{"id":482368,"date":"2025-12-31T12:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482368\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:35:13","slug":"the-israeli-distiller-preserving-an-ancient-jewish-tradition-and-turning-honey-into-gin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482368\/","title":{"rendered":"The Israeli Distiller Preserving an Ancient Jewish Tradition and Turning Honey Into Gin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh xb3r6kr x103ahzr\">Shalom Bringher, a resident of Kibbutz Malkia in the Upper Galilee, refers to himself as &#8220;The Alchemist,&#8221; almost without a hint of humor. It&#8217;s more than a brand name, it&#8217;s a precise characterization of his work. Bringher raises bees, &#8220;a hobby that got out of control,&#8221; he says. The honey Bringher collects does not make it to the jar. Instead, he ferments it, distills it and uses it to make mead, a honey wine which then gives birth to arak and gin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shalom Bringher, a resident of Kibbutz Malkia in the Upper Galilee, refers to himself as &#8220;The Alchemist,&#8221; almost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":482369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[218365,210,218366,50398,20204,1182,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-482368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-galilee","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-israel-food","11":"tag-jewish-food","12":"tag-kosher","13":"tag-nutrition","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115814211605904155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}