{"id":452,"date":"2008-07-24T17:34:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=452"},"modified":"2008-07-24T17:34:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T01:34:44","slug":"first-taste-obf-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"First Taste: OBF 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I requested to have Thursday off back in May. Opening day of the Oregon Brewers Festival? What better way to beat the crowds and try the beers I want with no lines?<\/p>\n<p>I met Alan and Kathleen shortly after 2pm, and we sampled a number of beers before the rest of the world reached the end of their working day. I can&#8217;t speak for their preferences, but here are the few I tried that I&#8217;d recommend to other festival goers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rock Bottom Congo Queen: another Sorghum beer, but this one takes the delicate flavor of sorghum and uses that flavor void to highlight the yeast and a number of spices. Really quite nice, though maybe not what my celiac grandfather has been looking for.<\/li>\n<li>Bridgeport Hop Czar: A robust imperial style IPA. Lots of malt and lots of hop. Would be better in about 3 months.<\/li>\n<li>Boundary Bay Crystal Pale Ale: A single hopped beer using crystal hops. This beer is subtle, delicate, and delicious. I love crystal hops though, so the slightly spicy noble hop creates a nice head-to-toe beer. Probably one that non-hop heads would enjoy too.<\/li>\n<li>Lagunitas Hop Stoopid: All sorts of good. Great body, great flavors, and great sweet to bitter shotgun of hop flavors. I&#8217;ve not had this for a year, but it&#8217;s really fantastic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be heading back with friends on Saturday too, but I feel like I got a good head start. The atmosphere was nice, the weather great, and I got to meet Jimi Hendrix and the owner of Boundary Bay Brewery in Bellingham. Not the real Jimi, of course, but the real owner of Boundary Bay. I sent a picture of myself with him to a friend in Bellingham to show off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>edit:<\/strong> Jimi and I at OBF.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-455\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/jimi0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/jimi0001-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"You never know who you\\&#039;ll run in to\" title=\"Jimi at OBF 2008\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-455\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You never know who you'll run in to<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I requested to have Thursday off back in May. Opening day of the Oregon Brewers Festival? What better way to beat the crowds and try the beers I want with no lines? I met Alan and Kathleen shortly after 2pm, and we sampled a number of beers before the rest of the world reached the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Taste: OBF 2008<\/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":[3,6],"tags":[9,84,88],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-culture","category-other-beers","tag-9","tag-obf","tag-oregon-brewers-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","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=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}