{"id":4464,"date":"2010-08-05T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2010-08-05T07:14:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T13:14:51","slug":"excellent-beer-related-idea-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/excellent-beer-related-idea-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent beer related idea of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bathrooms at Sam&#8217;s Tap Room and Kitchen, which is the tap room for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redlodgeales.com\/default.asp\">Red Lodge Ales Brewing Co.<\/a> in the Montana town of Red Lodge, has glass holders like this one in both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s bathrooms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20100805-redlodge.jpg\" title=\"Bathroom glass holders at Red Lodge Ales in Montana\" class=\"centered\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The holders &#151; set beside the toilets, the urinals and the sink &#151; hold both large and small glasses. I don&#8217;t usually carry my glass with me into the bathroom, but it appears some people do.<\/p>\n<p>Red Lodge Ales has the largest solar thermal array in the state of Montana up on the roof. That warms water to heat the brewery in winter (radiant floors) provides warm process water in the summer. The beer garden faces the mountains and hops plants decorate the garden walls (in season).<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention the sampler trays are cool? They are. None of these delightful amenities would matter, of course, if the beer weren&#8217;t pretty damn good. It is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bathrooms at Sam&#8217;s Tap Room and Kitchen, which is the tap room for Red Lodge Ales Brewing Co. in the Montana town of Red Lodge, has glass holders like this one in both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s bathrooms. The holders &#151; set beside the toilets, the urinals and the sink &#151; hold both large &#8230; <a title=\"Excellent beer related idea of the week\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/excellent-beer-related-idea-of-the-week\/\" aria-label=\"More on Excellent beer related idea of the week\">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-4464","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-1a0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","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=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4476,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}