{"id":4443,"date":"2014-12-22T21:15:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T03:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2014-12-22T21:15:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T03:15:25","slug":"fourteen-days-of-anchor-christmas-day-11-anchor-christmas-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/fourteen-days-of-anchor-christmas-day-11-anchor-christmas-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen Days of Anchor Christmas: Day 11 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Anchor Christmas 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to day eleven of\u00c2\u00a0fourteen days of Anchor Christmas<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0spanning 14 years of the beer. You can view the back story and the tasting for 2001<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a02002<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a02003<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a02004<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a02005<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a02006<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a02007<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a02008<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a02009<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Anchor<\/a>

Anchor Christmas 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

Day 11: Anchor Christmas 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tree: Great Basin Bristlecone Pine,\u00c2\u00a0Pinus longaeva<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anchor Label<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neck Label Text:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>This is the thirty-seventh “Our Special Ale” from the brewers at Anchor. It is sold only from early November to mid-January. The Ale’s recipe is different every year, but the intent with which we offer it remains the same: joy and celebration of the newness of life. In ancient times trees symbolized the winter solstice when the earth with its seasons appears born anew.<\/p>\n

Tasting Notes: <\/strong>Founders Brewing\u00c2\u00a0Tulip glass.\u00c2\u00a02011 is an improvement over 2009 and 2010. Decent nose. Good flavor on the front end and still good carbonation. This is what I typically think of when I remember the flavor of Anchor Christmas and I think all of the flavors have aged well. We’ll reserve judgement until the end, but four years may be the ideal age for this beer. There’s a bit of the spruce \/ evergreen spice. The flavors are well balanced. If you have a 2011 around the house, drink it now….or wait another four years and hope the 2007 that I had wasn’t a fluke.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to day eleven of\u00c2\u00a0fourteen days of Anchor Christmas\u00c2\u00a0spanning 14 years of the beer. You can view the back story and the tasting for 2001,\u00c2\u00a02002,\u00c2\u00a02003,\u00c2\u00a02004,\u00c2\u00a02005,\u00c2\u00a02006,\u00c2\u00a02007,\u00c2\u00a02008,\u00c2\u00a02009\u00c2\u00a0and 2010. Day 11: Anchor Christmas 2011 Tree: Great Basin Bristlecone Pine,\u00c2\u00a0Pinus longaeva Anchor Label\u00c2\u00a0 Neck Label Text:\u00c2\u00a0This is the thirty-seventh “Our Special Ale” from the brewers at Anchor. It is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Fourteen Days of @anchorbrewing Christmas: Day 11 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Anchor Christmas 2011","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-15-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-19F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}