{"id":19232,"date":"2025-06-27T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=19232"},"modified":"2025-06-27T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:50:07","slug":"which-one-of-these-breweries-is-not-like-the-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/which-one-of-these-breweries-is-not-like-the-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Which one of these breweries is not like the others?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This sign helps the food truck server find you at the bar at Side Project Brewing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>A press release that the London Craft Beer Festival would include “a spectacular line-up of UK-rare, high quality, sought-after American craft beers”<\/a> dropped earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Sadly, it does not name names, but promises “creative sour and fruited sours, wild and spontaneously fermented beers, classic wheat beers and a plethora of show-stopping IPAs. Audacious flavour combinations include blueberry crumble sour ale, peach lager made with real fruit and Bourbon Barrel-aged stout made with monster cookies, honey glazed coconut, a touch of peanut butter and candy-coated chocolates to tempt the tastebuds of even the most traditional beer drinker.”<\/p>\n

After I paused to consider what it means to be a traditional beer drinker, I scanned at the list of 22 breweries and thought about how different some of them are from the others. On the whole, diversity is good. But Side Project Brewing squeezed in there between Samuel Adams and Sierra Nevada just looks strange to me. <\/p>\n

AleSmith Brewing Co
\nAllagash Brewing Co
\nCigar City Brewing Co
\nColdfire Brewing Co
\nDESTIHL Brewery
\nFremont Brewing Co
\nHinterland Brewery
\nJack\u2019s Abby Craft Lagers
\nMaui Brewing Co
\nMother Road Brewing Co
\nMontauk Brewing Co
\nOther Half Brewing Co
\nOskar Blues Brewery
\nRogue Ales & Spirits
\nSamuel Adams
\nSide Project Brewing Co
\nSierra Nevada Brewing Co
\nSweetwater Brewing Co
\nToppling Goliath Brewing Co
\nThe Bold Mariner Brewing Co
\nThe Virginia Beer Co
\nUrban Roots Brewery & Smokehouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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