{"id":1220,"date":"2010-12-27T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T11:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:20:40","slug":"dogfish-head-midas-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/12\/27\/dogfish-head-midas-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogfish Head ‘Midas Touch’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dogfish Head 'Midas Touch'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scott, the bar manager at Malthouse, dropped some Big News during our shift — something that had been brewing for a while, but which I felt was sufficiently ’embargoed’ that I didn’t mention it directly in the Diary<\/em> lest I get my act together uncharacteristically quickly and jump the gun by posting it on here. The short version is that, after ten years — an honest-to-goodness decade<\/em> — he had resigned. He’s off to run the Hop Garden, a new neighbourhood bar opening soon in Mount Victoria, owned by James Henderson of Bar Edward fame. For us, it’s a helluva loss, but their new place is a tremendously exciting prospect, so it’s full of that bittersweet “hate to see you go, but dead keen<\/em> to see what you do next” vibe.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of first things first, though; Big News deserves Big Beer, so I fetched this one out of my personal stash. I’d been looking forward to it for ages<\/a>, and couldn’t think of a better opportunity or anyone more worthy of sharing it.<\/p>\n

This is Dogfish Head in Resurrection Mode<\/a>, taking a crack at re-creating an old recipe — the oldest known<\/em>, in fact. The idea was to take the remains of vessels found in the 2,700-year-old tomb of King Midas, run them through all sorts of chemical analyses, and get a reasonable approximation of what the drink they once held was like. So in with the now-standard barley went honey, white muscat grapes, and saffron.<\/p>\n

It is<\/em> suitably wine-ish, and honey-ish, but also still definitely a lovely and peculiar ale. I just loved<\/em> it, for both its intrinsic and circumstantial properties. I wanted to drink whole pints<\/em> of it, standing around in the sun somewhere — and still wanted to, even knowing that this is 9% and would swiftly knock me on my arse. It’s light and lush and it feels like what I — a Beer Nerd, after all — wish<\/em> wine tasted like while at the same time being totally recognisable as ‘just’ a staggeringly interesting<\/em> golden ale.<\/p>\n

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Diary II entry #47, Dogfish Head 'Midas Touch'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Dogfish Head ‘Midas Touch’ 27\/12\/10 \u00f72 with Scotty on the occasion of some Big News. 330ml $? from NWT (in my notes, but the internet died) [actually $10] I like it a lot, that’s the main thing. Beautiful golden peachy colour. Scotty through the saffron would be mostly giving colour, then we (proudly) realised we’re both sufficiently middle-class that we don’t know what it tastes like. The grapes come through a lot, making it very winey, but soft at the finish, not acid \/ sharp. The flavour makes you expect a whallop finish, but it’s just this lovely gentle wash instead. Wonderfully rides that line of Different Enough But Not Too Different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott, the bar manager at Malthouse, dropped some Big News during our shift — something that had been brewing for a while, but which I felt was sufficiently ’embargoed’ that I didn’t mention it directly in the Diary lest I get my act together uncharacteristically quickly and jump the gun by posting it on here. … Continue reading Dogfish Head ‘Midas Touch’<\/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":[27,6,20,8],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-pages","tag-united-states","tag-photogenic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":892,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/10\/01\/mountain-goat-hightail-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":1220,"position":0},"title":"Mountain Goat ‘Hightail’ Ale","author":"Phil","date":"October 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The New World supermarkets in Wellington are surprisingly-good places to find some seriously out-of-the-way beers. 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