{"id":606,"date":"2009-07-29T19:47:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T03:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=606"},"modified":"2009-07-29T19:47:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T03:47:39","slug":"oakshires-imperial-ipas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Oakshire&#039;s Imperial IPAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Joe dropped off a sample of <a href=\"http:\/\/oakbrew.com\/2009\/05\/04\/hoppy-monday-indeed\/\">Oakshire&#8217;s two Imperial IPAs<\/a> because I had to miss the Sasquatch Brew Fest, and because he&#8217;s a nice guy. He&#8217;s also a stellar brewer, as is evident after having sampled both of the IIPAs. One, Hop Vice,  was smooth and interesting without being overly sweet, and the Amarillos gave it a very lovely bitter and aromatic quality. The Perfect Storm is more of a Northwest style Imperial IPA, though not nearly as intoxicatingly sweet as most, and it kept a better balance of ingredients than most in the style. Both had what I consider an appropriate amount of bitter, and a perfect amount of hop aroma and sweet, citrusy flavor that makes me weak in the knees. I doubt there&#8217;s any way to pick these up anywhere soon, but next year, do yourself a favor and cop one.<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>note<\/strong>* I know this comes off as total ass kissing, but Joe&#8217;s a great friend, a great brewer, and he hooked me up with these great beers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Joe dropped off a sample of Oakshire&#8217;s two Imperial IPAs because I had to miss the Sasquatch Brew Fest, and because he&#8217;s a nice guy. He&#8217;s also a stellar brewer, as is evident after having sampled both of the IIPAs. One, Hop Vice, was smooth and interesting without being overly sweet, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=606\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oakshire&#039;s Imperial IPAs<\/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-606","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\/606","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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}