{"id":794,"date":"2020-01-22T19:48:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=794"},"modified":"2020-01-22T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:49:00","slug":"20-years-of-good-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/20-years-of-good-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years of good beer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is said that, as one gets older, time flies. A recent conversation with Mike Hill and Richard Dinwoodie emphasises that sentiment. Twenty years ago they set up Utobeer, a leading light at that time for importing interesting beers. Although their stall in Borough Market is still going, these days they are equally known for the Rake, a proper pub at the edge of Borough Market and Tap East, their pub brewery at Stratford. Never ones to do things in a traditional fashion, their celebration was a \u2018bring a bottle\u2019 affair involving friends from all over the world. This gave us an excuse to open our last bottle of Holy Smoke from the defunct Cricklewood Brewery, which had matured well. A good way to celebrate a London icon.<br><strong><em>Christine Cryne<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is said that, as one gets older, time flies. A recent conversation with Mike Hill and Richard Dinwoodie emphasises that sentiment. Twenty years ago they set up Utobeer, a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}