{"id":266,"date":"2006-05-14T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T12:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=266"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:07:39","slug":"youngs-special-london-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2006\/05\/14\/youngs-special-london-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Young’s ‘Special London Ale’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Young's<\/a>
Diary entry #34, Young's Special London Ale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Young’s Special London Ale. 500ml, $5, 6.4%, 14\/5\/06. Bottle conditioned, and it shows; gorgeous bubbles. Dark amber color, big round taste, malty + with hops for, well, England. All-around wonderfully beery. Brilliant, but definately not for everyone.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> Everybody ready? We’re about to fall off another cliff of Ridiculous Slackness…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Young’s Special London Ale. 500ml, $5, 6.4%, 14\/5\/06. Bottle conditioned, and it shows; gorgeous bubbles. Dark amber color, big round taste, malty + with hops for, well, England. All-around wonderfully beery. Brilliant, but definately not for everyone. Afterthoughts, October 2010: Everybody ready? We’re about to fall off another cliff of Ridiculous Slackness…<\/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":[27,6,17],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-pages","tag-england"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":239,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2005\/08\/12\/badger-original-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":266,"position":0},"title":"Badger ‘Original Ale’","author":"Phil","date":"August 12, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Badger Original Ale. 500ml, $5, 4.6%, 12\/8\/05. 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