{"id":444,"date":"2008-01-08T16:48:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T23:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/brace-yourself-extreme-beers-in-the-ny-times\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T17:01:52","slug":"brace-yourself-extreme-beers-in-the-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/brace-yourself-extreme-beers-in-the-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Brace yourself: Extreme beers in the NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20080108-extreme.jpg\" alt=\"Pouring an extreme beer\" class=\"alignright\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/thepour.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/08\/going-to-extremes\/\">Eric Asimov prepares us<\/a>: &#8220;My column in Wednesday\u2019s paper is on American extreme beers, a topic that I think is fascinating whether you\u2019re a beer drinker or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll find out more tomorrow, including what beers the <em>New York Times<\/em> panelists liked. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/09\/dining\/09beer.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">Here&#8217;s the link<\/a>, and you must check out the photo.)<\/p>\n<p>The place for comment then will be <a href=\"http:\/\/thepour.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/08\/going-to-extremes\/\">Asimov&#8217;s blog<\/a>. As I type there is but one comment, from the constantly entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biggerthanyourhead.net\/\">Fredric Koeppel<\/a>, but this is a topic that should generate scores more.<\/p>\n<p>How many do you think? 50? 100?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be content to sit back and read. We&#8217;ve already talked this to death in the beer blogosphere.<\/p>\n<p>But words from Koeppel, Asimov and Michael Jackson nicely frame what will surely follow tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>From Koeppel: &#8220;In beer, wine and food, the elements of balance, harmony and integrity mean everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From Jackson (in the introduction to <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/eyewitness-beer-michael-jacksons-last-book\/\">Beer-Eyewitness Companions<\/a>): &#8220;Tomorrow&#8217;s classics will evolve from a new breed of American brews that are categorized by their admirers as &#8216;Extreme Beers.&#8217; These are the most intense-tasting beers ever produced anywhere in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And from Asimov (after all, it is <em>his<\/em> blog): &#8220;Beauty often springs from the creative dynamic between the Old and New Worlds, in which the tension between tradition and liberation holds it all together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(The photo at the top is believed to document the first pouring of a pre-Prohibition Double IPA, brewed with twice the flaked maize of a traditional pre-pro beer and <strong>four times<\/strong> the amount of Cluster hops.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Asimov prepares us: &#8220;My column in Wednesday\u2019s paper is on American extreme beers, a topic that I think is fascinating whether you\u2019re a beer drinker or not.&#8221; We&#8217;ll find out more tomorrow, including what beers the New York Times panelists liked. (Here&#8217;s the link, and you must check out the photo.) The place for &#8230; <a title=\"Brace yourself: Extreme beers in the NY Times\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/brace-yourself-extreme-beers-in-the-ny-times\/\" aria-label=\"More on Brace yourself: Extreme beers in the NY Times\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-7a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}