{"id":1291,"date":"2009-01-18T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T09:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2009-01-19T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:26:11","slug":"beer-review-black-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2009\/01\/18\/beer-review-black-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Review: Black Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*Karen&#8217;s mum got me 6 bottles of beer for Christmas. I&#8217;m going to review them all. If I remember.*<\/p>\n<p>Now that my sense of smell has returned, I am going to resume this little project. I had a bottle of Black Sheep last week but realised halfway through my first mouthful that I couldn&#8217;t taste it, so I&#8217;ve bought another.<\/p>\n<p>**Beer:** Black Sheep<br \/>\n**Brewery:** <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacksheepbrewery.co.uk\/\">Black Sheep<\/a><br \/>\n**Strength:** 4.4%<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/beers\/black-sheep.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Black Sheep\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ah, this takes me back. I remember when I first discovered Black Sheep, when I was at University. My flatmate Matt and I consumed gallons of this stuff. In fact, it&#8217;s probably safe to say that this is what got me into real ale, my previous preference of beer generally being &#8220;Creamflow&#8221; type bollocks. Black Sheep made me realise how misguided I was.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very drinkable ale &#8211; fruity, but not too fruity; flavoursome, but not pungent &#8211; and just all-round solid, dependable stuff. For me, the label has always stood out on the shelf and filled me with good memories. It does not taste like sheep.<\/p>\n<p>Black Sheep gets: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/beers\/2.png\" class=\"borderless\" width=\"38\" height=\"32\" alt=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Karen&#8217;s mum got me 6 bottles of beer for Christmas. I&#8217;m going to review them all. If I remember.* Now that my sense of smell has returned, I am going to resume this little project. I had a bottle of Black Sheep last week but realised halfway through my first mouthful that I couldn&#8217;t taste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[552,4],"tags":[551,558],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-reviews","category-photos","tag-beer","tag-black-sheep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}