{"id":517,"date":"2017-05-25T21:23:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T21:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2017-05-25T21:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T21:23:31","slug":"three-cheers-for-hippo-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/archives\/517","title":{"rendered":"Three Cheers for Hippo Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brewing company has partnered with the Cincinnati Zoo to create <strong>Team Fiona beer<\/strong>. This brand-new brew was created in honor of Fiona, a baby hippo that was born prematurely last January.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, I\u2019m a little envious of Fiona. If <em>I<\/em> packed on 225 pounds in four months, <!--more-->no one would name a beer in my honor. No, they\u2019d cut me <em>off<\/em> beer. Permanently.<\/p>\n<p>An average female hippo chows down 80 pounds of grass every day and grows to a pleasantly plump 3,000 pounds. Their snorts hit 115 decibels\u2014louder than a chainsaw. When Fiona reaches those milestones, you\u2019ll be able to read all about it on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cincinnatizoo.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/premature-hippo-baby-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cincinnati Zoo\u2019s blog<\/a><\/strong>. If <em>I<\/em> ever turn into a three-ton lawnmower with a voice like a chainsaw, my family will be contacting the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, I\u2019m a little envious of Fiona\u2014but how is her beer going to taste? According to the brewing company, itself, Team Fiona beer has a \u201csoft mouth feel, hazy appearance and a fruit-juice flavor.\u201d Perhaps I\u2019m taking this too literally, but it sounds to me like Fiona\u2019s beer is slimy, cloudy and tastes like Hawaiian Punch.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I\u2019m betting that Team Fiona beer is going to be a huge hit. Why? Because even though it\u2019s made in the U.S., the brewing company has wisely jazzed up Fiona\u2019s brew in a uniquely Canadian way\u2014by pushing the alcohol content to 6.2%. So, yeah, I\u2019d try it. Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brewing company has partnered with the Cincinnati Zoo to create Team Fiona beer. This brand-new brew was created in honor of Fiona, a baby hippo that was born prematurely last January. I have to admit, I\u2019m a little envious of Fiona. If I packed on 225 pounds in four months,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-bits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brendakearns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}