{"id":526,"date":"2006-05-01T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/01\/beer-exploration\/"},"modified":"2006-05-01T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T02:02:00","slug":"beer-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/beer-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presenting the top five beers I want to try, but as yet have been unable to secure tasting samples of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/northcoastbrewing.com\/ras.htm\">Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/northcoastbrewing.com\">North Coast Brewing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gooseisland.com\/beers\/pop-ups\/4_oatmeal.html\">Goose Island Oatmeal Stout<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gooseisland.com\/index.asp\">Goose Island Beer Company<\/a> (and I wouldn&#8217;t turn up my nose at a chance to try their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gooseisland.com\/beers\/pop-ups\/14_bourbon.html\">Bourbon County Stout<\/a> either!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barharborbrewing.com\/cadillac.html\">Cadillac Mtn. Stout<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barharborbrewing.com\/\">Bar Harbor Brewing Company<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flyingdogales.com\/beer-specialty-gonzo.asp\">Gonzo Imperial Porter<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingdogales.com\/\">Flying Dog Brewery<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/14\/buy-me-hst-beer\/\">previously mentioned here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogfish.com\/brewings\/Limited_Edition_Beers\/World_Wide_Stout\/17\/index.htm\">World Wide Stout<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogfish.com\/\">Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/28\/buy-this-for-me\/\">previously mentioned here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking that at this point it would be easier to just grab Ralph and go on a two-week beer tour, making extensive use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beermapping.com\/\">BeerMapping.com<\/a>, than to try to find a way to get these beers to me. I mean, if the mountain won&#8217;t come to Mohammed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Presenting the top five beers I want to try, but as yet have been unable to secure tasting samples of: Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout from North Coast Brewing Goose Island Oatmeal Stout from Goose Island Beer Company (and I wouldn&#8217;t turn up my nose at a chance to try their Bourbon County Stout either!) Cadillac Mtn. Stout from the&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/beer-exploration\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-8u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}