{"id":8082,"date":"2011-11-04T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2011-11-04T07:58:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:58:20","slug":"the-session-57-beery-confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-57-beery-confessions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Session #57: Beery Confessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/><em>This month&#8217;s Session is hosted by Steve Lamond at <a href=\"http:\/\/beersiveknown.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/session-57-my-guilty-beer-secret.html\">Beer&#8217;s I&#8217;ve Known<\/a>. The topic is &#8220;beery guilty secrets.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am a man without a beer epiphany. At least one of the <em>aha<\/em> sort.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember the what, when or where of my first beer. Or my first &#8220;better&#8221; beer. Or my first &#8220;craft&#8221; beer.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my beer confession. I don&#8217;t feel guilty about this. Just a little embarrassed.  It seems that since I&#8217;ve been around to report on much of what has happened within niche beer the last 20 years that I should recall that first <em>xxxxxx<\/em> beer in <em>xxxxxx<\/em> bar in <em>xxxxxx<\/em> city.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I realize I come from a different time (before New Albion Brewing; or before CAMRA) and a different place (central Illinois). The beer options changed gradually. The quality of imported (mostly German) beer in the bottle was all over the map, but on draft it was definitely a step up from Stroh&#8217;s at $11.15 a case (inflation adjusted) and Michelob (on draft, which I only drank if somebody else was buying). And some year along the away I remembered that Sierra Nevada Celebration tasted pretty good last year and was back again.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why, for me, the guilty pleasure will still be the next beer I drink.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s Session is hosted by Steve Lamond at Beer&#8217;s I&#8217;ve Known. The topic is &#8220;beery guilty secrets.&#8221; I am a man without a beer epiphany. At least one of the aha sort. I don&#8217;t remember the what, when or where of my first beer. Or my first &#8220;better&#8221; beer. Or my first &#8220;craft&#8221; beer. &#8230; <a title=\"The Session #57: Beery Confessions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-session-57-beery-confessions\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Session #57: Beery Confessions\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-26m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082","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=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8110,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/8110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}