{"id":226,"date":"2016-02-18T19:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T00:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=226"},"modified":"2016-02-18T18:32:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T23:32:36","slug":"never-mind-the-calendar-were-ready-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/allegheny\/never-mind-the-calendar-were-ready-for-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Never mind the calendar &#8212; we&#8217;re ready for spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/hart-glowing-beer-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-227\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-227\" src=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/hart-glowing-beer-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"hart glowing beer 2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/hart-glowing-beer-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/hart-glowing-beer-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/hart-glowing-beer-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/hart-glowing-beer-2.jpg 1081w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might think that it would be tough to talk about beers intended for warmer weather while it&#8217;s still snowing outside.<\/p>\n<p>And you would be wrong. It&#8217;s actually easy.<\/p>\n<p>And really, what&#8217;s not to like? A fluffy white ale with splash of bright, zesty ginger? An IPA with a rich, juicy &#8212; and let&#8217;s go ahead and call it dank &#8212; hop flavor?<\/p>\n<p>Or a ridiculously easy-to-drink Austrian grapefruit\u00a0radler?<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;margin-bottom:20px;\">\r\n<div style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\r\n<video data-video-id=\"4763108334001\"\r\ndata-account=\"1105443290001\" \r\ndata-player=\"N1VVkFril\" \r\ndata-embed=\"default\" \r\ndata-application-id \r\nclass=\"video-js\" \r\ncontrols \r\nstyle=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; left: 0px;\"><\/video>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1105443290001\/N1VVkFril_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The craft beer industry isn&#8217;t especially patient &#8212; or tied to what the rest of us think of as the seasons &#8212; which is why we see pumpkin beer on the shelves in August or why we can celebrate Halloween with our favorite Christmas ale. The industry&#8217;s spring season isn&#8217;t as well defined, but Hart Johnson, the guy who orders beer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piperspub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Piper&#8217;s Pub on the South Side<\/a>, says he starts thinking about a move away from heavier beers like stouts, porters or barrel-aged concoctions in February, because that&#8217;s when the sales reps that visit the pub start pushing fare that&#8217;s appropriate for warmer weather.<\/p>\n<p>The profile of a spring seasonal isn&#8217;t as well defined as a malty Oktoberfest or a spiced Christmas beer either, although Mr. Johnson correctly points out there are some common threads; a turn towards lighter, brighter flavors, especially like the ginger in <a href=\"http:\/\/roundaboutbeer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roundabout&#8217;s Maui Wit<\/a>\u00a0or the the juicy character of the mosaic hops in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brewgentlemen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Brew Gentlemen&#8217;s Momo pale ale<\/a>. It won&#8217;t be limited to spring, but you&#8217;re going to see even more pale ales and IPAs that are pushing citrusy hops &#8212; or just straightforward additions of citrus to the beer.<\/p>\n<p>And, especially if we&#8217;re talking about German brewing traditions, there are styles, like marzens or maibocks, that show up when the winter weather starts to break.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stiegl.at\/en\/brands\/range\/main-range\/stiegl-radler-grapefruit\" target=\"_blank\">And that radler<\/a>? Yes, it&#8217;s true that we&#8217;re probably skipping over spring and jumping\u00a0directly to mid-July with that light, fizzy and crisp mix of lager and grapefruit juice. But if you want a glass of sunshine, that&#8217;s where you can find it &#8230; even when there are still snowflakes in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might think that it would be tough to talk about beers intended for warmer weather while it&#8217;s still snowing outside. And you would be wrong. It&#8217;s actually easy. And really, what&#8217;s not to like? A fluffy white ale with splash of bright, zesty ginger? An IPA with a rich, juicy &#8212; and let&#8217;s go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}