{"id":92,"date":"2013-03-07T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=92"},"modified":"2013-03-07T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T21:43:00","slug":"beer-tasting-nov-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2013\/03\/07\/beer-tasting-nov-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Tasting Nov &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/12-11beer0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zaakistan reader and commenter Danny B, husband of the prolific blogging sensation Aimee at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplebites.net\/\">Simple Bites<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underthehighchair.com\/\">Under the High Chair<\/a> (how&#8217;s that for a qualifier Danny?), happened to be in Calgary for a conference and as I had promised months before, I organized a social event around tasting kindly beer. Amber, Jae, Anne, Heather, Patrick and later Jasen rounded out the table, each of us providing 2 beer to try.<\/p>\n<p>Danny brought a couple beer from a local brewer in Qu\u00e9bec &#8211; beer we can not yet access in Alberta. It basically won the evening. This was my order of preference:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ale \u00c9cossaise (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brasseursillimites.com\/\">Brasseurs Illimit\u00e9s<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Green Reaper Fresh Hop IPA (<a href=\"http:\/\/phillipsbeer.com\/\">Phillips Brewing Company<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Delirium Tremens (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.be\/\">Brouwerij Huyghe<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>India Pale Am\u00e9ricaine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brasseursillimites.com\/\">Brasseurs Illimit\u00e9s<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Father John&#8217;s Winter Ale (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howesound.com\/home.aspx\">Howe Sound Inn &amp; Brewing Company<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Saison D&#8217;Etre Farmhouse Ale (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleykatbeer.com\/\">Alley Kat Brewing Company<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Mr Sno&#8217;balls (<a href=\"https:\/\/harviestoun.com\/age_verification\">Harviestoun Brewery Ltd.<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Hobgoblin (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wychwood.co.uk\/\">Wychwood Brewery Company Ltd<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>American Dream (<a href=\"http:\/\/mikkeller.dk\/\">Mikkeller<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Bloed, Zweet &amp; Tranen (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brouwerijdemolen.nl\/\">Brouwerij De Molen<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>St-Ambroise Framboise (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcauslan.com\/\">McAuslan Brewing<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Begbie Cream Ale (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mt-begbie.com\/\">Mt. Begbie Brewing Co.<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Ginger Beer (<a href=\"http:\/\/gib.ca\/\">Granville Island Brewery<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/12-11beer1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/12-11beer3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/12-11beer4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/12-11beer2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zaakistan reader and commenter Danny B, husband of the prolific blogging sensation Aimee at Simple Bites and Under the High Chair (how&#8217;s that for a qualifier Danny?), happened to be in Calgary for a conference and as I had promised months before, I organized a social event around tasting kindly beer. Amber, Jae, Anne, Heather, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2013\/03\/07\/beer-tasting-nov-12\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-92","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-beer","9":"category-food","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}