{"id":3776,"date":"2011-06-27T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:23:26","slug":"beer-diary-podcast-s01e08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/27\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e08\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Diary Podcast episode 8: Strong Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My profuse apologies for the inadvertent summer hiatus. Inspired by the impending holidays \u2014 impending, that is, when we recorded \u2014 we have a little bit of a ramble about Strong Beer (partially also to balance the ledger after our Midstrength Beer episode). There are a lot of ways to be a strong beer, and equally-many reasons to enjoy one. And then there&#8217;s a fair amount of silliness in the field, too. But the point remains: there&#8217;s a beer for every occasion that might otherwise bring wine or whisky to the front of your mind.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: medium;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/1829775\/height\/128\/theme\/modern\/size\/standard\/thumbnail\/no\/custom-color\/24890d\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/FFFFFF\" width=\"100%\" height=\"128\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As always, <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/beerdiary\/s01e08_-_Strong_Beer.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a\u00a0direct download<\/a>\u00a0is available, there\u2019s a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/beerdiary.libsyn.com\/rss\">podcast-specific RSS feed<\/a>, and you should be able to get us\u00a0<a title=\"The Beer Diary Podcast, on iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/nz\/podcast\/the-beer-diary-podcast\/id438440794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on iTunes<\/a>.\u00a0<a title=\"@GeorgeLanglands\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GeorgeLanglands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"@Phil_Cook\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Phil_Cook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myself<\/a>\u00a0can also both be reached on the Twitterthing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_3802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3802\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Liberty-Citra-and-Twisted-Hop-Red-Zone.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[3776]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3802\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/27\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e08\/liberty-citra-and-twisted-hop-red-zone\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Liberty-Citra-and-Twisted-Hop-Red-Zone.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Liberty &amp;#8216;C!tra&amp;#8217; and Twisted Hop &amp;#8216;Red Zone Enigma&amp;#8217; (Malthouse, 24 December 2011)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Beers of the Week&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Liberty-Citra-and-Twisted-Hop-Red-Zone-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Liberty-Citra-and-Twisted-Hop-Red-Zone.jpeg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3802\" title=\"Liberty 'C!tra' and Twisted Hop 'Red Zone Enigma' (Malthouse, 24 December 2011)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Liberty-Citra-and-Twisted-Hop-Red-Zone-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Liberty 'C!tra' and Twisted Hop 'Red Zone Enigma'\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beers of the Week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_3803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3803\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Liberty-Citra-blurb.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[3776]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3803\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/27\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e08\/liberty-citra-blurb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Liberty-Citra-blurb.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Liberty &amp;#8216;C!tra&amp;#8217;, blurb (Malthouse, 24 December 2011)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Liberty &amp;#8216;C!tra&amp;#8217;, blurb&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Liberty-Citra-blurb-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Liberty-Citra-blurb.jpeg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3803\" title=\"Liberty 'C!tra', blurb (Malthouse, 24 December 2011)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Liberty-Citra-blurb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Liberty 'C!tra', blurb\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liberty &#8216;C!tra&#8217;, blurb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_3804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3804\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Twisted-Hop-Red-Zone.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[3776]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3804\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/27\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e08\/twisted-hop-red-zone\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Twisted-Hop-Red-Zone.