{"id":4990,"date":"2010-10-13T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2010-10-13T11:22:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:22:44","slug":"europe%e2%80%99s-convivial-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/europe%e2%80%99s-convivial-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Europe\u2019s convivial drink!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When do you know you’ve had at least one too many?<\/p>\n

When you quit even trying to pronounce convivial<\/em> and admit you should have stuck to session<\/em> beers.<\/p>\n

Today the Wall Street Journal<\/em> examines “The Future of Beer in Europe.”<\/a> Which isn’t looking all that great. Interesting timing for me since I just started reading Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch<\/em><\/a> definitely more a book about business than beer.<\/p>\n

I expect to make a serious dent in it tomorrow during my flight to Houston for Dixie Cup XXVII.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Anyway, Matthew Dalton writes, “the message is that ‘convivial’ drinking occupies a middle ground somewhere between not drinking at all and drinking so much that you collapse on the street in a pool of your own vomit.”<\/p>\n

That’s the sweet spot I’ll be aiming for in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When do you know you’ve had at least one too many? When you quit even trying to pronounce convivial and admit you should have stuck to session beers. Today the Wall Street Journal examines “The Future of Beer in Europe.” Which isn’t looking all that great. Interesting timing for me since I just started reading … 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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1iu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","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=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}