{"id":30,"date":"2010-03-28T16:15:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T20:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.wordpress.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2011-05-20T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T14:54:35","slug":"brew-review-pennichuck-feuerwehrmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Brew Review: Pennichuck Feuerwehrmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehopandmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100_0709.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33\" title=\"Pennichuck Feuerwehrmann\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thehopandmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100_0709.jpg?w=224\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100_0709.jpg 1524w, http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100_0709-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100_0709-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Brewer: <a href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/12166\" target=\"_blank\">Pennichuck Brewing Co.<\/a> Milford, NH<\/p>\n<p>Style: Schwarzbier<\/p>\n<p>ABV: 5%<\/p>\n<p>Served: Pint glass from 22 oz. bomber. Purchased at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tableandvine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Table &amp; Vine<\/a> for $5.49.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarzbiers (German for &#8220;black beer&#8221;) are near to my heart. Just a few years ago, Sam Adams&#8217; Black Lager was my first exposure to anything outside my palate&#8217;s typical beer purview. My gateway beer. I&#8217;d go on to more complex and challenging brews later, but the experience stays with me.<\/p>\n<p>Pours thin and fairly translucent for such a dark beer. Medium-dark brown with non-existant crown. Through a spring cold, I got crusty bread, licorice, and burnt roasted malt in the nose. Taste is dry, bready, with a touch of coffee, and very subtle. Mouthfeel is exceptionally thin as compared with porters and stouts, but style appropriate. Finish is slightly bitter, but understated.<\/p>\n<p>I learned after I bought this beer that Pennichuck shut its doors this past November. Sad to see a small New Hampshire brewery fold. So, you may be reading one of the last reviews of a new relic in beerdom. Overall, a good example of the seldom seen Schwarzbier style. I prefer Sam over this I think, but it is a drinkable lager. If I had tried this in 2007, it would have been a bit more eye opening. As it is, a bonnie blue-collar effort. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>B<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melancholy review of a shuttered brew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[33,38,43,44],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brew-review","tag-black-lager","tag-new-hampshire","tag-pennichuck","tag-schwarzbier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}