{"id":174677558,"date":"2015-06-09T06:02:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T06:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/?p=174677558"},"modified":"2015-06-09T06:02:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T06:02:26","slug":"okanagan-spring-brewmasters-dinner-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/2015\/06\/09\/okanagan-spring-brewmasters-dinner-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Okanagan Spring Brewmaster’s Dinner, Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brewmaster's<\/a><\/p>\n

For those of you who missed last week’s post<\/a> on Win #4, I will provide you with a brief recap of what happened. The rest of you can skip gleefully past the next paragraph and get ready to learn what my husband thought of five Okanagan Spring<\/a> beers.<\/p>\n

I was delighted to win two tickets to the Okanagan Spring Brewmaster’s Dinner<\/a> at Mamie Taylor<\/a>‘s courtesy of Miss 604<\/a>. However there was a problem. I don’t drink beer. I have tried many times to cultivate a love for Canada’s national beverage, but I have failed. However, I have somewhat redeemed myself by marrying a devotee of the brew. Thus, if you’re here for the beer, here are some excerpts from the on-the-spot reviews I got Ryan to record:<\/p>\n

Beer #1: Okanagan Spring Pale Ale<\/a><\/p>\n

“This is a particularly nice beer…It’s a nice, well-balanced, mellow beer..really approachable. I could pretty much drink this all day, and possibly I will.”<\/p>\n

Beer #2: Okanagan Spring Sonder Hefeweizen<\/a><\/p>\n

“This is a wheat beer…and if you like wheat beers, I think you’ll like this one. It’s got a very strong vanilla overtone, which is quite interesting for a wheat beer. Generally, this is like kinda your ideal summer beer.”<\/p>\n

Beer #3: Okanagan Spring Cloudy Amber Ale<\/a><\/p>\n

“I like it a lot, ’cause it’s beer..well, it’s got kind of a nice, mellow amber ale-ness. Basically, an amber ale should have a nice, strong beer flavour, a nice balance of hops, and beer-ness \u00a0and it’s got all of that. This is a perfectly, decent amber ale.<\/p>\n

Beer #4: Okanagan Spring Porter<\/a><\/p>\n

“To be honest, my tastebuds are kind of shot by the previous four beers, but if you like porter, I think you’ll like this porter.”<\/p>\n

Now, at this point you may be wondering why the first beer of the evening, the Okanagan Spring 1516 Bavarian Lager<\/a> hasn’t received a review. That is because it was served as part of a michelada cocktail, so it wasn’t possible to assess its flavour on its own. However, Ryan very much enjoyed the cocktail.<\/p>\n

When asked what his favourite beer of the night was, Ryan had difficulty picking a clear winner. He enjoyed everything he drank, but particularly liked the porter and the amber ale because they most closely aligned with the type of beers he particularly likes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who missed last week’s post on Win #4, I will provide you with a brief recap of what happened. The rest of you can skip gleefully past the next paragraph and get ready to learn what my husband thought of five Okanagan Spring beers. I was delighted to win two tickets … Continue reading Okanagan Spring Brewmaster’s Dinner, Part Two<\/span> →<\/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":[192],"tags":[275,272,265,65,270,274,277,263,37,261,260,264,273,276,271],"class_list":["post-174677558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-amber-ale","tag-b-c","tag-beer","tag-canada","tag-food-and-beer-pairing","tag-hefeweizen","tag-lager","tag-mamie-taylors","tag-miss-604","tag-okanagan-spring","tag-okanagan-spring-brewery","tag-okanagan-spring-brewmasters-dinner","tag-pale-ale","tag-porter","tag-vancouver-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174677558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174677558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174677558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174677562,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174677558\/revisions\/174677562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174677558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174677558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174677558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}