{"id":6394,"date":"2011-04-20T05:44:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T11:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=6394"},"modified":"2011-04-20T05:44:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T11:44:25","slug":"greg-koch-jerry-lee-lewis-or-lindsay-lohan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/greg-koch-jerry-lee-lewis-or-lindsay-lohan\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Koch = Jerry Lee Lewis or Lindsay Lohan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Midweek catching up (from various blogs and press releases):<\/p>\n

  • Stone Brewing beers arrived in Missouri this week and you’d think there was a royal wedding about. Stone co-founder Greg Koch was signing bottles and such<\/a> yesterday in Kansas City and makes a similar splash in St. Louis tomorrow.\n

    Leading to this fabulous sentence from the KC Beer Blog:<\/a> “If you’re not aware of Greg Koch, you will be. He’s the Jerry Lee Lewis to Sam Calagione’s Pat Boone, or for a more current reference, he’s Lindsay Lohan to Calagione’s Raven Symone.”<\/li>\n

  • Vanberg and Dewulf will begin importing a beer called Monk’s Stout<\/a> from Brasserie Dupont later this year. It seems Dupont also brewed this beer in the 1950s. Which explains why we came across this case in the window of a Brussels beer shop in 2008:\n

    \"DuPont <\/li>\n

  • Alan’s question of the week: Why Is Britain Creating Beer Blogging Celebrities?<\/a> As he writes, and we’ve witnessed here<\/a>, discussions about beer writing often may help cure insomnia. But give it a look<\/a> anyway.<\/li>\n
  • The publican as writer. Where does such a being fit in? I have printed copies of the newsletter Roger Baylor used to assemble squirreled away somewhere, from the days when beer writing intended to satisfy your soul came via postal carrier instead of an rss feed. He notes he’s founder of Rich O’s Public House at the top of his blog, The Potable Curmudgeon, but now he also runs a brewery.\n

    So that’s the background. And here’s a bit of what he had to write in “Avery joins flight from Indiana; Publican yawns.”<\/a><\/p>\n

    You could hear the sounds of furtive sourcing as shelves emptied of valuable brands. The wails of lamentation kept me awake at night as craft beer fans weaned on the tender mercies of Beer Advocate and Rate Beer vented their despair.<\/p>\n

    They should have been asking: Should one\u2019s go-to beer come from another time zone?<\/p>\n

    And: Your forefathers had it far tougher, whiner.<\/p>\n

    Me? I shrugged, yawned and filled a growler of fresh local beer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    There’s more, of course, because he has to guide his story to its closing lines: “Just remember: I used to walk ten miles in waist-deep snow just to score a six-pack of Sierra. Your troubles are miniscule by comparison.”<\/li>\n

  • Was I snoozing when this was was announced? Stone Brewing has a page<\/a> where you can report “out of code” beer, that is beer that isn’t as fresh a Stone’s brewers would like it to be when you drink it. Most of the regular beers should be consumed within 90 days.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Midweek catching up (from various blogs and press releases): Stone Brewing beers arrived in Missouri this week and you’d think there was a royal wedding about. Stone co-founder Greg Koch was signing bottles and such yesterday in Kansas City and makes a similar splash in St. Louis tomorrow. Leading to this fabulous sentence from the … 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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1F8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394","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=6394"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6417,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6394\/revisions\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}