{"id":4806,"date":"2011-06-21T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2011-06-21T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:30:13","slug":"for-the-love-of-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/21\/for-the-love-of-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Love of Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">It&#8217;s interesting.  If 10 years ago, while clutching my crystal ball, I saw that everyday in my future I would think about beer, talk about beer and <em>nearly<\/em> everyday taste beer, I wouldn&#8217;t have believed it.  Today, glad I can&#8217;t see into the future, I am completely immersed in a crazy wonderful beer culture.\u00a0 With this knowledge I am still a bit shocked but absolutely grateful. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">This is a culture that takes on all walks of life and is ever eager to recommend a new beer, beer gadget or recipe.  It is a liquid world, that swirls with new ideas, incredible ingredients and the motliest crew of drinkers, brewers and writers. It&#8217;s an innovative, creative and knowledgeable community dedicated to the highest quality beer possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">I challenge you to reminisce.\u00a0 Think back to what brought you here.\u00a0 Did a friend urge you to try his or her home-brew?\u00a0 Did you get dragged to a tasting or festival?\u00a0 What was it that enticed you?\u00a0 What is it that keeps you here?\u00a0 However you answered, I bet you are glad you had that first beer experience.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">The moment we all took our first sip, went on our first tour, wrote our first blog or began brewing, we became hooked.\u00a0 If you have recently heard the good word about beer, welcome.\u00a0 There is no way out.  You are a Beer Geek.  The rest of YOUR days will include thoughts about this drink of the gods.  Beer facts will spew from your mouth when you least expect it.\u00a0 I hope you embrace this passionate world.  You are in the best company.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Peace!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><em>Amber<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2010_blog_conf_new_belgium08.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2010_blog_conf_new_belgium08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4809\" src=\"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2010_blog_conf_new_belgium08-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting. If 10 years ago, while clutching my crystal ball, I saw that everyday in my future I would think about beer, talk about beer and nearly everyday taste beer, I wouldn&#8217;t have believed it. Today, glad I can&#8217;t see into the future, I am completely immersed in a crazy wonderful beer culture.\u00a0 With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2010_blog_conf_new_belgium08.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4813,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions\/4813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}