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Twisted Hop &amp;#8216;Red Zone Enigma&amp;#8217; (Malthouse, 24 December 2011)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Twisted Hop &amp;#8216;Red Zone Enigma&amp;#8217;, blurb&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Twisted-Hop-Red-Zone-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Twisted-Hop-Red-Zone.jpeg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3804\" title=\"Twisted Hop 'Red Zone Enigma' (Malthouse, 24 December 2011)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Twisted-Hop-Red-Zone-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Twisted Hop 'Red Zone Enigma'\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twisted Hop &#8216;Red Zone Enigma&#8217;, blurb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_3806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3806\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-Adams-Utopias.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[3776]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3806\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/27\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e08\/samuel-adams-utopias\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-Adams-Utopias.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Samuel Adams &amp;#8216;Utopias&amp;#8217; (Malthouse, 18 January 2010)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Samuel Adams &amp;#8216;Utopias&amp;#8217;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-Adams-Utopias-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-Adams-Utopias.jpeg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3806\" title=\"Samuel Adams 'Utopias' (Malthouse, 18 January 2010)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-Adams-Utopias-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel Adams 'Utopias'\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel Adams &#8216;Utopias&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_3807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3807\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrewDog-TNP-unwrapped.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[3776]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3807\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/27\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e08\/brewdog-tnp-unwrapped\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrewDog-TNP-unwrapped.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BrewDog &amp;#8216;Tactical Nuclear Penguin&amp;#8217;, unwrapped (Malthouse, 18 January 2010)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;BrewDog &amp;#8216;Tactical Nuclear Penguin&amp;#8217;, unwrapped&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrewDog-TNP-unwrapped-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrewDog-TNP-unwrapped.jpeg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3807\" title=\"BrewDog 'Tactical Nuclear Penguin', unwrapped (Malthouse, 18 January 2010)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrewDog-TNP-unwrapped-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"BrewDog 'Tactical Nuclear Penguin'\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BrewDog &#8216;Tactical Nuclear Penguin&#8217;, unwrapped<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_3808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3808\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Epic-in-the-fridge-Larger-and-Lager.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3776]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3808\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/27\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e08\/epic-in-the-fridge-larger-and-lager\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Epic-in-the-fridge-Larger-and-Lager.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Epic in the fridge, Larger and Lager (Malthouse, 14 January 2012)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Epic &amp;#8216;Larger&amp;#8217; and Epic Lager&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Epic-in-the-fridge-Larger-and-Lager-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Epic-in-the-fridge-Larger-and-Lager.jpg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3808\" title=\"Epic in the fridge, Larger and Lager (Malthouse, 14 January 2012)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Epic-in-the-fridge-Larger-and-Lager-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Epic Larger and Lager\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Epic &#8216;Larger&#8217; and Epic Lager<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Show notes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>(0.45) Well, it&#8217;s been a while for you now, too, as I pre-emptively apologised for, above. The timing of the <em>Beer Diary<\/em>\u00a0entries are a frequent cause of puzzlement, so I&#8217;ve taken New Years Resolution-esque steps to make them a little more reader-friendly and a little less puzzling. They always made sense in <em>my<\/em>\u00a0head, but many objectively-mad things often seem to do so.<\/li>\n<li>(1.50) <a title=\"Beer Diary Podcast s01e04\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/01\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midstrength beer<\/a> <em>was<\/em> a little while ago.<\/li>\n<li>(2.45) <a title=\"Beer Diary Podcast s01e03\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/05\/14\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winter beer<\/a> was <em>also<\/em> a little while ago. Slightly moreso, in fact.