{"id":1599,"date":"2009-08-07T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/07\/now-drinking-4\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T07:03:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T12:03:13","slug":"now-drinking-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/07\/now-drinking-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since we played this game, so let\u2019s end Friday with an extra special episode of <em>Now Drinking<\/em> only with half the usual specialness.<\/p>\n<p><b><em>Dos Equis XX Lager Especial<\/em><\/b><br \/>\nLately I have been trying different Mexican beers.  <a href=\" http:\/\/www.ratebeer.com\/beer\/dos-equis-xx-special-lager\/225\/463\/\" target=\"new\">XX<\/a> is pretty decent; goes well with my wife\u2019s homemade salsa.  I am not going to go out on a limb and say it is my favorite Mexican beer; it\u2019s OK.<\/p>\n<p><b><em>Michelob Amber Bock<\/em><\/b><br \/>\nThis is an old staple of mine.  Switch to it after the salsa and XX.  I am not going to say it is great, and while I usually reach for the Ultra Amber instead of the Amber Bock, I do not think it is bad as many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/29\/1252\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/29\/1252\/', 'reviews');\" target=\"new\">reviews<\/a> indicate.  I normally go for more hops and ales, but for a lager, I do not think this one is all that bad.  At under a $1 a beer for a 12-pack from the local big box, I can live with the price.<\/p>\n<p><b><em>Sweetwater 420 Extra Pale Ale<\/em><\/b><br \/>\nBringing us home is one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/abeerguy.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/21\/judgement-sweetwater-420\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/abeerguy.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/21\/judgement-sweetwater-420\/', 'all time favorites');\" target=\"new\">all time favorites<\/a>.  What I like to call the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobp.com\/review\/beer.asp?t=504\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.tobp.com\/review\/beer.asp?t=504', 'nectar of the gods');\" target=\"new\">nectar of the gods<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetwaterbrew.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.sweetwaterbrew.com\/', 'Sweetwater 420');\" target=\"new\">Sweetwater 420<\/a>.  This one is so good I am offering up <a href=\"http:\/\/thebeerbrotha.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/sweetwater-best-ipa-in-country.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/thebeerbrotha.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/sweetwater-best-ipa-in-country.html', 'multiple links');\" target=\"new\">multiple links<\/a> to celebrate its <a href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/273\/751\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/273\/751', 'extra deliciousness');\" target=\"new\">extra deliciousness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy weekend to you!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since we played this game, so let\u2019s end Friday with an extra special episode of Now Drinking only with half the usual specialness. Dos Equis XX Lager Especial Lately I have been trying different Mexican beers. XX is pretty decent; goes well with my wife\u2019s homemade salsa. I am not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/07\/now-drinking-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now Drinking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}