{"id":265,"date":"2007-07-13T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/dont-blame-congress-for-bad-beer\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T20:52:47","slug":"dont-blame-congress-for-bad-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/dont-blame-congress-for-bad-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t blame Congress for bad beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta love that headline. It appeared at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthtimes.org\/articles\/show\/82203.html\">Earthtimes.org<\/a> in what was basically a pointer to a <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/cover-stories\/strange-brew-lawmakers-delight-in-bottling-their-own-beer-2007-07-12.html\">longer story in The Hill<\/a>, a Washington newspaper, about the House Small Brewers Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>The 35 members of the caucus (they hope to have 100 by the end of the legislative session) promote small breweries, trade beer-making advice and drink a few beers together. They even have a <a href=\"http:\/\/walden.house.gov\/smallbrewers\/pages\/home.html\">website<\/a> with information about brewing and tips on pairing food with beer.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, legislators from Oregon head the caucus. The story begins with the fact that Democrat Peter DeFazio brews at home. Both he and co-chair Greg Walden, a Republican, display a link to the caucus website on their home pages.<\/p>\n<p>Just another sign of a different attitude about beer gaining traction with (some) lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta love that headline. It appeared at Earthtimes.org in what was basically a pointer to a longer story in The Hill, a Washington newspaper, about the House Small Brewers Caucus. The 35 members of the caucus (they hope to have 100 by the end of the legislative session) promote small breweries, trade beer-making advice and &#8230; <a title=\"Don&#8217;t blame Congress for bad beer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/dont-blame-congress-for-bad-beer\/\" aria-label=\"More on Don&#8217;t blame Congress for bad beer\">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-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","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=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10070,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/10070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}