{"id":785,"date":"2013-05-28T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/?p=785"},"modified":"2015-06-30T09:01:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T14:01:54","slug":"kohler-beer-festival-redefines-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/golf\/785\/kohler-beer-festival-redefines-genre","title":{"rendered":"Kohler Beer Festival Redefines Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WS<\/a>Until a year ago, my sense was that festival<\/i> and blast<\/i> could be used more or less interchangeably in describing beer confabs \u2013 terms associated with quantity as much as quality. Then I attended the Kohler Festival of Beer, at The American Club Resort, in Kohler, Wisconsin. It\u2019s fair to say that beer will never be the same for me.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, beer has been viewed as the no-account brother of wine in the golf-and<\/i> family of activities. But to check out the Kohler festival \u2013 this year\u2019s installment is this coming weekend, Friday through Sunday \u2013 is to appreciate how much beer mirrors golf: Like courses, there are great local breweries everywhere, each with its own regional character.<\/p>\n

But while the Kohler event is avowedly beer-themed, it\u2019s the related activities that make it fun. Start with the Eggs & Kegs Breakfast Buffet, expand your consciousness in the discipline of pairing beer and chocolate, matriculate at Grilling University. Also new this year is the 5K Beer Run\/Walk. There\u2019s something going every hour of the day and well into the night.<\/p>\n

Of course, I\u2019d advise that anyone who goes to The American Club and fails to play at least one of its four epic golf courses deserves to be cut off. One of my A Position colleagues recently opined that, all things considered, this is the best golf resort in the country. It\u2019s the sort of debate that, come to think of it, also goes well with beer, but you certainly can\u2019t dismiss his assessment out of hand.<\/p>\n

(The ace I had<\/a> on the tough-but-fair 3rd<\/sup> hole on the Meadow Valleys layout doesn\u2019t affect my judgment, I\u2019m pretty sure.)<\/p>\n

As it happens, I was lucky enough to be accompanied by two other A Position mates, Tom Bedell and Herb Gould<\/a>, both home brewers and, as the McKenzies would say, experts in the field, eh? They helped to boost my appreciation of the beer esthetic, but the task really requires no prior experience: You\u2019d expect that the beer crowd would be a bit more down-to-earth than other tastemakers, and you\u2019d be right.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Kohler Festival of Beer affirms that those vaguely patronizing stereotypes of easygoing Midwesterners — the reporter is one — are all true. The old saw about meeting nice people playing golf spills over (figuratively, we hope) to enjoying beer.<\/p>\n

Tickets still available. You\u2019ll have a blast.<\/p>\n

# # #<\/p>\n

For more information click on: Kohler Festival of Beer<\/a>, May 31 to June 2, Kohler, Wisconsin<\/p>\n

Related post: A Pocketful of Dyes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until a year ago, my sense was that festival and blast could be used more or less interchangeably in describing… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":786,"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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,18,17],"tags":[2984,3069],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-lifestyle","category-courses-and-travel","tag-the-american-club","tag-kohler-festival-of-beer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/05\/WS-Straits-17_PinchedNerve.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}