{"id":21523,"date":"2019-01-19T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=21523"},"modified":"2019-01-19T11:35:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T19:35:02","slug":"beer-of-the-week-son-of-orpheus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2019\/01\/19\/beer-of-the-week-son-of-orpheus\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer of the Week: Song of Orpheus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From the Beer Writer:\u00a0<\/strong>There&#8217;s nothing like taking the first sniff of a beer and feeling fairly assured that you are in for a special experience. This recently happened to me when my olfactory receptors took in the essence of fruit and funk off the sturdily-netted, snow-white head of\u00a0<strong>Song of Orpheus<\/strong>. That wild ale, the first in the &#8220;Vellocet&#8221; series (a reference from the novel <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em>) of beers from El Cajon&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.burningbeardbrewing.com\"><strong>Burning Beard Brewing<\/strong><\/a>, showed promise from the get-go, offering up varied, exotic aromas of straw,\u00a0Bartlett pear and lemon thyme. It was an apt introduction to a beer with just as much diversity on the palate. Flavors of honeydew melon, strawberry and Sauvignon Blanc flit in and out against a lingering limestone minerality. The beer is bone-dry, well-suited for prolonged contemplation, and cause for anticipation of future releases from this fledgling series of beers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the Brewer:\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;The first installment in the Beard\u2019s Vellocet series of American wild ales, Song of Orpheus saison is built on a 60\/40 base of Pilsner and wheat malts, then aged for 18 months on a blend of traditional farmhouse-ale yeast and our proprietary wild-ale yeast strain, Brulanta Metio. Filled and corked by hand, then allowed to condition right in the bottle, Song of Orpheus is a true testament to Belgian-inspired San Diego craft beer. Song of Orpheus bottles will be available exclusively at the Beard in El Cajon along with a draft version.&#8221;<em>\u2014<strong>Jeff Wiederkehr<\/strong><\/em><em>, Head Brewer &amp; Co-founder, Burning Beard Brewing<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Beer Writer:\u00a0There&#8217;s nothing like taking the first sniff of a beer and feeling fairly assured that you are in for a special experience. This recently happened to me when my olfactory receptors took in the essence of fruit and funk off the sturdily-netted, snow-white head of\u00a0Song of Orpheus. That wild ale, the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4904,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beer-of-the-week","8":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","9":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/botw_bbbsoo.jpg?fit=1024%2C638&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"Burning Beard debuting first beer in its American wild ale series","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-5B9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}