{"id":6770,"date":"2011-06-21T06:19:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T12:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2011-06-21T06:19:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T12:19:47","slug":"making-a-connection-beer-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/making-a-connection-beer-included\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a connection, beer included"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jake<\/p>\n

Chippewa Falls, Wis., is a town with about 13,000 residents. Drive in from the north, taking County Highway S to county Highway Q, turning south and driving past a couple of big parks and it doesn’t look that much different than Cameron on Bloomer or one of the other towns along U.S. 3. Maybe a little bigger.<\/p>\n

Next, boom, a brewery complex, Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co. <\/p>\n

It’s a tourist attraction, for sure, and good for the town’s business. However it feels perfectly appropriate that the gift shop\/museum may be new (much newer than other parts of the brewery) but is designed to look like a cabin from the nineteenth century and called Leinie Lodge.<\/p>\n

Saturday Leinenkuegl’s hosted its eighth annual Leinie Lodge Family Reunion. Thousands attended. I expect many spoke with a distinctive northern Wisconsin\/Minnesota accent (think Frances McDormand in “Fargo.”) And a PR person sent along this photo of Jake Leinenkugel autographing one attendee’s head.<\/p>\n

You think it was staged? I don’t.<\/p>\n

But I’m pretty sure that the man did not immediately tweet, “@jakeleinenkugel<\/a> just signed my head. I may never wash it again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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