{"id":17662,"date":"2023-07-12T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=17662"},"modified":"2023-07-12T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:02:19","slug":"the-beer-hunter-fritz-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-beer-hunter-fritz-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beer Hunter &#038; Fritz show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/atlanta\/news\/anchor-brewing-the-oldest-craft-brewer-in-the-us-is-shutting-down-after-127-years\/\">read the news<\/a>. I do not think that Sapporo understood this about Anchor Brewing:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OJJsrNUKRZw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fritz Maytag&#8217;s final words in video are, &#8220;I think when our brewers put the malt (from the barley field they just visited) into the mash tun they remember, &#8216;That&#8217;s the stuff, there it is.&#8217; It gives our company something that&#8217;s hard to duplicate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beervanablog.com\/beervana\/2023\/7\/12\/anchor-brewing-1896-2023\">Jeff Alworth wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But [the beer industry] can\u2019t continue as the same industry represented by Fritz Maytag\u2019s wonderful, traditional, innovative, local, and independent little brewery if that brewery itself couldn\u2019t survive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I disagree, because . . . limiting myself to five reasons, with apologies to thousands of other contenders . . . Scratch Brewing, Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery, Bow &#038; Arrow Brewing, Primitive Beer, and Spaceway Brewing.<\/p>\n<p>Wonderful. Check. Innovative. Check. Local. Check. Independent. Check. Traditional? Not if it gets in the way of making something delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve read the news. I do not think that Sapporo understood this about Anchor Brewing: Fritz Maytag&#8217;s final words in video are, &#8220;I think when our brewers put the malt (from the barley field they just visited) into the mash tun they remember, &#8216;That&#8217;s the stuff, there it is.&#8217; It gives our company something that&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"The Beer Hunter &#038; Fritz show\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-beer-hunter-fritz-show\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Beer Hunter &#038; Fritz show\">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-17662","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-4AS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17662","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=17662"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17669,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17662\/revisions\/17669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}