New beers tried this month:<\/p>\n
Dead Guy Ale, from Rogue Breweries — see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dead Guy Ale is a bock, but if I hadn’t looked it up I wouldn’t know that; it just tastes like a good hoppy ale, nothing tremendously special, but nice. Bought a bottle on a whim in Palm Springs, mostly because I liked the label; the name comes from it having been invented as a seasonal beer specifically for the Day of the Dead.<\/p>\n Hellas Pils, from Hellenic Breweries of Atalanti, SA.<\/p>\n Got this with dinner at a Greek restaurant the other night; light, clean taste, more like a good Mexican beer than anything else European* I’ve ever tried. Or maybe a bit reminiscent of Kirin, the Japanese beer. In any case, clearly intended for a warm climate. Went well with chicken shish kebab. Online reviews indicate it doesn’t age well at all, though, so do check the “sell by” date on the label.<\/p>\n ===<\/p>\n *I’ve tried Italian and Spanish beer; this isn’t like them at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New beers tried this month: Dead Guy Ale, from Rogue Breweries — see here. Dead Guy Ale is a bock, but if I hadn’t looked it up I wouldn’t know that; it just tastes like a good hoppy ale, nothing tremendously special, but nice. Bought a bottle on a whim in Palm Springs, mostly because… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ye-olde-blogger-version"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}