{"id":324,"date":"2007-09-14T06:50:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/higher-education-and-higher-beer-education\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T11:29:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T18:29:29","slug":"higher-education-and-higher-beer-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/higher-education-and-higher-beer-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher education and higher beer education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday I wrote about the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cicerone.org\/\">Cicerone Certification Program<\/a> designed to better educate people selling and serving beer.<\/p>\n<p>But what about beer drinkers? Mostly notably all those novice beer drinkers headed off for a higher education that often includes a fair amount of learning about of beer? (OK, I&#8217;ll not be totally naive and think drinking starts with college, but I like the analogy.)<\/p>\n<p>Don Russell (Joe Sixpack) today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joesixpack.net\/currentColumn.htm\">writes about the Choose Responsibility<\/a> started by Dr. John M. McCardell Jr., former at Middlebury College in Vermont. Beyond the fact that he advocates lowering the drinking age &#8211; ain&#8217;t gonna happen even though he is right &#8211; McCardell has another fine idea. An alcohol learner&#8217;s permit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now,&#8221; McCardell told Russell, &#8220;they receive no education in alcohol other than what their friends give them. It&#8217;s obvious that&#8217;s not working.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russell goes on to suggest a &#8220;standardized drinking test&#8221; and offers questions. They are amusing, but Russell also has some sound advice. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joesixpack.net\/currentColumn.htm\">Give it a read<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday I wrote about the new Cicerone Certification Program designed to better educate people selling and serving beer. But what about beer drinkers? Mostly notably all those novice beer drinkers headed off for a higher education that often includes a fair amount of learning about of beer? (OK, I&#8217;ll not be totally naive and think &#8230; <a title=\"Higher education and higher beer education\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/higher-education-and-higher-beer-education\/\" aria-label=\"More on Higher education and higher beer education\">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-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-5e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","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=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}