{"id":1115,"date":"2014-07-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2014-06-25T13:33:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T20:33:25","slug":"greg-meets-michael-jackson-first-time-gabf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/greg-meets-michael-jackson-first-time-gabf\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Meets Michael Jackson for the First Time at The GABF"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Post<\/a>The pinnacle of beer festivals back in the day (and many would argue still today) was The Great American Beer Festival.\u00a0 Twenty years ago, it was a bit of a drunk fest.\u00a0 You’d have four hours to hit as many breweries as you could out of the 1000 or so on the floor and could drink as much as you could put down in the time allotted.\u00a0 I’ll never forget seeing some cat\u00a0drink out of a spill bucket after the taps were closed.\u00a0Apparently, he wasn’t full after his 4 hour beer odyssey.\u00a0 Anyone of importance in the brewing industry was there including Michael Jackson who was largely considered to be the World’s leading authority on the subject of beer while he was alive.\u00a0 He later helped found The Rare Beer Club\u2122 and we do our best to do his legacy justice every month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Prost!<\/span>
\nKris<\/span><\/p>\n

#20yearsofbeer<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pinnacle of beer festivals back in the day (and many would argue still today) was The Great American Beer Festival.\u00a0 Twenty years ago, it was a bit of a drunk fest.\u00a0 You’d have four hours to hit as many breweries as you could out of the 1000 or so on the floor and could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[8,4,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nGreg Meets Michael Jackson for the First Time at The GABF - Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anyone of importance in the brewing industry was at the GABF including Michael Jackson who was considered to be the World's leading authority on beer.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/greg-meets-michael-jackson-first-time-gabf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Greg Meets Michael Jackson for the First Time at The GABF - 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