{"id":4413,"date":"2010-07-27T16:05:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T22:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2010-07-27T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T22:05:31","slug":"so-when-did-the-meaning-of-artisinal-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/so-when-did-the-meaning-of-artisinal-change\/","title":{"rendered":"So when did the meaning of artisanal change?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The headline across the bottom of Details<\/em> magazine caught my eye today at Borders. <\/p>\n

“Artisanal America: How Handmade and Homegrown Became the New Consumer Religion.” The story itself is even online.<\/a> Sure enough, the cute timeline that runs above the story has a picture of beers from Anchor Brewing and a note that in 1965 the brewery helped “kickoff the microbrew craze.”<\/p>\n

(See, not everybody uses the term craft beer.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

What’s troubling, and a reminder why I’m not part of Details’ target audience, is that most of the items mentioned in the story turn out to be expensive. (It’s hard to continue reading after the reporter asks this question: “Does the phrase ‘Horween Tracker bone suede upper’ mean anything to you?”)<\/p>\n

This story equates artisanal with luxury and exclusivity. Which is not the way to build a better beer culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The headline across the bottom of Details magazine caught my eye today at Borders. “Artisanal America: How Handmade and Homegrown Became the New Consumer Religion.” The story itself is even online. Sure enough, the cute timeline that runs above the story has a picture of beers from Anchor Brewing and a note that in 1965 … 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-4413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-19b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413","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=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4424,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions\/4424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}