{"id":1341,"date":"2009-12-14T21:42:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T02:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2009-12-24T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T18:37:14","slug":"the-great-beer-massacre-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/14\/the-great-beer-massacre-of-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Beer Massacre of 2009!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/visual_besten_regional.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/visual_besten_regional.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"visual_besten_regional\" width=\"295\" height=\"433\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My all-time favorite beer is no longer being imported!<\/p>\n<p>I have been a huge fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinkelacker.de\/index2.php\">Dinkel Acker<\/a>, a wonderful German pilsner,  for more than a decade.  I would buy cases at a time, making it worthwhile to scamper across the Potomac to a state with civilized beer buying laws.  (Montgomery County, Maryland, has a government monopoly over beer &#8211; it is akin to a Third World booze despotism).<\/p>\n<p>I found out today that Spaten, which was the importer, has ceased distributing Dinkel Acker in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Dinkel Acker is a great beer &#8211; and it&#8217;s wholesome.   Take a look at that advertisement I pasted into this blog.  It&#8217;s almost the opposite image from St. Pauli Girl.   You drink a Dinkel Acker, you feel like you are promoting virtue in the world. <\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s history, at least on this side of the Atlantic &#8211; or so it seems. <\/p>\n<p>I welcome suggestions for a good lagers or Pilsners&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My all-time favorite beer is no longer being imported! 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