{"id":3211,"date":"2010-07-30T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2010-07-28T22:53:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T02:53:29","slug":"whole_hog_raspb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/30\/whole_hog_raspb\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Release: Stevens Point Brewery &#8211; Whole Hog Raspberry Saison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stevens Point Brewery picks Raspberry Saison for newest \u201cbig beer\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Belgian-style ale expands Whole Hog Limited Release Brewmaster\u2019s Series<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/forblog\/stevens_point.jpg\" alt=\"Stevens Point Brewery\" width=\"296\" height=\"214\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>STEVENS POINT, Wis. JULY, 2010<\/strong> \u2013 Add a hint of raspberry flavor to a Belgian-style Saison and you\u2019ve got the latest \u201cbig beer\u201d from Stevens Point Brewery\u2019s Whole Hog Limited Release Brewmaster\u2019s Series.<\/p>\n<p>Whole Hog Raspberry Saison is now available in four-packs of 12-ounce longneck bottles and kegs wherever Point beers are sold.<\/p>\n<p>Whole Hog Raspberry Saison is the fifth brew in Point Brewery\u2019s Whole Hog Limited Release Brewmaster\u2019s Series, dedicated to delivering big, bold beers to the most discerning craft-beer aficionados. The Whole Hog lineup, which styles vary throughout the year, includes Whole Hog Six-Hop India Pale Ale and Whole Hog Imperial Pilsner, as well as Whole Hog Russian Imperial Stout and Whole Hog Pumpkin Ale.<br \/>\nBrewing Belgian-style Saison<\/p>\n<p>Saison ales are a specialty of Wallonia, the French-speaking southern part of Belgium. Whole Hog Raspberry Saison is brewed in the Saison style, hand-crafted with a variety of barley malts, including 2-row, Pilsen, Munich and special roasted malts. The new brew, with an alcohol content of 7.2% by volume, also uses Cluster and Willamette hops, a special Belgian ale yeast perfect for brewing Saison and a touch of natural raspberry flavor.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a refreshingly tart, spicy beer with a fruity hint of raspberry, said Ken Carlson, Stevens Point Brewery\u2019s Director of Brewing. \u201cWe chose raspberry as the best fruit fit with the Saison style,\u201d he said. \u201cThe raspberry delivers an earthy complement to the herbal spiciness of the beer. The roasted malts make the beer a little more complex than the typical Saison.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevens Point Brewery picks Raspberry Saison for newest \u201cbig beer\u201d Belgian-style ale expands Whole Hog Limited Release Brewmaster\u2019s Series STEVENS POINT, Wis. JULY, 2010 \u2013 Add a hint of raspberry flavor to a Belgian-style Saison and you\u2019ve got the latest \u201cbig beer\u201d from Stevens Point Brewery\u2019s Whole Hog Limited Release Brewmaster\u2019s Series. Whole Hog Raspberry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[2085],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/stevens_point1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}