{"id":6226,"date":"2011-04-08T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T19:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=6226"},"modified":"2011-04-08T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T19:56:05","slug":"session-51-51-5-announced-beer-and-cheese-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-51-51-5-announced-beer-and-cheese-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Session #51 (&#038; #51.5) announced: Beer and Cheese-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/00-thesession150.jpg\" alt=\"The Session\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Jay Brooks has announced the topic for Session #51, and volunteered to host Session #51.5 as well. He calls it <a href=\"http:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/announcing-session-51-the-great-online-beer-cheese-off\/\">&#8220;The Great Online Beer &#038; Cheese-Off&#8221;<\/a> and it takes a little explaining. Like somewhere north of 1,300 words.<\/p>\n<p>So the short version. Get some cheese &#151; perhaps Maytag Blue, Widmer 1-Year Aged Cheddar and  Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog, remembering nobody has ever been kicked out of the Session for showing up with the wrong cheese &#151; and some beer. Have a few friends over, or not. Taste. Takes notes, also optional. Post your thoughts on May 6. Read what everybody else tasted, paired and thought. Get some more cheese. Repeat the rest of the steps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/announcing-session-51-the-great-online-beer-cheese-off\/\">Refer to Jay&#8217;s instructions<\/a> for more suggestions. As he writes, &#8220;Even with making this next Session as difficult as possible, I\u2019m hoping the fun factor of trying these cheeses with a lot of beer will make for a lively and interesting Session, with a lot of participation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theslowtravelers.com\/images\/20080807-cheese.jpg\" alt=\"Cheese night\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the instructions are a little long, but this is do-able. We managed to celebrate more than one &#8220;cheese night&#8221; in the RV <a href=\"http:\/\/theslowtravelers.com\/another-cheesy-blog-post\/\">during our Grand Adventure.<\/a> We&#8217;re still talking about the Madison Blue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Brooks has announced the topic for Session #51, and volunteered to host Session #51.5 as well. He calls it &#8220;The Great Online Beer &#038; Cheese-Off&#8221; and it takes a little explaining. Like somewhere north of 1,300 words. So the short version. Get some cheese &#151; perhaps Maytag Blue, Widmer 1-Year Aged Cheddar and Cypress &#8230; <a title=\"Session #51 (&#038; #51.5) announced: Beer and Cheese-Off\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/session-51-51-5-announced-beer-and-cheese-off\/\" aria-label=\"More on Session #51 (&#038; #51.5) announced: Beer and Cheese-Off\">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":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-food","category-the-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1Cq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226","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=6226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6229,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions\/6229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}