{"id":1290,"date":"2011-06-15T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2019-11-23T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T21:55:24","slug":"chaang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/15\/chaang\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The trip is going really well so far, and there are too many incredible experiences going on to try to squeeze them into blog posts through this soda straw of an internet connection. I do wish to report, however, on the local hooch: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chhaang\">Chaang<\/a>.\u201d This is a barley beer made locally, and it\u2019s mentioned in most of the travel guides next to yak butter tea as <strong>man, you gotta try this, if only for the experience<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P6140264-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P6140264-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2802\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night I was finally feeling up to an alcoholic drink (altitude change is no joke!), so I ordered a mug of chaang. When it arrived, I recognized it immediately. This is primary fermentation beer. This is what I\u2019ve produced dozens of times in my kitchen. If you just skipped that whole process of settling, clarification, secondary fermentation, racking, bottling, and aging \u2013 you would have chaang. If you\u2019ve been to my house with a batch in process, this is the bubbly, foamy, opaque, yeasty smelling proto-beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put another way: It\u2019s <strong>alive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve sampled live beer, before the yeast settles. I knew what I was getting into. Still, I was somewhat stunned by the speed and power with which the yeast went to work in my belly. Without too much unnecessary detail, I\u2019ll just say that it was tasty, but I won\u2019t be doing that again. Woo-hoo. Buy the ticket, take the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, the altitude sickness has almost entirely let up \u2013 we\u2019re down to a vague idea of a headache and \u201ctaking it easy\u201d on the walking pace and stairs. The sites and tours are absolutely incredible. We\u2019ve got time to take time and really get into monasteries and temples and talk to people and try to understand. The fact that we\u2019re out here for three weeks means that I\u2019m actually able to relax a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P6140170-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P6140170-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2801\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trip is going really well so far, and there are too many incredible experiences going on to try to squeeze them into blog posts through this soda straw of an internet connection. I do wish to report, however, on the local hooch: \u201cChaang.\u201d This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}