{"id":400,"date":"2007-11-28T05:57:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T12:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/fantasy-beer-dinner-2-steve-hales\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T09:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T15:42:41","slug":"fantasy-beer-dinner-2-steve-hales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/fantasy-beer-dinner-2-steve-hales\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Beer Dinner #2: Steve Hales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20071128-hales.jpg\" alt=\"Steven D. Hales\" class=\"alignright\"\/><em>For more about what this is part of <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/fantasy-beer-dinner-who-would-you-invite\/\">look here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Steven D. Hales is Professor of Philosophy at Bloomsburg State University, but more relevant here is that he edited <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/book-review-beer-philosophy\/\">Beer &#038; Philosophy<\/a>. He also contributed a wonderful essay in which he introduces us to the idea that <em>quality is the density of pleasure<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>In case you forgot, the questions are: If you could invite four people dead or alive to a beer dinner who would they be? What four beers would you serve?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my list, of folks that were great raconteurs who liked to drink, and would be a hoot at dinner:<\/p>\n<p>Socrates<br \/>\nBenjamin Franklin<br \/>\nWinston Churchill<br \/>\nErnest Hemingway<\/p>\n<p>If I added a fifth it would be Scottish philosopher David Hume.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;d serve. And I imagine the beers going with specific foods, too.<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Franziskaner Weissbier.<\/strong> Served with a salad.<br \/>\n2. <strong>Saison Dupont.<\/strong> With a broth vegetable soup.<br \/>\n3. <strong>Ommegang Abbey Ale.<\/strong> Served with a roast lamb.<br \/>\n4. <strong>Young&#8217;s Double Chocolate Stout.<\/strong> With a dense chocolate<br \/>\ntorte dessert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more about what this is part of look here. Steven D. Hales is Professor of Philosophy at Bloomsburg State University, but more relevant here is that he edited Beer &#038; Philosophy. He also contributed a wonderful essay in which he introduces us to the idea that quality is the density of pleasure. In case &#8230; <a title=\"Fantasy Beer Dinner #2: Steve Hales\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/fantasy-beer-dinner-2-steve-hales\/\" aria-label=\"More on Fantasy Beer Dinner #2: Steve Hales\">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":[5,292],"tags":[550],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-food","category-musing","tag-fantasy-beer-dinner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-6s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10291,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/10291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}