{"id":2435,"date":"2009-11-18T11:36:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2009-11-18T11:36:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:36:34","slug":"what-does-innovative-beer-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/what-does-innovative-beer-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does &#8216;innovative beer&#8217; mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20091118-innovation.jpg\" alt=\"Einstein the Brewer\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Ron Pattinson started it: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/barclayperkins.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/schlock-of-new.html\">Innovation. I&#8217;m starting to truly loathe that word<\/a>. Especially its inappropriate use in relation to brewing. And the subtext that, by definition, &#8220;innovation&#8221; is a good thing. I&#8217;ll be honest with you. I don&#8217;t want innovative beer. I want tasty, refreshing beer.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>So Alan McLeod asked: <a href=\"http:\/\/beerblog.genx40.com\/archive\/2009\/november\/isthisthedaythe2\">&#8220;When is enough enough? When is too much too much?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Stephen Beaumont answered: <a href=\"http:\/\/worldofbeer.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/17\/in-defence-of-innovation\/\">In Defence of Innovation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What the heck are these two Canadians and a guy blogging from Amsterdam talking about? As Pattinson has written many times there&#8217;s really little new in beer. Certainly not highly hopped beers, not strong beers, not beers flavored with herbs or flowers, nor beers laced with wild critters.<\/p>\n<p>Can beers still be innovative?<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><code>&nbsp;<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Pattinson started it: &#8220;Innovation. I&#8217;m starting to truly loathe that word. Especially its inappropriate use in relation to brewing. And the subtext that, by definition, &#8220;innovation&#8221; is a good thing. I&#8217;ll be honest with you. I don&#8217;t want innovative beer. I want tasty, refreshing beer.&#8221; So Alan McLeod asked: &#8220;When is enough enough? When &#8230; <a title=\"What does &#8216;innovative beer&#8217; mean?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/what-does-innovative-beer-mean\/\" aria-label=\"More on What does &#8216;innovative beer&#8217; mean?\">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-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-Dh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","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=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}