<\/li>\n<li>(3.20) <strong>Beer of the Week #1:<\/strong> Liberty &#8216;C!tra&#8217;. A sure-fire giveaway of me being a rather-appalling typography nerd is that I occasionally call <a title=\"'Exclamation mark', on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exclamation_mark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an exclamation mark<\/a> a &#8220;bang&#8221; &#8212; partially because that old practice today survives mostly in the name of my absolute-favourite punctuation mark, the <em><a title=\"'Interrobang', on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interrobang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interrobang<\/a><\/em> (which also serves as <a title=\"@phil_cook, on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/phil_cook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my Twitter avatar<\/a> \/ general logo-thing), and the rather-awesome <em><a title=\"'Shebang (Unix)', on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shebang_(Unix)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shebang<\/a><\/em> from the world of programming.<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>(7.05) Martyn Cornell&#8217;s long-form history-dredging myth-busting posts are always a good read &#8212; if you&#8217;re into that sort of thing, <em>and I am<\/em> &#8212; and <a title=\"'Imperial Stout -- Russian, or Irish?', on Zythophile\" href=\"http:\/\/zythophile.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/26\/imperial-stout-%E2%80%93-russian-or-irish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his one on Imperial Stout is no exception<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(7.55) Epic&#8217;s &#8216;LARGER&#8217; is the reference on my mind, here; its Wellington launch-party was in preparation as we recorded this. It turned out to be a real hoot &#8212; and not <em>quite<\/em>\u00a0the absolute carnage that a suprisingly-drinkable 8.5% lager might imply.<\/li>\n<li>(8.45) <a title=\"Beer Diary Podcast s01e06\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/21\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beer festivals<\/a>, compared to &#8216;Midstrength beer&#8217; and &#8216;Winter beer&#8217;, was not very long ago at all. But a while ago from <em>here<\/em>. See? Time is all sorts of relative.<\/li>\n<li>(10.20) &#8216;Strong beer&#8217; and &#8216;expensive beer&#8217; are fairly tightly correlated. Especially in a place like New Zealand, where the tax take is levied proportionately to <em>booze<\/em>, not just <em>volume<\/em>. But &#8212; and I say this as a member of a criminally-underpaid profession &#8212; one of the enduring charms about beer <em>is<\/em> this relative accessibility. Even the stupid-money end of the scale is <em>much<\/em> more within grab than the equivalent corners of, say, the wine or whisky markets.<\/li>\n<li>(14.50) To lift entirely a note from the Midstrength beer episode and thereby weirdly quote myself: &#8220;In New Zealand, beer under 1.15% attracts\u00a0<em>no<\/em>\u00a0excise tax; anything 1.15% \u2013 2.5% is subject to 38.208\u00a2 per litre of\u00a0<em>beverage<\/em>; and all beer 2.5% and over is levied at $25.476 per litre of\u00a0<em>alcohol<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>(15.00) Just to check in with Mr Google: &#8220;Imperial IPA&#8221; will get you more than a million hits, while &#8220;Imperial APA&#8221; brings in a relatively-poor 25,000-odd.<\/li>\n<li>(17.30) Inevitably, <a title=\"'So what IS the difference between barley wine and old ale?', on Zythophile\" href=\"http:\/\/zythophile.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/14\/so-what-is-the-difference-between-barley-wine-and-old-ale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martyn Cornell has covered this, too<\/a>. You really should read him more often, if you don&#8217;t, whoever you are.<\/li>\n<li>(20.10) <a title=\"'Hellbender', on garageproject.co.nz\" href=\"http:\/\/garageproject.co.nz\/post\/12759338193\/hellbender-barleywine-21-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Garage Project&#8217;s American Barleywine, &#8216;Hellbender&#8217;<\/a>, was a delicious thing, and a marvellous excuse for a good-natured nerdfight.<\/li>\n<li>(21.20) As a little tour of that particular corner of the Strong Beer world, I really do recommend that you punch out <a title=\"Diary II entry #83: The Trappist Dance Card\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/03\/29\/the-trappist-dance-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a whole Trappist Dance Card<\/a> at least once in your life.<\/li>\n<li>(22.45) <strong>Beer of the Week #2:<\/strong> Twisted Hop &#8216;Red Zone Enigma&#8217;. I&#8217;m obviously <em>way<\/em>\u00a0late for Christmas present recommendations, to the point where I&#8217;ve just clocked it and become <em>way early<\/em>. Myself and a few other local beer-people appeared in a short segment on <a title=\"Summer Report 2011-2012, on radionz.co.nz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/summerreport\/20111230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radio New Zealand&#8217;s &#8216;Summer Report&#8217;<\/a> where we raised the possibility of substituting-in a lovely big bottle of beer for the usual grape-juice-descended options &#8212; it&#8217;s difficult to directly link to, but filed under &#8216;Sparkling new beers may replace traditional bubbles&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>(24.40) The iStout-through-a-Tim-Tam-straw suggestion came from a chap on the Twitters by the name of <a title=\"@Dave_FBTE, on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Dave_FBTE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Ellis<\/a>. I only know him (so far; Hello!) in his Twittering capacity, but he&#8217;s clearly some sort of genius. George has got his <a title=\"'Branding rivals will never take the biscuit, says Mr Tim Tam', Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2003\/04\/17\/1050172707606.