{"id":1155,"date":"2010-12-16T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:20:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:20:15","slug":"townshend-%e2%80%98j-c-%e2%80%99-ipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/12\/16\/townshend-%e2%80%98j-c-%e2%80%99-ipa\/","title":{"rendered":"Townshend \u2018J.C.\u2019 IPA"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Townshend<\/a>
Townshend 'J.C.' IPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So yeah, our Christmas Offerings at work included a beer<\/a> which had burnt pohutakawa1<\/sup> as part of the process, and a beer named after Jesus for no readily-apparent reason. I just loved<\/em> the irreverence of that. Of course, it didn’t hurt that both beers were really rather lovely, in their very-very different ways.<\/p>\n

Martin Townshend’s teeny-tiny<\/em> brewery outside Nelson is almost exclusively occupied making same pretty-damn-traditionally-English styles of beer. They’re always well made, and many of them have made very popular guest appearances on one or other of our ‘beer engine’ handpulls.2<\/sup> \u2018J.C.\u2019 is a fair touch stronger than its traditional relatives, but hides that extra oomph worryingly-well in a body of nicely complex, steadily-building hoppy fruit flavours.<\/p>\n

\"Townshend<\/a>
Diary II entry #42, Townshend 'J.C.' IPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Townshend \u2018J.C.\u2019 IPA 16\/12\/10 on handpull @ MH, shouted by a regular (from my horrid old pub, in fact) — and how much more Christmassy can you get than a beer named after Jesus? This and the previous do make for nicely irreverent Holiday Beers. This is a bit hazy, but a nice muted paleish orange colour. Easier to drink than it should be @ 5.8%, the hops are fresh and light in the body but build a nice big bitter finish.<\/p>\n

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1: Note for aliens: The pohutakawa<\/a> is the ‘New Zealand Christmas Tree’. It blooms around the right time, and does so with cute bright red flowery things, and so nicely hits the stereotypical colours.<\/span><\/p>\n

2: We used to always have two dark beers — ordinarily Tuatara Porter<\/a> and Invercargill ‘Pitch Black’ Stout<\/a> — on handpull, which always struck me as a bit of a waste. We’ve lately settled into a pattern of one dark (porter \/ stout) and one brown (IPA or bitter) — much better.
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So yeah, our Christmas Offerings at work included a beer which had burnt pohutakawa1 as part of the process, and a beer named after Jesus for no readily-apparent reason. I just loved the irreverence of that. Of course, it didn’t hurt that both beers were really rather lovely, in their very-very different ways. Martin Townshend’s … Continue reading Townshend \u2018J.C.\u2019 IPA<\/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":[6,14,12],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-nz","tag-pale-ale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3086,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/05\/19\/townshend-st-bernards-oatmeal-stout\/","url_meta":{"origin":1155,"position":0},"title":"Townshend ‘St. Bernard’s’ Oatmeal Stout","author":"Phil","date":"May 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I bloody loves Oatmeal Stout, I do -- especially in the winter; it's basically the off-season equivalent of my recurring summertime Golden Ale obsession. 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