{"id":3166,"date":"2021-11-29T19:25:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2021-11-29T19:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:29:40","slug":"biden-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2021\/11\/29\/biden-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wisconsin residents take their beer very seriously. However, when political persuasion taints your taste in beer, residents should reconsider their biases and priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My Wisconsin son-in-law brought me back a birthday present from his visit to Wausau. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bidenbeer.jpg?resize=351%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3167\" width=\"351\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bidenbeer.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bidenbeer.jpg?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of you more experienced adults may remember President Carter and his brother&#8217;s Billy Beer. This is not a product with a family link, but rather the product of a brewer wanting to offer a product that is &#8220;inoffensive and not bitter&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, here&#8217;s to you liberal Wisconsin brewmeister. Principles over profits!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I admit to having consumed this beverage yet. I want to study the can in greater detail. The messaging is great. The text on the can <a href=\"https:\/\/minocquabrewingcompany.com\/\">included a web site<\/a> I explored and I would recommend others making the same effort. The brewer has quite a story and persists despite the local bias against anything that sounds Democratic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Located in Minocqua Wisconsin, MBC started making <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/tag\/progressivebeer\/\">#progressivebeer<\/a> after closing our brewpub because Donald Trump played politics with Covid-19 and Mitch McConnell let restaurants twist in the wind.&nbsp; We hung a Biden sign in the reddest part of Wisconsin in defiance of our Republican County Board\u2019s threat to fine us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin residents take their beer very seriously. However, when political persuasion taints your taste in beer, residents should reconsider their biases and priorities. My Wisconsin son-in-law brought me back a birthday present from his visit to Wausau. Some of you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2021\/11\/29\/biden-beer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-progressivebeer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3170,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}