{"id":249,"date":"2005-10-21T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T11:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=249"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:07:24","slug":"black-sheep-monty-pythons-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2005\/10\/21\/black-sheep-monty-pythons-holy-grail\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sheep ‘Monty Python’s Holy Grail’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Monty<\/a>
Diary entry #30, Monty Python's Holy Grail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Monty Python’s Holy Gr<\/span>ail. 500ml, $5, 4.9%, 21\/10\/05. Reading random astronomy-stuff. From the Black Sheep Brewery, and allegedly official — also “tempered over burning witches”. Big English ale, really. Little bit fruity, not overly bitter or blunt. Good stuff.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> Definitely official, it turns out. Commissioned for the Pythons’ 30th anniversary. ‘Gimmick’ beers are always tricky, but this was enjoyable enough. And that’s eight entries \/ six months where all the Diary<\/em> entries are British (all English, bar one). Odd, but it does make up for the initial flood of Continental stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Monty Python’s Holy Grail. 500ml, $5, 4.9%, 21\/10\/05. Reading random astronomy-stuff. From the Black Sheep Brewery, and allegedly official — also “tempered over burning witches”. Big English ale, really. Little bit fruity, not overly bitter or blunt. Good stuff. Afterthoughts, October 2010: Definitely official, it turns out. Commissioned for the Pythons’ 30th anniversary. ‘Gimmick’ … Continue reading Black Sheep ‘Monty Python’s Holy Grail’<\/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-249","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":239,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2005\/08\/12\/badger-original-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":249,"position":0},"title":"Badger ‘Original Ale’","author":"Phil","date":"August 12, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Badger Original Ale. 500ml, $5, 4.6%, 12\/8\/05. 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