{"id":1970,"date":"2016-10-14T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2016-10-12T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:43:41","slug":"beyond-bottle-group-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-group-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Bottle: Group Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the-rare-barrel\"<\/a>We\u2019re in the thick of festival season at All About Beer<\/em>\u2014every brewery rep on the east coast I\u2019ve talked to today has cursed October\u2019s existence, and not without justification\u2014and we\u2019ve got two festivals of our own plus the next issue overhead. Thankfully, this job includes good distractions, and I was lucky enough to get behind the scenes for two recent group projects.<\/p>\n

First: I got to be one of the blenders for Firestone Walker\u2019s XX Anniversary Ale\u2014usually a spot reserved for local winemakers who actually know how to blend things. I didn\u2019t, but my bread-making\/blending partner Arie caught me up to speed quickly\u2014and we decided on a solid blend to compete against eight other teams of Paso-Robles winemakers. Our mix (30% Parabola and 15% Bravo, scribbles suggest…) wasn\u2019t the winner, but the top blend\u2014via one-man-blending-show Scott Hawley of Torrin Winery\u2014was delicious and debuts October 29th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Second, as another group project, I got to hang with some great folks for The Search for the Rare Barrel down at Berkeley\u2019s The Rare Barrel, judging a flight of their various blonde sour ales to help find a very special combination of yeast characteristics (to serve to ferment many future barrels of beer). The winning barrels from our preliminary flights were then judged by panelists from The Rare Barrel, Lauren Salazar from New Belgium, and Vinnie Cilurzo from Russian River. (If you\u2019re heard of the famed barrel pH1, that\u2019s what this project was about.)<\/p>\n

The winning barrel gets released the last week of September. Back to spreadsheets! #festlife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re in the thick of festival season at All About Beer\u2014every brewery rep on the east coast I\u2019ve talked to today has cursed October\u2019s existence, and not without justification\u2014and we\u2019ve got two festivals of our own plus the next issue overhead. Thankfully, this job includes good distractions, and I was lucky enough to get behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[7,4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBeyond the Bottle: Group Projects - Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We\u2019re in the thick of festival season at All About Beer\u2014every brewery rep on the east coast I\u2019ve talked to today has cursed October\u2019s existence.\" \/>\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\/beyond-bottle-group-projects\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beyond the Bottle: Group Projects - Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We\u2019re in the thick of festival season at All About Beer\u2014every brewery rep on the east coast I\u2019ve talked to today has cursed October\u2019s existence.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-group-projects\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beermonthclub\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-15T00:00:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-10-12T15:43:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Rare-Barrel.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ken Weaver\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@KenWeaver\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@BeerMonthClub\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ken Weaver\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Beyond the Bottle: Group Projects - Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club","description":"We\u2019re in the thick of festival season at All About Beer\u2014every brewery rep on the east coast I\u2019ve talked to today has cursed October\u2019s existence.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-group-projects\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Beyond the Bottle: Group Projects - Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club","og_description":"We\u2019re in the thick of festival season at All About Beer\u2014every brewery rep on the east coast I\u2019ve talked to today has cursed October\u2019s existence.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-group-projects\/","og_site_name":"Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beermonthclub\/","article_published_time":"2016-10-15T00:00:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-10-12T15:43:41+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Rare-Barrel.jpg"}],"author":"Ken Weaver","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@KenWeaver","twitter_site":"@BeerMonthClub","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ken Weaver","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-group-projects\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-group-projects\/","name":"Beyond the Bottle: Group Projects - Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-10-15T00:00:56+00:00","dateModified":"2016-10-12T15:43:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e58340b4e53188c364ce801bfd0849d8"},"description":"We\u2019re in the thick of festival season at All About Beer\u2014every brewery rep on the east coast I\u2019ve talked to today has cursed October\u2019s existence.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-group-projects\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-group-projects\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-group-projects\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Beer Blog Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Beyond the Bottle: Group Projects"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/","name":"Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club","description":"A craft beer blog written by the experts of The Microbrewed Beer of the Month Club","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e58340b4e53188c364ce801bfd0849d8","name":"Ken Weaver","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fe584ee75fa1de83a7be3ee5d9ace376?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fe584ee75fa1de83a7be3ee5d9ace376?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ken Weaver"},"description":"Ken Weaver is a freelance beer writer and watercolor-and-ink artist based in Petaluma, California. New original artwork is available from his webshop every few Fridays: kenweaver.com\/shop.","sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenWeaver"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/author\/dabeerguy\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}