{"id":5256,"date":"2010-11-23T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2010-11-23T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T18:29:50","slug":"the-book-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-book-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The book that never was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Michael-Jacksons-Great-American-Beers\/dp\/1561385735\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1290536082&#038;sr=1-1\">Michael Jackson&#8217;s Great American Beers: And Where to Find Them<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jackson spent several months in the United States in 1995 and 1996 researching this book. He conducted &#8220;pod tastings&#8221; where brewers brought him what they considered their best beers. One described the experience: &#8220;. . . like a an audience with the Pope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2002 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerhunter.com\/askmichael1.html\">he explained what happened<\/a> (or didn&#8217;t happen):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I visited every state in the course of my research (even brewery-less Mississippi). Unfortunately, by the time I had written half the book, about 50 per cent of the material was already out of date. Breweries were opening and closing at such a rate, brewers moving jobs, and product-lines changing, that the task became impossible. Despite being a very fast worker, I realised that, the time I finished the book, 75 per cent of it would be outdated. I have never in my career abandoned a project, but this one is sidelined for the moment.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jackson&#8217;s Great American Beers: And Where to Find Them Jackson spent several months in the United States in 1995 and 1996 researching this book. He conducted &#8220;pod tastings&#8221; where brewers brought him what they considered their best beers. One described the experience: &#8220;. . . like a an audience with the Pope.&#8221; In 2002 &#8230; <a title=\"The book that never was\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-book-that-never-was\/\" aria-label=\"More on The book that never was\">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-5256","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-1mM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256","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=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5262,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions\/5262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}