{"id":380880,"date":"2026-01-01T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380880\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:29:08","slug":"the-israeli-distiller-preserving-an-ancient-jewish-tradition-and-turning-honey-into-gin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380880\/","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":2,"featured_media":380881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[185978,97,185979,17035,17036,269],"class_list":["post-380880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-galilee","tag-health","tag-israel-food","tag-jewish-food","tag-kosher","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}