{"id":4740,"date":"2010-09-01T13:57:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T19:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2010-09-14T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T01:34:19","slug":"time-to-ask-the-hard-beer-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/time-to-ask-the-hard-beer-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to ask the hard beer questions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the run up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/greatamericanbeerfestival.com\">Great American Beer Festival<\/a> Denver&#8217;s <em>Westword<\/em> features the relatively new <a href=\"http:\/\/thecheekymonk.com\/\">Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Cafe<\/a>. Co-owner James Pachorek comes across a little, well, cheeky.<\/p>\n<p>One particular paragraph got me thinking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In fact, Pachorek was amazed at how quickly craft brewers had been able to make beers that were as good as or better than what the Belgians have been doing for generations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that each year at GABF I end up with less time for blogging than I expect a &#8220;question of the day&#8221; might be a bit much, but I&#8217;ll aim for that . . . and maybe settle for a &#8220;question of the festival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck, since question No. 1 for brewers will be: <del datetime=\"2010-09-01T20:03:10+00:00\">Do you brew beers that are as good at or better than what the Belgians have been doing for generations?<\/del> Make that: Do you brew beers that are as good at or better than the Europeans have for generations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the run up to the Great American Beer Festival Denver&#8217;s Westword features the relatively new Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Cafe. Co-owner James Pachorek comes across a little, well, cheeky. One particular paragraph got me thinking. In fact, Pachorek was amazed at how quickly craft brewers had been able to make beers that &#8230; <a title=\"Time to ask the hard beer questions?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/time-to-ask-the-hard-beer-questions\/\" aria-label=\"More on Time to ask the hard beer questions?\">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-4740","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-1es","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","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=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}