{"id":2678,"date":"2015-04-08T08:05:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2015-04-08T08:05:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:05:32","slug":"why-beer-and-cigars-make-sense-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2678","title":{"rendered":"Why Beer and Cigars Make Sense Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why Beer and Cigars Make Sense Together<br \/>\nStone Brewing\u2019s Imperial Russian Stout 2015 just hit shelves. Cigar smoker and brand ambassador \u201cDr.\u201d Bill Sysak thinks you should drink it with a cigar.<\/p>\n<p>April 1, 2015<br \/>\nBy G. CLAY WHITTAKER<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a massive craft revolution over the last two decades, beer is no longer second fiddle to spirits in the cigar world.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who\u2019s smoked a cigar with a couple of watery cans of Whatever Light knows that most beer can\u2019t hold its weight against a smoke, but once you get above a certain darkness factor or number of IBUs, it\u2019s game on.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, single malts and cognac may come to mind first, but the world of pairings is more varied and exciting with beer, including dark beers like the new 2015 Stone Brewing Imperial Russian Stout.<\/p>\n<p>Read More&#8230;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxim.com\/entertainment\/food-drink\/article\/why-beer-and-cigars-make-sense-together\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.maxim.com\/entertainment\/food-drink\/article\/why-beer-and-cigars-make-sense-together<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discuss this on the forum here:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/forumv2\/index.php?\/topic\/3376-beer-pairing\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/forumv2\/index.php?\/topic\/3376-beer-pairing\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Beer and Cigars Make Sense Together Stone Brewing\u2019s Imperial Russian Stout 2015 just hit shelves. Cigar smoker and brand ambassador \u201cDr.\u201d Bill Sysak thinks you should drink it with a cigar. April 1, 2015 By G. CLAY WHITTAKER Thanks to a massive craft revolution over the last two decades, beer is no longer second<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-2678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news","8":"tag-beer","9":"tag-pairing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}