{"id":17254,"date":"2015-08-14T01:18:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=17254"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:06:47","slug":"beervana-2014-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/14\/beervana-2014-podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Beervana 2014 \u2015 the lost live podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for those missing out on\u00a0<em>this year&#8217;s<\/em> Beervana, a blast from the past. During the 2014 festival, George and I \u2015 plus an excellent suite of special guests \u2015 recorded two episodes in the seminar room, and brought sufficient quantities for the Beer(s) Of The Week to share with anyone\u00a0who wanted to join the audience. Civilised. Technical difficulties beset the recordings, though, and they got lost in the weeds of last year. But, at last, here they are.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On the Friday evening, we were were joined by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/goodbeermatt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Kirkegaard<\/a><\/strong> \u2015 founder of BrewsNews.com.au\u00a0and then-recent AIBA award-winner for his writing and podcast and hosting and such \u2015 and <strong>Sean Burke<\/strong> of the Commons Brewery in Portland, which was part of the inaugural (and smashingly successful, and now repeated) Beervana Exchange. We drank a longtime favourite in <strong>NSW&#8217;s Stone &amp; Wood &#8216;Pacific Ale&#8217;<\/strong>, and then <strong>Commons&#8217; collaboration with Tuatara, &#8216;Nova Pacifica&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: medium;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3733153\/height\/128\/theme\/modern\/size\/standard\/thumbnail\/no\/custom-color\/24890d\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/FFFFFF\" width=\"100%\" height=\"128\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The next night, our accomplices were <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/aleofatime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke Robertson<\/a><\/strong> \u2015 ex-pat New Zealander in exile in Melbourne, blogger and podcast and <i>since<\/i> recipient of the very-same AIBA award that Matt previously won \u2015 and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/deniserat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denise Ratfield<\/a><\/strong> of Stone Brewery and the Pink Boots Society, and a driving force behind the utterly marvellous International Women&#8217;s Collaboration Brew Day. We drank <strong>Mountain Goat &#8216;Hightail&#8217;<\/strong> and <strong>Latitude 33&#8217;s &#8216;Worldly Scholar&#8217;<\/strong>, which was a fundraiser beer for Pink Boots.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: medium;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/3733171\/height\/128\/theme\/modern\/size\/standard\/thumbnail\/no\/custom-color\/24890d\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/FFFFFF\" width=\"100%\" height=\"128\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As always, direct downloads are available\u00a0\u2015\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/beerdiary\/BDP_s04e05.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s part 1<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/beerdiary\/BDP_s04e06.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s part 2<\/a>. There\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/beerdiary.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a podcast-specific RSS feed<\/a>, and you can\u00a0get us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/nz\/podcast\/the-beer-diary-podcast\/id438440794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on iTunes<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GeorgeLanglands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Phil_Cook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myself<\/a>\u00a0can also both be reached on Twitter, or you can leave comments here or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebeerdiary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Facebook<\/a>. The show also has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beerdiarypod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its own Twitter handle<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0which you can use for feedback, updates, suggestions and whatnot. Cheers!<\/p>\n<h3>\u2015 Show notes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230;will have to wait until after Beervana 2015, I&#8217;m afraid. This is an insanely busy time to be a semi-professional beer nerd. Imagine if, at some stereotypical Christmastime <em>\u00e0\u00a0la<\/em>\u00a0hackneyed American holiday movies, you somehow had the timetable and temperament of Santa Claus, a few hundred of the elves, and a six-year-old,\u00a0<em>all at once<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for those missing out on\u00a0this year&#8217;s Beervana, a blast from the past. During the 2014 festival, George and I \u2015 plus an excellent suite of special guests \u2015 recorded two episodes in the seminar room, and brought sufficient quantities for the Beer(s) Of The Week to share with anyone\u00a0who wanted to join &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/14\/beervana-2014-podcasts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beervana 2014 \u2015 the lost live podcasts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast-episodes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6079,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/10\/26\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e05\/","url_meta":{"origin":17254,"position":0},"title":"Beer Diary Podcast s03e05: Licensing wrangles and Beervana afterthoughts","author":"Phil","date":"October 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Requiring more We Do Not Here Represent Our Day Jobs than usual, George and I recently had a little ramble about a few potentially-controversial topics in the Beer Business: the ongoing shitfight-with-a-side-order-of-handwringing that is the Licensing Laws Debate, and the continuing evolution of the nation's most-senior beer festival, Beervana. 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I feel like I was a little close to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Metablogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Metablogging","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/meta\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Garage Project bar (Beervana, 15 August 2015)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2015-Garage-Project-bar-wide.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2015-Garage-Project-bar-wide.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2015-Garage-Project-bar-wide.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2015-Garage-Project-bar-wide.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7417,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/08\/16\/beer-diary-podcast-s04e02\/","url_meta":{"origin":17254,"position":3},"title":"Beer Diary Podcast s04e02: Dry July","author":"Phil","date":"August 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"An episode with no beer. Well, none were\u00a0consumed \u2014 out of a vague nod to Dry July, but more a result of us both being in losing phases of the age-old battle of Monkey v Microbe. 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