{"id":26,"date":"2006-03-16T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/16\/beer-bourbon-and-barrels\/"},"modified":"2012-10-30T06:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T12:09:29","slug":"beer-bourbon-and-barrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-bourbon-and-barrels\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer, bourbon and barrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/mld\/centredaily\/news\/nation\/14101402.htm\">Lexington Herald-Leader<\/a> profiles the efforts of Tom Griffin to convince microbrewers that they can make great beer with used bourbon barrels from Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re selling bourbon country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The entire story is worth your time, but make sure to take time to think about Griffin&#8217;s idea presented in the last paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;This is getting to be another indigenous flavor,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Here we have something from America, developed in America, done nowhere else in the world and it gets its start in old Kentucky.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may get its finish in California or Michigan, perhaps a cult beer like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realbeer.com\/blog\/?p=101\">Cuvee de Tomme<\/a> from Port Brewing or as a different beer that&#8217;s still the kernel of an idea in a craft brewer&#8217;s brain.<\/p>\n<p>Fun to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lexington Herald-Leader profiles the efforts of Tom Griffin to convince microbrewers that they can make great beer with used bourbon barrels from Kentucky. &#8220;We&#8217;re selling bourbon country,&#8221; he said. The entire story is worth your time, but make sure to take time to think about Griffin&#8217;s idea presented in the last paragraph: &#8220;This is &#8230; <a title=\"Beer, bourbon and barrels\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-bourbon-and-barrels\/\" aria-label=\"More on Beer, bourbon and barrels\">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-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9738,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}