{"id":103,"date":"2004-02-17T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T11:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=103"},"modified":"2011-03-02T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:30:49","slug":"pietra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/02\/17\/pietra\/","title":{"rendered":"Pietra"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Pietra\"<\/a>
Diary entry #7, Pietra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Pietra Biera Corse – Chestnut beer. 330ml, 6%, ?$, at home, 17\/2\/04. All in French. Karen can’t even fake a translation. Brown-gold. Batched, it seems. Honey tastes, to me. But I wouldn’t back myself in a pointing-at-chestnuts contest. Where have all those Japanese cultists gone, anyway?<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> It turns out that this is also a Vienna Lager, which accounts for the honeyish taste that I spotted. (Not crediting myself with the ability to discern the flavour, or even appearance, of chestnuts refers to the longstanding problem of my astounding level of ignorance about food.) The pondering about “Japanese cultists” comes from the fact that, for a while, Melbourne was peppered with strange roast-chestnut roadside-stall things, almost exclusively staffed by Japanese people, and seemingly doing no business. Then they disappeared as suddenly as they arrived. George and I figured they must’ve been some kind of well-disguised religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Pietra Biera Corse – Chestnut beer. 330ml, 6%, ?$, at home, 17\/2\/04. All in French. Karen can’t even fake a translation. Brown-gold. Batched, it seems. Honey tastes, to me. But I wouldn’t back myself in a pointing-at-chestnuts contest. Where have all those Japanese cultists gone, anyway? Afterthoughts, October 2010: It turns out that this … Continue reading Pietra<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,25,9],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-france","tag-lager"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/01\/07\/sam-adams-boston-lager\/","url_meta":{"origin":103,"position":0},"title":"Samuel Adam\u2019s \u2018Boston Lager\u2019","author":"Phil","date":"January 7, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"So starts the diary. After years of thinking that it was a birthday present, a look at the date here makes me realise it must've been a Christmas one. Shows how rubbish the human memory is, I suppose. (Either that, or I was really, really slack with getting started on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The inaugural diary entry, Sam Adam's Boston Lager","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diary-1001-Sam-Adams-Boston-Lager-300x163.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":475,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/10\/05\/knappstein-reserve-lager\/","url_meta":{"origin":103,"position":1},"title":"Knappstein Reserve Lager","author":"Phil","date":"October 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Another winemaker's beer. And this one seems much more of a go, marketing-wise (in that somewhat-tragic but totally-understandable way that more 'normal' \/ less 'interesting' beers are often more marketable). It's a very clean lager, like a lighter version of the 'Weka' by Moa Breweries (itself another winemaker-offshoot). A little\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Knappstein 'Reserve' Lager","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Knappstein-Reserve-Lager-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":263,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2006\/05\/11\/founders-long-black\/","url_meta":{"origin":103,"position":2},"title":"Founder’s ‘Long Black’","author":"Phil","date":"May 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Founder's Organic Long Black. $5, 4.2%, 11\/5\/06, 500ml. Schwartzbier; black lager. Nice dark, with lingering bubbles. You can taste the coffee \/ choc of the malt. But it's none too bitter, so accessible. I'd prefer more punch, of course. But very tasty. Afterthoughts, October 2010: Huzzah, I've definitively broken\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Founder's 'Long Black'","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diary-1033-Founders-Long-Black-300x215.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/12\/11\/martinborough-tora-dark\/","url_meta":{"origin":103,"position":3},"title":"Martinborough ‘Tora Dark’","author":"Phil","date":"December 11, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"It's here at entry eighteen and nearly a whole year since page one, that my Diary finds its first New Zealand brew. Shows what you get for being a New Zealander living in Melbourne when you start your Beer Diary. I should add that even now, at the time of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Martinborough 'Tora Dark'","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diary-1018-Martinborough-Tora-Dark-300x280.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":106,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/02\/18\/krusovice-imperial\/","url_meta":{"origin":103,"position":4},"title":"Krusovice Imperial","author":"Phil","date":"February 18, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Half-way through a little quartet of random imported European lagers, probably reflecting a biggish shipment arriving at King & Godfree. Verbatim: Kru\u0161ovice Imperial Czech Prem. Lager. 330ml, 5%, $?, at home, 18\/2\/04. Gold, bubbles don't hang around. G says smells like grapes. Light, but sharp. Agree with grapiness. Maybe that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Krusovice Imperial","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diary-1008-Krusovice-300x168.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2124,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/03\/22\/golden-ticket-black-emperor-nz\/","url_meta":{"origin":103,"position":5},"title":"Golden Ticket ‘Black Emperor: NZ’","author":"Phil","date":"March 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"If you'll forgive me going all self-referential for a moment,1 I'll quote myself from Twitter: So Golden Ticket 'Black Emperor: NZ' is rather good. The phrase \"pleasantly surprised\" is a double understatement. I was at Hashigo, and conscious of the usual delay that exists between me writing a Diary entry\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Golden Ticket 'Black Emperor: NZ'","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Golden-Ticket-Black-Emperor-NZ-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}