{"id":433,"date":"2017-04-28T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=433"},"modified":"2017-04-28T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:20:10","slug":"pcbw-breakfast-and-some-big-beers-at-pipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/allegheny\/pcbw-breakfast-and-some-big-beers-at-pipers\/","title":{"rendered":"#PCBW breakfast and some big beers at Piper&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/IMG_9170.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-434\" src=\"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/IMG_9170-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/IMG_9170-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/IMG_9170-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/IMG_9170-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to find me on the Wednesday of Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week? Don&#8217;t bother looking in the office.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not difficult to track me down, though. If you&#8217;re looking first thing in the morning, you&#8217;ll definitely find me at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piperspub.com\/\">Piper&#8217;s Pub<\/a>, for the South Side bar&#8217;s annual Beer Week breakfast. It started as a Kentucky-themed event, with three-year flights of <a href=\"https:\/\/foundersbrewing.com\/\">Founders<\/a> Kentucky Breakfast Stout and an amazing Kentucky hot brown boxty. It then morphed into a breakfast cereal and beer pairing (Hint: Pour some chocolate stout over a bowl of peanut butter Cap&#8217;n Crunch. No, really.)<\/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=\"5413922598001\"\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>But since then, the day has featured a dual purpose: to highlight the beer acquisition skills of Hart Johnson, the cellarman at Piper&#8217;s, and the talents of Mindy Heisler, the executive chef there and at the Pub Chip Shop next door. Each year, Hart lines up some tough-to-find kegs and casks, generally of the beefy beer variety; for example, I had pours of three huge stouts with my breakfast this week, along with a glass of the ultimate breakfast beer, <a href=\"http:\/\/roundaboutbeer.com\/\">Roundabout&#8217;s Mimosa Gose<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is the food, which is excessive in all of the best ways. My breakfast: Piper&#8217;s crispy chicken tenders served over a house-made Belgian waffle, with Mindy&#8217;s jalapeno maple bacon syrup drizzled over the plate. That&#8217;s one of the lightweight dishes, too; I chose it over the Drunken Irishman, a Belgian waffle covered with warm bourbon-roasted banana slices and Nutella.<\/p>\n<p>And then there was the sandwich: a chicken-fried sausage patty and a dippy egg, served in a Just Good Donuts glazed doughnut bun. I am pleased to be able to tell my doctor that I didn&#8217;t even consider that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to find me on the Wednesday of Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week? Don&#8217;t bother looking in the office. It&#8217;s not difficult to track me down, though. If you&#8217;re looking first thing in the morning, you&#8217;ll definitely find me at Piper&#8217;s Pub, for the South Side bar&#8217;s annual Beer Week breakfast. It started as a Kentucky-themed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,17],"tags":[41,25,19,20,60,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}