{"id":318,"date":"2007-01-11T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T00:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=318"},"modified":"2007-01-11T16:02:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T00:02:27","slug":"wine-guide-misnomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Wine guide misnomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/images\/wine_beer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/wine_beer_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Wine for Beer Drinkers\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>I found a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ranchozabaco.com\/OurWines\/DancingBullMain.asp\">Dancing Bull&#8217;s<\/a> Guy&#8217;s Guide to Wine in the break room and flipped through it because my burrito had 2 minutes left. It&#8217;s a basic wine for dummies guide, but there&#8217;s a section on wine for beer drinkers. It assumes that guys know beer, and the 4 basic beer styles translate to wines. I thought it was kind of funny, so I scanned it to share.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nMy favorite part of the guide is the clumping of IPA and Pilsner as a style group, and their comparison to Merlot\/Pinot. While inaccurate, the light beer and pilsner would be a better pairing. Second, it describes Merlot as &#8220;smooth and easier to handle than some of the big daddy reds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>IPA? Smooth? It&#8217;s probably the only style of beer that most people excluded from their repertoire. Oh, and the Belgians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a copy of Dancing Bull&#8217;s Guy&#8217;s Guide to Wine in the break room and flipped through it because my burrito had 2 minutes left. It&#8217;s a basic wine for dummies guide, but there&#8217;s a section on wine for beer drinkers. It assumes that guys know beer, and the 4 basic beer styles translate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wine guide misnomers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-culture","category-other-beers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","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=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}