{"id":6673,"date":"2011-05-25T10:06:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T16:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2011-05-25T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T16:06:45","slug":"mid-week-beer-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/mid-week-beer-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-week beer links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* This is the reflective, toned-down version of how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beersweden.se\/archives\/7267\">Darren of Beer Sweden<\/a> really felt at the conclusion of the <strong>European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011<\/strong>: <em>&#8220;I believe I have just witnessed the genre of beer blogging come of age in London and stake its claim as a credible and indispensable media source of the future.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He understands the <em>bloggerstalkingaboutblogs<\/em> dynamic, at the end writing, &#8220;I apologise if this post is a little too much blog and not enough beer.&#8221; But, my goodness, such enthusiasm. So one more excerpt: &#8220;What I learnt has left me in no doubt bloggers are the vanguard of modern beer media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Those are bold words, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pencilandspoon.com\/2011\/05\/vanguard-of-modern-beer-media.html\">Mark Dredge<\/a> (who obviously isn&#8217;t biased because he acted at UK organizer, but that doesn&#8217;t mean he has to sit silent) is inclined to agree. Be sure the read the comments that follow.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/stlhops.com\/dark-lord-haiku-contest-win-a-bottle-of-dark-lord\/\">Dark Lord Haiku Contest.<\/a> <strong>From STL Hops.<\/strong> Four winners. Four different vintages of <strong>Three Floyds Dark Lord<\/strong>. One stipulation. You must pick up the bottle in person in St. Louis. <\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2295413\/\">The case against the em dash.<\/a> &#8220;According to Lynne Truss\u2014the closest thing we&#8217;ve got to a celebrity grammarian, thanks to her best-seller <em>Eats, Shoots and Leaves<\/em>\u2014people use the em dash because &#8216;they know you can&#8217;t use it wrongly\u2014which for a punctuation mark, is an uncommon virtue.'&#8221; Isn&#8217;t this something that should be discussed at a blogging conference?<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/winediarist.com\/pinot-noir-and-alcohol-take-two\/\">&#8220;High alcohol wines lose both focus and complexity.&#8221;<\/a> Could the same be said about beer?<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/geistbear.blogware.com\/blog\/_archives\/2011\/5\/10\/4813956.html\">When brewery suppliers go vertical<\/a>. Thomas at Geistbeer Brewing Blog considers the consequences for both homebrewers and small batch brewers.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/jackcurtin.com\/ldo\/?p=4746\">The return of the wanderer.<\/a> Jack Curtin has made it home from the Wild West. I point this out because <a href=\"http:\/\/beervana.blogspot.com\/\">Jeff Alworth<\/a> suggests we all give <a href=\"http:\/\/jackcurtin.com\">Liquid Diet<\/a> a link to boost Jack&#8217;s Wikio rankings. <\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/brewpublic.com\/beer-reviews\/small-town-brew-craft-beer-makes-a-strong-showing-in-wallace-idaho\/\">Wallace, Idaho.<\/a> Why wasn&#8217;t there a brewery at the entrance of the Wallace RV Park when we passed by during our Grand Adventure?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* This is the reflective, toned-down version of how Darren of Beer Sweden really felt at the conclusion of the European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011: &#8220;I believe I have just witnessed the genre of beer blogging come of age in London and stake its claim as a credible and indispensable media source of the future.&#8221; &#8230; <a title=\"Mid-week beer links\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/mid-week-beer-links\/\" aria-label=\"More on Mid-week beer links\">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-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1JD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673","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=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6680,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions\/6680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}