{"id":618,"date":"2008-08-29T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-beer-myths-that-keep-on-giving\/"},"modified":"2008-08-29T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T18:38:40","slug":"the-beer-myths-that-keep-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-beer-myths-that-keep-on-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"The beer myths that keep on giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20080828-ben.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Franklin misquoted\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>Earlier this summer Martyn Cornell wrote that the <a href=\"http:\/\/zythophile.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/30\/ipa-incredibly-poor-article\/\">Wikipedia entry on India Pale Ale<\/a> &#8220;so completely, uselessly wrong as to be actively dangerous: the mistakes in it are going to be repeated by other writers too lazy to do their own research, and they are likely to take years to stamp out.&#8221; A bit of a discussion about Wikipedia followed with a bit of a sidebar about how dang frustrating it is to see myths get repeated as fact.<\/p>\n<p>We were in the Canadian Rockies at the time, and later it seemed too late to chime that small breweries are also a culprit when it comes to the IPA story. A shorter version of the Wikipedia entry gets shown thousands of times a day to drinkers ordering from brewpub menus or customers reading the blurb on the neck label. In the long run this propagates the information just as dangerously as Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of that this week when we visited Independence Hall in Philadelphia &#151; yes, &#8220;America&#8217;s Best Beer Drinking City&#8221; but this was a home school field trip. The gift shop sells all manner of items quoting Benjamin Franklin, including T-shirts and coasters, proclaiming, &#8220;Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that Franklin probably never said this. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brewingnews.com\/mid-atlantic\/\">Mid-Atlantic Brewing News<\/a> explained this well nearly three years go (no link to the story &#8211; sorry), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerinfood.com\/Franklin.html\">Bob Skilnik had more details<\/a> shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think the chances are the gift store will withdraw these obviously good sellers from its inventory for the sake of historical accuracy?<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><code>&nbsp;<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this summer Martyn Cornell wrote that the Wikipedia entry on India Pale Ale &#8220;so completely, uselessly wrong as to be actively dangerous: the mistakes in it are going to be repeated by other writers too lazy to do their own research, and they are likely to take years to stamp out.&#8221; A bit of &#8230; <a title=\"The beer myths that keep on giving\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-beer-myths-that-keep-on-giving\/\" aria-label=\"More on The beer myths that keep on giving\">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-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-9Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}