{"id":677,"date":"2008-12-18T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T16:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=677"},"modified":"2008-12-18T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T17:30:25","slug":"are-american-beers-really-that-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/are-american-beers-really-that-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Are American beers really THAT good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of lists, your can read <em>Beer Advocate<\/em> magazine&#8217;s Planet Earth Top 25s at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonebrew.com\/news\/081211\/\">Stone Brewing website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little surprised that 23 of the All-Time Top Breweries are American. And that 22 of the top 25 Top Beer Bars are in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little surprised that I&#8217;ve had all 25 of the All-Time Top Beers (&#8220;New beers comes and go. These are the ones that stuck around.&#8221;), and I almost feel a sense of relief that <em>only<\/em> 17 of them are from North America. But I&#8217;m hardly shocked that 24 of the 25 are 6% abv or stronger, most much stronger (the average of the 24 is 8.5% abv). <\/p>\n<p>OK, &#8220;a little surprised&#8221; might not be the best choice of words. Let&#8217;s try &#8220;appalled by such American arrogance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><code>&nbsp;<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of lists, your can read Beer Advocate magazine&#8217;s Planet Earth Top 25s at the Stone Brewing website. I&#8217;m a little surprised that 23 of the All-Time Top Breweries are American. And that 22 of the top 25 Top Beer Bars are in the United States. I&#8217;m a little surprised that I&#8217;ve had all 25 &#8230; <a title=\"Are American beers really THAT good?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/are-american-beers-really-that-good\/\" aria-label=\"More on Are American beers really THAT good?\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-aV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}