{"id":1466,"date":"2013-05-09T18:48:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T23:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2013-05-09T19:11:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T00:11:56","slug":"green-flash-saison-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/green-flash-saison-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Flash Saison Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tasty entry from a few weeks ago. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been leaning towards the lighter end of the scale lately with summer coming on, and I generally enjoy the offerings from <a title=\"Green Flash\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenflashbrew.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Green Flash<\/a>, so I figured this one to be a winner. \u00a0It was on the board at the Bier Station, so I gave it a go. \u00a0It was poured from a tap in a 12 oz snifter for $4.50; \u00a0Very reasonable as their price scale goes. \u00a0This probably isn&#8217;t everybody&#8217;s favorite style, with all the push towards the super-hopped brews lately. \u00a0They are usually much less bitter (I think,) with a lot of fruitiness and seem to work well with other flavors mixed in too. \u00a0For instance, I tried an awesome ginger-saison a while back&#8230; \u00a0But that&#8217;s for another day I suppose. \u00a0Back to this one. \u00a0While it was served with a good two fingers of bright white head, that quickly subsided and it really didn&#8217;t leave a lot of lacing. \u00a0The color was a light golden, moderately hazy. \u00a0The taste made up for the somewhat boring appearance though, at least for me. \u00a0Very Belgiany (it&#8217;s my blog and I&#8217;ll make up adjectives if I want to) with prominent yeast flavors, and a lot of fruit, although as usual I&#8217;d be hard-pressed to pick out which ones. \u00a0If I was going to guess I&#8217;d go with lemon and maybe a little orange. \u00a0Definitely rather tart though, so I&#8217;ll throw out grapefruit too. \u00a0If I was going to give it a small knock, I&#8217;d say it was too carbonated for my liking. \u00a0Maybe that&#8217;s an indicator of the style, I don&#8217;t know; \u00a0It was just a bit much for me. \u00a0Definitely enjoyed it though, it made me feel like summer is coming, even if it did snow last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130509-184810.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130509-184810.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130509-184810.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tasty entry from a few weeks ago. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been leaning towards the lighter end of the scale lately with summer coming on, and I generally enjoy the offerings from Green Flash, so I figured this one to be a winner. \u00a0It was on the board at the Bier Station, so I gave it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}