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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: Photogenic
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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Post-GABS Afternoon Taphouse Mooch
When you’re waiting for your plane home to Wellington, when you’ve been staying with friends in the near-Southern suburbs of Melbourne, when you’re in a post-Spectapular state of beery bliss mixed pleasantly with mild lethargy — and when, perhaps, you’re … Continue reading
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Tagged Ale, Diary pages, from Australia, Pale ale, Photogenic, Porter, Stout, tasted May 2012
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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 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
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
Moa Imperial Stout
It looks rather frightful, that Moa, doesn’t it? Maybe even sufficiently angry-faced that it hardly seems like a herbivore at all, in fact. I honestly still can’t tell if I like the kitsch of it, or if I just think … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandwank, Diary pages, from New Zealand, Photogenic, Stout
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8 Wired ‘Batch 18’
This is ‘anniversary beer’ done right. And good god damn is it done right. I am peculiarly fond of ‘occasion beer’ and so do love it when brewers mark special moments with special beers. But when they’re afterthoughts, or half-assed, … Continue reading
Monteith’s ‘Single Source’
Once more unto the brandwank, dear friends, once more. – Not quite Henry V This one positively reeks of being a project out of the marketing department rather than one with its origins in the brain of a brewer, beer … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandwank, Diary pages, from New Zealand, Lager, Photogenic
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Yeastie Boys ‘Pot Kettle Black: 2010 U.S. Remix’
And so then I followed the unknown with something more familiar — as the Tragically Hip once advised,1 seemingly referring to those times when the unknown is a disappointment. It’s also fitting that Diary II would celebrate its Hundred with … Continue reading