{"id":13279,"date":"2015-04-09T06:39:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T12:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=13279"},"modified":"2015-04-09T06:39:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T12:39:49","slug":"continuing-beer-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/continuing-beer-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing beer education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The sap buckets were hung by the birch trees with care.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20150409-sap1.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"408\" alt=\"Harvesting birch sap for Scratch Brewing beer\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was the view yesterday in a stand of woods outside of Ava, Illinois. Those are birch trees. If you look carefully in the photo below you will see a bit of sap falling from the tap into a bucket.<\/p>\n<p>That sap will end up in a beer made at <a href=\"http:\/\/scratchbeer.com\/\">Scratch Brewing.<\/a> As will toasted bark from the trees and Chaga, a crazy an intense smelling, parasitic mushroom that grows on the trees. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chagaknowledge.com\/chagabenefits.htm\">Chaga<\/a> is known by the Siberians as &#8220;Gift from God&#8221; and the &#8220;Mushroom of Immortality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visiting Scratch is like enrolling in a Continuing Education class.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/images\/20150409-sap2.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"408\" alt=\"Birch sap tapped - will end up in Scratch Brewing beer\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sap buckets were hung by the birch trees with care. This was the view yesterday in a stand of woods outside of Ava, Illinois. Those are birch trees. If you look carefully in the photo below you will see a bit of sap falling from the tap into a bucket. That sap will end &#8230; <a title=\"Continuing beer education\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/continuing-beer-education\/\" aria-label=\"More on Continuing beer education\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3sb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279","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=13279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13281,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279\/revisions\/13281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}