{"id":88,"date":"2013-03-22T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=88"},"modified":"2013-03-22T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:44:00","slug":"new-years-eve-2012-beer-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/new-years-eve-2012-beer-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"New Years Eve 2012 Beer Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/nye2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">\nNow becoming <a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=147\">a tradition<\/a>, the Robiroost hosted a beer tasting as a New Years Eve party. It has been and is such an event that there seems to always be a contingent of attendees who don&#8217;t even like\/drink beer. Happy to have them there.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">\nEveryone attending came from our <a href=\"http:\/\/dragonflycohousing.ca\/\">Dragonfly Cohousing<\/a> circle except a contingency from Regina who was passing through bring with them some delightful drink from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushwakker.com\/\">Bushwakker<\/a> brewery and debates about workers unions.<\/div>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/nye1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sampling came from those sampling and what a delicious review. The evening&#8217;s top four of twelve are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Trois Pistoles<\/b> (Unibroue)<\/li>\n<li><b>Maximus IPA<\/b>&nbsp;(Lagunitas)<\/li>\n<li><b>Innis &amp; Gunn Spiced Rum Finish<\/b> &#8211;&nbsp;(Innis &amp; Gunn)<\/li>\n<li><b>Chimay Tripel<\/b> (Bi\u00e8res de Chimay)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\nThen we had a 4-way tie. The middle ones were:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<ul>\n<li><b>Blackberry Mead&nbsp;<\/b>(Bushwakker)<\/li>\n<li><b>Winter Beard Double Chocolate Cranberry Stout<\/b>&nbsp;(Lakes of Muskoka)<\/li>\n<li><b>BNL Imperial Chocolate Stout&nbsp;<\/b>(Flying Monkeys)<\/li>\n<li><b>Chico IPA<\/b>&nbsp;(Bushwakker)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">\nThe lowest scoring, though by no means bad brews:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<ul>\n<li><b>XXXXX Stout&nbsp;<\/b>(Pike)<\/li>\n<li><b>Trephination Double IPA<\/b>&nbsp;(Bushwakker)<\/li>\n<li><b>Attilla the Honey&nbsp;<\/b>(Mt. Begbie)<\/li>\n<li><b>Apricot Summer Weizen<\/b>&nbsp;(Okanagan Spring)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/nye3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/nye4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/nye5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/nye6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A great time, hopefully to be&nbsp;replicated annually. Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/nye7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now becoming a tradition, the Robiroost hosted a beer tasting as a New Years Eve party. It has been and is such an event that there seems to always be a contingent of attendees who don&#8217;t even like\/drink beer. Happy to have them there. Everyone attending came from our Dragonfly Cohousing circle except a contingency &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/new-years-eve-2012-beer-tasting\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,15,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-88","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-beer","9":"category-calgary","10":"category-cohousing","11":"category-food","12":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}