{"id":2929,"date":"2019-07-04T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:14:29","slug":"liquid-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/2019\/07\/04\/liquid-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Liquid Whitman<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/files\/WhitmanHeadShot.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2932\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2932\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/files\/WhitmanHeadShot-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/files\/WhitmanHeadShot-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/files\/WhitmanHeadShot.jpg 530w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/files\/WhitmanHeadShot-373x210.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Happy 4th of July in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/06\/24\/how-to-celebrate-walt-whitmans-two-hundredth-birthday\">bicentennial year<\/a> of Walt Whitman&#8217;s birth! In addition to archival exhibits and poetry contests, the major U.S. celebrations include a 7-part liquid tribute from Bell&#8217;s Brewery. Its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=98Zku-PtxCM&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Leaves of Grass series<\/a> takes its name from Whitman&#8217;s signature volume of poems first published on July 4, 1855. Part I is the Song of Myself American IPA. Here&#8217;s the opening to my interpretation in <a href=\"https:\/\/massreview.org\/blog\"><em>The Massachusetts Review<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Some poets are wine poets. Walt Whitman is a beer poet. In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whitmanarchive.org\/published\/periodical\/journalism\/tei\/per.00223.html\">Brooklyniana\u00a0piece<\/a>\u00a0from 1862, he describes the Eastern District breweries as \u201csources of the mighty outpourings of ale and lager beer, refreshing the thirsty lovers of those liquids in hot or cold weather.\u201d In American literature, the boisterous and sprawling poem that made his name still refreshes lovers of innovation with its mighty outpourings.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellsbeer.com\/beer\/specialty\/song-myself\">Bell\u2019s \u201cSong of Myself\u201d<\/a> India Pale Ale isn\u2019t Whitman\u2019s first beer incarnation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlehandscraftales.com\/site\/2015\/10\/enlightenment-ales-update\/\">Enlightenment Ales<\/a> brewed a \u201cSong of Myself\u201d American Pale Ale in 2014, and Philadelphia Brewing still makes a Belgian White Ale dubbed <a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphiabrewing.com\/projects\/walt-wit\/\">Walt Wit<\/a>. . . .<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can read the rest of my Liquid Whitman review <a href=\"https:\/\/massreview.org\/node\/7478?fbclid=IwAR1cxo_cwZ4Asbj7AsqlWR8dMjF8Uh_JofCRrnLR8cl0PASKBZ7E2mpyc6o\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-MB<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,186,187,185,184,188,183,182],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-beer","tag-bells-brewery","tag-ipa","tag-leaves-of-grass","tag-massachusetts-review","tag-song-of-myself","tag-walt-whitman","tag-whitman-bicentennial"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4227,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/mbryant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}