{"id":2988,"date":"2012-06-04T21:48:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2012-06-04T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T11:59:00","slug":"innis-and-gunn-canada-day-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/innis-and-gunn-canada-day-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Innis and Gunn Canada Day 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Innis and Gunn is from Scotland, they&#8217;ve made a Canada Day beer. Rather unusual for a clear bottle, it&#8217;s bottled conditioned &#8211; and 8%. On her first taste, Leah described it as &#8220;mmm buttery&#8221;. You can taste the rum cask (as with other Innis &amp; Gunn that I&#8217;ve had) and this one is rather nice. It may be hard to get any more of this as, it, well, Canada Day in 2011 happens once.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/wpid-IMG_20120604_214350_Anne_Wave_Bold21.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/wpid-IMG_20120604_214350_Anne_Wave_Bold2.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Innis and Gunn is from Scotland, they&#8217;ve made a Canada Day beer. Rather unusual for a clear bottle, it&#8217;s bottled conditioned &#8211; and 8%. On her first taste, Leah described it as &#8220;mmm buttery&#8221;. You can taste the rum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/innis-and-gunn-canada-day-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[450,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-Mc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2481,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/innis-gunn-original\/","url_meta":{"origin":2988,"position":0},"title":"Innis &#038; Gunn Original","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-04-30","format":false,"excerpt":"This was a really nice beer. Sweet with toffee and vanilla (a the bottle says) and you could even smell the oak . This one was recommended by PatG, and I finally found it at Acland Cellars. I have their rum cask one and a special Canada Day brew in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;beer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"beer","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/beer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2877,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/innis-gunn-rum-cask\/","url_meta":{"origin":2988,"position":1},"title":"Innis &#038; Gunn Rum Cask","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-05-12","format":false,"excerpt":"Smells like rum, tastes a bit like it too. You can certainly tell it's been in a Rum cask. Nice. 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