{"id":21,"date":"2006-10-13T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T14:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-10-13T08:28:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T14:28:27","slug":"that-was-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"That was different"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a tapas bar that opened near me recently, and I’m starting to get friendly with the owners. Last night, I took in my remaining bottle of Samuel Adams Triple Bock, which I’ve been aging (read: neglecting) for eleven years now.<\/p>\n

Very different. No head, very dark, and with noticeable viscosity when poured. My first comment after tasting was, “That’s pretty black.” There was also a strong burnt caramel aftertaste. We liked it though, and we liked it better when a strongly-flavored sharp Swiss cheese (I forget the name) was brought out – the combination mellowed both of them and it became quite nice.<\/p>\n

Now I regret only purchasing the two bottles when this stuff was available. It would be interesting to see how it continued to age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a tapas bar that opened near me recently, and I’m starting to get friendly with the owners. Last night, I took in my remaining bottle of Samuel Adams Triple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}