{"id":3516,"date":"2013-10-15T13:12:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2013-10-15T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T03:12:56","slug":"epic-epicurean-coffee-and-fig-2013-imperial-oatmeal-stout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/epic-epicurean-coffee-and-fig-2013-imperial-oatmeal-stout\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Epicurean Coffee and Fig 2013 Imperial Oatmeal Stout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I opened this wonderful bottle that I acquired on Friday (the only reason I didn’t open it then was the 10k Melbourne Marathon even I ran on early Sunday morning).<\/p>\n

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It was delicious. The fig really came through and lent a nice sweetness to contrast with the bitterness. I’m now wondering why I don’t make things with figs more often….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I opened this wonderful bottle that I acquired on Friday (the only reason I didn’t open it then was the 10k Melbourne Marathon even I ran on early Sunday morning). It was delicious. The fig really came through … Continue reading →<\/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],"tags":[451,442,552,501,455],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","tag-beer-2","tag-coffee","tag-fig","tag-oatmeal","tag-stout"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-UI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3178,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/sierra-nevada-beer-camp-2012-oatmeal-stout-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":3516,"position":0},"title":"Sierra Nevada Beer Camp 2012 Oatmeal Stout","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-11-19","format":false,"excerpt":"This, my friends, was good. 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