{"id":2282,"date":"2009-11-01T12:48:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T18:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2009-11-01T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T19:03:18","slug":"weekend-reading-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/weekend-reading-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend beer reading: Why the big bottles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few links for your weekend beer reading pleasure:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Shouldn&#8217;t stronger beers be sold in smaller bottles? I understand all the reasons why they aren&#8217;t, but Don Russell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appeal-democrat.com\/articles\/bottles-88043-beer-brown.html\">discourse on big beer bottles<\/a> had me asking myself that question.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; You&#8217;ll want to put your thinking cap on before considering the questions Alan has, starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/beerblog.genx40.com\/archive\/2009\/november\/whatisactually\">What Is Actually The Enemy Of Good Beer?<\/a> Give them some thought and leave him a comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Nice that the Houston Chronicle wrote about Saint Arnold&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/star\/6691819.html\">new downtown brewery.<\/a> Nicer still that 51 people took the time to comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; When trends collide. <a href=\"http:\/\/beerinbaltimore.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/sun-sets-on-kasper-on-tap.html\">Alexander D. Mitchell IV<\/a> relays the news that a) the Baltimore Sun is retiring the &#8220;Kasper on Tap&#8221; beer blog because &#8220;did not attract a large enough audience to sustain it&#8221; and b) the <em>Washington Post<\/em> has made Greg Kitsock&#8217;s beer column a monthly status rather than biweekly feature.<\/p>\n<p>Given the recent apparent success of Baltimore Beer Week and the fact that more newspapers around the country regularly feature beer stories this seems a little curious.  In Texas, which has been as hard a place for small-scale breweries to get a foothold as anywhere, 51 readers comment on a story about Saint Arnold. In The D.C. area, an early bastion for better beer, the newspapers can&#8217;t figure out how to talk with beer drinkers. This is another reminder that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/26\/AR2009102603272.html\">newspapers are in disarray<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><code>&nbsp;<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few links for your weekend beer reading pleasure: &#8211; Shouldn&#8217;t stronger beers be sold in smaller bottles? I understand all the reasons why they aren&#8217;t, but Don Russell&#8217;s discourse on big beer bottles had me asking myself that question. &#8211; You&#8217;ll want to put your thinking cap on before considering the questions Alan has, &#8230; <a title=\"Weekend beer reading: Why the big bottles?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/weekend-reading-2\/\" aria-label=\"More on Weekend beer reading: Why the big bottles?\">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-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-AO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","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=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}