{"id":321,"date":"2008-05-16T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=321"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:09:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:09:04","slug":"waiheke-baroona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/05\/16\/waiheke-baroona\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiheke ‘Baroona’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Waiheke<\/a>
Diary entry #47 - Waiheke 'Baroona' Pale Ale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Waiheke Island Baroona Pale Ale. 16\/5\/08, 330ml, $4.5, at work, auditioning. Gorgeous curvy bottle; good honest stuff. Nothing too unique. Bubbles vanish quickly. Drinkable and very marketable. If the contract wasn’t fucked, it’d make a great guest.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> Is that really the first instance of ‘bad language’ in the Diary<\/em>? That doesn’t seem like me. But man, that contract really was fucked. The previously-mentioned<\/a> genuinely-mad new owner set me to the task of sorting out a beer list, and only after a few days of figuring (and auditions like this and the previous entry), did I discover (from someone else), that she’d signed an exclusive<\/em> contract with one of the Big Breweries, Lion. So all my work was for naught. Shit like that made me give up.<\/p>\n

As for the beer itself, though, this is another small brewery that just can’t get its positioning and descriptions to make any sort of sense. It’s named as a pale ale, but then goes and describes itself as “German-style”, which is horribly confused. For the record, it’s the former bit that’s accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Waiheke Island Baroona Pale Ale. 16\/5\/08, 330ml, $4.5, at work, auditioning. Gorgeous curvy bottle; good honest stuff. Nothing too unique. Bubbles vanish quickly. Drinkable and very marketable. If the contract wasn’t fucked, it’d make a great guest. Afterthoughts, October 2010: Is that really the first instance of ‘bad language’ in the Diary? That doesn’t … Continue reading Waiheke ‘Baroona’<\/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":[6,14,12],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-nz","tag-pale-ale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":403,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/08\/28\/croucher-pale-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":321,"position":0},"title":"Croucher Pale Ale","author":"Phil","date":"August 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Croucher Pale Ale, from Rotorua, but with none of that city's usual aromatic downsides. 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