{"id":3303,"date":"2010-02-10T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2010-02-10T12:39:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:39:01","slug":"local-beer-diversity-and-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/local-beer-diversity-and-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Local beer, diversity and balance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exhibit A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Porter City Tavern in Raleigh will now serve only North Carolina beers<\/a> on tap (tip of the hat to Geistbear<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Exhibit B<\/strong><\/p>\n

Artisinal Imports current newsletter<\/a> makes a case for diversity. In case the link quits working or you don’t want to take the time, a few highlights:<\/p>\n

  • “In Minneapolis there has been a lemming-like migration toward US-only beer lists in new bars\/restaurants and some older, well established beer bars are contemplating the elimination of imports.”<\/li>\n
  • “It is a very rare bar in Europe that offers beers from other countries. In Germany you drink German beers. In Belgium you drink Belgian beers. Period.”<\/li>\n
  • “When bars or restaurants limit themselves, and their customers, to beer only from the US or only from one state or region, the result can be a narrowing of focus which over time will diminish the vibrancy of the US beer market.”<\/li>\n

    I’ll leave the thinking and concluding up to you.<\/p>\n

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    Exhibit A Porter City Tavern in Raleigh will now serve only North Carolina beers on tap (tip of the hat to Geistbear). Exhibit B Artisinal Imports current newsletter makes a case for diversity. In case the link quits working or you don’t want to take the time, a few highlights: “In Minneapolis there has been … 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":[254],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-bigfoot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-Rh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","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=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3313,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}