{"id":65,"date":"2010-04-07T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.wordpress.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-05-20T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T14:46:30","slug":"brew-review-smuttynose-farmhouse-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Brew Review: Smuttynose Farmhouse Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehopandmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/100_0716.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-67\" title=\"Big Beer Series!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thehopandmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/100_0716.jpg?w=224\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/100_0716.jpg 1524w, http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/100_0716-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/100_0716-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Brewery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smuttynose.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smuttynose Brewing Co.<\/a> Portsmouth, NH<\/p>\n<p>Style: Saison<\/p>\n<p>ABV: 8.8%<\/p>\n<p>Served: Pint glass from 22 oz. bomber. Purchased at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bertsbetterbeers.com\/toppage1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bert&#8217;s Better Beers<\/a> for $5.99.<\/p>\n<p>Warm weather and baseball are here! Time for me to put away the chewy dark ales and pop open something a little lighter on the tongue. I love Smuttynose. It&#8217;s my desert island brewery (you know, if I had to pick one&#8230;). Their year-round brews all strongly represent their styles, but the big beer series is where they make history.<\/p>\n<p>Their farmhouse ale pours a slightly hazy golden, with an EPIC 4 finger crown that shows no signs of backing off. The aroma is very fruity, tons of berries, pine, and mineral water. Spring incarnate. The first sip is an instant flashback to a tasting I had of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unibroue.com\/products\/fin.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">La Fin du Monde<\/a> by Unibroue, itself actually a Belgian style Tripel. Spices, banana, apples, and moderate carbonation on the tongue. Clean, tangy, and slightly malty finish.<\/p>\n<p>This is a highly drinkable ale, and a wonderful addition to a warm afternoon. This style was created as an inexpensive beer by farmers along the French-Belgian border, who would brew it in the winter to have on warm summer afternoons. Smuttynose once again does not disappoint. I won&#8217;t put this in my keepers category, simply because the style isn&#8217;t hugely appealing for me. But this is a great ale, one worth trying.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> A-<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Smutty does New Hampshire proud.<\/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":[32,38,62,70],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brew-review","tag-big-beer-series","tag-new-hampshire","tag-saison","tag-smuttynose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thehopandmalt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}