{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Outdoors, Brews, & BBQ","title":"Outdoors, Brews, & BBQ - let's have a beer and chat about Nature and Mead.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/9206c4f6\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2709,"description":"Outdoors, Brews, & BBQ - let’s have a beer and chat about Nature and Mead.\n\n\n\nMead \n\n\nBees \n\nBees produce 10 - 200 pounds of honey a year.\n\nMade from honey, mead is perhaps the world's first intentionally fermented beverage. \nIt's not a beer which is (grain-based) and it's not a wine (fruit-based): mead is its own thing, a millennia-old merrymaker that can be rustic and simple or delicate and refined. Making mead at home is easy—easier than making beer.\n\nMead, also called hydromel, particularly when low in alcohol content, its an alcoholic beveragemade by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops.\n\nThe alcoholic content ranges from about 3.5% ABV to more than 20%. The defining characteristic of mead\n\nIt may be still, carbonated, or naturally sparkling; dry, semi-sweet, or sweet.\nThe term honey wine is sometimes used as a synonym for mead.\n\nEvidence of mead begins to show up in the archaeological record more clearly, with pottery vessels from northern China dating from at least 7000 BCE \n\nThe earliest surviving written record of mead is possibly the soma mentioned in the hymns of the Rigveda, one of the sacred books of the historical Vedic religion and later Hinduism dated around 1700–1100 BCE.\n\n\nBeers \n\n\nSchmoojee Strawberry Colada \n\nSour - Fruited | 5.7% ABV\n\nImprint Beer Co.\nHatfield, PA\n\nTasting Notes\nIt tastes like a strawberry smoothie took a tropical vacation, met an alluring piña colada at a tiki bar, the two fell madly in love, and the next thing you know - bam! Cabana babies with sumptuous berries 'n cream upfront, tangy nectar in the middle, and cool coconut at the close.\n\nJuicy, Thick, Sweet, Fruity, Tropical, Cocktail Inspired\n\n\nDr. Lupulin 3x \n\nImperial IPA | 11.3% ABV\n\nRevision Brewing Company\nSparks, NV\n\nTasting Notes\nThis U.S. Open Beer Championships Gold Medal winner delivers flavors of dank kush, overripe cantaloupe, tangy grapefruit, and tropical mango - - and also clocks in...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/PEr4uiabtIK8_IHx-YqWyU4VnU8ZIzbP3OQ84XVL9rs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMxMDQ2LzE2NTI5/OTg3NDUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}