{"id":16594,"date":"2015-04-06T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=16594"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T01:22:44","slug":"farewell-stu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/04\/06\/farewell-stu\/","title":{"rendered":"The pants are always greener \u2014 farewell, Stu McKinlay"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yeastie<\/a>
Yeastie Boys Dioramarama \u2014 from their fifth birthday ‘zine<\/a>; artwork by Jed Soane<\/a>, colours by Em and myself, on a much-embiggened copy, over several enjoyable beers\u00a0at Golding’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This past weekend, the local \u2014 i.e., Wellington, but also New Zealand more generally \u2014\u00a0beer community exported one of its stalwarts, Stu McKinlay,1<\/sup><\/a><\/a>\u00a0best-known as a founder and large fraction of the Yeastie Boys<\/a>. I first met him back in my Malthouse bartending days, at the debut of Pot Kettle Black, and it’s been excellent knowing him since. He was an early giver-of-encouraging-nudges to this very\u00a0Beer Diary<\/i> project, is officially a Friend Of The Show<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0can frequently be found here disproving the old maxim of Don’t Read The Comments. I’m very much on board with his broader philosophies of beer; our disagreements are the quibbling-at-the-margins that happen among comrades.\u00a0You never worry that he’s an opportunist, an interloping con-man, or anything other than a True Believer \u2014\u00a0he’s a proper\u00a0mensch.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Yeastie<\/a>
‘Make It Big’ night at Golding’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After this January’s\u00a0massively-successful crowdfunding push<\/a>\u00a0(no need for a disclaimer, here; I’m not among their new investors), Stu’s off to arrange for the UK-based production and from-there distribution of their\u00a0beers, starting with Gunnamatta and Pot Kettle Black. Contract brewers from day one\u00a0\u2014\u00a0with no pretensions to have or intentions to build a “bricks and mortar” HQ\u00a0\u2014\u00a0they’ve found themselves freer to sidestep some of the annoying and complicated business of exporting and simply produce beer closer to its intended market. I find this kind of ‘Distributed Republic’2<\/sup><\/a><\/a> model really appealing, not least because it lessens the shipping-around of masses of water and packaging materials. And this<\/em> is altogether a more-promising example of the phenomenon: morally better than Stone’s recent and rather-disingenuous ‘campaign’3<\/sup><\/a><\/a> to build breweries on the far U.S. coast and in Europe, and more loud-and-proud than ParrotDog and Panhead’s current\u00a0contracting of keg beer in Melbourne for Australian\u00a0consumption.<\/p>\n

So here’s to good people making good money from good beer. And to a homegrown business expanding out into the world in a new, interesting and authentic way \u2014 not by resorting to distasteful nonsense,4<\/sup><\/a><\/a> nor by subsuming itself within an existing conglomerate.5<\/sup><\/a><\/a>\u00a0I hope locals will raise a glass of beer\u00a0(or a cup of tea, or a dram of whisky, since\u00a0they’d all be appropriate)6<\/sup><\/a><\/a> to toast their progress and speed Stu on his way. Please do look after him for us, Englishpersons and Other Antipodeans. I’m sure you’ll enjoy his company \u2014 in both senses of the word.<\/p>\n

\n

<\/a>1:<\/strong> That’s him in the red pants, above, despite the title of this post, which just occurred to me while I was doing the dishes and wouldn’t get out of my brain until I wrote it down. It seemed vaguely punny and fitting for a celebrated colour-blocker moving to the other side of the world.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>2:<\/strong> To borrow a phrase \/ idea I’m most familiar with via Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash<\/em> and Diamond Age<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 though I’m not madly keen on the association it has with libertarian techbros, to say the least.\u00a0<\/em>\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>3:<\/strong> A story which went down mid-last-year, while I was on De Facto Hiatus and it was too much of a clusterfuck for me to manage to say anything much constructive. Glen Humphries’ trio of posts \u2014 the cash grab<\/a>, the screw-up<\/a>, and the cover-up<\/a> \u2014 is excellent coverage from the time.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>4:<\/strong> By now, surely, you know who I mean.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>5:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00e0 la Emerson’s, of course, most recently and locally and notoriously. Not that that always goes badly, of course. In the next podcast episode \u2014 [SPOILER ALERT] \u2014 I have a few things to say about how well the past two years have turned out, for us and for them.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>6:<\/strong> Or anything you like. Or not at all. He’s a big advocate of the blessed subjectivity, so I’m sure he wouldn’t mind.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past weekend, the local \u2014 i.e., Wellington, but also New Zealand more generally \u2014\u00a0beer community exported one of its stalwarts, Stu McKinlay,1\u00a0best-known as a founder and large fraction of the Yeastie Boys. I first met him back in my Malthouse bartending days, at the debut of Pot Kettle Black, and it’s been excellent knowing … Continue reading The pants are always greener \u2014 farewell, Stu McKinlay<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6148,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/11\/24\/s03e06-stu-mckinlay\/","url_meta":{"origin":16594,"position":0},"title":"Beer Diary Podcast s03e06: Stu McKinlay, Yeastie Boy","author":"Phil","date":"November 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"George and I recently had the pleasure of sitting down \u2014 for a record number of Beers Of The Week, amidst all the banter \u2014 with Stu McKinlay, notorious pants-wearer, and one half (give or take) of the Yeastie Boys. 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