{"id":15571,"date":"2019-03-19T04:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T10:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=15571"},"modified":"2019-03-19T04:40:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T10:40:49","slug":"when-and-why-oberon-became-oberon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/when-and-why-oberon-became-oberon\/","title":{"rendered":"When, and why, Oberon became Oberon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kfi.jpm.mybluehost.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190319-solsun-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bell&#039;s Solsun - the beer that became Oberon\" width=\"610\" height=\"378\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190319-solsun-1.jpg 610w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190319-solsun-1-500x310.jpg 500w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190319-solsun-1-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20190319-solsun-1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A quick quiz. What was the original name of Bell&#8217;s Oberon?<\/p>\n<p>I thought of this for two reasons. Second, Twitter reminded us that next Monday is Oberon Day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Want to celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OberonDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OberonDay<\/a> on March 25 but can\u2019t because of ____________ {fill in the blank}? Send this Oberon excuse note from the brewery (note: results may vary). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gVB8ja0Xg9\">https:\/\/t.co\/gVB8ja0Xg9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bell&#39;s Brewery (@BellsBrewery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BellsBrewery\/status\/1107778221049810944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First, last week Good Beer Hunting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodbeerhunting.com\/sightlines\/2019\/2\/25\/blink-and-youll-miss-them-meet-the-lesser-known-stars-of-alcohol-sales\">reminded us that Sol and Sol Chelada<\/a> are a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>And I was left remembering that Oberon was once called Solsun. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/kfi.jpm.mybluehost.me\/blog\/before-oberon-was-oberon-a-larry-bell-story\/\">posted the whole story<\/a> in this space before, so I won&#8217;t again (although I really like the photo at the bottom of license plates at the Eccentric Cafe).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick quiz. What was the original name of Bell&#8217;s Oberon? I thought of this for two reasons. Second, Twitter reminded us that next Monday is Oberon Day. Want to celebrate #OberonDay on March 25 but can\u2019t because of ____________ {fill in the blank}? Send this Oberon excuse note from the brewery (note: results may &#8230; <a title=\"When, and why, Oberon became Oberon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/when-and-why-oberon-became-oberon\/\" aria-label=\"More on When, and why, Oberon became Oberon\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-439","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571","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=15571"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15579,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15571\/revisions\/15579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}