently have me asking myself questions, and because here they are on a Monday it makes sense to include a few links.<\/em><\/p>\n

Do breweries\/wineries secretly value paying for writers to visit?<\/strong>
\nAlice Feiring began an interesting<\/a> Twitter thread when she wrote, \u201cI am troubled by the barrage social media of colleagues on cushy press trips.\u201d Yep, we\u2019ve seen that discussion within the context of beer writing many times on Twitter. But what struck me was this in the midst of the discussion. Sumita Sarma wrote, \u201cUnless a press trip is paid for may by wineries or PR, you are never taken seriously as a writer.\u201d Huh? Could this be true? Fortunately, in my experience it is not. But maybe I\u2019ve been doing something wrong.<\/p>\n

Is the IPA you just rated 4.5 really better than Blind Pig?<\/strong>
\nSo why might ratings on everything from wine to products on Amazon products improve over time? According to Harvard Business Review:<\/a> \u201cThe findings suggest that biased evaluations are the result of a misattribution process: If something feels easier to evaluate, people believe that it must actually be better. In other words, they misattribute their own feelings about evaluation (it feels easier to make an evaluation) onto their assessment of the actual merits (this thing must deserve a higher rating).\u201d Just something to think about when flipping through your personal Untappd ratings or when to comparing them to others.
\n <\/p>\n

Are you ready for a $350 broom?<\/strong>
\nWe are not. You, on the other hand, might think this way: \u201cI don\u2019t really want to own anything that I don\u2019t find beautiful, even if it\u2019s a washing-up bowl.That\u2019s my business, and the way I live.\u201d I\u2019ll admit I was drawn to this story because \u201cartisanal\u201d is in the headline<\/a>. But I lingered over the sentence that follows, in this case within the context of beer. \u201cWhat we\u2019re willing to pay for is inevitably a matter of what we\u2019ve been taught to pay for \u2014 what it\u2019s in fashion to pay for.\u201d Do I have to buy into the second half just because the first statement seems reasonable? Who wants to be fashionable?<\/p>\n

GOOD READS<\/h5>\n

– Ale Britannia: Giving British beer the credit it deserves.<\/a>
\n– Beer writing awards.<\/a> (With links to more good reading.)
\n– Going Down the Shore \u2014 Black Narrows Brewing Company in Chincoteague Island, VA.<\/a>
\n– The Endangered Beer Hall Adds to Germany\u2019s Cultural Debate.<\/a>
\n– Surviving the cask free years.<\/a>
\n– A New Axis: Classic | Standard | New-Local.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am flattered that Alan McLeod misses the Monday links and musing sometimes posted here, but I\u2019m not inclined to resume weekly posts until I am certain they will be weekly. That might be December. But a few things I\u2019ve read recently have me asking myself questions, and because here they are on a Monday … 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":[17,703],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction","category-monday-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3ZL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361","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=15361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15366,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions\/15366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}