{"id":1782,"date":"2016-02-11T19:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","slug":"david-waldman-93-on-brewing-and-his-jewish-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2016\/02\/11\/david-waldman-93-on-brewing-and-his-jewish-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Waldman \u201993 on Brewing and His Jewish Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing group of Wabash entrepreneurs are at the forefront of a craft-brewing boom that\u2019s enriching the state\u2019s quality of life and shoring up Central Indiana\u2019s economic bottom line. In the <em>WM Winter 2016<\/em> we feature nine alums &#8220;Brewing the Good Life,&#8221; but not every story made it into the print edition.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most intriguing came from\u00a0David Waldman \u201993, whose Jewish heritage informs not only his interest in brewing, but his mission to create a\u00a0hospitable place for his customers to relax and be part of a community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we set this up we wanted to be the Starbucks of beer\u2014that third place you go when you\u2019re not at work or home with your family,&#8221; Waldman says. &#8220;We wanted you to be able to bring your kids and sit with them and have some root beer and a hot pretzel, and feel like you belong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like the living room, only someone else is cleaning up afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waldman is also the only alum we interviewed for this story who is doing the work\u00a0he actually imagined himself doing long before he enrolled at Wabash. He talks about that in this brief excerpt from our conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing group of Wabash entrepreneurs are at the forefront of a craft-brewing boom that\u2019s enriching the state\u2019s quality of life and shoring up Central Indiana\u2019s economic bottom line. In the WM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/02\/0b8a1985-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}