{"id":202,"date":"2004-08-12T21:12:53","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T03:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2004-08-12T21:12:53","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T03:12:53","slug":"hooked-on-lambic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Hooked on Lambic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\" Lindemans \" src=\"http:\/\/www.merchantduvin.com\/images\/brewery_art\/lindeman_art\/lindeman_glass.gif\" align=\"right\" \/>I&#8217;m not much of a beer drinker so I was totally surprised about my newly acquired affinity for lambic.\u00c2\u00a0 If I were to drink any kind of beer, I would definitely go the fruit beer route.\u00c2\u00a0 Up until recently, I didn&#8217;t even know such a thing existed.\u00c2\u00a0 To me, beer was beer.\u00c2\u00a0 Beer is yucky.\u00c2\u00a0 And that was that.<\/p>\n<p>But then, I got introduced to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantduvin.com\/pages\/5_breweries\/lindemans_peche.html\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">Lindemans Peche (peach) Lambic<\/font><\/a> at Erin&#8217;s lingerie shower.\u00c2\u00a0 It tasted more like really fruity champagne than beer.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s yummy.\u00c2\u00a0 I was hooked.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday while celebrating Ashley&#8217;s birthday, we all went to Old Chicago as one of our stops.\u00c2\u00a0 I took advantage of the opportunity to try another variety, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantduvin.com\/pages\/5_breweries\/lindemans_framboise.html\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">Lindemans Framboise (raspberry) Lambic<\/font><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s really yummy, too.\u00c2\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of Welch&#8217;s Sparkling Red Grape which Brian and I both love.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve had to explore the world of non-alcoholic beverages, since Brian can&#8217;t really drink.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just astounded that beer (something that I despise) could be so delicious.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, Brian and I went to the liquor store today and got me a 750 ml bottle of Peche (they were out of Framboise).\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s so much cheaper at the liquor store than at restaurants!\u00c2\u00a0 I wish they sold &#8217;em in six-packs, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much of a beer drinker so I was totally surprised about my newly acquired affinity for lambic.\u00c2\u00a0 If I were to drink any kind of beer, I would definitely go the fruit beer route.\u00c2\u00a0 Up until recently, I didn&#8217;t even know such a thing existed.\u00c2\u00a0 To me, beer was beer.\u00c2\u00a0 Beer is yucky.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}