{"id":1044,"date":"2012-11-10T21:29:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T01:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2012-11-10T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T01:29:34","slug":"homebrewing-my-crappy-all-grain-beers-are-tasting-much-nicer-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/11\/10\/homebrewing-my-crappy-all-grain-beers-are-tasting-much-nicer-now\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Homebrewing: My &#8220;crappy&#8221; all-grain beers are tasting MUCH nicer now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"View 'Raspberry Hefeweizen Homebrew' on Flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44048128@N00\/8173673419\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8485\/8173673419_51a9762212_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Raspberry Hefeweizen Homebrew\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The raspberry hefeweizen has found a nice balance despite the low ABV. The citra is still too bitter considering it&#8217;s 3.5% instead of an expected 7%. Finally, the orange porter which was just too much orange is tasting fantastic. Lots of balance. Friends were right. Just wait a bit and see how they&#8217;re tasting. Don&#8217;t dump drinkable beer if the taste is not right on what you expect it to taste like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The raspberry hefeweizen has found a nice balance despite the low ABV. The citra is still too bitter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-12-07T16:48:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"84f3e455-6eef-4a44-8726-7dfd76d8ca8c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-12-07T16:48:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AhPPkVW7vSkSHJn39dtjKjA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-homebrewing","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-gQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1900,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2013\/12\/03\/homebrewing-tasting-from-some-carboys-december-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":1044,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Homebrewing: Tasting from some carboys (December Edition)","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I brewed a lot of beer this Fall and most aren\u2019t ready but I thought it would be fun to see how they\u2019re doing. 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