{"id":7703,"date":"2011-09-18T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2012-11-01T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T22:36:29","slug":"brace-yourself-for-pretty-in-pink-beers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/brace-yourself-for-pretty-in-pink-beers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brace yourself for Pretty in Pink beers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20110918-hibiscus.jpg\" alt=\"Second Shift Hibiscus Wit\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Just how much longer until Hibiscus Wit is declared an official World Beer Style?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realbeer.com\/blog\/?p=2173\">MateVeza Morpho Herbal Ale<\/a> is the latest yerba mate beer from MateVeza and pours a distinct shade of pink. I&#8217;m wondering if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamburgermarys.com\/chicago\/brews.php\">Hamburger Mary&#8217;s<\/a> in Chicago will bring its Hibiscus Wit to the Great American Beer Festival next week. There are several others breweries that use a measure of hibiscus in the recipe, although it&#8217;s hard to imagine any of their beers during out pinker than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratebeer.com\/beer\/2nd-shift-hibiscus-wit\/144472\/\">2nd Shift Hibiscus Wit<\/a> (pictured above as it was poured at the St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival in June).<\/p>\n<p>Hibiscus adds a nice herbal note to a wit beer, at least when its used well. But it&#8217;s the color that could make hibiscus beers the next Blue Moon <del datetime=\"2011-09-18T22:53:02+00:00\">White<\/del> Pink.<\/p>\n<p>And of course I&#8217;ll be hoping this <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/would-you-drink-a-purple-beer\/\">paves the way for purple beers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20090822-purple01.jpg\" alt=\"Prickly Pear Wit - New Mexico State Fair\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how much longer until Hibiscus Wit is declared an official World Beer Style? MateVeza Morpho Herbal Ale is the latest yerba mate beer from MateVeza and pours a distinct shade of pink. I&#8217;m wondering if Hamburger Mary&#8217;s in Chicago will bring its Hibiscus Wit to the Great American Beer Festival next week. There are &#8230; <a title=\"Brace yourself for Pretty in Pink beers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/brace-yourself-for-pretty-in-pink-beers\/\" aria-label=\"More on Brace yourself for Pretty in Pink beers\">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":[468],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-hibiscus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-20f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703","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=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10124,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions\/10124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}