{"id":683,"date":"2009-01-20T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=683"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:15:22","slug":"birra-moretti-la-rossa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2009\/01\/20\/birra-moretti-la-rossa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Birra Moretti ‘La Rossa’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Birra<\/a>
Birra Moretti 'La Rossa'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was one of the original beers<\/em> in the famous chilly bin that George gave me<\/a>. I remember being hugely impressed, and so leapt at a recent chance for another.<\/p>\n

It’s a gorgeously-coloured strong Italian(!) doppelbock. It’s a sweet, caramelly, stupidly drinkable thing for 7.2%, with a nice little hoppy zing on the back end. I’ve just discovered it’s actually brewed by Heineken (and was when I first had it<\/a>), so I feel morally peculiar, but I’m still a big fan.<\/p>\n

Oh, and yes. That is indeed a chippie sandwich in the background. I am a Master Mongrelistic Beer & Food Matcher<\/p>\n

\"Birra<\/a>
Unnumbered diary entry, Birra Moretti 'La Rossa'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Having another go at La Rossa. (20\/1\/09) It’s a strong Italian doppelbock. Sweet and caramelly, absurdly drinkable for 7.2%. Nice late hoppy zing to it, too. Even better than I remembered.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, November 2010:<\/strong> My numbering system for what counted as a ‘proper’ Diary<\/em> entry, and what was just an unnumbered note is pretty seriously idiosyncratic. Sufficiently so that I have no idea, now, what it was then. I was probably thinking that since this was a re-sampling of something already-noted, it didn’t need a full entry again. But in fairly short order, I’ll go on to break that ‘rule’ — if that was indeed the ‘rule’ I had in mind. It’s not that I’m fickle; I just have a terrible<\/em> memory, sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was one of the original beers in the famous chilly bin that George gave me. I remember being hugely impressed, and so leapt at a recent chance for another. It’s a gorgeously-coloured strong Italian(!) doppelbock. It’s a sweet, caramelly, stupidly drinkable thing for 7.2%, with a nice little hoppy zing on the back end. … Continue reading Birra Moretti ‘La Rossa’<\/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":[6,22,9],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-italy","tag-lager"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":118,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/03\/07\/birra-moretti-la-rossa\/","url_meta":{"origin":683,"position":0},"title":"Birra Moretti \u2018La Rossa\u2019","author":"Phil","date":"March 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've gone back to this one a few times, and it's still an enduring favourite. 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