{"id":2111,"date":"2009-10-18T15:36:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T21:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2009-10-18T15:36:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T21:36:35","slug":"the-no-1-beer-at-oktoberfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-no-1-beer-at-oktoberfest\/","title":{"rendered":"The No. 1 beer at Oktoberfest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheers to the <em>Newark Star-Ledger<\/em> for featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/10\/high_point_brewing_in_butler_r.html\">Greg Zarcardi<\/a> and High Point Brewing in Butler, N.J., today.<\/p>\n<p>The hook (why he&#8217;s getting the attention now) is that Zacardi &#8220;was selected to represent the United States this weekend at The Mondial de la Biere Strasbourg-Europe in France where he will speak about the history and evolution of American microbreweries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zarcardi has been making excellent <em>weissbiers<\/em> in the tradition of southern German breweries (like <em>Schneider-Weisse<\/em> or <em>Weihenstephaner Hefe Weiss<\/em>) since 1996 without getting much attention. That can get a little frustrating, as he explained when I talked to him for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brewingwithwheat.com\">Brewing With Wheat<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest consumers of wheat beers want German wheat beers,&#8221; he said. When he conducts blind tastings, which he calls the &#8220;Ramstein Challenge,&#8221; locals like those at the Deutscher Club in a nearby town prefer his beers to well-known German <em>weiss<\/em> beers. &#8220;You can taste the difference in a locally brewed wheat beer. They love our beer, but it\u2019s not German. They still buy the German beers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although his original plan was to make only wheat beers, non-wheat beers now account for about 40 percent of his production. But somebody is going to have to explain this to me: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His recipe won him several awards, and was recently rated No. 1 at Oktoberfest in Germany.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh?<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><code>&nbsp;<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheers to the Newark Star-Ledger for featuring Greg Zarcardi and High Point Brewing in Butler, N.J., today. The hook (why he&#8217;s getting the attention now) is that Zacardi &#8220;was selected to represent the United States this weekend at The Mondial de la Biere Strasbourg-Europe in France where he will speak about the history and evolution &#8230; <a title=\"The No. 1 beer at Oktoberfest?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-no-1-beer-at-oktoberfest\/\" aria-label=\"More on The No. 1 beer at Oktoberfest?\">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-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-y3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","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=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}