{"id":106,"date":"2004-02-18T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=106"},"modified":"2011-03-02T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:30:45","slug":"krusovice-imperial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/02\/18\/krusovice-imperial\/","title":{"rendered":"Krusovice Imperial"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Krusovice<\/a>
Diary entry #8, Krusovice Imperial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Half-way through a little quartet of random imported European lagers, probably reflecting a biggish shipment arriving at King & Godfree.<\/p>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Kru\u0161ovice Imperial Czech Prem. Lager. 330ml, 5%, $?, at home, 18\/2\/04. Gold, bubbles don’t hang around. G says smells like grapes. Light, but sharp. Agree with grapiness. Maybe that was in fashion in 1895, when it won gold.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> It does continue to baffle and annoy me that so many beer labels are still in the habit of lauding medals from decades, or even centuries<\/em> past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Half-way through a little quartet of random imported European lagers, probably reflecting a biggish shipment arriving at King & Godfree. Verbatim: Kru\u0161ovice Imperial Czech Prem. Lager. 330ml, 5%, $?, at home, 18\/2\/04. Gold, bubbles don’t hang around. G says smells like grapes. Light, but sharp. Agree with grapiness. Maybe that was in fashion in 1895, … Continue reading Krusovice Imperial<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,24,9],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-czech-rep","tag-lager"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/01\/07\/sam-adams-boston-lager\/","url_meta":{"origin":106,"position":0},"title":"Samuel Adam\u2019s \u2018Boston Lager\u2019","author":"Phil","date":"January 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"So starts the diary. 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