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Tam History<\/a> somewhat askew; a Chit Chat is a kind of knock-off copycat of a Tim Tam &#8212; but they were, themselves, apparently stolen from \/ &#8220;inspired by&#8221; a Penguin biscuit.<\/li>\n<li>(26.40) Adelaide beer blogger <a title=\"@hereforthehops, on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hereforthehops\">Aaron Caruana<\/a> shares my Bletchley Park obsession &#8212; and, helpfully, went there recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uncanonical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and took lovely photos<\/a>. Our brewing aspirations languished after a few dead batches. My moderate Canberra-based successes did not translate down to my Melbourne apartment, for some reason. <em><a title=\"'Purple (cipher machine)', on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purple_(cipher_machine)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Purple<\/a><\/em>\u00a0was definitely the Allied name for the Japanese machine, which actually carried the rather-marvellous name &#8220;System 97 Printing Machine for European Characters&#8221;. And\u00a0<em><a title=\"'Cryptonomicon', on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cryptonomicon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cryptonomicon<\/a><\/em>\u00a0remains my favourite novel, but does have a slightly memory-distorting effect (together with the Strong Beer), given its fictionalisations.<\/li>\n<li>(30.10) <a title=\"Diary II entry #40: Three Boys 'Aftershock'\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/12\/08\/three-boys-aftershock\/\">Three Boys &#8216;Aftershock&#8217;<\/a> was great on many levels.<\/li>\n<li>(33.30) My Christmas night <a title=\"Diary II entry #44: BrewDog 'Paradox: Isle of Arran'\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/12\/25\/brewdog-paradox-isle-of-arran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BrewDog Paradox<\/a> was sublime.<\/li>\n<li>(36.00) The German one, the name of which I couldn&#8217;t bring to mind \/ pronounce is\u00a0Schorschbr\u00e4u Schorschbock, the last (57%) edition of which was called &#8216;Finis Coronat Opus&#8217;. And really &#8212; though this may just be the inevitable prejudice you&#8217;d get from an English-speaker &#8212; BrewDog won this game, I think.\u00a0Schorschbr\u00e4u&#8217;s packaging and everything was just so po-faced and serious while the Scots were clearly taking the piss and having a laugh and bowed out spectacularly with <a title=\"'End of History', on BrewDog.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brewdog.com\/blog-article\/341\">End of History<\/a>. And while BrewDog did recently announce that they&#8217;d walk away from the theatrics a bit, the campaign around <a title=\"'Ghost Deer', on BrewDog.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brewdog.com\/blog-article\/ghost-deer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghost Deer<\/a> is pretty damn funny, too.<\/li>\n<li>(41.40) <a title=\"Diary II entry #109: 8 Wired 'Batch 18'\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/03\/8-wired-%E2%80%98batch-18%E2%80%99\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8 Wired&#8217;s &#8216;Batch 18&#8217; is <em>fantastic<\/em><\/a>, and still the as-far-as-I-can-tell strongest made here. Though there was some mention in <em>The Pursuit of Hoppiness<\/em>\u00a0of him having plans to climb a few rungs higher on the boozeladder. But &#8212; I hasten to add, the day after publishing this and with great thanks to local good-beer-bar-frequenter <a title=\"@DWinNZ, on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DWinNZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Wu<\/a> \u00a0&#8212; it turns out we forgot all about Green Man&#8217;s barleywine, &#8216;Enrico&#8217;s Cure&#8217;, which weighs in at 14.5%, and <em>does<\/em>\u00a0actually crow about being &#8220;New Zealand&#8217;s strongest beer&#8221; (true for now), &#8220;probably the world&#8217;s strongest organic beer&#8221; (which seems likely) and &#8220;one of the strongest beers in the world&#8221; (which <em>definitely<\/em>\u00a0isn&#8217;t true, except for insanely-generous definitions of &#8220;one of&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>(43.50) Ngahere Gold turns out to be 7.2%, and I know it may seem a little harsh of me to knock it and then go on to praise Epic &#8216;Larger&#8217; &#8212; but I&#8217;ll either just wear the hypocrisy or argue that the latter just had enough <em>fun<\/em>\u00a0and <em>funny<\/em>\u00a0about it.<\/li>\n<li>(46.00) I&#8217;m somewhat shocked that I was closer to the mark than movie-geek George, on this one. Bruce Wayne doesn&#8217;t buy the restaurant; <a title=\"'Batman Begins: Just swimming', on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6poX_8CT9kM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he buys the <em>hotel<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(46.30) <strong>Midstrength News &amp; Recommendation:<\/strong> Cassels &amp; Sons &#8216;Beer&#8217;. Alice Galletly did <a title=\"'#116 Cassels &amp; Sons - Beer', on Beer for a Year\" href=\"https:\/\/beerforayear.