{"id":214,"date":"2007-05-07T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-4-local-brews\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:56:55","slug":"the-session-4-local-brews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-4-local-brews\/","title":{"rendered":"The Session #4: Local Brews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Snekse, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gastronomicfightclub.com\/blog\/food\/2007\/05\/local-brews-event.cfm\">Gastronomic Fight Club<\/a>, has chosen the theme for Session #4 and it&#8217;s not a style. He wants us all to taste local beers.<\/p>\n<p>His guidelines:<\/p>\n<li> You can pick anything commercially made within 150 miles of your house, but try to pick the brewery or brewpub closest to your house.<\/li>\n<li>You can select any beer or even a sampler if you want.<\/li>\n<li> If you select a single beer, let us know why you choose this beer (e.g. favorite,seasonal,limited edition, best seller).<\/li>\n<li> Preferably you&#8217;ll shy away from beers with wide distribution outside your immediate area.<\/li>\n<p>I like this idea quite a bit, although I have 13 breweries within 150 miles of my house &#8211; and this <em>is<\/em> New Mexico. The Brewers Association last year figured out that the average American lives within 10 miles of a brewery, and next week is promoting the Great American Beer Tour as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realbeer.com\/blog\/?p=507\">American Craft Beer Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s every chance I&#8217;ll be walking to Session #4 and drinking a beer available only on draft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snekse, of the Gastronomic Fight Club, has chosen the theme for Session #4 and it&#8217;s not a style. He wants us all to taste local beers. His guidelines: You can pick anything commercially made within 150 miles of your house, but try to pick the brewery or brewpub closest to your house. You can select &#8230; <a title=\"The Session #4: Local Brews\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-4-local-brews\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Session #4: Local Brews\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10011,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/10011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}