{"id":1701,"date":"2013-06-14T21:53:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2013\/06\/beer-review-affligem-blonde\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T21:53:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:53:09","slug":"beer-review-affligem-blonde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1701","title":{"rendered":"Beer review: Affligem Blonde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e0158883401910359396f970c\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AffligemBlonde\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00e5550e0158883401910359396f970c\" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e0158883401910359396f970c-300wi\" style=\"width: 300px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"AffligemBlonde\" \/><\/a><br \/>When I left a job recently, my Belgian colleagues presented me with a basket filled with a vast and varied array of beers. My arms having recovered from carrying it home, it&#39;s now time to sample these fine wares.<\/p>\n<p>First up Affligem Blonde, at 6.8% a relative lightweight in the Belgian canon, but I was impressed by the overall result. A bit like Leffe, but more subtle and probably less cloying if you were to drain a few. It&#39;s really smooth and well-balanced, just edging only slightly into the treacly tendencies of classic Belgian brews, but definitely going beyond &quot;straightforward lager&quot;. I really liked it &#8211; it&#39;s a great beer to start an evening of lowland delicacies or for general consumption if you&#39;re not feeling like the heavy stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Expect more over the coming weeks, and expect them to be mostly in entirely the wong glasses, as above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I left a job recently, my Belgian colleagues presented me with a basket filled with a vast and varied array of beers. My arms having recovered from carrying it home, it&#39;s now time to sample these fine wares. First up Affligem Blonde, at 6.8% a relative lightweight in the Belgian canon, but I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}