{"id":18857,"date":"2017-02-24T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=18857"},"modified":"2020-09-21T20:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T08:56:30","slug":"will-it-gaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2017\/02\/24\/will-it-gaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Will It Gaff..?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F308637833%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-iKRQp&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true&show_comments=true&color=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Continuing in the strange experimental spirit we started with <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2016\/03\/16\/will-it-shandy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our &#8216;Will It Shandy..?&#8217; investigation<\/a>, Dylan \u2015 of <a href=\"https:\/\/thebottleneck.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bottleneck blog<\/a>, and my comrade \/ direct superior at Golding&#8217;s Free Dive \u2015 and I ask the yet-more-nonsensical question: Will It <em>Gaff<\/em>? We realise that&#8217;s probably not really a noun, nevermind a verb,<span id='easy-footnote-1-18857' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2017\/02\/24\/will-it-gaff\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-18857' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Well, &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gaff&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;it is&lt;\/a&gt;. But the sense in which we mean it here isn&amp;#8217;t officially accepted, &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;\/em&gt;.&lt;\/span&gt;'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> but we wanted to pick up the thread of mostly-forgotten ginger-beer-blends (with names like &#8220;portergaff&#8221; and &#8220;shandygaff&#8221;) that we mentioned in passing last time. For this round, we enlisted Annika Naschitzki \u2015 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiamana.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiamana Brewery<\/a>, and herself <a href=\"https:\/\/tiamanablog.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an occasional blogger<\/a>, who handily hails from a different (and definitely livelier)<span id='easy-footnote-2-18857' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2017\/02\/24\/will-it-gaff\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-18857' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Thanks, if that&amp;#8217;s the word, to the &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/07\/10\/hofbrau-maibock-reinheitsgebot\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;gdmfing Reinheitsgebot&lt;\/a&gt; \u2015 which &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2016\/04\/22\/reinheitsgebot\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;I hope goes entirely uncelebrated&lt;\/a&gt; as it rounds its 501st birthday, soon.&lt;\/span&gt;'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> beer-blending culture.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to Dylan himself for doing the hard work in the editing suite; he&#8217;s got <a href=\"http:\/\/thebottleneck.net\/2017\/02\/24\/podcast-will-it-gaff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a parallel post up at his own site<\/a>.\u00a0Thanks also\u00a0to <a href=\"http:\/\/coconutmonkeyrocket.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Coconut Monkeyrocket<\/a> for our intro music. There&#8217;s probably not much needed by way of my usual <strong>Show Notes<\/strong>,<span id='easy-footnote-3-18857' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2017\/02\/24\/will-it-gaff\/#easy-footnote-bottom-3-18857' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;From, you know, &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/podcast\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;The Other Podcast&lt;\/a&gt; \u2015 which still isn&amp;#8217;t dead, but is still &lt;em&gt;resting&lt;\/em&gt;.&lt;\/span&gt;'><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> but it&#8217;s worth pointing out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zythophile.co.uk\/2011\/04\/27\/the-1900-pub-the-biggest-surprise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;The 1900 Pub \u2015 the biggest surprise&#8217;<\/a> by Martyn Cornell gets referenced a bit and is definitely worth a read.<\/li>\n<li>[CENSORED] Best Bitter was bleeped out because there was no real need to name-and-shame the brewery that made it; this conversation was recorded a while ago \u2015 there&#8217;s references to Tiamana&#8217;s recent birthday and the Octopump event at Moon that date it, if you&#8217;re paying obsessive attention \u2015 so that batch is likely long gone, and we had a quiet word with the producer concerned. Also, bleeps are inherently funny.<\/li>\n<li>My flatmate Kate Jordan \u2015\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindaymes.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">herself\u00a0<em>also<\/em> a former beer blogger<\/a> \u2015 is a historian and dug up a few letters to the editor<span id='easy-footnote-4-18857' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2017\/02\/24\/will-it-gaff\/#easy-footnote-bottom-4-18857' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;If you&amp;#8217;re curious: here&amp;#8217;s the &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/BMJ1.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;first&lt;\/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/BMJ2.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;second&lt;\/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/BMJ3.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;third&lt;\/a&gt;. Other evidence welcome!&lt;\/span&gt;'><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> from the <em>British Medical Journal<\/em> in the 1890s which kinda-sorta confirm our vague conclusion that the ginger beer of the time was alcoholic, but only moderately so; 2% (or less) seems a reasonable stab.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing in the strange experimental spirit we started with our &#8216;Will It Shandy..?&#8217; investigation, Dylan \u2015 of The Bottleneck blog, and my comrade \/ direct superior at Golding&#8217;s Free Dive \u2015 and I ask the yet-more-nonsensical question: Will It Gaff? We realise that&#8217;s probably not really a noun, nevermind a verb, but we wanted to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2017\/02\/24\/will-it-gaff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will It Gaff..?<\/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":[73],"class_list":["post-18857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast-episodes","tag-shandypride"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17208,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/21\/beer-writing-caution\/","url_meta":{"origin":18857,"position":0},"title":"Beer writing: a word of caution","author":"Phil","date":"August 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Most beer writing is crap. 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