{"id":289,"date":"2007-10-27T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T11:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=289"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:07:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:07:58","slug":"atlas-three-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2007\/10\/27\/atlas-three-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas ‘Three Sisters’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Atlas<\/a>
Diary entry #39, Three Sisters Scottish Ale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Three Sisters Scottish Ale. 500ml, $7ish, 4.2%, 27\/10\/07. Watching Top Gear and having a beer to normalise after going to a mad Christian thing. Bubbles vanish. Smells very dark \/ burnt coffee and choc. Decent dark ale, but.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> The “mad Christian thing” was the big (and creepily-named) ‘Harvest’ thing that evangelical bigwig Greg Laurie threw here in civilised old Wellington. It was pretty strange. Though, admittedly, I was there specifically to witness the strange. Even the few Christian friends (I have plenty, actually) I bumped into there were pretty weirded-out, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Three Sisters Scottish Ale. 500ml, $7ish, 4.2%, 27\/10\/07. Watching Top Gear and having a beer to normalise after going to a mad Christian thing. Bubbles vanish. Smells very dark \/ burnt coffee and choc. Decent dark ale, but. Afterthoughts, October 2010: The “mad Christian thing” was the big (and creepily-named) ‘Harvest’ thing that evangelical … Continue reading Atlas ‘Three Sisters’<\/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":[27,6,19],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-pages","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":223,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2005\/04\/16\/belhaven-scottish-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":289,"position":0},"title":"Belhaven ‘Scottish Ale’","author":"Phil","date":"April 16, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"A.K.A. 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