{"id":108,"date":"2007-01-18T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/wordpress\/?p=108"},"modified":"2008-03-15T18:07:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T23:07:52","slug":"a-healthy-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/18\/a-healthy-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#34;healthy&#34; obsession."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night, following the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">UML<\/span> <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Riverhawks<\/span> shining&#8230;er&#8230;defeat, Sean, Gavin and I went to the brewery in Lowell (accompanied by Dougie&#8230;but he&#8217;s not a beer fan). It was Sean&#8217;s idea to sit and sip some beer there in bar downstairs.<br \/>\nI ordered a Concord Oatmeal Stout (which was&#8230;dare I say&#8230;<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">yumilicious<\/span>), Sean ordered a Rapscallion Creation and Gavin, a Concord Honey Ale. Upon tasting Sean&#8217;s Creation selection, Gavin and I quickly developed a bad case of beer envy. Suddenly, my Oatmeal Stout wasn&#8217;t the creme <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">de<\/span> la creme selection I thought it was. All I could think about was Sean&#8217;s glass, that lemony aroma, that slight hit of bitter. I wanted what Sean had and the envy was consuming me.<br \/>\nWhen it came time for round two, I became even more envious. I was driving, so the one beer was it for me. Then, Sean did something that escalated my jealousy from envy to pure obsession&#8230;he ordered a Rapscallion Premier for his second beer. I thought the Creation was the end all be all until I sampled this amazing concoction. This had similar qualities to the Creation, but was darker, smoother and reminded me of a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">cognac<\/span>. Oh&#8230;the envy was taking me over. And it took Gavin over too. He was going to order a Creation, but Sean, with all his good beer sense, stopped him, had him sample his Premier and then Gavin quickly <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">satisfied<\/span> his beer envy, by ordering a Premier as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night, following the UML Riverhawks shining&#8230;er&#8230;defeat, Sean, Gavin and I went to the brewery in Lowell (accompanied by Dougie&#8230;but he&#8217;s not a beer fan). It was Sean&#8217;s idea to sit and sip some beer there in bar downstairs. I ordered a Concord Oatmeal Stout (which was&#8230;dare I say&#8230;yumilicious), Sean ordered a Rapscallion Creation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,88],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}