{"id":103,"date":"2018-07-10T18:26:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T17:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/?p=103"},"modified":"2018-07-11T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T07:12:58","slug":"will-it-brew-ingredient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/2018\/07\/10\/will-it-brew-ingredient\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Will it brew?&#8217; Ingredient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst at Beer Nouveau we picked up our &#8216;Will it Brew?&#8217; ingredient. Each year the <a href=\"http:\/\/manchesterhomebrew.co.uk\">Manchester Homebrew Group<\/a> issue a challenge; everyone brings in an ingredient (must not be dangerous to humans or yeast) and they&#8217;re distributed at random between the group. Obviously you don&#8217;t get to brew what you brought. We took potatoes and came away with Grits.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/2018-07-10-18.56.38-e1531245939905-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/2018-07-10-18.56.38-e1531245939905-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/2018-07-10-18.56.38-e1531245939905-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will it brew? We&#8217;ll let you know.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not knowing what Grits were we had to look them up. Essentially they&#8217;re flaked corn, an American thing. Specifically Homity Quick Grits which means the corn was treated and they&#8217;re pre-cooked. Corn is very commonly used as an adjunct in brewing, normally to increase the gravity and lower the colour. Thus they&#8217;re popular with lager brewers like Millers.<\/p>\n<p>As yet we&#8217;re not sure how we&#8217;re going to brew with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst at Beer Nouveau we picked up our &#8216;Will it Brew?&#8217; ingredient. Each year the Manchester Homebrew Group issue a challenge; everyone brings in an ingredient (must not be dangerous to humans or yeast) and they&#8217;re distributed at random between the group. Obviously you don&#8217;t get to brew what you brought. We took potatoes and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/2018\/07\/10\/will-it-brew-ingredient\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Will it brew?&#8217; Ingredient&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manchester-homebrew-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeandpen.net\/beer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}