{"id":555,"date":"2008-05-05T05:48:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T12:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-morning-musing-first-stupid-beer-stuff\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T05:48:50","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T12:48:50","slug":"monday-morning-musing-first-stupid-beer-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/monday-morning-musing-first-stupid-beer-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday morning musing: First, stupid beer stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20080505-pabst.jpg\" alt=\"Pabst beer coffin\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Did you hear the one about an Illinois man who plans to be buried in a coffin designed to look like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/offbeat\/2008-05-04-beer-coffin_N.htm\">a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill Bramanti, 67, isn&#8217;t in a hurry to use it &#151; for now it makes an excellent cooler. Saturday he threw a party for friends and packed the future coffin with ice and cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one who finds it creepy he got in to see if he fit?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; JPD (Just Plain Dumb). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/features\/food\/spirits\/article478964.ece\">The world&#8217;s 10 most disgusting beers<\/a>, Florida style, does not need further comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Enough silliness. So here&#8217;s a quick quiz: What do Rob Gerrity, Scott Kerkmans, Ron Kloth, Andrew Waer and Neil Witte have in common? Beyond the fact none of them is likely to be buried in a PBR coffin.<\/p>\n<p>They are the first five to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cicerone.org\/\">Certified Cicerone<\/a> exam. Since January, 115 individuals have passed the online Certified Beer Server but these are the first to move on to the next level (Certified Cicerone, obviously).<\/p>\n<p>The exam (conducted in San Diego during the Craft Brewers Conference) took three and a half hours and included 200 fill-in the blank and short-answer questions followed by three essay questions, a demonstration and 12 beer samples presented in the tasting portion of the exam.<\/p>\n<p>Kerkams, as you may know, is the Chief Beer officer for Four Points by Sheraton. As you may not know, he grew up in Albuquerque . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20080505-papago.jpg\" alt=\"Papago Brewing tap handles\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>Kloth, as you may know, is the driving force beyond Papago Brewing, the Scottsdale, Ariz. beer establishment that&#8217;s as good as its considerable reputation. The beer there only gets better over a game of chess on the set Ron first used as a kid (really). As you may not know, Ron is the only one of the first five Certified Cicerones to have spent a night or three in our guest bedroom (the one with dozens of vintage hop boxes). <\/p>\n<p>Just something to think about if you are considering taking the exam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I like this idea. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/psinderson\/statuses\/799926794\">Five-word beer reviews.<\/a> Not that it was to be via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you hear the one about an Illinois man who plans to be buried in a coffin designed to look like a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon? Bill Bramanti, 67, isn&#8217;t in a hurry to use it &#151; for now it makes an excellent cooler. 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