{"id":284,"date":"2007-08-07T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/dont-drink-the-mild-kool-aid\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T21:42:59","slug":"dont-drink-the-mild-kool-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/dont-drink-the-mild-kool-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t drink the Mild Kool-Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brace yourself now that Hobsons Mild, at 3.2% a session beer if there ever was one, has won <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realbeer.com\/blog\/?p=609\">Champion Beer of Britain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be reading about how great Milds are. Same with session beers. And so on. <\/p>\n<p>Take it all with a grain of salt. This is not a Turning Point. It will not change what we drink in America one bit.<\/p>\n<p>The American beer revolution has been powered by what Tomme Arthur of Lost Abbey Brewing fondly calls flavor-driven beers. They don&#8217;t have to be 12% abv, but generally they are stronger than 3.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Consider these top sellers: Samuel Adams Boston Lager (4.9% abv), Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (5.6%), Blue Moon Belgian White (5.4%), and New Belgium Fat Tire (5.3%).<\/p>\n<p>Not extreme, not low alcohol. Seems to be working pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>Hard as it is, I&#8217;ll stop there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brace yourself now that Hobsons Mild, at 3.2% a session beer if there ever was one, has won Champion Beer of Britain. We&#8217;ll be reading about how great Milds are. Same with session beers. And so on. Take it all with a grain of salt. This is not a Turning Point. It will not change &#8230; <a title=\"Don&#8217;t drink the Mild Kool-Aid\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/dont-drink-the-mild-kool-aid\/\" aria-label=\"More on Don&#8217;t drink the Mild Kool-Aid\">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":[438],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-mild"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10098,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/10098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}