{"id":239,"date":"2005-08-12T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T12:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=239"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:07:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:07:06","slug":"badger-original-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2005\/08\/12\/badger-original-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Badger ‘Original Ale’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Badger<\/a>
Diary entry #28, Badger 'Original Ale'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim: <\/strong>Badger Original Ale. 500ml, $5, 4.6%, 12\/8\/05. Watching pirate West Wing. I really need to visit these boys. This is great stuff, too. It’s just a big, solid ale.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> The relative terseness of this note seems to suggest I was suffering from a sort of (enjoyable) Badger Goodness Overload, even three months after the most-recent Diary<\/em> mentions. Perhaps I was still regularly quaffing their beers in the interim. Seems likely. That, or my note-taking was simply sidelined when I was distracted by good TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Badger Original Ale. 500ml, $5, 4.6%, 12\/8\/05. Watching pirate West Wing. I really need to visit these boys. This is great stuff, too. It’s just a big, solid ale. Afterthoughts, October 2010: The relative terseness of this note seems to suggest I was suffering from a sort of (enjoyable) Badger Goodness Overload, even three … Continue reading Badger ‘Original Ale’<\/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":[27,6,17],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-pages","tag-england"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":231,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2005\/05\/07\/badger-golden-glory\/","url_meta":{"origin":239,"position":0},"title":"Badger ‘Golden Glory’","author":"Phil","date":"May 7, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Badger Golden Glory. 500ml, $5, 4.5%, 7\/5\/05. 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