{"id":9276,"date":"2012-07-21T09:38:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2012-07-21T17:53:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T23:53:22","slug":"zing-zing-zing-went-my-hops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/zing-zing-zing-went-my-hops\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Zing, zing, zing&#8217; went my hops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appellationbeer.com\/images\/20120721-cone.jpg\" alt=\"For the Love of Hops\" class=\"alignright\"\/><em>&#8220;Clang, clang, clang&#8221; went the trolley<br \/>\n&#8220;Ding, ding, ding&#8221; went the bell<br \/>\n&#8220;Zing, zing, zing&#8221; went my heartstrings<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; From &#8220;The Trolley Song&#8221; in <em>Meet Me in St. Louis<\/em>, sung by Judy Garland<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonhjohnson\/status\/226644194788261888\">Simon Johnson tweeted<\/a> &#8220;#nowdrinking Southwold Blonde by @adnams for @marksandspencer. I rave about the IPAs; this is as good. Plenty of zing about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last month at the National Homebrew Conference during his presentation about &#8220;wet hops&#8221; Jamie Floyd of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninkasibrewing.com\/\">Ninkasi Brewing<\/a> said what makes wet hop\/fresh hop\/harvest hop beers special is &#8220;that fresh hop <em>zing<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a clue how to describe what &#8220;zing&#8221; tastes like, but I agree it is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Clang, clang, clang&#8221; went the trolley &#8220;Ding, ding, ding&#8221; went the bell &#8220;Zing, zing, zing&#8221; went my heartstrings &#8211; From &#8220;The Trolley Song&#8221; in Meet Me in St. Louis, sung by Judy Garland Today, Simon Johnson tweeted &#8220;#nowdrinking Southwold Blonde by @adnams for @marksandspencer. I rave about the IPAs; this is as good. Plenty of &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Zing, zing, zing&#8217; went my hops\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/zing-zing-zing-went-my-hops\/\" aria-label=\"More on &#8216;Zing, zing, zing&#8217; went my hops\">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-9276","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-2pC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276","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=9276"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9285,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions\/9285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}