{"id":6184,"date":"2017-05-24T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2017-05-24T09:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:04:30","slug":"21-and-up-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/21-and-up-6\/","title":{"rendered":"21 and up"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By:  Paige Scofield\r\nCampus Life Editor<\/pre>\n<p>With a nice atmosphere and wide variety of cocktails and wine, the restaurant Crush Wine Bar and Tasting Room gives patrons a place to relax and have a drink. Even college students get tired of the bar scene, and Crush gives customers an opportunity to have a drink without yelling over music. This week I tried one of Crush\u2019s signature cocktails called the Marionberry Whiskey Smash. The cocktail contained muddled mint, lemon, simple syrup, marionberry whiskey and blackberry puree.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2017\/05\/TAIL-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6212 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2017\/05\/TAIL-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2017\/05\/TAIL-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I first got the drink, I expected to be able to really taste and find the whiskey, but was pleasantly surprised with a much stronger taste of mint and lemon, with only a hint of marionberry. Honestly, the mint was my favorite part of the cocktail. Crush used mint that smelled so fresh, as if it had just been picked for my drink.<\/p>\n<p>It took me back to my home laying in my front yard with my nose right next to the fresh mint growing next to our flowers. I\u2019d take a mint leaf and chew on it. Distinctly tasting sweet at first, and then a strange earthy aftertaste. That\u2019s exactly what I was tasting when I was enjoying Crush\u2019s Marionberry Whiskey Smash. I assumed it would taste overwhelmingly like marionberry, but I was excited to taste nostalgia from my childhood in the form of mint.<\/p>\n<p>I give this cocktail five stars and two thumbs way up because of its minty freshness and easy to drink qualities.<\/p>\n<p>Crush Wine Bar and Tasting Room is open Monday through Thursday from 12-10 p.m., Friday from 12-11 p.m. and Saturday from 3-11 p.m. They\u2019re located at 105 Main St. E., in Monmouth. If you\u2019re of age, make sure to pop in and give the Marionberry Whiskey Smash a try.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at journalcampuslife@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Paige Scofield Campus Life Editor With a nice atmosphere and wide variety of cocktails and wine, the restaurant Crush Wine Bar and Tasting Room gives patrons a place to relax and have a drink. Even college students get tired of the bar scene, and Crush gives customers an opportunity to have a drink without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":6212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}