{"id":303,"date":"2006-12-06T11:07:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T19:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=303"},"modified":"2006-12-06T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T19:07:27","slug":"on-the-occasion-of-a-really-good-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"On the occasion of a really good beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday this year, Scott gave me a bottle of <a href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/259\/30370\">St. Bernardus Abt 12, the 60th Anniversary<\/a> recipe. I&#8217;ve been putting off having it until I could truly savor it, and had actually intended to share it with someone. Instead, I opened it last night to celebrate the completion of my fall term classes. While it was not the best choice to accompany tacos, the beer was fabulous.<br \/>\nMy fridge runs a little cold, so when I got home, I placed the bottle in some warm water while I fed the animals, changed Ella&#8217;s diaper, and started dinner. Since I don&#8217;t have a proper tulip glass, I used a red wineglass and poured a bit to enjoy while making dinner. It was still a little cold, but exuded a horrifically rank aroma. But in the good way. A way that American brewers can&#8217;t quite recreate.<\/p>\n<p>As the beer warmed, the taste and aroma improved even more &#8211; turbid funk, spicy, fruity malts, and warm alcoholic satisfaction. I&#8217;ve gotten a little tired of reviewing beers, so I&#8217;ll spare you (er, myself) the details &#8211; but it was an excellent beer. Well worth whatever Scott paid for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday this year, Scott gave me a bottle of St. Bernardus Abt 12, the 60th Anniversary recipe. I&#8217;ve been putting off having it until I could truly savor it, and had actually intended to share it with someone. Instead, I opened it last night to celebrate the completion of my fall term classes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the occasion of a really good beer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-beers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}