{"id":8346,"date":"2011-12-07T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=8346"},"modified":"2011-12-07T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:36:09","slug":"beer-has-not-jumped-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-has-not-jumped-the-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer has not jumped the shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline above is simply an answer to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratebeer.com\/forums\/when-did-craft-beer-jump-the-shark_186958.htm\">question asked at Rate Beer<\/a> that made its way into my Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<p>Confession. The question actually reads &#8220;When did craft beer jump the shark?&#8221; I think making the conversation simply about [no modifier needed] <em>beer<\/em> will do.<\/p>\n<p>(It seems that the discussion at Rate Beer, which was three posts old when I first visited, has evolved into something else. Like how people interact with beer. That&#8217;s OK, but I&#8217;m more interested in the simpler question.)<\/p>\n<p>In 1322, brewers in Dordrecht in the Netherlands made a hopped beer called <em>hoppenbier<\/em> and an unhopped fermented beverage called <em>ael<\/em>. <em>Hoppenbier<\/em> was likely a shocker. Perhaps even more so because Dutch brewers were trying to catch up with those damned imported hopped beers from Hamburg that tasted like nothing the locals had ever had. They may even have overshot their mark since they were still learning about hops. After all, the year before it was against the law for them to use hops in beer.<\/p>\n<p>New things happen. Brewers may put coffee into beer, pumpkins, bog myrtle, acorns, and maybe even ground up shark&#8217;s teeth.<\/p>\n<p>But Max will still be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivni-filosof.com\/2011\/11\/in-praise-of-bores.html\">find a new sv&#283;tl\u00fd le\u017e\u00e1k<\/a> to praise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline above is simply an answer to a question asked at Rate Beer that made its way into my Twitter feed. Confession. The question actually reads &#8220;When did craft beer jump the shark?&#8221; I think making the conversation simply about [no modifier needed] beer will do. (It seems that the discussion at Rate Beer, &#8230; <a title=\"Beer has not jumped the shark\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-has-not-jumped-the-shark\/\" aria-label=\"More on Beer has not jumped the shark\">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-8346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2aC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346","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=8346"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8365,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions\/8365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}