{"id":2058,"date":"2011-03-11T00:03:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T11:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2011-03-29T03:11:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:11:26","slug":"emersons-1812-ipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/03\/11\/emersons-1812-ipa\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerson’s \u20181812\u2019 IPA"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Emerson's<\/a>
Emerson's \u20181812\u2019 IPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My impromptu round of Kegtris<\/a> was apparently enough to earn me a second pint, this time of the also-just-tapped Emerson’s \u20181812\u2019. The fashion for hop-tastic IPA being what it is, old-school classics like this are often unfairly passed-over. “Old-school” is obviously a fairly relative term, given that \u20181812\u2019\u00a0isn’t old in IPA-itself<\/em> terms — but it’s still pretty grandfatherly in the New Zealand craft brewing sense. It was an early example of local beer getting ‘noticed’ on the international stage, too; Michael Jackson (the beer and whisky writer, not the ‘other’<\/a> one, obviously) selected it for his 1998 book Beer<\/em><\/a> (which was about as definitive, in its day, as its maximally-simple title suggests) and it’s even one of the dozen that also make the cover.<\/p>\n

There are a few stories about the name. 1812 the year is a bit too early<\/a> to be anything-much to do with the style itself,1<\/sup> so it’s often suggested that there’s some slightly-too-clever reference being made to the beer’s hoppy ‘overtures’ (hur-hur, very punny<\/a>), but there’s also the odd-and-maybe-related fact that 1-8-1-2 are the last four digits of the brewery’s phone number<\/a>. All this numerology<\/a> and allusion-chasing is enough to make me remember just why the fuck I gave up on watching Lost<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But no matter. It’s a catchy, simple name. And a charming beer; a nice counterpart to modern, flashy, boistrous pale ales (as much fun as they no doubt are, when the mood for them strikes). The malty body is delightfully smooth (particularly off the taps, I thought), and there’s a very pleasant, gently-building marmaladey fruit character comfortably mooching around in the glass. Just a bloody marvellous sit-and-sip kind of a pint.<\/p>\n

(And no, the bar didn’t get lighter<\/em> inbetween this and the ‘Rapture’ that preceeded it. Rapture was on the front taps, and I was a little rushed by the General Populace surrounding me, so I didn’t muck about and obsess as much as I ordinarily might. With the 1812 on tap at a much-quieter end of the bar, I set up a proper long exposure shot. Hence the blurry people. I do like my new toy, I really do.)<\/p>\n

\"Emerson's<\/a>
Diary II entry #74, Emerson's \u20181812\u2019 IPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Emerson’s \u20181812\u2019 IPA 11\/3\/11 on tap @ MH, also. Further reward! And a chance to show off the camera, since a few stoppers-by were seeing me do some updates + having a tinker. If memory serves, this was a very<\/span> early notable New Zealander. And it’s very tasty. B[y] current standards, it’s astonishingly mild, of course, but it’s always good to go old-school occasionally. Smooth malt body, nice, almost marmaladey fruitiness in there.<\/p>\n

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1: At least when it was known by that term<\/em>. But from the opposite angle, 1812 is quite a bit too late<\/em><\/a> to have much to do with the origins of beers vaguely of this sort (whatever they were called) and\/or their export to India.<\/span>
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My impromptu round of Kegtris was apparently enough to earn me a second pint, this time of the also-just-tapped Emerson’s \u20181812\u2019. 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