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/04\/116-cassels-sons-beer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a great little write-up with it on her blog<\/a> &#8212; which, itself, counts as an additional recommendation if you&#8217;re not reading her already.\u00a0And then there&#8217;s Epic&#8217;s &#8216;LARGER&#8217;, which has now been and gone from our taps but is now skulking around in bottles. Not seeing the pun turned out to be a hilarious Elephant trap, into which even Wellington&#8217;s daily newspaper happily blundered. <a title=\"'Larger -- An imperial pilsner', on Beerevolution\" href=\"http:\/\/beerevolution.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/15\/larger-an-imperial-pilsner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelly Ryan&#8217;s typically-informative blog post on the making-of<\/a> confirms my Southern Holiday Beer theory, too, and would&#8217;ve been worth a read even if he&#8217;d proven me wrong.<\/li>\n<li>(52.20) I still haven&#8217;t had my Renaissance &#8216;Tribute&#8217;. It&#8217;s here beside me on my desk. And I haven&#8217;t figured out quite-why the name, either. So that&#8217;ll be <em>my<\/em>\u00a0homework.<\/li>\n<li>(55.00) We&#8217;ll do a Year in Review episode, next, rather than a Christmas one as such. That&#8217;d obviously leave you waiting <em>ages<\/em>, now. But for now, cue the music:\u00a0<a title=\"'SPLIT!' EP by The Coconut Monkeyrocket &amp; Martinibomb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comfortstand.com\/catalog\/016\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Shopping for Explosives\u2019<\/a>, by\u00a0<a title=\"coconutmonkeyrocket.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coconutmonkeyrocket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Coconut Monkeyrocket<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Podcast episode recorded: 3 December 2011, nearly\u00a0<em>relatively<\/em>-promptly uploaded (I\u00a0<em>swear<\/em>): 14 December 2011, and then only actually-for-serious uploaded: 24 January 2012. Sheesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1: Note also that the url format for Twitter pages includes a shebang before the username. Double geek-happiness, there.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My profuse apologies for the inadvertent summer hiatus. Inspired by the impending holidays \u2014 impending, that is, when we recorded \u2014 we have a little bit of a ramble about Strong Beer (partially also to balance the ledger after our Midstrength Beer episode). There are a lot of ways to be a strong beer, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/27\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e08\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beer Diary Podcast episode 8: Strong Beer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast-episodes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7467,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/09\/07\/beer-diary-podcast-s04e03\/","url_meta":{"origin":3776,"position":0},"title":"Beer Diary Podcast s04e03: Women &#038; Beer \u2014 part 1","author":"Phil","date":"September 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"For a Very Special episode, George and I relinquish the microphone entirely to four of our friends. We'd wanted to dedicate an episode entirely to 'Women & Beer' for some time and eventually realised that we were sufficiently blessed for potential guests \u2014 and also sufficiently lacking in personal experience,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Podcast episodes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Podcast episodes","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/podcast-episodes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7520,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/09\/14\/beer-diary-podcast-s04e04\/","url_meta":{"origin":3776,"position":1},"title":"Beer Diary Podcast s04e04: Women &#038; Beer \u2014 part 2","author":"Phil","date":"September 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Following straight on \u2014 after a quick re-play of the introduction, thanks to some clever editing by George \u2014 from last weekend's episode, we're delighted to present the second half of our Very Special podcast takeover on Women & Beer, by women, drinking beer. Megan, Beth, Hayley and Steph continue\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Podcast episodes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Podcast episodes","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/podcast-episodes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3834,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/06\/27\/beer-diary-podcast-s01e09\/","url_meta":{"origin":3776,"position":2},"title":"Beer Diary Podcast episode 9: 2011 Year in Review","author":"Phil","date":"June 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Hardly rushing in to things, we here present our 2011 Year in Review, recorded mid-February and published in the first few days of March. The Oscars for 2011 releases only happened this week, after all, and we don't have their kind of budget \u2014\u00a0or Billy Crystal. 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