{"id":338,"date":"2012-07-25T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slingmeabeer.wordpress.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2012-07-25T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T16:25:25","slug":"always-expanding-my-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Always expanding my horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a couple of years of being pretty serious about beer, off and on home-brewing and getting really into it (addicted really) recently this year; it is always nice to be able to push myself further. In this case I attended my first meeting of QUAFF: Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity<\/a> a San Diego, CA based brewing club. I was invited by a friend to check the meeting out and I was seriously thrilled to be there. I plan on attending next month and becoming a member. It is one thing to brew and drink but there is something special to be said about collaborating with others in person or just having an activity to look forward to!<\/p>\n

The highlight of my evening last night was being able to sample (I know I am late to the party) my first sour beer… LOVED it. I had New Belgium La Folie Sour Brown ale. New Belgium La Folie<\/a> This little puppy was delightful, it had a crisp flavor with a nice sour run across the tongue and a nice snap finish with an aftertaste similar to limes or sour patch kids.<\/p>\n

That all being said I hope to show the end results of my homemade wort chiller either this weekend or next week! I am going to brew myself a nice simple Heffeweizen and use it as my simple summer drink. More to come soon enough, but I wanted to say Happy Homebrew Wednesday to everyone and hopefully you will see another post as I open some new bottles tonight \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a couple of years of being pretty serious about beer, off and on home-brewing and getting really into it (addicted really) recently this year; it is always nice to be able to push myself further. In this case I attended my first meeting of QUAFF: Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity a San Diego, CA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[55,78,144,181,182,208,235,271,314,366],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brewing-beer-and-fermentation","category-tasting","category-homebrewing","tag-beer","tag-brewing-clubs","tag-fermentation","tag-home-made","tag-homebrewing","tag-la-folie","tag-new-belgium","tag-quaff","tag-sour-beers","tag-wort-chiller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}