{"id":1475,"date":"2013-05-23T12:40:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2013-05-24T08:41:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T13:41:28","slug":"odell-90-shilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/odell-90-shilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Odell 90 Shilling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes I’ve been slacking this week. \u00a0Only on the blog front though, I’ve actually been very busy. \u00a0I won’t bore you with the details for once; \u00a0You’ll just have to trust me. \u00a0So, lacking a summary of my past weekend, I’ll opt instead to sneak in a beer review. \u00a0Going through my copious notes, one of the more interesting entries I came across was Odell’s 90 Shilling. \u00a0“What? That’s a rather generic beer,” you may be saying to yourself. \u00a0(Or, more likely, you may not be saying that.) \u00a0Indeed, it is a rather everyday brew, albeit one of my favorites. \u00a0It’s a very nice representation of the Scottish Ale style. \u00a0I think it’s probably a bit lighter in body than most of the well-known examples, but as such I find it more drinkable for a go-to everyday brew. \u00a0On this particular evening though, it was also the subject (victim?) of the weekly “randalling<\/a>” project at Bier Station. \u00a0In short, they select a beer every week and basically infuse it with whatever flavors they happen to think sound good. \u00a0Sometimes they do this inline with the tap, and sometimes using a French Press. \u00a0As it happened, the flavor of the day that evening was “90 Shilling Randalled with Smoked Black Tea and Wild Cherries.” \u00a0Wow, how can you go wrong with a name like that? \u00a0Well, for one thing, you could not like smoked beers. \u00a0I am going to estimate I’ve tried at least six smoked ales in my life, and I can without reservation say I’ve despised every one. \u00a0I tasted no cherries, no tea… Just smoke. \u00a0And, for whatever reason, I do not like it. \u00a0As best I can describe, they all have a rather “oily” taste to me, which is as unpleasant as it sounds. \u00a0While it certainly looked<\/strong> like my familiar pour of 90 Shilling, the flavors I usually enjoy were completely lost. \u00a0No nicely toasted malt, no nicely balanced sweet\/bitter flavors; \u00a0Just oily smoke. \u00a0I don’t guess I need to carry on all day. Suffice to say I didn’t exactly care for it. \u00a0I haven’t given up on the Randall project: \u00a0I tried one a few weeks later that was very enjoyable. \u00a0I’ll save that one for another day.<\/p>\n

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Yes I’ve been slacking this week. \u00a0Only on the blog front though, I’ve actually been very busy. \u00a0I won’t bore you with the details for once; \u00a0You’ll just have to trust me. \u00a0So, lacking a summary of my past weekend, I’ll opt instead to sneak in a beer review. \u00a0Going through my copious notes, one […]<\/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-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","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=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}