{"id":8865,"date":"2012-03-02T08:21:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T14:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=8865"},"modified":"2012-11-01T15:58:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T21:58:50","slug":"session-61-because-its-local-dammit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-61-because-its-local-dammit\/","title":{"rendered":"Session #61: Because it&#8217;s local, dammit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/><em>This month host Matt Robinson asked us to write about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoosierbeergeek.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/announcing-session-61-what-makes-local.html\">&#8220;What makes local beer better?&#8221;<\/a> for The Session 61. I found myself staring at his marching orders like a deer in headlights (or a thirsty drinker in front of 62 tap handles). Matt asked a series of questions that left me feeling as focused as his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hoosierbeergeek\">Twitter feed<\/a>. And 852 words into answering each of them individually I realized I still hadn&#8217;t pointed out that we have a St. Louis ZIP and there are six breweries between our house and Anheuser-Busch, and the closest is Schalfly Bottleworks. It&#8217;s Schalfly&#8217;s production brewery, but the beer to drink right now is<\/em> Amarillo Session Ale, <em>available only at the attached restaurant\/pub. In other words, only locally. 852 words? I&#8217;m sure you would have loved the technical discussion about volatile hop aromas, but I hit delete. Instead, one thought.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Beer is a sum of its parts, which include the humans who make the beer and the consumers who drink it. It&#8217;s not beer when the ingredients arrive on a truck, wherever that truck might have come from. It turns into beer locally. Magic.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month host Matt Robinson asked us to write about &#8220;What makes local beer better?&#8221; for The Session 61. I found myself staring at his marching orders like a deer in headlights (or a thirsty drinker in front of 62 tap handles). Matt asked a series of questions that left me feeling as focused as &#8230; <a title=\"Session #61: Because it&#8217;s local, dammit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-61-because-its-local-dammit\/\" aria-label=\"More on Session #61: Because it&#8217;s local, dammit\">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":[292,15],"tags":[268,220],"class_list":["post-8865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","category-the-session","tag-amarillo","tag-schlafly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2iZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865","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=8865"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10107,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865\/revisions\/10107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}