{"id":3112,"date":"2012-07-20T19:06:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T09:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2012-07-28T17:40:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T07:40:55","slug":"samuel-smiths-nut-brown-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/samuel-smiths-nut-brown-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Smith&#8217;s Nut Brown Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More Vegan beer from Samuel Smith&#8217;s! I can heartily recommend their Nut Brown Ale to anyone who&#8217;s ever had a Newcastle Brown and wanted a bit more. This isn&#8217;t overwhelming and thoroughly enjoyable. I&#8217;m finding that this seems to be a good pattern in their beers &#8211; flavourful, drinkable and not overwhelming. You could easily pair this with food too&#8230; and I&#8217;m either craving lentils or they&#8217;d go well with it. The back of bottle suggests Thai, Malaysian and Chinese food, which would also go pretty well. There is a societal bias towards matching wine with food, and beer is often supremely overlooked. This is rather sad as the range and depths of flavours of bere is wide and varied, and pretty much always supremely more affordable. You can probably easily name several wines that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars; try naming a single beer that costs more than $100 for a six pack. <\/p>\n<p>Edit: it&#8217;s not this beer that costs a lot, this one is quite reasonable. The expensive one is of you can&#8217;t easily get to a Belgian monastery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/camera_Hagrid_Vignette_Old.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3114\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/samuel-smiths-nut-brown-ale\/camera_hagrid_vignette_old\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/camera_Hagrid_Vignette_Old.jpg?fit=1944%2C2592&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1944,2592\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Galaxy Nexus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"camera_Hagrid_Vignette_Old\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/camera_Hagrid_Vignette_Old.jpg?fit=584%2C779&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3114\" title=\"camera_Hagrid_Vignette_Old\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/camera_Hagrid_Vignette_Old-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/camera_Hagrid_Vignette_Old.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/camera_Hagrid_Vignette_Old.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/camera_Hagrid_Vignette_Old.jpg?w=1944&amp;ssl=1 1944w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/camera_Hagrid_Vignette_Old.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/camera_Hagrid_Vignette_Old.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Vegan beer from Samuel Smith&#8217;s! I can heartily recommend their Nut Brown Ale to anyone who&#8217;s ever had a Newcastle Brown and wanted a bit more. This isn&#8217;t overwhelming and thoroughly enjoyable. I&#8217;m finding that this seems to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/samuel-smiths-nut-brown-ale\/\">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":[450,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-vegan-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-Oc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3107,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/18\/samuel-smiths-oatmeal-stout\/","url_meta":{"origin":3112,"position":0},"title":"Samuel Smith&#8217;s Oatmeal Stout","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-07-18","format":false,"excerpt":"Another Vegan beer from Samuel Smith with the nice Vegan symbol on the back and everything. This isn't a heavy stout, it's quite lite and consuming more than one pint wouldn't be taxing at all. The oatmeal part is not overwhelming, providing a subtle flavour more than overpowering the rest\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":3097,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/06\/samuel-smiths-old-brewery-tadcaster-taddy-porter\/","url_meta":{"origin":3112,"position":1},"title":"Samuel Smith&#8217;s Old Brewery Tadcaster Taddy Porter","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-07-06","format":false,"excerpt":"I had this one a few days ago. When I was last in Acland Cellars I saw a bunch of Samuel Smith's beer, and I noticed the small Vegan symbol on the back. Not one to shy away from vegan beer, I bought one of each I could see. Beer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;beer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"beer","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/beer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/camera_Hagrid_Princess_Fairley-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3122,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/27\/sam-l-smith-organic-best-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":3112,"position":2},"title":"Sam L Smith Organic Best Ale","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-07-27","format":false,"excerpt":"Another beer with the Vegan sign from Sam L Smith. Also, a good Best Ale. A good amount of flavour and utterly pleasant to drink just before nomming down on some awesome thai food. 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