{"id":17268,"date":"2015-08-19T17:38:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T05:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=17268"},"modified":"2015-08-19T22:34:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T10:34:30","slug":"beervana-2015-litany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/19\/beervana-2015-litany\/","title":{"rendered":"Beervana 2015 \u2014 a litany of gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17270\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2015-Garage-Project-bar-wide.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[17268]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17270\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/19\/beervana-2015-litany\/beervana-2015-garage-project-bar-wide\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2015-Garage-Project-bar-wide.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Phil Cook&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G16&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1439583334&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Creative Commons\\nAttribution-NonCommercial 3.0 NZ&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;20.696&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Beervana 2015 &amp;#8211; Garage Project bar (wide)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Raising the bar, raising the roof&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2015-Garage-Project-bar-wide.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17270\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2015-Garage-Project-bar-wide.jpg\" alt=\"Garage Project bar (Beervana, 15 August 2015)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2015-Garage-Project-bar-wide.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2015-Garage-Project-bar-wide-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raising the bar, raising the roof<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am a very happy beerperson.\u00a0<em>That<\/em> was a huge festival season \u2014 the run-up to Beervana last weekend was <em>filled<\/em> with plenty of other more-or-less-related Things To Do\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and now it&#8217;s over but for the mopping up and the inevitable retrospectives. I feel like I was a little close to the festival this year, and anyway attended it in a strange and many-hatted capacity, so I&#8217;ll leave\u00a0<em>those<\/em> to others for now. For myself, I&#8217;m feeling unusually zen and grateful, and feel like I should basically footnote the real world with acknowledgements. If you&#8217;ll let me set aside my traditionally ranty manner a moment, massive thanks to \u2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emma (at home) and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stoatphone\" target=\"_blank\">Sean<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goldingsfd\" target=\"_blank\">the entire Golding&#8217;s crew<\/a> (at work), for accommodating my multitasking and forgiving the shirking of (or distraction-damage to) my usual duties which it entailed.<\/li>\n<li>My fellow seminar-wranglers\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/georgelanglands\" target=\"_blank\">George<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">podcast accomplice<\/a> and whatnot); Megan (<a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/09\/07\/beer-diary-podcast-s04e03\/\" target=\"_blank\">friend of the show<\/a>); plus\u00a0Amber, Ben, Hadyn,<span id='easy-footnote-1-17268' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/19\/beervana-2015-litany\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-17268' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Also a &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/12\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e03\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Friend Of The Show&lt;\/a&gt;, for the record. There&amp;#8217;s lots of multiple-hat-wearing in this town generally and in this &lt;em&gt;list&lt;\/em&gt;, particularly.&lt;\/span&gt;'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Michelle, and Tim\u00a0(collectively of <a href=\"http:\/\/btachievements.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond The Achievements<\/a>, which will also be helping get some of the sessions online for your after-the-fact viewing pleasure) \u2014 who pulled together a varied programme of panels and presentations in\u00a0<em>very<\/em> short order.<\/li>\n<li>Beth Brash, the new Festival Overboss (and also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/09\/07\/beer-diary-podcast-s04e03\/\" target=\"_blank\">friend of the show<\/a>), for trusting and\/or saddling us with control of the seminar room. I&#8217;m a big fan of such things at beer festivals, massive nerd that I am.<\/li>\n<li>Our seminar presenters\u00a0\u2014 lawyer Paul Johns; can-maker John Savery;\u00a0local brewers Ava Wilson (Beer Baroness), Kieran Haslett-Moore (North End), Matt Warner (ParrotDog), and Tracy Banner (Sprig &amp; Fern); visiting brewers Darron Welch (Pelican), Jacob Leonard (Breakside), Jayne Lewis (Two Birds), and Tyler Brown (Barley Brown&#8217;s); and Victoria University scientist Dr Nicola Gaston.<span id='easy-footnote-2-17268' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/19\/beervana-2015-litany\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-17268' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Amber, George, Hadyn, Megan, and myself also all pulled seminar-hosting duties of one or more forms. I told you there was a lot of hat-juggling.