{"id":21960,"date":"2016-01-20T23:57:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T07:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21960"},"modified":"2016-01-20T23:57:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T07:57:59","slug":"beer-101-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/beer-101-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer 101 Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sousun.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/january-beer.html\">Beer festivals this weekend<\/a> include Upland&#8217;s Brews &amp; Bros, San Francisco Beer Week, San Leandro<b>\u00a0<\/b>Imperial IPA Festival and\u00a0SOUR SUNDAY (pictured) in Berkeley. In\u00a0this\u00a0college town where\u00a0UC Berkeley students take\u00a0101 courses on nearly every topic, don&#8217;t be surprised to see attendees examining their beer and taking notes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beerology 101<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AROMA &amp; SMELL: Smell, then linger on your first sip.\u00a0Is it sweet (malt aroma), sharp (hop aroma), or a balance of different notes?<br \/>\nAPPEARANCE: Observe clarity from\u00a0brilliant to cloudy. Head retention often indicates a well-crafted beer, made with quality ingredients.<br \/>\nFLAVOR &amp; TASTE: Look for natural continuation of the aroma. Swirl it in your mouth before swallowing. Note intensity of flavor,\u00a0balance between sweetness and bitterness, and your general impressions.<br \/>\nMOUTHFEEL:\u00a0Texture and weight of the beer\u00a0include\u00a0warming, astringent, light, watery, full,\u00a0 heavy\u00a0and carbonation level.<br \/>\nFINISH: Lingering or\u00a0short, sweet or bitter &#8212; do you want to take another sip?<br \/>\nIMPRESSION: Summarize how much you liked the beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beer festivals this weekend include Upland&#8217;s Brews &amp; Bros, San Francisco Beer Week, San Leandro\u00a0Imperial IPA Festival and\u00a0SOUR SUNDAY (pictured) in Berkeley. In\u00a0this\u00a0college town where\u00a0UC Berkeley students take\u00a0101 courses on nearly every topic, don&#8217;t be surprised to see attendees examining their beer and taking notes. Beerology 101 AROMA &amp; SMELL: Smell, then linger on your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21960"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}