{"id":17233,"date":"2015-11-19T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17233"},"modified":"2015-11-17T12:02:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:02:17","slug":"craft-beer-makes-for-funky-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/craft-beer-makes-for-funky-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Craft beer makes for \u2018funky\u2019 fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2015\/11\/07\/craft-beer-makes-for-funky-fest\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When he worked for Molson&#8217;s, Gord Slater recalls a time when people were shocked the brewer offered six different brands of beer.<\/p>\n<p>Beer is beer, they said. It&#8217;s all supposed to taste the same.<\/p>\n<p>But he knew there was a whole world of suds waiting to be tapped. When he helped pass legislation in 1984 making brewpubs legal in Ontario, craft breweries were finally allowed to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>It took awhile, but now he finds himself at events like this weekend&#8217;s Real Canadian Craft Beer Festival, held Saturday at the Scotiabank Convention Centre. With 25 craft breweries, including five from Niagara, beer enthusiasts had their pick of flavours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: When he worked for Molson&#8217;s, Gord Slater recalls a time when people were shocked the brewer offered six different brands of beer. Beer is beer, they said. It&#8217;s all supposed to taste the same. But he knew there was a whole world of suds waiting to be tapped. When he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[359,26,2],"tags":[10244,10249,10457,10455,10456,10452,847,1139,652,10453,10454],"class_list":["post-17233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-convention-centre","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-beer","tag-brew","tag-brewer","tag-craft-breweries","tag-flavours","tag-gord-slater","tag-niagara","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-ontario","tag-real-canadian-craft-beer-festival","tag-soctiabank-convention-centre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}