{"id":249,"date":"2009-08-09T22:31:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T03:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/?p=249"},"modified":"2009-08-09T22:35:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T03:35:31","slug":"beer-of-the-month-club-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Beer Of The Month Club: July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my birthday, one of my buddies got me a membership to the C&H Beer Of The Month Club, giving me a twelve-pack of microbrews from different breweries around the country every month. This month: Flying Dog’s Kerberos Tripel<\/strong>, Herold Brewery’s Bohemian Black<\/strong> and Gran\u00e4t Lagers<\/strong>, and Boulder Beer’s Flashback Anniversary Ale<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The Flying Dog Kerberos Tripel <\/strong>has an amazing golden-red color and an awesome weissbier bite to its flavor. The sweetness of the flavor borders on that of bubble gum, given the beer\u2019s dryness and richness\u2014every sip is syrupy and overwhelming. This is really nice when you\u2019re sipping an ice cold one, but if the beer gets even slightly warm, it begins to feel almost too heavy, somewhat overwhelming. Still, a nice summer sipping beer.<\/p>\n

Pivovar Herold\u2019s Bohemian Black Lager<\/strong> is coffee-like, both in its impenetrable blackness, chocolaty head, and intense flavor. Much like the Kerboros Tripel, this is a beer that is helped by its temperature. Warm, it\u2019s like drinking battery acid; cold, it\u2019s like you\u2019re drinking chocolate refreshment. In that respect, it is beautifully smooth\u2014the coldness mixed with the beers intensity creates as easily-consumed black lager as any I\u2019ve ever known. The Gran\u00e4t Lager <\/strong>is redder and more fruit-based\u2014a hint of cherry, a lot of curl to the flavor\u2019s back-of-the-tongue presence\u2014but it still has the Bohemian\u2019s heaviness and smoothness when served cold. The Granat is less distinct overall than the Bohemian, as it is more of a traditional red, but it still carries itself well, and is a welcome step away from the Black Lager\u2019s bitter darkness.<\/p>\n

The champion of the bunch, however, is Boulder Beer\u2019s Flashback Anniversary Ale,<\/strong> celebrating 30 years of the Boulder Brewing Co. The Flashback has an interesting balance\u2014hoppy and red, but light and frothy; easy on the mouth and tongue, but heavy on the throat. It\u2019s also pretty alcoholic, all things considered\u2014this India brown is approximately 6.88%, and it\u2019s flavorful (almost<\/em> apricot-esque, but not quite) and drinkable enough that the consumption immediately gives the drinker a nice little buzz. This, friends, is nice. This, friends, is a good beer.<\/p>\n

For information on how you can have tasty, life-giving beer delivered right to your motherfucking door once a month, check out http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my birthday, one of my buddies got me a membership to the C&H Beer Of The Month Club, giving me a twelve-pack of microbrews from different breweries around the country every month. This month: Flying Dog’s Kerberos Tripel, Herold Brewery’s Bohemian Black and Gran\u00e4t Lagers, and Boulder Beer’s Flashback Anniversary Ale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}