{"id":4598,"date":"2022-12-08T02:08:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/?post_type=embm_beer&#038;p=4598"},"modified":"2022-12-08T02:11:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:11:10","slug":"sam-adams-cold-ipa","status":"publish","type":"embm_beer","link":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/beers\/sam-adams-cold-ipa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Adams &#8211; Cold IPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4599\" style=\"width: 2574px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/PSX_20221207_205110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2564\" height=\"3855\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/35\/626904\/?ba=teromous\">Sam Adams Cold IPA<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Clear with decent head retention, smells of saltines, Cheerios, and grassy hops. The taste is light and a little citrusy with flavors of Ritz crackers, shredded wheat, and a hint of honey on a medium body. The finish is long and moderately bitter, featuring notes of grapefruit peel, grassy hops, and mineral water.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it&#8217;s a &#8220;cold IPA&#8221; aka an IPL, similar to a California Common; a lager fermented at higher temperatures similar to an ale&#8230; I think it&#8217;s just silly name made up by some marketing committee. I was honestly tempted to use my pilsner glass here, but ultimately decided if they wanted me to treat this as an ale, I&#8217;d judge it as one (and apparently some breweries actually do &#8220;cold&#8221; ferment ale yeast to make this style, but Sam doesn&#8217;t give many details on the bottle, and don&#8217;t even have a page for it on their website). Anyway, it&#8217;s not the worst beer I&#8217;ve ever had by any means, but it just reminds me of a dry hopped pilsner; it has the crisp clean finish of a lager but at least in this example, there&#8217;s just not enough malt to back up the hops and the end result comes off as kinda thin and unbalanced.<\/p>\n<p>Best by: February 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","embm_styles":[237],"embm_groups":[],"embm_menus":[],"class_list":["post-4598","embm_beer","type-embm_beer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","embm_style-ipa-cold"],"embm_profile":{"malts":"Unknown","hops":"Unknown","additions":"","yeast":"Unknown ","abv":6,"ibu":40},"embm_extras":{"availability":"","notes":"","beer_number":null},"embm_untappd":{"id":5084352},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/4598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/embm_beer"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/4598\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"embm_style","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_styles?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"embm_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_groups?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"embm_menu","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_menus?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}