{"id":8676,"date":"2012-05-17T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2012-05-18T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T15:03:17","slug":"big-news-for-brewers-and-beer-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/05\/17\/big-news-for-brewers-and-beer-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Big News For Brewers and Beer Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8679\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 225px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/beer-e1337294856248.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8679\" title=\"beer\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/beer-e1337294856248.jpg\" alt=\"beer\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/beer-e1337294856248.jpg 225w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/05\/beer-e1337294856248-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr_good_day<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill allowing the sale of specialty beer in New Hampshire. \u00a0As a spokesperson from <a href=\"http:\/\/redhook.com\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hook Brewery<\/a> in Portsmouth explained to me, until now breweries were unable to brew or distribute in N.H. beers containing either over 6 percent alcohol, or spice and fruit ingredients. \u00a0This forced the brewery to outsource jobs to nearby states, and incurred significant extra costs.\u00a0Although &#8220;it&#8217;s not a\u00a0light-switch,&#8221; the spokesperson explained, Red Hook plans to bring operations back to N.H. as they strategize for the future.<\/p>\n<p>This is good timing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftbeer.com\/pages\/news-and-events\/american-craft-beer-week\" target=\"_blank\">American Craft Beer Week<\/a>! And if you&#8217;re a history buff, keep your eyes open for Red Hook&#8217;s historic ale recipe, created through a partnership with Exeter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independencemuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Independence Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill allowing the sale of specialty beer in New Hampshire. \u00a0As a spokesperson from Red Hook Brewery in Portsmouth explained to me, until now breweries were unable to brew or distribute in N.H. beers containing either over 6 percent alcohol, or spice and fruit ingredients. \u00a0This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474,54,51],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}