{"id":394,"date":"2007-11-21T09:46:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T16:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-thanksgiving-and-black-friday\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T16:46:58","slug":"beer-thanksgiving-and-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-thanksgiving-and-black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer, Thanksgiving and Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20071121-turkey.jpg\" alt=\"Beer Belongs at Thanksgiving\" class=\"alignright\"\/>We&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homebrewchef.com\/BeerBrinedChicken.html\">turkey brining<\/a> for tomorrow, using one of many recipes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homebrewchef.com\/BeerInspiredThanksgivingMenu.html\">The Homebrew Chef<\/a> Sean Paxton has generously posted at his web site.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been procrastinating and are still looking for ideas about what to cook for Thanksgiving then you&#8217;ll find some different ones here &#038;#151 although in some cases you needed to start preparations several days ago. You <em>do have time<\/em> to consider deep frying a turkey. Sean has <a href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/news\/1146916\">instructions<\/a> or here&#8217;s the recipe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beertown.org\/beer_turkey\/recipe.html\">we use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So Thanksgiving is looking beery. Now if the Brewers Association, which has done a fine job the last three years of getting newspapers and magazines to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beertown.org\/beer_turkey\/index.html\">notice beer at the holiday table<\/a> could turn its attention to <strong>Black Friday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Why aren&#8217;t there flyers in my Thursday paper advertising a case of Sierra Celebration on sale at 6 a.m. for $6.99 for the first 50 customers? Shouldn&#8217;t somebody have a DOORBUSTER! featuring Samuel Adams Holiday Sampler ($2.99, at least 10 per store)? Hey, Borders, please e-mail some coupons for beer books.<\/p>\n<p>For now I&#8217;d smile if I found a local event like <a href=\"http:\/\/popthecap.org\/\">Black Friday Fest<\/a> in Durham, N.C. (Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/beermapping.com\/forum\/index.php?topic=746.0\">The Beer Mapping Project<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Bell&#8217;s Java Stout, Duck-Rabbit Baltic Porter . . . hmmm. They need to start before 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><em>Or<\/em> if you are one of The Lost Abbey Patron Saints you can pick up your allotment from the release of three seasonal beers that otherwise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostabbey.com\/news\/\">go on sale at 11 a.m. Saturday<\/a>. (When then the brewery is going to look a little like Best Buy at 5 a.m. Friday.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Or<\/em> you could save your money for Saturday, when the auction for a 2004 bottle of Three Floyds Dark Lord Imperial Stout closes. Current bid is $127.50.<\/p>\n<p>Would you brave the 4 a.m. Friday crowd at Wal-Mart to get a deal on Dark Lord? (I&#8217;m sorta making the time up; the closest Wal-Mart to us is open 24 hours.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got turkey brining for tomorrow, using one of many recipes The Homebrew Chef Sean Paxton has generously posted at his web site. If you&#8217;ve been procrastinating and are still looking for ideas about what to cook for Thanksgiving then you&#8217;ll find some different ones here &#038;#151 although in some cases you needed to start &#8230; <a title=\"Beer, Thanksgiving and Black Friday\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-thanksgiving-and-black-friday\/\" aria-label=\"More on Beer, Thanksgiving and Black Friday\">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":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-food","category-beers-of-conviction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-6m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","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=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}