{"id":101,"date":"2007-05-06T11:32:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/archives\/101"},"modified":"2007-05-06T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T18:32:47","slug":"american-craft-beer-week-is-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"American Craft Beer Week is Approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Great American Beer Tour\" alt=\"Great American Beer Tour\" src=\"http:\/\/crapmonkey.com\/images\/gabt_join[1].gif\" align=\"left\" \/>As if you needed an excuse to drink beer, the week of May 14th through 20th is American Craft Beer Week.\u00a0 With nearly 1500 craft breweries now operating in the United States, the average american lives within\u00a010 miles of a\u00a0brewery.\u00a0\u00a0Celebrate your freedom of choice and your inalienable right to flavor by visiting your neighborhood brew pubs and enjoying a cold beer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you really want to celebrate the glories of beer, join the Great American Beer Tour!\u00a0 Download <a title=\"Beer Passport\" href=\"http:\/\/crapmonkey.com\/docs\/GABTWebPassport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this passport<\/a> and have it signed by brewery employees as you transform yourself into a tourist on the ultimate journey to beer Nirvana.\u00a0\u00a0Have your passport signed\u00a0at each of your destinations and be eligible to win prizes (including the grand prize: a trip to the <a title=\"Great American Beer Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beertown.org\/events\/gabf\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Great American Beer Festival<\/a> in\u00a0Denver). \u00a0 Not sure where to start your Journey?\u00a0 <a title=\"Beertown\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beertown.org\" target=\"_blank\">Beertown<\/a> has some great tools for putting together your itinerary, like this <a title=\"Brewery Locator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beertown.org\/craftbrewing\/locator\/breweries.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">brewery locator<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Life is too short to drink bad beer.\u00a0 Let\u00a0American Craft Beer Week\u00a0serve as\u00a0a great reminder to slow down and smell the hops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if you needed an excuse to drink beer, the week of May 14th through 20th is American Craft Beer Week.\u00a0 With nearly 1500 craft breweries now operating in the United States, the average american lives within\u00a010 miles of a\u00a0brewery.\u00a0\u00a0Celebrate your freedom of choice and your inalienable right to flavor by visiting your neighborhood brew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}