{"id":7249,"date":"2008-10-27T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hedonistbeerjive.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/beer-dorks-start-your-engines-brouwers.html"},"modified":"2008-10-27T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T20:46:00","slug":"hedonist-beer-jive-beer-dorks-start-your-engines-brouwer%e2%80%99s-imagination-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/?p=7249","title":{"rendered":"Hedonist Beer Jive: BEER DORKS, START YOUR ENGINES: BROUWER\u2019S IMAGINATION 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_VsOOFXOWIvk\/SQYpobyWYpI\/AAAAAAAABkw\/xHFtDKrWBcs\/s1600-h\/imagination.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_VsOOFXOWIvk\/SQYpobyWYpI\/AAAAAAAABkw\/xHFtDKrWBcs\/s320\/imagination.jpg\" \/><\/a>This whole trend of elite brewers making single batches for specific bars seemed to start about a year ago when MONK\u2019S CAF\u00c9 in Philadelphia teamed up with Browerij Van Steenberge from Belgium to make <a href=\"http:\/\/hedonistbeerjive.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/monks-caf-flemish-sour-ale-gateway-beer.html\">MONK\u2019S CAF\u00c9 FLEMISH SOUR ALE<\/a>. That seemed to be quickly followed by a couple of beers brewed from San Francisco\u2019s TORONADO, and I\u2019m pretty sure there\u2019s another example or two that passed me by. Thanks to our Seattle beer connection, this <a href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/5318\/44115\">BROUWER\u2019S IMAGINATION 2008 <\/a>did not escape my grasp. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brouwerscafe.com\/bier.html\">BROUWER\u2019S <\/a>is a Seattle beer institution that I still have not been to. When I lived there in the late 90s it was all about HALE\u2019S &amp; PIKE BREWING, the HILLTOP ALE HOUSE and of course LINDA\u2019S TAVERN. That\u2019s where I spent my quality time, but ten years on I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019d change my game plan if I lived there now.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/5318\/44115\">BROUWER\u2019S IMAGINATION 2008 <\/a>is a saison brewed especially for the bar by \u2013 <em>wait for it \u2013 wait for it \u2013 are you sitting down<\/em>? \u2013 PORT BREWING company from down San Diego way, aka the maestros behind several knockout beers as well as the LOST ABBEY sub-brand. Oh my heavens yes. What do you think HBJ thought about this one? Hey, you\u2019re right. This 6.25% ABV \u201cfarmhouse saison\u201d may have a ton of brettanomyces bacteria action going down, but I\u2019ll be honest with ya, it\u2019s not all that funky. It is, however, fantastic. I actually thought this pale yellow ale might have been a witbier, albeit a flavorful banyard witbier. My notes say \u201cSour lemon meets musty tangerine meets older grapes\u201d. Very floral, and very dry, and very very good. Of course it is. It is available on tap in Seattle, at Brouwer\u2019s of course, and in limited-edition corked bottles, from a northwest beer trader should you choose to befriend one. 8.5\/10.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/cosmos\/search.html?sub=postcosm&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhedonistbeerjive.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F10%2Fbeer-dorks-start-your-engines-brouwers.html\" title=\"other blogs commenting on this post\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/images\/bubble.gif\" alt=\"Technorati talk bubble\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\tThis whole trend of elite brewers making single batches for specific bars seemed to start about a year ago when MONK\u2019S CAF\u00c9 in Philadelphia teamed up with Browerij Van Steenberge from Belgium to make MONK\u2019S CAF\u00c9 FLEMISH SOUR ALE. That seemed to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}