{"id":1983,"date":"2011-02-22T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2011-05-10T17:10:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T05:10:51","slug":"beer-121-new-zealand-beer-for-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/02\/22\/beer-121-new-zealand-beer-for-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer 121: New Zealand Beer for Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beer 121 tasting session lineup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I do like a chance to get my Nerd on, have a ramble over some beers and do a bit of evangelising. Work normally provides me with plenty, but I’m always up for ‘extracurricular’ ones, too.<\/p>\n

Here, the brief was to lead some visiting Californians on a little tour through the local scene. For the occasion of her wedding party<\/a>, Jessie — who described herself<\/a> as growing up “within crawling distance” of the Sierra Nevada brewery — was playing host to her parents (her father is himself a proper Beer Nerd and writes for Northwest Brewing News<\/a>), her sister and a friend-from-way-back. And since Jessie, her husband Simon, and George and Robyn (who were joining in and providing the venue) had all been in on a previous \u2018Beer 101\u2019\u00a0tasting session<\/a>, I figured I’d bam the class code up a few notches and call this \u2018Beer 121\u2019, in honour of the Constitutional Amendment<\/a> that undid that whole Prohibition nonsense.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

The lineup was:<\/p>\n