{"id":9451,"date":"2012-07-12T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T20:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=9451"},"modified":"2012-07-12T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T20:52:07","slug":"single-batch-simcoe-new-russian-river-beer-row-2-hill-56-hitting-some-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=9451","title":{"rendered":"Single Batch Simcoe: New Russian River Beer &#8220;Row 2, Hill 56&#8221; Hitting (Some) Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=9451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9453\" title=\"Russian River Row 2 Hill 56 is here\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/russian-river_Row2Hill56.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/russian-river_Row2Hill56.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/russian-river_Row2Hill56-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bottled less than a month ago in a very limited (for now) single batch, <strong>Russian River<\/strong>&#8216;s newest <!--more-->beer <em>Row 2, Hill 56<\/em> is starting to hit more Bay Area shelves. I found mine at <a title=\"Wilibees Petaluma\" href=\"http:\/\/wilibees.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wilibees in Petaluma<\/a>. They only had two cases and thus had a four-bottle limit.<\/p>\n<p>Being used to such finely-crafted flavor explosions from <strong>Russian River<\/strong> (Blind Pig being my fav) I was really expecting another hop party in my mouth. Instead, I got a very subdued but nonetheless delicious Simcoe-focused experience. Super balanced (no surprise) and clean. If you&#8217;re lucky enough to be in the Bay I suggest hitting up the source and having it on tap in Santa Rosa.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s with the name and the Simcoe?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;Row 2, Hill 56 is our nod to the 3 Simcoe growing families in Yakima and a reference to the exact location in the experimental hop yard where it was first developed! 100% Simcoe hop pale ale, 5.8% alcohol, and being bottled for the very first time today! \u2026 Sending a small amount out for local distribution and some to So. Cal, but that\u2019s all we have for now! We only brewed one batch, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>so it will not be regularly bottled.<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=9451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9454\" title=\"Russian River Row 2 Hill 56 Bottle on \" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/russian-river_Row2Hill56_bottled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/russian-river_Row2Hill56_bottled.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/russian-river_Row2Hill56_bottled-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info\u00a0on\u00a0<a title=\"Russian River Brewing Company\" href=\"http:\/\/russianriverbrewing.com\/brews\/row-2-hill-56\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russian River&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">[like]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022 \u2022 \u00a0 \u2022 \u2022<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unnecessaryumlaut.bigcartel.com\/product\/beer-gut-shirt\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Grab your Beer G\u00fct Shirt here\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/beergutshirt\/unnecessary-umlaut_beer-gut-shirt_tee2.jpg\" alt=\"Beer G\u00fct Shirt\" width=\"480\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bottled less than a month ago in a very limited (for now) single batch, Russian River&#8216;s newest<\/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":[735,3787],"class_list":["post-9451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","tag-russian-river-brewing","tag-wilibees-wine-spirits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451","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=9451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9457,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9451\/revisions\/9457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}