{"id":683,"date":"2009-07-04T01:26:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T06:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2020-08-30T19:07:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T23:07:57","slug":"blowing-rock-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/blowing-rock-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowing Rock Ale Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blowing-Rock-Ale.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2372\" width=\"318\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blowing-Rock-Ale.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blowing-Rock-Ale-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently I spent a week in the Blue-Ridge mountains, free from the bondage of cell phones, the Internet, and other equally useless crap. I spent my time kicking back in a log cabin with the family, hitting trails during the day and the hot tub at night. And you know what? We decided to pay a little something back to the local community by picking up a couple six-packs of Blowing Rock High Country Ale brewed by Boone Brewing Company, LLC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve go to be honest&#8212;I&#8217;m usually a bit shallow when it comes to choosing my beer, and it pained me somewhat to choose a beer with such a lame bottle label. I mean the name is solid, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I could have fashioned a cooler looking beer-bottle label using a napkin, some spilled salsa and a fading sharpie. Minor details I suppose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My expectations weren&#8217;t very high, and I was fully prepared to write the beer off as a token of my appreciation to the mountains and their more permanent residents, but I have to say Blowing Rock Ale was actually pretty good! I might even venture to say it was enjoyable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Light color, light carbonation, adequate head, and a fantastic, sweet honey smell. The taste was equally sweet, though I wouldn&#8217;t mind a few more hops and a bit more carbonation to help tone the sweetness back a bit. The beer would probably make a good alternative to something like Blue Moon or anything else with a strong citrus taste. Overall, I&#8217;d say Blowing Rock Ale makes a great, safe pick as a six-pack and is well worth a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I spent a week in the Blue-Ridge mountains, free from the bondage of cell phones, the Internet, and other equally useless crap. I spent my time kicking back in a log cabin with the family, hitting trails during the day and the hot tub at night. And you know what? We decided to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[79],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3686648638_2a2e2c1d68_o.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3686648638_2a2e2c1d68_o.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Nathan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/author\/nathan\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}