{"id":97,"date":"2006-09-20T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T16:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-food-best-of-friends\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T13:11:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T19:11:01","slug":"beer-food-best-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-food-best-of-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer &#038; food: Best of friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Full disclosure: I came across link about <a href=\"http:\/\/beer.about.com\/od\/howtotastebeer\/ht\/HowToTasteBeer.htm\">how to taste beer<\/a> while reading a blog about baseball (we all have secret vices). <\/p>\n<p>It would seem terribly snide to pick at the various nits here, but this &#8220;tip&#8221; is just plain wrong:<\/p>\n<p><em>Do not taste new beers with food or soon after eating. The lingering flavors from food can greatly affect your impression of the brew.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, they can. And that&#8217;s a good thing. Granted, not every beer tastes better with food, and certainly not every beer goes with every dish. However, beer often makes food better and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>When evaluating beer in a contest (judging) setting, which this article also deals with, there are reasons to filter out distractions. Just don&#8217;t forget that beer is not meant to be consumed in a sterile environment. Take that into account when evaluating it for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full disclosure: I came across link about how to taste beer while reading a blog about baseball (we all have secret vices). It would seem terribly snide to pick at the various nits here, but this &#8220;tip&#8221; is just plain wrong: Do not taste new beers with food or soon after eating. The lingering flavors &#8230; <a title=\"Beer &#038; food: Best of friends\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beer-food-best-of-friends\/\" aria-label=\"More on Beer &#038; food: Best of friends\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9829,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/9829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}