{"id":8573,"date":"2012-01-17T05:16:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T11:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2012-11-01T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T22:07:23","slug":"hop-extracts-good-or-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/hop-extracts-good-or-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Hop extracts: Good or bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Dredge at <em>Pencil and Spoon<\/em> raises the question of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pencilandspoon.com\/2012\/01\/hop-extract-and-oils.html\">using hop extracts and oils<\/a> in the brewing process.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Part of me think it\u2019s a bit strange to use extract but the other part doesn\u2019t mind if it\u2019s done to be able to give the best flavour or bitterness possible \u2013 extract seems to give a cleaner type of bitterness than flowers or pellets. It\u2019s no different to adding chilli extract instead of chopping up fresh peppers \u2013 you just get a different type of flavour which you will struggle to match with fresh ingredients.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go comment there, if only to say you are on board with the idea or that you think it totally sucks. An answer somewhere between is of course acceptable. I&#8217;m curious to see what people think.<\/p>\n<p>I must resist adding a single word, because it would lead to 3,000 before I knew where the day went. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Dredge at Pencil and Spoon raises the question of using hop extracts and oils in the brewing process. Part of me think it\u2019s a bit strange to use extract but the other part doesn\u2019t mind if it\u2019s done to be able to give the best flavour or bitterness possible \u2013 extract seems to give &#8230; <a title=\"Hop extracts: Good or bad?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/hop-extracts-good-or-bad\/\" aria-label=\"More on Hop extracts: Good or bad?\">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":[36],"tags":[455],"class_list":["post-8573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hops","tag-hop-extracts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2eh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573","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=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10111,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions\/10111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}