{"id":590,"date":"2019-01-17T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/?p=590"},"modified":"2019-01-17T16:37:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:37:17","slug":"beer-me-extra-its-all-about-the-water-southern-tier-pittsburgh-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/pittsburgh\/beer-me-extra-its-all-about-the-water-southern-tier-pittsburgh-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Me extra: It&#8217;s all about the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-17-at-4.07.28-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-591\" src=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-17-at-4.07.28-PM-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-17-at-4.07.28-PM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-17-at-4.07.28-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-17-at-4.07.28-PM-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-17-at-4.07.28-PM.png 1256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a reason that water was one of three things included in\u00a0Reinheitsgebot, the German law of 1516 that governed the purity of beer.<\/p>\n<p>The reason? It&#8217;s important.<\/p>\n<p>It can make enough of a difference that when the same beer is brewed in two locations &#8212; like, say, Southern Tier&#8217;s now discontinued porter from the mothership brewery in New York and the locally brewed version made on the North Shore a few weeks back &#8212; the difference in the water can make it seem like you&#8217;re drinking two different beers.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Tier&#8217;s Cassandra Buncie and Justin Schau help explain:<\/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=\"5990694372001\"\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a reason that water was one of three things included in\u00a0Reinheitsgebot, the German law of 1516 that governed the purity of beer. The reason? It&#8217;s important. It can make enough of a difference that when the same beer is brewed in two locations &#8212; like, say, Southern Tier&#8217;s now discontinued porter from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[105,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/beerme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}