{"id":19664,"date":"2018-01-08T03:45:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T14:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=19664"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:19:07","slug":"podcast-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2018\/01\/08\/podcast-special\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2017 Beer Diary Podcast Unexpected Christmas Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the holidays \u2014 the familiar public ones, but also the 14th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/01\/07\/sam-adams-boston-lager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first entry in my actual <em>Beer Diary<\/em><\/a> \u2014\u00a0George and I sat down to talk about what&#8217;s changed, and what hasn&#8217;t, in the time since we last did one of these. We cover a little of the long arc of news, entry into and exit from the subculture of beer (or indeed anything else), the ageing of beer and of ourselves, the surprisingly fraught nature of <em>not<\/em> drinking, and keeping things in balance in this peculiar world.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: medium;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6122996\/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><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>A direct download is <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/beerdiary\/BDP_2017_Christmas_Special.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available here<\/a>, if you need such a thing. And you can <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/nz\/podcast\/the-beer-diary-podcast\/id438440794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe via iTunes<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/beerdiary.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pretty much anything else<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to be notified if ever we do one of these again&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>\u2014 Show notes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>(03.30) <strong>Beer of the [Arbitrary Time Period] #1: Liberty &#8216;Divine Wind&#8217;<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0&#8220;a bloody lovely little boring old plain pale lager&#8221;, according to some schmo on the internet. We hereby join our comrades at the Ale Of A Time podcast in hoping that 2017 marks the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/aleofatime.podbean.com\/e\/sode-98-lager-anxiety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lager Anxiety<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(17.00) George&#8217;s personal comics writers&#8217; roster, for the record: Ellis, Gillen, DeConnick, Fraction, Vaughan, Brubaker and Hill.<\/li>\n<li>(17.30) <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2017\/02\/03\/2016-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My 2016, by the numbers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(19.00) I&#8217;ve previously written about the <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/11\/13\/the-fun-of-missing-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fun Of Missing Out<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(21.30) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Mario_Sunshine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Super Mario Sunshine<\/a> was on the GameCube, by the way.<\/li>\n<li>(26.00) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silence_(2016_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silence<\/a> actually runs for 2h41m, but George says that&#8217;s still too long.<\/li>\n<li>(27.30) <strong>Beer of the [Arbitrary Time Period] #2: Renaissance &#8216;Tribute&#8217; 2011<\/strong> \u2014 a barleywine as old as this podcast, but not previously featured hereon.<\/li>\n<li>(32.00) Renaissance is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/industries\/97728537\/first-company-to-get-equity-crowdfunding-goes-into-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;administration&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(33.30)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/allaboutbeer.com\/article\/reviving-thomas-hardys-ale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the story of Thomas Hardy&#8217;s Ale<\/a>, reborn a few times over. The <a href=\"http:\/\/bachbrewing.co.nz\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Hopsmacker&#8217; and &#8216;Czechmate&#8217;<\/a> beers \/ brands might count as a local example.<\/li>\n<li>(38.00) 8 Wired&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC07_mQpLgSUvR5ueAhU1hSw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/8-WIRED-BREWING-157213909512\/videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook video collection<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(47.30) <em>Obvious disclaimer<\/em>: I am not a scientist. Nor am I your doctor. Do your own due diligence, etc., about these things.<\/li>\n<li>(50.30) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petebrown.net\/2014\/01\/05\/dry-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Brown on Dry January<\/a>, from 2014.<\/li>\n<li>(57.00) <a href=\"http:\/\/goodbeerhunting.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/6\/wheres-your-head-at-a-look-at-mental-health-in-the-beer-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke Robertson on mental health in the beer business<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(1.04.00)\u00a0<strong>Midstrength News!<\/strong> Garage Project&#8217;s Shandy (the Beer Diary x Bottleneck <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2016\/03\/16\/will-it-shandy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shandy Taste Test is here<\/a>), and fun sour things aplenty.<\/li>\n<li>(1.05.30) <strong>Recommendations:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saga_(comics)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saga<\/a> (as we said earlier). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/serialgrillernz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serial Griller<\/a> (for burgers in the Coromandel). My likely Beer Of The Year: North End&#8217;s &#8216;Become The Ocean&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Zany-Zeus-Ltd-453942951319669\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zany Zeus<\/a> icecreams and milkshakes really are worth the trip.<\/li>\n<li>(1.11.30) Carrying the local beer-podcasting torch: <a href=\"http:\/\/aleofatime.com\/category\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ale Of A Time<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brewsnews.com.au\/category\/radio-brews-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radio Brews News<\/a> in Australia, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/thebitterend.beer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bitter End<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzealandbrewer.co.nz\/category\/new-zealand-brewer-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The NZ Brewer Podcast<\/a>\u00a0(apologies to John, not Jono, Oszajca for twice-mangling his name), <a href=\"https:\/\/brewhui.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brew Hui<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thebeerhive.co.nz\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Beerhive<\/a> here in New Zealand.<\/li>\n<li>(1.20.30) Cue the music: The Coconut Monkeyrocket&#8217;s &#8216;Shopping for Explosives&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the holidays \u2014 the familiar public ones, but also the 14th anniversary of the first entry in my actual Beer Diary \u2014\u00a0George and I sat down to talk about what&#8217;s changed, and what hasn&#8217;t, in the time since we last did one of these. We cover a little of the long arc of news, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2018\/01\/08\/podcast-special\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 2017 Beer Diary Podcast Unexpected Christmas Special<\/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-19664","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":7320,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/07\/26\/beer-diary-podcast-s04e01\/","url_meta":{"origin":19664,"position":0},"title":"Beer Diary Podcast s04e01: Friend of the Show","author":"Phil","date":"July 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Back for our fourth season \u2014 which promises to include some Very Special Epsiodes, but more on those in due course \u2014 George and I quickly re-tell our Origin Story for new listeners, return briefly to the topic of our first-ever show (so-called \"grey market\" imports), before catching up on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Podcast episodes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Podcast episodes","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/podcast-episodes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Beers Of The Week (My house, 16 June 2014)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/s04e01-BOTW-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2404,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/03\/31\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e01\/","url_meta":{"origin":19664,"position":1},"title":"Beer Diary Podcast episode 1: Emerson&#8217;s Pilsner and Grey Market Imports","author":"Phil","date":"March 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"An experimental offering from George (him of the original Diary) and myself, in which we enjoy a beer while pondering the history and various happenings that surround the stuff. 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