{"id":614,"date":"2017-09-29T02:19:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/?post_type=embm_beer&#038;p=614"},"modified":"2017-09-29T02:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:20:44","slug":"sam-adams-black-lager","status":"publish","type":"embm_beer","link":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/beers\/sam-adams-black-lager\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Adams &#8211; Black Lager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_615\" style=\"width: 1954px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"size-full wp-image-615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/C360_2017-09-28-21-55-34-260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1944\" height=\"1944\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/35\/21300\/\">Sam Adams Black Lager<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This beer holds a very special place in my heart. In November of 2008, at a hotel after party in St. Paul, Minnesota following the first night of the Heathen Crusade 3 festival, someone brought the Sam winter pack and offered it to us all. There, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TaY3nW3bmus\">during an impromptu performance by an Estonian band member<\/a>, I happened to pick this beer, my first craft beer (I wasn&#8217;t even 21 yet&#8230;), And this launched my lifelong love affair for craft beers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, onto the beer, flashlight shows deep reddish-orange colors and the head retention is moderate. Smell is toasty, doughy breadiness with hints of smoke and a little floral hop beneath it all. The beer has a very creamy, velvety smooth body that pairs perfectly with a smoky, chocolatey, and quite sweet malt flavor. The hops then enter the scene and balance out the flavor exquisitely and develop into a very neutral finish with just the faintest remnants of smoked malt and herbal hop flavors. I am absolutely biased here, but this is a world-class beer in my opinion, I could drink a whole keg of this myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","embm_styles":[128],"embm_groups":[],"embm_menus":[],"class_list":["post-614","embm_beer","type-embm_beer","status-publish","hentry","embm_style-schwarzbier"],"embm_profile":{"malts":null,"hops":null,"additions":null,"yeast":null,"abv":null,"ibu":null},"embm_extras":{"availability":null,"notes":null,"beer_number":null},"embm_untappd":{"id":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_beers\/614\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"embm_style","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_styles?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"embm_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_groups?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"embm_menu","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davedrinksbeer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embm_menus?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}