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’Tis the season of \u201cbest of\u201d lists. <\/p>\n
I am a list skeptic<\/a>, but I read them, I contribute to them<\/a>, I and talk about them (\u201cHow is James McMurtry\u2019s \u2018The Horses and the Hounds\u2019 not on more best lists?).<\/p>\n I realized as the lists started to roll out in recent weeks that I miss Bryan Roth\u2019s annual effort<\/a> to add objectivity to subjective choices. I\u2019m too lazy to do something similar, but I did start saving lists a while back with the idea of posting them here in one giant listicle of listicles. Then I came to my senses.<\/p>\n Instead, I\u2019ll simply point to two well-done ones \u2014 the year in review at DC Beer<\/a> and the Axios survey of Colorado beers<\/a> \u2014 and suggest you look for something similar close to where you drink.<\/p>\n MORE ’TIS THE SEASON<\/strong> THE BEAT GOES ON<\/strong> – Consolidation I.<\/a><\/p>\n – Consolidation II.<\/a><\/p>\n – It never gets easier.<\/a> <\/p>\n ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE<\/strong> ’Tis the season of \u201cbest of\u201d lists. I am a list skeptic, but I read them, I contribute to them, I and talk about them (\u201cHow is James McMurtry\u2019s \u2018The Horses and the Hounds\u2019 not on more best lists?). I realized as the lists started to roll out in recent weeks that I miss Bryan … 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":[703],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4mp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765","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=16765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16769,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions\/16769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBoak and Bailey\u2019s notes from London<\/a> the week before Christmas . . . sigh. We were there four years ago, but it feels like it was a decade. <\/p>\n
\n– A victory for the not so little guy. <\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe weekend before Christmas I posted a few photos<\/a> from the Hot Bierfest at Primitive Beer in Boulder. There appears to be some interest in sticking a hot poker in beer, because I got a message from a brewer asking if I knew where to buy the pokers. So this post at Punch<\/a> seems timely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"