{"id":1784,"date":"2009-08-14T04:54:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2009-08-14T04:54:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T11:54:31","slug":"shut-up-and-drink-your-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/shut-up-and-drink-your-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut up and drink your beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don Russell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/dailynews\/columnists\/joe_sixpack\/20090814_Joe_Sixpack__Who_makes_that_beer__you_ask__Everyone.html\">speaks the truth<\/a> today in his Joe Sixpack column, doing a little digging about the provenance of your favorite beer given all the chatter that arose out of the &#8220;Beer Summit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lesson here: Drink up and find something else to complain about. Beer is not for xenophobes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny thing is he asks up front: Does it really matter who makes your beer?<\/p>\n<p>I think it does. And where the ingredients come from, and if it&#8217;s local (not that it always has to be), and . . . heck, just look at <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/about-this-site\/\">the mission statement.<\/a> But no flag waving here, and when you head for the tavern on Friday afternoon (whoa, dude, that&#8217;s today) to grab a beer or two and complain it should not be about the beer.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><code>&nbsp;<\/code> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Russell speaks the truth today in his Joe Sixpack column, doing a little digging about the provenance of your favorite beer given all the chatter that arose out of the &#8220;Beer Summit.&#8221; The lesson here: Drink up and find something else to complain about. Beer is not for xenophobes. Funny thing is he asks &#8230; <a title=\"Shut up and drink your beer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/shut-up-and-drink-your-beer\/\" aria-label=\"More on Shut up and drink your beer\">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":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-sM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}