{"id":325,"date":"2014-10-19T08:09:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2014-10-19T08:09:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T15:09:27","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I&#8217;ve been a bad blogger.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-326\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hopunion-interior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-326 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hopunion-interior.jpg\" alt=\"hopunion-interior\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hopunion-interior.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hopunion-interior-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m smiling because I&#8217;m in the middle of a factory that processes hops&#8211;reason enough for a lunatic&#8217;s grin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a full month since I last blogged. But to my defense, I&#8217;ve been a bit busy. In addition to my partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestsupplies.com\/\">Midwest Supplies\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and our cool new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestsupplies.com\/master-vintner-wine-making-starter-kit.html\">Master Vintner line of winemaking products<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been busy doing a few other things. First, I shot some videos:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dsFSEp4Ts84?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dsFSEp4Ts84?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And then I did a little bit of travelling. Since the end of August I&#8217;ve been to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minneapolis<\/li>\n<li>Houston<\/li>\n<li>Atlanta<\/li>\n<li>Victoria<\/li>\n<li>Denver<\/li>\n<li>Seattle<\/li>\n<li>Yakima<\/li>\n<li>Boston<\/li>\n<li>Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Philadelphia<\/li>\n<li>Minneapolis (again!)<\/li>\n<li>Detroit<\/li>\n<li>Chicago<\/li>\n<li>Kelowna<\/li>\n<li>Summerland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In that time I&#8217;ve been to Hop and Brew School, done wine opportunity seminars for consumer beverage retailers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winexpert.com\/products\/le14\">Limited Edition<\/a> wine and food pairing events, shot many videos, attended the Great Canadian Beer Festival, helped plan catalogues, merchandised stores, drank beer and laughed a lot.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m typing this up in an airport lounge waiting to jet off to Winnipeg. I&#8217;ve had some exceptionally good luck with local weather on my travels, and had a lot of fun working with my friends in all of the cities I&#8217;ve visited, and I&#8217;m looking forward to the same over the next week.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got three or four blogs lined up, and soon I&#8217;ll have some\u00a0<em>very<\/em>\u00a0exciting news to share, but that&#8217;ll have to wait another few days: I&#8217;ve got some sales training to do, another couple of Limited Edition wine tastings and a webinar session for the members of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winemadesimple.ca\/about_us.php\">Canadian Craft Winemakers Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Uh-oh, it&#8217;s wheels-up. Hold the door, I&#8217;m coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I&#8217;ve been a bad blogger. It&#8217;s been a full month since I last blogged. But to my defense, I&#8217;ve been a bit busy. In addition to my partnership with Midwest Supplies\u00a0\u00a0and our cool new Master Vintner line of winemaking products, I&#8217;ve been busy doing a few other things. First, I shot some videos: And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catching Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,65,64,75,40,41,48,13,54],"tags":[107,108,15,44,105,16,114],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-homemade-wine","category-kit-wine","category-lifestyle","category-news","category-tim-vandergrift-consulting-and-communication","category-travel","category-wine","category-winemaking","tag-beer","tag-brewing","tag-most-interesting-man-in-the-world","tag-product-development","tag-wine","tag-wine-kits","tag-winemaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}