{"id":15456,"date":"2016-01-06T00:11:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T23:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15456"},"modified":"2016-01-06T00:11:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T23:11:31","slug":"abingdon-brewery-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15456","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Brewery Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not everybody is taking part in the Government promoted  Dry January.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon Brewery Tour\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a good turn out on the first Tuesday of the month for the tour of the Loose Cannon Brewery in Abingdon. <\/p>\n<p>Up to 150 people can take part in the tour. They taste the beers, enjoy sausage and chips delivered from Salamis on Ock Street, and learn all about brewing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon Brewery Tour\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010504.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBeer is made from four ingredients: Barley, water, hops and yeast. The basic idea is to extract the sugars from grains (usually barley) so that the yeast can turn it into alcohol and CO2, creating beer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon Brewery Tour\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010501.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDifferent flavoured malts, and hops are added to create different beers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon Brewery Tour\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010506.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFrom these ingredients, and some clever know-how, many different beers are produced.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon Brewery Tour\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010507.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Bridge XB is a copper coloured beer brewed from Cascade and Amarillo hops, and mostly served at the Nags Head Inn on Abingdon Bridge.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon Brewery Tour\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nEvery Month Loose Cannon creates a new beer, and in January the brew is &#8216;English DARK&#8217;, devised by the brewery&#8217;s own Drayman after listening to pubs where he delivers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abingdon Brewery Tour\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16010503.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTo find out more about the Abingdon Brewery visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcbeers.co.uk\/\">Loose Cannon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everybody is taking part in the Government promoted Dry January. There was a good turn out on the first Tuesday of the month for the tour of the Loose Cannon Brewery in Abingdon. Up to 150 people can take part in the tour. They taste the beers, enjoy sausage and chips delivered from Salamis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}