{"id":4776,"date":"2010-09-11T19:42:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T01:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2010-09-11T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T01:42:05","slug":"up-close-personal-and-signing-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/up-close-personal-and-signing-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Up close, personal, and signing books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following could be considered an advertisement. As a small reward for reading on I&#8217;m offering a super secret Great American Beer Festival tip at the end. None of this matters at all if you won&#8217;t be in Denver next week for GABF.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be pouring few beers and signing books at GABF. If you own <em>Brewing With Wheat<\/em> or <em>Brew Like a Monk<\/em> bring your copy to the festival and I&#8217;ll sign your books (or books). Of course they&#8217;ll also be for sale. If you just want to stop by and just say hello that&#8217;s also OK.  If you want a baseball card signed, well, I&#8217;ll be happy to. Maybe an Ernie Banks card &#151; one of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com\/beer-beyond\/gabf-bookstore\/\">full schedule<\/a> &#151; lots of people signing in the bookstore. My times:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, 8-9 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Friday, 7-8 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Saturday, 3-3:30 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Saturday, 7-7:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The schedule says I&#8217;ll be there at 6:30 on Saturday, but that was changed because I&#8217;ll be sitting on the &#8220;Craft Beer in the Media&#8221; panel in the Brewers Studio Pavilion from 6:30 to 7. <\/p>\n<p>Now to the matter of pouring beer and that super secret tip. About (that means don&#8217;t yell at me if I&#8217;m late) half an hour before I sign books Thursday and Friday and an hour earlier on Saturday evening I&#8217;ll be hanging out at the Support Your Local Brewery Pavilion, talking about and pouring wheat beers in the New Mexico Brewers booth. The tip: they will have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com\/beer-beyond\/support-your-local-brewery-pavilion\/#more-236\">artisan cheeses in the pavilion<\/a> . . . &#8220;while samples last.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following could be considered an advertisement. As a small reward for reading on I&#8217;m offering a super secret Great American Beer Festival tip at the end. None of this matters at all if you won&#8217;t be in Denver next week for GABF. I&#8217;ll be pouring few beers and signing books at GABF. 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