{"id":152,"date":"2004-11-06T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=152"},"modified":"2011-03-02T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:29:57","slug":"goose-island-honkers-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/11\/06\/goose-island-honkers-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Goose Island \u2018Honker\u2019s Ale\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Diary entry #16.1, Goose Island 'Honker's Ale'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/strong>Verbatim:<\/strong> Goose Island Honker’s Ale. $?, 12oz, @home, Nov 6. More West Wing, so a Chicago ale with burgers. Darkish, but hints of orange again. Bubbles not so enduring, no haze. Lighter taste + smell, still flat, muted ale-ish. More an afternoon beer. Perfectly respectable + tasty. Great everyday stuff; entry-level Liberty, almost.<\/p>\n

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Diary entry #16.2, Goose Island 'Honker's Ale'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> Not that I knew it at the time, but Honker\u2019s is styled as an American take on English pale ale, whereas the Liberty<\/a> I\u2019m evidently comparing-to is pure American pale ale \u2014 so the observed easier-ness makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Goose Island Honker’s Ale. $?, 12oz, @home, Nov 6. More West Wing, so a Chicago ale with burgers. Darkish, but hints of orange again. Bubbles not so enduring, no haze. Lighter taste + smell, still flat, muted ale-ish. More an afternoon beer. Perfectly respectable + tasty. Great everyday stuff; entry-level Liberty, almost. Afterthoughts, October … Continue reading Goose Island \u2018Honker\u2019s Ale\u2019<\/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":[6,20,12],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-united-states","tag-pale-ale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":906,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/10\/10\/beer-101-tasting-session\/","url_meta":{"origin":152,"position":0},"title":"Beer 101 Tasting Session","author":"Phil","date":"October 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"George (the gifter of the original Diary) organised a little tasting session at his house for a few friends of ours, with me playing the Informative Nerd. 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