{"id":73,"date":"2007-01-08T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spiderscripts.co.uk\/?p=73"},"modified":"2022-02-12T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T10:22:28","slug":"beer-reviews-kerstbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Beer reviews: Kerstbie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas my Granddad gave me 6 beer mugs and 20 different bottles of european beer.  As I make my way through them I will be reviewing each one, so if you&#8217;re into beer then watch this space!  This is the first of those reviews.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spiderscripts.co.uk\/uploads\/Kerstbie.jpg\" class=\"alignright\"  title=\"Kerstbie\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Beer name: <b>Kerstbie<\/b><br \/>\nOrigin: <b>Loker, Belgium<\/b><br \/>\nBrewer: <b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brijdebie.be\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Brouwerij de Bie<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nAlc. Vol: <b>8.0%<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The moment I opened up the bottle I knew this was a strong beer.  Sometimes you can crack open a bottle and get nothing, but the Kerstbie was bursting with flavour and smelt sweet and spicy.  As I poured it into a glass I could hear it fizzing, which is always a good sign!<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit my first sip was a little overwhelming.  I have a somewhat blocked nose at the moment and I wasn&#8217;t really expecting it to taste so strong.  But once I&#8217;d gotten used to the strength (after all this is european beer, at a modest 8% vol) I was able to thoroughly enjoy it.  The Kerstbie is to most ales as a pudding wine is to most whites, much sweeter than normal and considerably stronger in flavour.  Indeed it wouldn&#8217;t be out of place alongside a nice steamed pudding, perfect for those cold winter months.<\/p>\n<p>If I were to have another Kerstbie in the future I would definately not be drinking it on it&#8217;s own again.  I would probably choose it to go with a fairly sweet meal or to drink just after a meal.  It&#8217;s flavour was as mentioned rather overwhelming, and needs something else alongside it.<\/p>\n<p>In the right context this is an excellent beer, unfortunately I rarely drink beer in that context so for me this gets a fairly average 3\/5<\/p>\n<p>Rating: <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spiderscripts.co.uk\/uploads\/beer3.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas my Granddad gave me 6 beer mugs and 20 different bottles of european beer. As I make my way through them I will be reviewing each one, so if you&#8217;re into beer then watch this space! This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/?p=73\">Continue reading <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":[1],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}