{"id":6322,"date":"2011-04-15T06:02:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=6322"},"modified":"2011-04-15T06:02:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:02:24","slug":"the-beer-conversation-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-beer-conversation-has-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"The beer conversation has changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Kallenberger&#8217;s made this <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/midweek-beer-reading-in-defense-of-passion\/#comment-501966\">really smart comment<\/a> following the most recent post here. Didn&#8217;t want you to miss it:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A culture isn\u2019t a simple aggregation of values and opinions, it\u2019s a set of collective, commonly-understood values and meanings \u2014 as some theorist once said, it\u2019s not only more than the sum of its parts, it\u2019s different than the sum of its parts. So neither group defines beer culture \u2014 it\u2019s defined by the interactions among everyone. But craft beer is dominating the conversation in the U.S., and so I\u2019d say craft drinkers have been the dominant force in the culture. One example: having sat through hundreds of focus groups, I\u2019ve heard many people who love mainstream beer literally refer to their favorite brand as &#8216;cheap beer.&#8217; (&#8216;I only drink cheap beer. I drink Bud Light.&#8217;) Craft beer has reframed how even dedicated mainstream drinkers think about their beer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just so you know, Kallenberger spent three decades in Marketing Insights at Miller Brewing and then MillerCoors, retiring last year. These days he operates Torque Brand Consulting.<\/p>\n<p>He knows beer, brands and consumers. He might be on to something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Kallenberger&#8217;s made this really smart comment following the most recent post here. Didn&#8217;t want you to miss it: &#8220;A culture isn\u2019t a simple aggregation of values and opinions, it\u2019s a set of collective, commonly-understood values and meanings \u2014 as some theorist once said, it\u2019s not only more than the sum of its parts, it\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"The beer conversation has changed\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-beer-conversation-has-changed\/\" aria-label=\"More on The beer conversation has changed\">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-6322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1DY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322","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=6322"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6333,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6322\/revisions\/6333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}