{"id":493,"date":"2012-10-08T22:39:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T22:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/?p=493"},"modified":"2012-10-08T22:41:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T22:41:23","slug":"hop-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/hop-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Hop to it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of real ale as well as bread: after all, the two are linked by a common heritage thanks to the role of yeast in their creation (and that&#8217;s not the only reason&#8230;). Like many real ale drinkers, I&#8217;ve been seduced by the punchy, citrus flavours of beers made with hops from the US and New Zealand, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2012\/oct\/08\/british-beer-makers-fight-foreign-hops\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> in <em>The Guardian<\/em> (anyone who reads this blog will by now realise that I&#8217;m a Guardianista, and unrepentant with it) has made me rethink the merits of our native varieties. The kick of hops like Chinook, Nelson Sauvin and Amarillo can&#8217;t be denied but, then again, one of the greatest British beers currently on offer, Fullers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullers.co.uk\/rte.asp?id=83\" target=\"_blank\">London Pride<\/a>, uses only British hops, including stalwarts Target and Challenger. Don&#8217;t have a clue what I&#8217;m talking about? Get to grips with your hops <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hops\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and sup a pint of Pride whilst you&#8217;re at it!<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-493\" data-postid=\"493\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-493 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\n\t<\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of real ale as well as bread: after all, the two are linked by a common heritage thanks to the role of yeast in their creation (and that&#8217;s not the only reason&#8230;). Like many real ale drinkers, I&#8217;ve been seduced by the punchy, citrus flavours of beers made with hops from<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/hop-to-it\/\"> read more&#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flourandwater.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}