{"id":8752,"date":"2012-02-10T05:20:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T11:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=8752"},"modified":"2012-02-10T05:20:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T11:20:29","slug":"60-in-the-books-getting-local-for-session-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/60-in-the-books-getting-local-for-session-61\/","title":{"rendered":"#60 in the books; getting local for Session #61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>The Session #60, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonbeerblog.com\/session-60-growlers\/\">Let&#8217;s Talk Growlers,<\/a> is in the record books.<\/p>\n<p>Now we begin Year Six of The Session in Indiana. (Year Six, meaning we started five years ago. Pretty amazing. &#8220;What Goes Around&#8230; Comes Around&#8221; was atop the music charts.)<\/p>\n<p>Hoosier Beer Geek Matt Robinson asks we consider this question over beer: <a href=\" http:\/\/www.hoosierbeergeek.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/announcing-session-61-what-makes-local.html\">What makes local beer better?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Of course I think this is a good idea. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinklocalbeer.com\/\">www.drinklocalbeer.com<\/a> is one of those stray URLs I&#8217;ve given a home (don&#8217;t bother with the link, it brings you to the Appellation Beer front page). So to Matt&#8217;s marching orders:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are hosting the March edition of the session. The topic I&#8217;ve been thinking about is local beer. The term is being used by just about every craft brewer in the country. What does it really mean though? Is it more of a marketing term or is there substance behind the moniker? This month I want to think about what makes local beer better? I&#8217;m not just talking about the beer itself, although it&#8217;s the focal point, but what makes local beer better?  My connection to local beer is far from thinking that my beer is actually &#8220;local.&#8221; Maybe you don&#8217;t agree with me, and you can write about that. Bonus points for writing about your favorite local beer and the settings around it being local to you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just realized that last year for the March Session we <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-49-regular-beers-are-part-of-the-revolution\/\">visited Urban Chestnut Brewing<\/a> in St. Louis. It wasn&#8217;t local then. We were still paying property taxes in New Mexico. Perhaps I should hum &#8220;What Goes Around&#8230; Comes Around.&#8221; If I only knew the tune. The fact is, though, there are two breweries closer to our house than UCB, and in addition three breweries opened in the months after UCB. Local has taken on new meaning in St. Louis.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Session #60, Let&#8217;s Talk Growlers, is in the record books. Now we begin Year Six of The Session in Indiana. (Year Six, meaning we started five years ago. Pretty amazing. &#8220;What Goes Around&#8230; Comes Around&#8221; was atop the music charts.) Hoosier Beer Geek Matt Robinson asks we consider this question over beer: What makes &#8230; <a title=\"#60 in the books; getting local for Session #61\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/60-in-the-books-getting-local-for-session-61\/\" aria-label=\"More on #60 in the books; getting local for Session #61\">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-8752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2ha","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752","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=8752"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8764,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions\/8764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}