{"id":1727,"date":"2009-07-28T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2012-11-01T18:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T00:57:27","slug":"when-rare-ceases-to-be-rare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/when-rare-ceases-to-be-rare\/","title":{"rendered":"When rare ceases to be rare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The assistant managing editor in charge of being cranky at the last newspaper where I worked used to have a note posted on a bulletin board in his office: &#8220;All boldface is no boldface.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For instance, consider just <a href=\"http:\/\/beernews.org\/2009\/07\/beer-notes-more-stone-collabs-two-brothers-moaten-brooklyn-sorachi-ace\/\">one entry today at beernews.org.<\/a> Four more rare beers, including one (Brooklyn Sorachi Ace) brewed with <em>now-rare<\/em> hops. Good breweries all; undoubtedly good beers. And even if we never taste these beers good things may result &#151; when I was at Stone Brewing a few months ago brewmaster Mitch Steele and I talked about how much he learns during one of these collaborative projects.<\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t help but remember that quote attributed to Goethe (though I suspect it was made up). At some point being rare ceases to be rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The assistant managing editor in charge of being cranky at the last newspaper where I worked used to have a note posted on a bulletin board in his office: &#8220;All boldface is no boldface.&#8221; For instance, consider just one entry today at beernews.org. Four more rare beers, including one (Brooklyn Sorachi Ace) brewed with now-rare &#8230; <a title=\"When rare ceases to be rare\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/when-rare-ceases-to-be-rare\/\" aria-label=\"More on When rare ceases to be rare\">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":[17,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-rR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","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=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10211,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/10211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}