{"id":292,"date":"2007-10-29T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=292"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:08:08","slug":"fraoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2007\/10\/29\/fraoch\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraoch"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Fraoch<\/a>
Diary entry #40, Fraoch Heather Ale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Fraoch Heather Ale. 500ml, $7ish, 5%, 29\/10\/07. Watching Dr Who, and having been randomly given a sprig of heather on Lambton Quay. Heather instead of hops. Apparently old school Gaelic. It’s good. Flowery, very slightly peaty (less than they say). The only fault would be that it’s not different enough, or as you’d expect. Oh. Surprising kick, though. And grows on you. Better when less cold.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> The timing really did weird me out, here. I’d bought a bottle in the previous few days, and had it sitting on my desk at my place on the Terrace. Then, when wandering home, some very peculiar chap was walking down the street handing out sprigs of heather. How the hell could I not take the hint? I did wish that the beer was as peculiar as the chap — but I also know these unhopped beers would hardly be commercially-viable if they were as utterly freaky<\/em> as I (for some reason) wish they would be. But this, like the Spruce Beer<\/a> not-too-long before it, was good fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Fraoch Heather Ale. 500ml, $7ish, 5%, 29\/10\/07. Watching Dr Who, and having been randomly given a sprig of heather on Lambton Quay. Heather instead of hops. Apparently old school Gaelic. It’s good. Flowery, very slightly peaty (less than they say). The only fault would be that it’s not different enough, or as you’d expect. … Continue reading Fraoch<\/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-292","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":2535,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/04\/09\/heather-ales-grozet\/","url_meta":{"origin":292,"position":0},"title":"Heather Ales ‘Grozet’","author":"Phil","date":"April 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As you'd probably guess, we buy a lot of beer at work. 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