{"id":670,"date":"2008-12-17T10:28:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T17:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/answer-troegs-mad-elf\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T19:31:31","slug":"answer-troegs-mad-elf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/answer-troegs-mad-elf\/","title":{"rendered":"Answer: Troegs Mad Elf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> What was my first American-brewed beer in more than three months?<\/p>\n<p>Why not start with an 11% abv beer brewed with honey and cherries? What could be more American? When I saw it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaktreebuyrite.com\/tourofthestore\">Oak Tree Liquors<\/a> in South Plainfield, N.J., a store definitely worth the drive, I knew it would be the one. We last had Mad Elf two years ago and quite liked it. A little boozy, but layers of flavor. Walked out of the store with more beer than we needed, but we may be back in a few days because Dave Hoffman of Climax is supposed to be delivering growlers of his legendary doppelbock. <\/p>\n<p><strong>And a second answer:<\/strong> Ros&eacute; de Gambrinus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> What was our last beer in Germany (and Europe)?<\/p>\n<p>It was spectacular. We finished with the Cantillon beer because when we were at the brewery in mid-September it was only recently bottled and they suggested we wait as long as we could before opening. Couldn&#8217;t do any better than the night before we flew home.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed a more proper German sendoff the day before in Nurnberg during a very nice meal at H&uuml;tt&#8217;n (located a couple of hundred of meters from the Christmas Market and found with the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeanbeerguide.net\/nurnpubs.htm\">Ron Pattinson&#8217;s city guide<\/a>). They&#8217;ve got a long list of Franconian beers on the menu.<\/p>\n<p>Daria and I finished (we were sharing) with Fischer Rauch, a little buttery but good with spicy Nurnberger goulash, and Gutmann Weizenbock, a dangerous 7.2% winter specialty. By a bit of chance, Gutmann was also my first weizen of the trip (September in Rothenberg), in this case the weizen hell, a delightful balance between fruit and clove. Had never heard of the brewery, but two impressive beers.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><code>&nbsp;<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What was my first American-brewed beer in more than three months? Why not start with an 11% abv beer brewed with honey and cherries? What could be more American? When I saw it at Oak Tree Liquors in South Plainfield, N.J., a store definitely worth the drive, I knew it would be the one. &#8230; <a title=\"Answer: Troegs Mad Elf\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/answer-troegs-mad-elf\/\" aria-label=\"More on Answer: Troegs Mad Elf\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-aO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}