{"id":133,"date":"2008-07-31T15:13:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"The Beer-Lithography Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend and fellow lithographer, Garry Bordonaro, sent me a quote he had heard describing lithography:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhotolithography is a mysterious mix of time-honored ingredients, chaotic chemistry, humble patience, and blind faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I love it!  Though I think there is more than a bit of science that gets thrown in as well, this description matches much of my experience over the last 25 years.  Garry also thought that the quote was stolen from a beer label (how fitting!), so I did a little research.  Sure enough, the essence of this quote can be found on some beers produced by the Magic Hat Brewing Company (www.magichat.net) of South Burlington, VT:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ancient ritual of brewing a distinctly rich and flavorful beer is nothing short of magic. Our mysterious mix of time-honored ingredients, chaotic chemistry, humble patience, and blind faith age into the secret brew we share in the rousing company of good spirits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since I have shared both beer and lithography in the rousing company of good spirits, I find that I just can\u2019t escape the beer-lithography connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend and fellow lithographer, Garry Bordonaro, sent me a quote he had heard describing lithography: \u201cPhotolithography is a mysterious mix of time-honored ingredients, chaotic chemistry, humble patience, and blind faith.\u201d I love it! Though I think there is more than a bit of science that gets thrown in as well, this description matches much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microlithography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}