&lt;\/span&gt;'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Providers and beer and props for the seminars \u2014 the Brewers&#8217; Guild of New Zealand, Visy, Lion, North End, ParrotDog, Beer Baroness, Stone &amp; Wood, Garage Project, Tuatara, Two Birds, Breakside, and Barley Brown&#8217;s (and also to Cryer Malt, who brought in and signed off on the last three). <span id='easy-footnote-3-17268' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/19\/beervana-2015-litany\/#easy-footnote-bottom-3-17268' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Special shout-out, here, to Lion and Garage Project, who let Nicola and I do mean things to their beers to demonstrate the science of faults.&lt;\/span&gt;'><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Thanks also, with a bonus apology, to Te Aro Brewing Co., and the Fork &amp; Brewer, who rescued the beer supply for one seminar only to have me forget them in this post&#8217;s first version.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aleofatime\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Robertson<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/aleofatime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ale Of A Time<\/a>, who invited George and I to sit down\u00a0and record a podcast episode with him \u2014 which will almost certainly be online in a speedier fashion than the\u00a0<em>entire calendar year<\/em> it took us to get\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/14\/beervana-2014-podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>his<\/em> episode of\u00a0<em>ours<\/em><\/a> up.<\/li>\n<li>And finally<span id='easy-footnote-4-17268' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/19\/beervana-2015-litany\/#easy-footnote-bottom-4-17268' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Though I&amp;#8217;ve almost certainly forgotten someone deserving. I hope my memory issues are sufficiently documented that you won&amp;#8217;t take that poorly if it&amp;#8217;s &lt;em&gt;you&lt;\/em&gt;.&lt;\/span&gt;'><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> thanks to two crews from the &#8216;legit&#8217; media who invited me to ramble a bit. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/life-style\/food-wine\/drinks\/71154410\/brew-geeks-find-heaven-at-beervana\" target=\"_blank\">a nice little write-up on Stuff from Olivia Wannan who asked me to elaborate on serving suggestions while Ross Giblin took video of my &#8220;Beer: A User&#8217;s Guide&#8221; talk<\/a>. The day before, I&#8217;d\u00a0had the pleasure of sitting\u00a0down with Jesse Mulligan as he broadcast Radio New Zealand&#8217;s Afternoon show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/afternoons\/20150814\" target=\"_blank\">live from the concourse<\/a>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/audio\/remote-player?id=201766546\" width=\"100%\" height=\"62px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was a great event all round, and the thousands who showed up to enjoy it make worthwhile the work of the dozens \u2014 paid and unpaid \u2014 who make it happen. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get into some kind of debrief or rundown of highlights of the festival\u00a0<em>as a festival<\/em>\u00a0at some point, but for now I&#8217;m still just chuffed to&#8217;ve been part of Beervana 2015 as a\u00a0<em>people-powered beer-related-enjoyment-dispensing machine<\/em>. Bring on 2016.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a very happy beerperson.\u00a0That was a huge festival season \u2014 the run-up to Beervana last weekend was filled with plenty of other more-or-less-related Things To Do\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and now it&#8217;s over but for the mopping up and the inevitable retrospectives. I feel like I was a little close to the festival this year, and anyway &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/19\/beervana-2015-litany\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beervana 2015 \u2014 a litany of gratitude<\/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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17136,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/12\/beervana-absences\/","url_meta":{"origin":17268,"position":0},"title":"Beervana 2015 \u2015 upcoming absences and presences","author":"Phil","date":"August 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"When the list of Beervana-attending breweries came out a little while ago, I stayed up late and made a spreadsheet comparing the attendees over the last few years against\u00a0the Brewers Guild membership and the list of standholders at this year's Great Kiwi Beer Festival. Obviously. And while it's definitely true\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Observations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Observations","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/reports\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Er, somethingbeer from someonebrewery (Beervana, 22 August 2014)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2014-1-wide.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2014-1-wide.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2014-1-wide.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beervana-2014-1-wide.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17254,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/14\/beervana-2014-podcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":17268,"position":1},"title":"Beervana 2014 \u2015 the lost live podcasts","author":"Phil","date":"August 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Just in time for those missing out on\u00a0this year's Beervana, a blast from the past. 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