{"id":11055,"date":"2013-02-28T05:22:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/?p=11055"},"modified":"2013-02-28T05:22:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:22:20","slug":"beer-innovation-2416-nip-size-cans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-innovation-2416-nip-size-cans\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer innovation #2416: Nip size cans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20130228-nip.jpg\" alt=\"21st Amendment Lower De Boom\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>See that sleek, gold can on the right that looks like it&#8217;s waiting to make an appearance in Super Bowl commercial? Brilliant idea. It contained<sup>1<\/sup> 8.4 ounces (248ml) of <em>Lower De Boom<\/em> barleywine from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.21st-Amendment.com\">21st Amendment Brewery<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Lower De Boom<\/em> is 11.5% alcohol by volume. I can&#8217;t count how many 22-ounce and bigger bottles my local beer shop has full of barleywines and other beers just as strong. No wonder they call them bombers. I get the concept that bigger bottles are for sharing, but Daria and I shared 8.4 ounces. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have much more to say the <em>De Boom<\/em> itself &#151; it&#8217;s a bit American\/pungent on the nose, but a dessert beer; rich, plenty of caramel and some dark fruit character, a little sweet, but it may dry out as it ages, or do you lay down beer in cans? And it comes with a back story. <sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Yes, past tense. 21st Amendment spent far more sending the the beer to me than it would cost in a store. If I could buy it in St. Louis I would.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup> Cornelius De Boom was a Belgian-born ship owner who made it to San Francisco in time for the gold rush in 1848. De Boom Street, named for him, is the alley which runs alongside 21st Amendment Brewery. The brewery&#8217;s De Boom Street entrance is often referred to as &#8220;lower De Boom&#8221; by brewery employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See that sleek, gold can on the right that looks like it&#8217;s waiting to make an appearance in Super Bowl commercial? Brilliant idea. It contained1 8.4 ounces (248ml) of Lower De Boom barleywine from 21st Amendment Brewery. Lower De Boom is 11.5% alcohol by volume. I can&#8217;t count how many 22-ounce and bigger bottles my &#8230; <a title=\"Beer innovation #2416: Nip size cans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-innovation-2416-nip-size-cans\/\" aria-label=\"More on Beer innovation #2416: Nip size cans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[17,292],"tags":[632,634,635,633],"class_list":["post-11055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction","category-musing","tag-21st-amendment","tag-barleywine","tag-beer-innovations","tag-nip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2Sj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11055"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11077,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions\/11077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}