{"id":1532,"date":"2007-05-31T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-horse-in-this-race\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T16:26:03","slug":"no-horse-in-this-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-horse-in-this-race","title":{"rendered":"No horse in this race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a neat article about how wine overtook beer in America<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the American middle classes have fast become connoisseurs of everything — coffee, ’80s Japanese garage-rock bands, environmentalist toilet paper. Now, Americans who want the exclusivity that connoisseurship offers but didn’t want to seem like snobs can have it both ways. Beer’s approachability became less of a virtue. Ironically, in the ultimate about-face, craft-brew drinkers lifted the language of wine. (Tasting notes for a pale ale from the Web site BeerAdvocate: “Nose is floral, like orange blossoms, with some citric rind and soft apple.”)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As someone who refers to himself as a “gin snob” (among other examples of my snobbishness), I can see what he means.<\/p>\n

So, are you more of a wine drinker or a beer drinker? (excluded from this question: my teetotaling family and my recovering alcoholic exes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a neat article about how wine overtook beer in America: Meanwhile, the American middle classes have fast become connoisseurs of everything — coffee, ’80s Japanese garage-rock bands, environmentalist toilet paper. Now, Americans who want the exclusivity that connoisseurship offers but didn’t want to seem like snobs can have it both ways. Beer’s approachability became … <\/p>\n

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