{"id":483,"date":"2017-08-01T15:55:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T19:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=483"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:15:49","slug":"extra-farewell-to-the-beerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/pittsburgh\/extra-farewell-to-the-beerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra: Farewell to the Beerman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_484\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/gknipling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-484\" class=\"size-full wp-image-484\" src=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/gknipling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/gknipling.jpg 960w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/gknipling-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/gknipling-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/gknipling-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A commemorative run of Oskar Blues G&#8217;Knight imperial IPA, with a label printed in honor of Tony Knipling.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even now, days later, it&#8217;s a difficult thing to write: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/obituaries\/2017\/07\/27\/Vecenie-Distributing-Co-s-Tony-Knipling-dies-pittsburgh-craft-beer-the-beerman\/stories\/201707270108\">Tony Knipling died last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To say that Tony was a longtime craft beer rep at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beersince1933.com\/Vecenie-Distributing-Company-Western-Pennsylvania-Premier-Wholesaler-Craft-Regional-Beers.php\">Vecenie Distributing Co. in Millvale<\/a> is accurate. And completely inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>He sold his own brands, sure. But nearly everything he did &#8212; from being one of the longest members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/trashhomebrewers.org\/\">Three Rivers Alliance of Serious Homebrewers<\/a> to the long-running Craft Beer School series with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust &#8212; helped sell better beer in the broadest sense. He was one of the first people in town to do it and I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any question that he reached more people with that message than anyone else in town.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;margin-bottom:20px;\">\r\n<div style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\r\n<video data-video-id=\"5527715323001\"\r\ndata-account=\"1105443290001\" \r\ndata-player=\"N1VVkFril\" \r\ndata-embed=\"default\" \r\ndata-application-id \r\nclass=\"video-js\" \r\ncontrols \r\nstyle=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; left: 0px;\"><\/video>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1105443290001\/N1VVkFril_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><\/div><\/div>\n<p>After calling hours for Tony and his family on Sunday, a bunch of us met at East End&#8217;s taproom in the Strip to have a beer or two and talk about what we would remember most about the Beerman. This is easily the longest video I&#8217;ve ever posted here, but the memory of Tony Knipling is absolutely worth the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even now, days later, it&#8217;s a difficult thing to write: Tony Knipling died last week. To say that Tony was a longtime craft beer rep at Vecenie Distributing Co. in Millvale is accurate. And completely inadequate. He sold his own brands, sure. But nearly everything he did &#8212; from being one of the longest members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[52,33,70,49,62,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}