{"id":5390,"date":"2013-01-04T11:16:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=5390"},"modified":"2013-01-04T11:16:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:16:38","slug":"5-myths-of-having-full-strength-beer-in-colorado-grocery-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=5390","title":{"rendered":"5 Myths of Having Full-Strength Beer in Colorado Grocery Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Lindsey Dulin at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denveroffthewagon.com\">Denver off the Wagon<\/a> regarding &#8220;more distribution channels make it easier for new businesses to enter the craft beer industry&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Once consumers spend their beer bucks at the supermarkets, mom-and-pop liquor stores will begin to vanish. According to the Denver Business Journal, a study conducted by Summit Economics, LLC declares that nearly half of Colorado liquor stores will close their doors within three years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An interesting read based on the political and business landscape here in Colorado on the subject. Even more interesting, of course, is the conversation in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Having watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1326194\/\">Beer Wars<\/a> it makes me wonder if a good way to tackle the &#8220;crafty&#8221; brews (think Budweiser putting out a &#8220;seasonal&#8221; beer versus true &#8220;craft&#8221; brewers) is to give better &#8216;gateway&#8217; beers to the general populace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lindsey Dulin at Denver off the Wagon regarding &#8220;more distribution channels make it easier for new businesses to enter the craft beer industry&#8221;: Once consumers spend their beer bucks at the supermarkets, mom-and-pop liquor stores will begin to vanish. According to the Denver Business Journal, a study conducted by Summit Economics, LLC declares that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-business","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5392,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390\/revisions\/5392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}