{"id":166,"date":"2008-05-01T18:20:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T01:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/166"},"modified":"2008-05-01T19:25:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T02:25:39","slug":"my-first-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/my-first-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"My first beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.millerbrands.com\/artwork\/domestic\/Steel-Reserve-Can.jpg\" hspace=\"8\" height=\"288\" style=\"width: 132px; height: 288px\" \/>I bought my first beer today.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I had to ask assistance from a fellow Albertson&#8217;s shopper to even find it &#8211; and then asked her recommendation for a good beer for snails.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She looked confused.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;<em><strong>Snails<\/strong><\/em>?&#8221; she asked.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;<em>You&#8217;re serving beer with snails, or do you want to cook with it??<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>No<\/em>.&#8221; I replied.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;<em>I want to lure them to their drunken deaths in my garden<\/em>.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She looked relieved for some reason.\u00c2\u00a0 She\u00c2\u00a0was then quite helpful in pointing out that the single cans were in the walk in cooler room <em>(something unheard of in Utah Albertsons)<\/em>, and that\u00c2\u00a0I wanted a high gravity beer &#8211; which apparently have more alchohol.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 She thoughtfully \u00c2\u00a0suggested a can of Steel Reserve and I bought it.<\/p>\n<p>I set out a couple of pie tins and poured the beer into them.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if the slugs\/snails will appreciate the fact that is is slow brewed for exceptionally smooth flavor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought my first beer today.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I had to ask assistance from a fellow Albertson&#8217;s shopper to even find it &#8211; and then asked her recommendation for a good beer for snails.\u00c2\u00a0 She looked confused.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Snails?&#8221; she asked.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;You&#8217;re serving beer with snails, or do you want to cook with it??&#8221; &#8220;No.&#8221; I replied.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/my-first-beer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My first beer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}