{"id":55,"date":"2004-01-07T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=55"},"modified":"2011-03-02T14:28:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:28:19","slug":"sam-adams-boston-lager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/01\/07\/sam-adams-boston-lager\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Adam\u2019s \u2018Boston Lager\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

So starts the diary. After years of thinking that it was a birthday present, a look at the date here makes me realise it must’ve been a Christmas<\/em> one. Shows how rubbish the human memory is, I suppose. (Either that, or I was really<\/em>, really<\/em> slack with getting started on the diary, since my birthday is in late August. Which is always possible.)<\/p>\n

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Diary entry #1, Samuel Adam's Boston Lager<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim: <\/strong>Samuel Adams Boston Lager. 4.8% 355ml ?$ at home w\/ nachos. Amber-gold. Quite round and beery, but not overly lagerish, really. Honey-caramelly aftertaste. (Batch.) 7\/1\/04.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> Weird to look back this far and see the sorts of notes I used to write. I was evidently obsessed with bottle-conditioned stuff, so felt moved to note that this wasn’t. And given that I’d never heard of Vienna \/ Amber Lager as a style or the differences that would entail, I’m quite chuffed that I spotted the caramel-ness and that I thought it wasn’t just lager as-usual. I revisited this one quite a bit later…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So starts the diary. After years of thinking that it was a birthday present, a look at the date here makes me realise it must’ve been a Christmas one. Shows how rubbish the human memory is, I suppose. (Either that, or I was really, really slack with getting started on the diary, since my birthday … Continue reading Samuel Adam\u2019s \u2018Boston Lager\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":[6,20,9],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-united-states","tag-lager"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":475,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/10\/05\/knappstein-reserve-lager\/","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":0},"title":"Knappstein Reserve Lager","author":"Phil","date":"October 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Another winemaker's beer. 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