{"id":7766,"date":"2011-09-28T08:11:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2011-09-28T08:11:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:11:53","slug":"psst-a-few-gabf-sleepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/psst-a-few-gabf-sleepers\/","title":{"rendered":"Psst, a few GABF &#8216;sleepers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIP, <a href=\"http:\/\/beermapping.com\/gabf\/2009\/gabfscores.php\">Beermapping Project Great American Beer Festival Fantasy Draught<\/a>. Jonathan Surratt has come to his senses and let the crazy-to-administrate beast ride into the sunset after four fun-filled years.<\/p>\n<p>But a new game has arrived to fill the void, the FBAG 2011 Brewery Pick\u2019em Contest. So put down that beer judging glass, <a href=\"http:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/\">Jay Brooks<\/a>, and get your entry in before the Thursday deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Although the rules for the <a href=\"http:\/\/beernews.org\/2011\/09\/announcing-the-fbag-2011-brewery-pickem-contest\/\">FBAG 2011 Brewery Pick\u2019em Contest<\/a> look a little scary I like the &#8220;here&#8217;s what you have to spend&#8221; concept (probably taken from some sports related competition I&#8217;ve never seen). This way everybody who wants to can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pizzaport.com\/locations\/carlsbad\/staff\/jeff-bagby\/\">own Jeff Bagby<\/a>. Not just the player lucky enough to get him via draft.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t be participating (having retired after Bagby and Flying Dog ran roughshod in 2009) so I&#8217;ll pass along two quick suggestions for filling out a roster after spending $26-$30 upfront. AC Golden hardly qualifies as a sleeper after four medals the last two years, but the small brewery inside of Coors&#8217; giant brewery has expanded its lineup. And how can Sun King (winner at the World Beer Cup <em>and<\/em> GABF last year) still be only a buck?<\/p>\n<p>Also, I stand by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/StanHieronymus\/status\/118861399895191553\">last night&#8217;s tweet<\/a>. If Marble Brewery (which has to break through one of these years) or Urban Chestnut Brewing (new this year, and in judging only) were on the list they&#8217;d make great $1 choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP, Beermapping Project Great American Beer Festival Fantasy Draught. Jonathan Surratt has come to his senses and let the crazy-to-administrate beast ride into the sunset after four fun-filled years. But a new game has arrived to fill the void, the FBAG 2011 Brewery Pick\u2019em Contest. So put down that beer judging glass, Jay Brooks, and &#8230; <a title=\"Psst, a few GABF &#8216;sleepers&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/psst-a-few-gabf-sleepers\/\" aria-label=\"More on Psst, a few GABF &#8216;sleepers&#8217;\">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-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-21g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","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=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7773,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions\/7773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}