{"id":6752,"date":"2011-06-20T05:07:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2012-11-01T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:13:07","slug":"the-smell-of-the-ocean-stinks-in-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-smell-of-the-ocean-stinks-in-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"The smell of the ocean . . . stinks in beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t exactly new. <em>Live Science<\/em> explained that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/4313-key-smell-sea.html\">key had been found to the &#8220;smell of the sea&#8221;<\/a> more than four years ago, but it appears I was absent that day. Instead, the basics just popped up in an audio book Daria is listening to.<\/p>\n<p>And it turns out dimethyl sulfide, otherwise known as DMS, gives the ocean air &#8220;sort of a fishy, tangy smell.&#8221; Good when you are strolling along the beach. Not so good in beer, other than at very low levels in a few and full on in Rolling Rock. If you are judging beer you might comment DMS causes a sample to smell and taste of canned or cooked vegetables. <\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, some people find it reminds them of shellfish. Recently I judged beers with somebody who said one tasted just like SpaghettiOs. <\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s say you and a friend order the same beer. You notice DMS and hold your nose. He remembers the night he proposed to his future wife on a beach in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>Context. It matters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t exactly new. Live Science explained that the key had been found to the &#8220;smell of the sea&#8221; more than four years ago, but it appears I was absent that day. Instead, the basics just popped up in an audio book Daria is listening to. And it turns out dimethyl sulfide, otherwise known as &#8230; <a title=\"The smell of the ocean . . . stinks in beer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-smell-of-the-ocean-stinks-in-beer\/\" aria-label=\"More on The smell of the ocean . . . stinks in beer\">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":[493],"class_list":["post-6752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-dimethyl-sulfide"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1KU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752","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=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10148,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions\/10148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}