{"id":554,"date":"2010-02-25T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2017-09-13T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T17:32:06","slug":"its-all-about-the-hops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/its-all-about-the-hops\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s ALL About the HOPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along with loving Grateful Dead music, I also love drinking beer. \u00a0In college, we did not drink the best or most expensive beer, but I loved every second of it. \u00a0I love Budweiser. \u00a0Such a simple, delicious, AMERICAN beer. \u00a0That was the best part about it. \u00a0The usual beer we would \u201cspring\u201d for would be Magic Hat or Newcastle. \u00a0I never really was into the really, really hoppy beer. \u00a0Magic Hat #9 is as hoppy I would go and that is like water compared to the hops I drank this past weekend.<\/p>\n

I have not drank a bit of alcohol since the beginning of December. \u00a0My ear was hurting too much for me to drink and then I got diagnosed, so I have just chosen not to drink. \u00a0This past weekend my favorite band came around the northern New Jersey area to play a couple of shows. \u00a0Railroad Earth that is for all of you that do not know. \u00a0Well, this seemed like the perfect time to pick up the bottle again and enjoy some libations. \u00a0To celebrate my favorite band. \u00a0My doctors even said to go out and have a couple of beers. \u00a0Plus, I need to gain weight and booze will pack some lbs on me. \u00a0Sounds like all good reasons to enjoy some drinks.<\/p>\n

Since, I am trying to be as healthy as possible these days I was on a mission for the healthiest beer. \u00a0I started just searching for the healthiest beers out there. \u00a0At first, most of the beers I found were some sort of low cal beers and light beers. \u00a0The fact that my doctors told me that I needed to fatten up for treatment I definitely did not want any low calorie beers. \u00a0I stumbled upon this one site that I found really interesting. \u00a0\u201dRecent research has revealed bioactive compounds in beer that battle cancer, boost your metabolism, and more.\u201d \u00a0Very interesting. \u00a0Beer that battles cancer?! \u00a0Hell yea. \u00a0I continued reading the article and there was a paragraph that talked about hops. \u00a0\u201dResearchers have shown thats it\u2019s also a significant source of cholesterol-lowering, cancer-fighting, and virus-killing compounds called polyphenols.\u201d \u00a0No way. \u00a0So hops contain these healthy things in them. \u00a0That was just great news for me. \u00a0This website also had a list of some of the hoppiest beers out there. \u00a0My favorite so far on the list is the Harpoon IPA.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/men\/nutrition\/food-for-fitness\/healthy-beer\/article\/a9ce8fec5d1b7110vgnvcm10000013281eac<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Along with loving Grateful Dead music, I also love drinking beer. \u00a0In college, we did not drink the best or most expensive beer, but I loved every second of it. \u00a0I love Budweiser. \u00a0Such a simple, delicious, AMERICAN beer. \u00a0That was the best part about it. \u00a0The usual beer we would \u201cspring\u201d for would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutmatt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}