{"id":1876,"date":"2009-01-10T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/01\/beer-review-meantime-london-pale-ale\/"},"modified":"2009-01-10T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T18:34:10","slug":"beer-review-meantime-london-pale-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1876","title":{"rendered":"Beer Review: Meantime London Pale Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A light but fairly complex taste that&#39;s reasonably bitter and hoppy, with a slightly burnt\/roasted edge which I&#39;d only usually expect to fine in dark beers and stouts. The bitterness and 4.3% ABV make it highly quaffable, but maybe it&#39;s a shade too bitter not to get wearing after a while.<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div>Apparently &quot;the International Beer Challenge 2007 awarded Meantime Pale Ale &#39;World&#39;s Top 50 Beers&#39; Status.&quot; I can&#39;t say that I agree with them on this occasion. It&#39;s a quality beer for sure, but not one that will stick in the mind. I can name quite a lot of beers that have blown me away and I remember fondly. This isn&#39;t one of those, though it might be more impressive outdoors on a hot summery day.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834010536c4025b970c\" 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=\"MeantimePaleAle\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e01588834010536c4025b970c \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834010536c4025b970c-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A light but fairly complex taste that&#39;s reasonably bitter and hoppy, with a slightly burnt\/roasted edge which I&#39;d only usually expect to fine in dark beers and stouts. The bitterness and 4.3% ABV make it highly quaffable, but maybe it&#39;s a shade too bitter not to get wearing after a while. Apparently &quot;the International Beer [&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-1876","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\/1876","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=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}