{"id":14401,"date":"2017-01-11T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=14401"},"modified":"2017-01-11T13:41:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:41:24","slug":"session-120-announced-brown-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-120-announced-brown-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Session #120 announced: Brown beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Host Joe Tindall has announced that the topic for <a href=\"http:\/\/thefatalglassofbeer.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/01\/announcing-session-120-brown-beer.html\">The Session #120 is brown beer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The colour brown has certain connotations, some of which I won&#8217;t dwell on. But used in reference to beer, it can signify a kind of depressing old fashioned-ness &#8211; to refer to a traditional bitter as &#8216;brown&#8217; seems to suggest it belongs to a bygone corduroy-trousered era. As breweries who pride themselves on their modernity focus on beers that are either decidedly pale or unmistakably black, the unglamorous brown middle ground is consistently neglected.<\/p>\n<p>So for Session 120, let&#8217;s buck the trend and contemplate brown beer. This might be brown ale, or the aforementioned English bitter; it could be a malty Belgian brune, a dubbel or a tart oud bruin; even a German dunkel might qualify.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So let&#8217;s get the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=efHVcgUajtA\">famous George Gobel line<\/a> out of the way. &#8220;Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?&#8221; And think brown for Feb. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host Joe Tindall has announced that the topic for The Session #120 is brown beer. The colour brown has certain connotations, some of which I won&#8217;t dwell on. But used in reference to beer, it can signify a kind of depressing old fashioned-ness &#8211; to refer to a traditional bitter as &#8216;brown&#8217; seems to suggest &#8230; <a title=\"Session #120 announced: Brown beer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-120-announced-brown-beer\/\" aria-label=\"More on Session #120 announced: Brown beer\">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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3Kh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401","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=14401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14402,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401\/revisions\/14402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}