{"id":210,"date":"2016-01-21T19:16:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T00:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=210"},"modified":"2016-01-28T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T16:02:11","slug":"going-whole-hog-for-groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/region\/going-whole-hog-for-groundhog-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Going whole hog for Groundhog Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Groundhog Day is a big deal around here.<\/p>\n

How big? Think about it: with two beers being brewed to commemorate the 2016 edition of the day, there’s only one holiday — Christmas — that gets more attention from the brewers around here.<\/p>\n

In the case of\u00a0Straub in St. Mary’s<\/a>, putting out a beer with a groundhog on the label has been a regular thing for years. Four years ago, though, its Groundhog Altbier represented a shift in the brewery’s very foundation. It was the first beer the brewery had produced since before Prohibition that wasn’t made with adjuncts … and it was the start of a shift towards a craft beer lineup that now includes about a dozen styles, mostly German.<\/p>\n

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