{"id":562,"date":"2008-05-14T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/a-bottle-of-shiner-used-quite-well\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T23:05:42","slug":"a-bottle-of-shiner-used-quite-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/a-bottle-of-shiner-used-quite-well\/","title":{"rendered":"A bottle of Shiner put to good use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to tell you that Shiner Bock is my favorite beer or even that it is a bock. I think it deserves better than it gets at the ratings sites (2.6\/5 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratebeer.com\/beer\/shiner-bock\/909\/\">Rate Beer<\/a> and C+ at <a href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/143\/1352\">Beer Advocate<\/a>), but we don&#8217;t seek it out when eating smoked meat in Texas. Just as a <em>f&#8217;rinstance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But I like some of the beers more &#151; the Shiner 99 is a pretty nice Helles, at least if you have it fresh, as I did &#151; and that this little brewery with a certain amount of German heritage and Texas terroir will soon celebrate 100 years of business.<\/p>\n<p>Now they&#8217;ve produced this commercial that gives us one more reason to appreciate the old fashioned Western saloon.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6S0XIqURY3M&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Pencil us in for a visit on their 100th anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to tell you that Shiner Bock is my favorite beer or even that it is a bock. I think it deserves better than it gets at the ratings sites (2.6\/5 at Rate Beer and C+ at Beer Advocate), but we don&#8217;t seek it out when eating smoked meat in Texas. Just as &#8230; <a title=\"A bottle of Shiner put to good use\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/a-bottle-of-shiner-used-quite-well\/\" aria-label=\"More on A bottle of Shiner put to good use\">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":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-94","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","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=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}