{"id":4892,"date":"2011-07-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2011-07-16T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T21:24:15","slug":"victory-otto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/victory-otto\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Release:  Victory Brewing announced a new beer release for mid-October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#craftbeer, @victorybeer<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/forblog\/victory_otto_ale.jpg\" alt=\"Victory Otto Ale, a smoked Belgian Dubbel\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Victory has announced that a new beer will debut Mid-October, a smoked Belgian dubbel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNINGTOWN, PA<\/strong> \u2013 On October 15, beer enthusiasts will have a new reason to celebrate. Victory Otto Ale, a new Belgian-style, bottle conditioned dubbel ale from Victory Brewing Company, will be available in 750 ml corked bottles.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Covaleski and Ron Barchet, Victory co-founders, developed the recipe for the new smoked malt dubbel based on their experience with the style during a trip they took to Bamberg, Germany in 1987. In order to create a deliciously palatable smoked beer, Bill and Ron decided to combine the sometimes-overpowering qualities of the smoky rauch style with Belgian caramel malt, which yields a perfectly harmonized final flavor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe complimentary flavors of smoked malt and Belgian yeast seemed like an obvious combination,\u201d said Bill. \u201cAs far as we know, no one has bothered to put them together until now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Victory Otto Ale is made up of smoked, Munich and Belgian caramel malt, German hops and Trappist yeast. Alcohol by volume is 8.1%.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/victorybeer.com\/news\/victory-to-debut-new-beer-in-mid-october');\"  href=\"http:\/\/victorybeer.com\/news\/victory-to-debut-new-beer-in-mid-october\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#craftbeer, @victorybeer Victory has announced that a new beer will debut Mid-October, a smoked Belgian dubbel. DOWNINGTOWN, PA \u2013 On October 15, beer enthusiasts will have a new reason to celebrate. Victory Otto Ale, a new Belgian-style, bottle conditioned dubbel ale from Victory Brewing Company, will be available in 750 ml corked bottles. Bill Covaleski [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[478,104],"tags":[1608],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/victory_otto_ale.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892"}],"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=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4895,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions\/4895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}