{"id":585,"date":"2008-02-24T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=585"},"modified":"2008-02-24T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T22:53:00","slug":"korenwolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/korenwolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Korenwolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/2289034871\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3158\/2289034871_da757ccd85_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/2289034871\/\">Korenwolf<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Some years ago, while I still lived in Denmark, I went to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tug.org\/\">TeX<\/a> conference in the Netherlands.  During the conference, we went on a day trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maastricht\">Maastricht<\/a>, and I got a chance to pop off to a specialist beer shop (together with <a href=\"http:\/\/arnested.dk\/\">Arne<\/a> if my memory serves me well) where I bought different beers, especially some that I had never seen before.<\/p>\n<p>When I got back home, I went on to taste them, and I still remember that there was one big positive surprise among them: A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Witbier#Witbier\">witbier<\/a> called Korenwolf (&#8220;corn wolf&#8221;, i.e. &#8220;hamster&#8221;).  It was similar to a Hoegaarden, but more aromatic &ndash; lots of herbs and elderflower.<\/p>\n<p>Given that it was local beer from the south of the Netherlands, I didn&#8217;t expect ever to taste it again, unless I went to another trip to Maastricht.<\/p>\n<p>So imagine my surprise when I found it in our local Tesco yesterday!  It&#8217;s just as nice as I remember it, and Phyllis seems to like it too.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they&#8217;ll still stock it when Anna gets old enough to drink it with me! \ud83d\ude42<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korenwolf Originally uploaded by viralbus Some years ago, while I still lived in Denmark, I went to a TeX conference in the Netherlands. During the conference, we went on a day trip to Maastricht, and I got a chance to pop off to a specialist beer shop (together with Arne if my memory serves me well) where I bought different beers, especially some that I had never seen before. When I got back home, I went on to taste them, and I still remember that there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}