{"id":2793,"date":"2009-12-24T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2009-12-24T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T14:12:15","slug":"say-so-long-to-2009-with-a-few-beery-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/say-so-long-to-2009-with-a-few-beery-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Say so long to 2009 with a few beery links"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"See you in 2010, but since you stopped by I’ll leave you with a few beery links.<\/p>\n

I had planned to riff a bit on “world classic” and “world class” beers, but that’s going to have to wait until a few days into the New Year. I decided to give my brain an early Christmas present: no thinking today (don’t say it, Alan). Then we’re traveling for a bit after Christmas. While I’ll give it a shot to have a post Jan. 1 as part of The Session<\/a> regular blogging won’t resume until at least Jan. 4.<\/p>\n

Happy holidays, don’t drink too much too often, and stay safe.<\/p>\n

The links:<\/p>\n

  • Given the success Stone Brewing exhibited in the past when it came to April Fool’s pranks didn’t you pause a moment when you saw the news (and video) about a possible brewery in Europe?<\/a> This is the sort of thing business folks used to pursue quietly, but in this Facebook\/Twitter\/transparent world keeping secrets is next to impossible. It made more sense for Stone to shoot a video and tell the world.\n

    The reaction in the U.K.? Pete Brown loves the idea<\/a>, but Woolpack Dave would rather support BrewDog<\/a> (a partner with Stone in brewing collaborations). Check out the whole conversation.<\/li>\n

  • Microsoft has banned an app that lets phone users “drink”<\/a> a virtual beer. This is the same app that’s available for the iPhone in the App Store. Microsoft made the decision based on its self-imposed “morals-based” content policy.<\/li>\n
  • Here’s how you introduce a “best” list: “Is it stupid to list the 15 best TV shows of the decade? Most definitely! Is it fun to list the best 15 TV shows<\/a> of the decade? Oh, yes, a thousand times yes!” And, given my limited contact with television, it looks like a pretty decent list to me. Other than failing to mention “Breaking Bad.” (Thanks to Uncle Jack<\/a> for making me aware of this.)<\/li>\n

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    See you in 2010, but since you stopped by I’ll leave you with a few beery links. I had planned to riff a bit on “world classic” and “world class” beers, but that’s going to have to wait until a few days into the New Year. I decided to give my brain an early Christmas … 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-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-J3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","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=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}