{"id":16529,"date":"2015-03-30T13:52:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T00:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?page_id=16529"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:26:42","slug":"talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is extremely out of date; my apologies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to be invited to give a few presentations\u00a0and make the occasional appearance in the media. It&#8217;s always proven terrific fun; drop me a line \u2014 <a title=\"Beer Diary: About the author\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/about\/about-the-author\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, or via <a title=\"@phil_cook, on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/phil_cook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> or <a title=\"The Beer Diary, on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebeerdiary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> \u2014 if there&#8217;s an event or festival or whatnot at which you might like to see my rambling self. For\u00a0<em>tastings<\/em>, rather than talks, I regularly work with <a title=\"craftbeercollege.co.nz\" href=\"http:\/\/craftbeercollege.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Craft Beer College<\/a>, and we can put together bespoke sessions for private groups in addition to the regular series we run through the year.<\/p>\n<p>My notes for such things have often also wound up transmogrified into posts on here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A Session Beer Session<\/strong> \u2014 seminar given at the Great Kiwi Beer Festival 2015 in Christchurch; <a title=\"Beer Diary: A session beer session, this Saturday\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/03\/25\/a-session-beer-session-this-saturday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previewed here<\/a>, and with a full write-up pending&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Beer Diary: How to buy a beer\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/01\/31\/how-to-buy-a-beer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How To Buy A Beer<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 originally an interview with The Wireless (the youth-focussed online arm of Radio New Zealand) and then elaborated-upon at the Great Kiwi Beer Festival 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Beer Diary: Get more from your beer\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/08\/26\/get-more-from-your-beer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get More From Your Beer<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 a consumer guide \/ manifesto for drinking with your brain engaged first presented at Beervana 2012 and then the Great Kiwi Beer Festival 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is extremely out of date; my apologies. I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to be invited to give a few presentations\u00a0and make the occasional appearance in the media. It&#8217;s always proven terrific fun; drop me a line \u2014 here, or via Twitter or Facebook \u2014 if there&#8217;s an event or festival or whatnot at which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/talks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16532,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16529\/revisions\/16532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}