{"id":188,"date":"2004-12-11T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=188"},"modified":"2011-03-02T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:29:42","slug":"martinborough-tora-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/12\/11\/martinborough-tora-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinborough ‘Tora Dark’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s here at entry eighteen<\/em> and nearly a whole year since page one, that my Diary<\/em> finds its first New Zealand brew. Shows what you get for being a New Zealander living in Melbourne when you start your Beer Diary<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I should add that even now, at the time of the Great Uploading in October 2010, it’s still a bit shameful how hard it is to get good beer from ‘the other side of the Tasman’ — whichever side you’re on. The situation is massively-improved, sure, but still pretty tragic.<\/p>\n

\"Martinborough<\/a>
Diary entry #18, Martinborough 'Tora Dark'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Martinborough Brewing: Tora Dark. 330ml, 5%, $?, at home, 11\/12\/04. “Blerk,” says George. I think it’s great. Rich coffee taste, mild choc. (Goes brillo w\/ advent calendar chocolates.) Darkish bubbles, some hanging around. Quite bitter, but in a good way. Mellows out after. (Their lager — which G.’s having — is perfectly decent, too. Heinek-ish.)<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> This entire brewery has long since closed down, sadly. And it’s the first such casualty in my Diary<\/em> (the aged Cooper’s stout<\/a> was the first ‘retired’ individual beer in the book). A bit of research shows it was a dunkel (a black lager) so we can see that I’m still confused about how colours relate to styles, although that<\/em> is about to get a whole lot more embarrassing with the next entry<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s here at entry eighteen and nearly a whole year since page one, that my Diary finds its first New Zealand brew. Shows what you get for being a New Zealander living in Melbourne when you start your Beer Diary. I should add that even now, at the time of the Great Uploading in October … Continue reading Martinborough ‘Tora Dark’<\/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":[6,14,9],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-nz","tag-lager"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":569,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/11\/08\/tuatara-ardennes\/","url_meta":{"origin":188,"position":0},"title":"Tuatara ‘Ardennes’","author":"Phil","date":"November 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Tuatara 'Ardennes'. 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