{"id":9455,"date":"2012-09-06T20:38:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T02:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=9455"},"modified":"2012-09-06T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T03:23:55","slug":"if-you-read-only-one-beer-press-release-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/if-you-read-only-one-beer-press-release-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"If you read only one beer press release this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make it this one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skabrewing.com\/\">Ska Brewing<\/a>:               <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DURANGO, Colo., (Sept. 6, 2012) \u2014 Ska Brewing has been awarded five medals out of six entries at the recent Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Competition, and now believes it to be one of North America\u2019s most important beer competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Ska won a Gold medal for its Pinstripe Red Ale, three Silver medals for Steel Toe Stout, Buster Nut Brown and Special ESB, and a Bronze in the German and Rye category for its GABF Pro-Am winning recipe \u201cOn The Sly Again,\u201d which will be released later this fall as #21 in the brewery\u2019s (locally) popular Local Series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is obviously an important competition,\u201d said Ska President and co-founder Dave Thibodeau. \u201cHaving won five medals this year, it\u2019s clear to us that this is an event with expert judges who are beyond qualified to determine who makes the best beer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed further, Thibodeau acknowledged, \u201cWhen we win a lot of medals, we feel like beer competitions are not only legitimate, but critical to the industry. I\u2019m actually not sure if the industry could function without them.\u201d He added, \u201cOf course, that could change next year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was more, but four paragraphs of laughing out loud is about all my heart can stand.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I need to drink any beer that beats out <em>Steel Toe Stout<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make it this one from Ska Brewing: DURANGO, Colo., (Sept. 6, 2012) \u2014 Ska Brewing has been awarded five medals out of six entries at the recent Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Competition, and now believes it to be one of North America\u2019s most important beer competitions. Ska won a Gold medal for its Pinstripe &#8230; <a title=\"If you read only one beer press release this year\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/if-you-read-only-one-beer-press-release-this-year\/\" aria-label=\"More on If you read only one beer press release this year\">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-9455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2sv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455","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=9455"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9464,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions\/9464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}