{"id":568,"date":"2008-05-21T05:13:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T12:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-the-drink-that-launches-great-conversations\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T05:13:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T12:13:15","slug":"beer-the-drink-that-launches-great-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-the-drink-that-launches-great-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer: The drink that launches great conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Crouch offers a excellent warts-included report from SAVOR: An American Craft Beer and Food Experience<\/a>, expressing concern about “the growing snobbery of beer” and using the occasion to post his “Does Beer Really Want To Become Like Wine?”<\/a> column from Beer Advocate<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

I’m already on record with New Beer Rule #7<\/a> — “beer is not the new wine” or “beer is still beer,” take your choice — so obviously I agree we must remain cautious, and I won’t rehash why.<\/p>\n

But call me a cockeyed optimist. I’m of the opinion that beer can show up some places that are expensive, that some beers can cost more, and beer can still be an every man’s drink.<\/p>\n

Just look at the diversity of posts on the beer blogosphere.<\/a><\/p>\n

You’ll even see that “Papa Stonch”<\/a> (David Bell, father of Jeff Bell, known for Stonch’s Beer Blog<\/a> is blogging. “His perspective – as a 60-something as opposed to a 20-something – is very different to mine, as is his stomping ground: he’ll be writing about the North East of England, where he lives,” son Jeff writes.<\/p>\n

Finally, reading Andy’s SAVOR recap had me searching through the archives at Shut up about Barclay Perkins<\/a> to find this paragraph:<\/p>\n

“Honest beer is what I want. Beer that can look me straight in the eye and not flinch. Beer with heart. Beer that\u2019s like an old friend. Beer you can sit and drink by the pint in a pub with your mates.”<\/p>\n

Beer can go a lot of places and still remain honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andy Crouch offers a excellent warts-included report from SAVOR: An American Craft Beer and Food Experience, expressing concern about “the growing snobbery of beer” and using the occasion to post his “Does Beer Really Want To Become Like Wine?” column from Beer Advocate magazine. I’m already on record with New Beer Rule #7 — “beer … 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":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-9a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}