{"id":216,"date":"2007-05-08T16:32:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T23:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/brewpubs-and-beer-cred\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T10:54:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:54:49","slug":"brewpubs-and-beer-cred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/brewpubs-and-beer-cred\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewpubs and ‘beer cred’"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, at Hop Talk, Al suggests what he think are 5 essentials for a good brewpub<\/a>, starting with “An old building, especially with a lot of exposed brick.”<\/p>\n

Then at Beervana, Jeff Alworth discusses Beer Cred<\/a> in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

Beer is a working-class beverage. Drinking beer is a working-class activity. Oregon brewers, who until ’99 had Henry’s as an example, got that. In the 80s, as brewpubs started opening up, they had a gritty look. Breweries were located in Portland’s industrial Northwest (part of which has been overtaken by the Pearl). Tap handles for good beer appeared in working-class bars. It is my suspicion that one of the reasons Oregonians took to microbrewed beer was because it retained it’s blue collar ethos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And he compares that to “boutique breweries” in other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

You simply cannot argue with the success of craft beer in Oregon (11% of volume vs. 4% in the rest of the country). In fact, you’ve got to wonder if the rest of us will ever catch up.<\/p>\n

My point? I’m not sure I figured one out. I found these two interesting to read in the matter of only a couple of hours. In his, Alworth concludes, “Yes, that was a random posting.”<\/p>\n

This must be as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, at Hop Talk, Al suggests what he think are 5 essentials for a good brewpub, starting with “An old building, especially with a lot of exposed brick.” Then at Beervana, Jeff Alworth discusses Beer Cred in Portland, Oregon. Beer is a working-class beverage. Drinking beer is a working-class activity. Oregon brewers, who until ’99 … 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":[389],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-portland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10009,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/10009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}