Wednesday I am off to the Craft Brewers Conference in San Diego.<\/p>\n
Yes, this involves drinking beer. It also involves a lot of asking questions. In my case many will be wheat related, since I’m starting work on the previously mentioned book for Brewers Publications. <\/p>\n
But if you were going and could ask craft brewers or brewing industry suppliers a question (or questions) what would you ask?<\/p>\n
Here’s the lineup of speakers and topics.<\/a><\/p>\n The week begins with judging for the World Beer Cup,<\/a> with awards handed out Saturday. That means brewers from around the world will be on hand to judge.<\/p>\n Feel free to use comments or email the question(s).<\/a><\/p>\n – The St. Louis Post-Distpatch visits “extreme beers,”<\/a> mostly locally produced and including the area’s micros as well as brewing giant Anheuser-Busch.<\/p>\n Great quote from Pat McGauley, vice president innovation, who is talking specifically about A-B’s 8% blueberry lager but makes what’s really a general observation. <\/p>\n “It lives in a much different world than most of the beers we deal with.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wednesday I am off to the Craft Brewers Conference in San Diego. Yes, this involves drinking beer. It also involves a lot of asking questions. In my case many will be wheat related, since I’m starting work on the previously mentioned book for Brewers Publications. But if you were going and could ask craft brewers … 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":[292],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-craft-brewers-conference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-8A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10242,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/10242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}