{"id":223,"date":"2005-04-16T00:02:54","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=223"},"modified":"2011-03-02T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:29:09","slug":"belhaven-scottish-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2005\/04\/16\/belhaven-scottish-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Belhaven ‘Scottish Ale’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A.K.A. Belhaven ‘Export’, A.K.A. Belhaven 80 Shilling (when it’s in casks). And, on the same day as the Diary<\/em> gets its first English beer<\/a>, it also gets this, its first Scot.<\/p>\n

\"Belhaven<\/a>
Diary entry #24, Belhaven 'Scottish Ale'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Bellhaven Scottish Ale. 330ml, $5, 3.9%, 16\/4\/05. Ooh. 1719 est’d. Darker amber. Very full taste. Nutty, in fact. But very well made. Good middle between darker ales + lighter stouts.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> Wait, what? “Lighter stouts”? I have literally no idea to what I might’ve been referring, there. It scarcely even makes sense if all you’re talking about is body<\/em>, rather than colour<\/em>. Sometimes I am a mystery to myself. I’d speculate that I was drunk, but this is an absurdly sessionable 80\/- — maybe that Tangle Foot<\/a> really did a number on me, as per its reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A.K.A. Belhaven ‘Export’, A.K.A. Belhaven 80 Shilling (when it’s in casks). And, on the same day as the Diary gets its first English beer, it also gets this, its first Scot. Verbatim: Bellhaven Scottish Ale. 330ml, $5, 3.9%, 16\/4\/05. Ooh. 1719 est’d. Darker amber. Very full taste. Nutty, in fact. But very well made. Good … Continue reading Belhaven ‘Scottish Ale’<\/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":[27,6,19],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-pages","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1433,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2009\/04\/05\/beer-and-food-and-philosophy\/","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":0},"title":"Beer and Food and Philosophy","author":"Phil","date":"April 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"With good beer goes good ramble, I've always thought. 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