{"id":993,"date":"2021-06-04T15:04:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steamworks.wpengine.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2023-11-29T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:19:49","slug":"steamworks-releases-beer-to-honour-john-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steamworks.com\/steamworks-releases-beer-to-honour-john-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Steamworks Releases Beer to Honour John Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Oliver, not the late-night host but the premier who guided BC from Prohibition to responsible liquor consumption in 1921, now has a beer named after him in addition to a high school, a park, and the town of Oliver in the Okanagan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe years of Prohibition between 1918 &#8211; 1921 drastically changed the landscape in BC. We went from being the \u201cwettest\u201d province in the country to the driest, and thanks to Premier Oliver, we now have a balanced retail environment consisting of BC Liquor Stores as we know them today, \u201caccording to Eli Gershkovitch, Steamworks Founder and CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1921, \u201cHonest John\u201d Oliver was known for his straightforward manner and plain language. 100 years later, Steamworks <em>John Oliver Lager <\/em>is a beer that honours his spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>John Oliver Lager <\/em>is available for purchase exclusively at BC Liquor Stores all summer season for $22.99, and for $19.99 throughout the month of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver, not the late-night host but the premier who guided BC from Prohibition to responsible liquor consumption in 1921, now has a beer named after him in addition to a high school, a park, and the town of Oliver in the Okanagan. \u201cThe years of Prohibition between 1918 &#8211; 1921 drastically changed the landscape&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beer"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steamworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steamworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steamworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}