{"id":1797,"date":"2009-08-28T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T21:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2009-08-28T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T21:46:36","slug":"beer-first-trip-to-russian-river-brewing-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Beer: First Trip To Russian River Brewing Company"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Glass<\/a><\/p>\n

Just a scant 12 miles north of the Lagunitas Beer Sanctuary<\/a> is another must-visit brew spot, Russian River Brewing<\/a>\u00a0in Santa Rosa. If you’re in the Bay Area it’s well worth the trek. Since it’s a restaurant, you can bring your kids if you got ’em (witness the Lego’s above). Plus, Sunday’s have HAPPY HOUR ALL DAY.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Obstructing Lego’s view above is a frothy glass of Hopfather<\/strong>. If you go, order this for sure. Like a crisper, less oily, but much hoppier Pliny the Elder<\/strong>. So hoppy it prompted my friend Shawn to pose the question, \u201cCan a beer be too hoppy?<\/em>\u201d. An awkward silence followed.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>The Belgian Beer Sampler was all-around tasty with two particular stand-outs:<\/p>\n

Salvation <\/strong>8.60 ABV
\nNice, strong dark ale with hints\u00a0of birch, pepper, dark fruits, and licorice.<\/p>\n

Consecration <\/strong>10.0 ABV
\nA dark, sour-aged belgian that may be the first of the sour beers (which are oh-so-hot right now for some reason) I actually appreciate. To the un-sour initiated, it tastes like dark-cherry kombucha<\/a>. So if that’s your thang you’ll dig this.<\/p>\n

Here’s what else was on tap: <\/p>\n

\"Russian<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Russian<\/a><\/p>\n

Russian River Brewing<\/a>
\n725 4th Street
\nSanta Rosa, CA 95404<\/p>\n

Hours: Sun through Thurs 11 a.m. to 12 a.m., Fri and Sat from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.
\n707.545.BEER<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a scant 12 miles north of the Lagunitas Beer Sanctuary is another must-visit brew spot, Russian River Brewing\u00a0in Santa Rosa. If you’re in the Bay Area it’s well worth the trek. Since it’s a restaurant, you can bring your kids if you got ’em (witness the Lego’s above). Plus, Sunday’s have HAPPY HOUR ALL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[737,792,736,739,735,793,738],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","tag-belgian-beer","tag-consecration","tag-hopfather","tag-ipa","tag-russian-river-brewing","tag-salvation","tag-santa-rosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}