{"id":198,"date":"2007-04-12T13:32:26","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T20:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/what-makes-a-good-tasting-note\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T10:11:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:11:39","slug":"what-makes-a-good-tasting-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/what-makes-a-good-tasting-note\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good tasting note?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20070412-umpire.jpg\" alt=\"Beer umpire\" class=\"alignright\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/hedonistbeerjive.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/horror-horror.html\">This review<\/a> of Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA tickled the heck out of me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hedonistbeerjive.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/horror-horror.html\">Jay at Hedonist Beer Jive<\/a> gave it a 3.5 out of 10 and explained why. After reading his comments (please take the time to read the whole thing) my only question would be, &#8220;Why so high?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s pretty persuasive, writing among other things: &#8220;What I do have a beef with is the exaltation of extreme beers that taste like garbage, simply because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re <strong>BIG<\/strong> and <strong>DARING<\/strong> and <strong>OUTRAGEOUS<\/strong>.&#8221; Can I have a <em>Hallelujah<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve got an assessment from somebody whose palate I find myself in alignment with more often than not, a blogger I take the time to read because he doesn&#8217;t always follow the crowd. Does that mean I should pass on Dreadnaught?<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve had the beer I could tell you that it would have been a mistake. I don&#8217;t love Dreadnaught as much as the legions at Beer Advocate or Rate Beer, but I enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Does this mean this is not a good tasting note? Or perhaps not a good one for me, but a good one for you?<\/p>\n<p>(I think we can agree Nick Floyd wouldn&#8217;t like it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This review of Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA tickled the heck out of me. Jay at Hedonist Beer Jive gave it a 3.5 out of 10 and explained why. After reading his comments (please take the time to read the whole thing) my only question would be, &#8220;Why so high?&#8221; He&#8217;s pretty persuasive, writing among &#8230; <a title=\"What makes a good tasting note?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/what-makes-a-good-tasting-note\/\" aria-label=\"More on What makes a good tasting note?\">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":[292],"tags":[386],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-nick-floyd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","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=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9983,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/9983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}