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My work here is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 NZ LicensePrior to May 2012, posts were back-dated to the time of their original pen-and-paper Diary entries and podcasts were given arbitrary dates so as to fit in a nice 'reading order' on the front page. It really was terribly confusing, eventually. Sincere apologies for the philosophy-headaches which resulted.
I'm still committed to back-filling the gap between the actual Diary and the blog, I've just stopped mucking with the dates and will occasionally intersperse much-more-recent 'topical' stuff when my journalistic impulses overtake my historian slowness.
My views are entirely my own, though anyone is more than welcome to agree with me.
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Josie Bones (and Bright ‘Harvest 150’)
If I go missing one day, if you can’t find me for a while and have no idea where I’ve gone, check the cupboards and crawlspaces at Josie Bones in Melbourne. I’d only been there an hour before I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Diary pages, from Australia, Pale ale, Photogenic, tasted May 2012
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GABS Glass #1: Garage Project ‘Double Day of the Dead’
At GABS, I was understudy for Local Taphouse’s Guy Greenstone, who was set to host ‘Beerista’ introductory tasting sessions at the ‘Craft Beer College’ series of free seminars running at the festival. He had a run-in with pneumonia, but was … Continue reading
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Tagged Diary pages, from New Zealand, Lager, Photogenic, tasted May 2012
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GABS Paddle #1: Everything ≤ 4.5% ABV
As I’ve mentioned a few times when talking about GABS, my Friday was very sleep-deprived; I only had two hours sleep on Thursday night — my nocturnal nature meshes not at all with early-morning flights — and wound up awake for some … Continue reading
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Tagged Belgian ale, Diary pages, from Australia, from New Zealand, Pale ale, Sessionable, Stout, tasted May 2012, Wheat
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GABS 2012: Day Two & Three Photos, with Afterthoughts
GABS Weekend was genuinely awesome — and pretty-much exhausting. I just never caught up on the fact that my trip started with 26-odd-hours awake running on a mere two hours sleep. But these are trifling #firstworldproblems; I was having a marvellous time, … Continue reading
Resolute ‘Zaragoza’ Molé Stout
Last week was massively distracted, in my brain and many others, by the run-up to GABS and Good Beer Week in Melbourne — but it (i.e., the week) still found time for the (North Island) launch of a new contract … Continue reading
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Tagged Ale, Diary pages, from New Zealand, Stout, tasted May 2012
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GABS 2012: Day One Photos
So, I’m back in my dear old Melbourne taking full advantage of my well-timed unemployment to attend GABS: the Great Australasian Beer Spectapular. It’s rather a treat, and will warrant a proper write-up (or several), but I just want to … Continue reading
Beer Diary Podcast s02e01: Collaboration
Back for a second ‘season’ — are more-or-less arbitrary division, but we watch a fair amount of (good) TV and can’t help but think of things like that — George and I sat down a little while ago to talk … Continue reading
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Alaskan Winter Ale
The best-laid plans and all that, right? Four different U.S. imports arrived in the keg fridge at work in the early stages of last winter, and all four had glorious great big ostentatious American-style tap handles. I quickly hatched a plan … Continue reading
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Tagged Ale, Diary pages, from the United States, tasted July 2011
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St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout
My Canada Day last year then continued with this, a Quebecker Oatmeal Stout, there at my desk at home (with the Diary itself and my rather-lovely Hashigo Zake bottle opener visible behind it, and it perched on ludicrously-extravagant Moa Beer leather-and-felt … Continue reading
Molson ‘Canadian’
I do plan on going through the ‘backlog’ of the pen-and-paper Diary, still. The Great Rethink wasn’t me walking away from that so much as it’s just me giving myself room for other things as well. I’ll probably be a little … Continue reading