{"id":17428,"date":"2023-03-27T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=17428"},"modified":"2023-03-27T02:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T08:50:08","slug":"things-that-make-a-hop-geek-giggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/things-that-make-a-hop-geek-giggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that make a hop geek giggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kfi.jpm.mybluehost.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230327-drrudi.jpg\" alt=\"Dr.  Rudi Brewery taps\" width=\"710\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230327-drrudi.jpg 710w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230327-drrudi-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230327-drrudi-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230327-drrudi-500x251.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are a few of the taps at Dr. Rudi&#8217;s rooftop bar in Auckland, a busy place with plenty of outdoor space and views of Viaduct Harbour.<\/p>\n<p>But what made the spot special for me is the Wi-Fi password: <em>smoothcone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because Dr. Rudi is a hop first released in 1976 and called <a href=\"https:\/\/freshops.com\/usda-named-hop-variety-descriptions\/#usda_id_21405\">Super Alpha<\/a>. Her name was changed to Dr. Rudi in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Smooth Cone is her mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are a few of the taps at Dr. Rudi&#8217;s rooftop bar in Auckland, a busy place with plenty of outdoor space and views of Viaduct Harbour. But what made the spot special for me is the Wi-Fi password: smoothcone. That&#8217;s because Dr. Rudi is a hop first released in 1976 and called Super Alpha. &#8230; <a title=\"Things that make a hop geek giggle\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/things-that-make-a-hop-geek-giggle\/\" aria-label=\"More on Things that make a hop geek giggle\">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-17428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-4x6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428","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=17428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17433,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428\/revisions\/17433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}