{"id":1853,"date":"2009-02-15T16:51:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/02\/beer-review-kasteel-cru\/"},"modified":"2009-02-15T16:51:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T16:51:26","slug":"beer-review-kasteel-cru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"Beer Review: Kasteel Cru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is quite a special lager &#8211; brewed with champagne yeast it has a very fine, light bubble and it does indeed taste like a beery champagne. Imagine a very fine champagne with the sweetness replaced with dry pils bitterness. Certainly the lingering feel in the mouth is more champagne than beer.<\/p>\n<div>There are very few beers brewed in this style, so this one from Alsace is quite unique and worth tracking down. I was spurred to pick some up because Waitrose had 25% of the bottles &#8211; and it was on taste \ud83d\ude42 It&#39;s really very good indeed &#8211; super refreshing and drinkable (but remember it&#39;s a deceptive 5.2% ABV) but a bit unusual.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>In this case I was drinking it from a&#0160;K\u00f6lsch glass, which isn&#39;t entirely right, but seemed to suit it&#39;s delicacy. I suppose it could\/should be drunk from a champagne flute!<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011278db551228a4\" 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=\"KasteelCru\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e01588834011278db551228a4 \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011278db551228a4-350wi\" style=\"width: 350px; \" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is quite a special lager &#8211; brewed with champagne yeast it has a very fine, light bubble and it does indeed taste like a beery champagne. Imagine a very fine champagne with the sweetness replaced with dry pils bitterness. Certainly the lingering feel in the mouth is more champagne than beer. There are very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-food-and-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","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=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}