{"id":64,"date":"2013-12-24T18:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T18:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2013-12-31T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T18:42:28","slug":"beer-bracket-great-lakes-great-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Beer Bracket: Great Lakes, Great Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ended up casting the deciding vote, and Great Lakes moves to the finals!<\/p>\n

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Great Lakes Brewing Co. – Christmas Ale<\/strong><\/div>\n
Medium copper and very clear, with a thin, off-white head.<\/div>\n
Ginger and cinnamon on the smell and taste. \u00a0Not as strong of a smell than the other beer.<\/div>\n
Lightly warming. \u00a0Balanced sweetness with a drying finish. \u00a0Very drinkable.<\/div>\n
I believe I know what this one is…<\/div>\n
J: 9\/10 E: 8\/10<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Anchor Brewing – Our Special Ale 2013<\/strong><\/div>\n
Dark brown with ruby-red highlights. \u00a0Clear, as far as I can tell, with a thick, tan head.<\/div>\n
Pretty heavily spiced. \u00a0Clove and anise, with some cinnamon and maybe nutmeg behind. \u00a0There’s something in this we just can’t place, though…<\/div>\n
Similar taste, with the cinnamon stepping up a bit. \u00a0Nicely malty, with a little fruitiness (Erin suggests raisin?) as it warms. \u00a0Moderately sweet throughout, with some bitterness–maybe from the spices?–coming in on the finish<\/div>\n
Lightly warming. \u00a0Medium body and carbonation.<\/div>\n
I don’t know that I’d want to drink more than one of these in a sitting, but this is a really nice beer.<\/div>\n
J: 9\/10 E: 9\/10<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ended up casting the deciding vote, and Great Lakes moves to the finals! Great Lakes Brewing Co. – Christmas Ale Medium copper and very clear, with a thin, off-white head. Ginger and cinnamon on the smell and taste. \u00a0Not as strong of a smell than the other beer. Lightly warming. \u00a0Balanced sweetness with a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fermentation-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.movesforbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}