Yes, we’re just two days beyond Monday musing, but seems to be a lot going on that might not otherwise be worth a full length post.<\/p>\n
– Too late for this year, but Greg Clow<\/strong> at Beer, Beats & Bites suggests beer bloggers get involved in the Menu for Hope<\/strong><\/a> charity event.<\/p>\n He’s offering to run the point<\/a> on this:<\/p>\n \nSo, if you\u2019ve got a blog about beer and think this is a good idea, please leave a comment, and send word to other bloggers to check out this post and do the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m in and I hope you’ll consider contributing too. Drop him a line so we get a running start for 2008.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, think about participating this year by buying a lottery ticket (just $10 a chance). You can go for what Greg is giving away, the package Maggie Dutton<\/strong> of The Wine Offensive<\/a> has assembled (beer from Elysian included) or something from scores of other food bloggers. You’ll find the list at Menu for Hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n – Last year Stephen Beaumont wrote: “When some day we look back upon the history of craft brewing around the world, particularly in North America, I believe that 2006 will be known as the year of the beer blog<\/strong><\/a>.” Well, 2006 was nothing compared to what has happened in 2007, including two blogs from Beaumont. <\/p>\n What’s been particularly nice is the perspective we gain because of daily international posts. For instance, yesterday Martyn Cornell offered a nice snapshot of what’s going on in UK beer writing by handicapping the “Beer Writer of the Year League<\/a>.”<\/p>\n – Rick Sellers draws attention to The Bane of Better Beer<\/em>, which would be breweries without brewmasters.<\/strong><\/a> The Turnkey Brewpub<\/em> concept has gained traction in California for none of the reasons that Jack McAuliffe started New Albion Brewing.<\/p>\n None.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, we’re just two days beyond Monday musing, but seems to be a lot going on that might not otherwise be worth a full length post. – Too late for this year, but Greg Clow at Beer, Beats & Bites suggests beer bloggers get involved in the Menu for Hope charity event. He’s offering to … 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-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"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\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}