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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.
Tag Archives: Fruit beer
The Fourth of July (Last Year)
One of the genuinely-many delightful things about celebrating “occasion beers” keyed to non-local occasions is that the magic of timezones can grant you quite a bit more time — in case you’d like to keep the party going, or just if … Continue reading
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Tagged Belgian ale, Diary pages, from New Zealand, from the United States, Fruit beer, Pale ale, Photogenic, Porter, tasted July 2011
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Defamation ‘Beetnik’ IPA
Stuck in the not-yet-uploaded limbo of the latter half of the first Diary is a stout by my now-flatmate; a big, delicious thing called ‘Cottonpicker’. That was the first time I’d been moved to enter a homebrewed beer into my … Continue reading
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Tagged Diary pages, from New Zealand, Fruit beer, Homebrew, Pale ale
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Heather Ales ‘Grozet’
As you’d probably guess, we buy a lot of beer at work. And frequently, it seems we fill in the corners of an order with some half-dozens of especially random stuff. Because why not? Peter and I were working one … Continue reading
Cassels & Sons ‘Elder Ale’
Lawks, I’ve fallen way behind on the updates again. The value of t has crept up to about 60 days. I knew it’d been a while, but the absurdly blue sky in this photo — compared against the much more … Continue reading
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Tagged Diary pages, from New Zealand, Fruit beer, Gateway beer, Golden ale, Sessionable
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Beer 101 Tasting Session
George (the gifter of the original Diary) organised a little tasting session at his house for a few friends of ours, with me playing the Informative Nerd. I’ll be the first to admit that I made them all run a … Continue reading
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Tagged Ale, Belgian ale, Diary pages, from Belgium, from England, from Germany, from New Zealand, from the Czech Republic, Fruit beer, Golden ale, Lager, Pale ale, Porter, Stout, Wheat
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Mussel Inn… Pumpkinsomething
I totally forgot the name of this thing, but the only mention of a pumpkin beer on the Mussel Inn’s awesomely / terrifyingly retro website — it just screams Microsoft FrontPage, which was last released seven years ago — is … Continue reading
Liefmans Frambozenbier
Verbatim: Liefmans Frambozenbier. $?, 37.5cl, 4.5%, neat champagne-cork, paper-wrapped bottle. Belgian. Best before end 2014! Darker than you’d think, rich bubbles, still around, fruit all over as poued. Smells just like cordial. Warm beeriness in the background. Just great. Gold … Continue reading