{"id":6979,"date":"2003-07-16T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/16\/6979\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T20:46:20","slug":"6979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/16\/6979\/","title":{"rendered":"Lileks on Beer-making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Lileks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/03\/0703\/071603.html\" target=\"new\">making your own beer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can understand making one\u2019s own beer if, for example, beer is not otherwise available. But there\u2019s a store down the street that sells all manner of fine beers. Some are from breweries that date back to the 18th century. I imagine they\u2019ve gotten the kinks out by now, and it\u2019s safe to drink.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Probably even Modela Negro.  Theoretically.<\/p>\n<p>I know a couple of people, including the revered El Guapo, who make their own beers.  I love you guys like brothers, but I&#8217;d like to point out two things about the process:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What you&#8217;re doing looks kinda like work.  I mean, growing your own hops?  Is that <i>necessary<\/i>?  That&#8217;s prime napping time you&#8217;re wasting.\n<li>You&#8217;re totally not getting the capitalist system, wherein I exchange hours of writing illegible software documentation for a means of exchange, called <i>money<\/i>, which I can then trade for another good, namely delicious Guinness Draught.  Your selfish manufacture of a good you could otherwise buy helps keep the economy stagnant and removes a excessive excisely tax revenue stream from trickling, or in our cases roaring, into state coffers.<\/ul>\n<p>Friends, and soon federal officials, won&#8217;t let friends brew their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Lileks making your own beer: I can understand making one\u2019s own beer if, for example, beer is not otherwise available. But there\u2019s a store down the street that sells all manner of fine beers. Some are from breweries that date back to the 18th century. I imagine they\u2019ve gotten the kinks out by now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21371,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions\/21371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}