{"id":385,"date":"2008-05-16T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T12:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=385"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:09:40","slug":"three-boys-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/05\/16\/three-boys-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Boys Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three Boys Porter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Three Boys Porter. One of very-few good things about Christchurch, these guys make a lovely few brews, and the porter is an especially good way to end your evening.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> Firstly, I can’t believe I actually drank something else<\/em> after the Skull Splitter<\/a>. No wonder I didn’t actually write anything down for this one. I probably couldn’t<\/em>. Secondly, damn the lighting in this pub used to be a lot uglier (he writes, as he sits at the bar after work and tinkers with his webthing).<\/p>\n

But thirdly, the Porter Flood. The text on the label reads, in part:<\/p>\n

Such was the popularity of porter in old England that legend has it townsfolk drowned when vats at a local brewery burst, flooding the streets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which always struck me as tosh. (And there is a lot of nonsense, in the historical ‘legends’ surrounding beer and brewing; we’ll get to a lot of those, eventually.) But I was delighted to discover that I had under-estimated the weirdness of the world. The porter flood actually happened, just a bit more than 196 years ago in London, when the maturing tank (a behemoth of a thing, at several hundred thousand litres) burst at the Horse Shoe Brewery. The ensuing carnage claimed a few lives, and a few buildings. It must’ve been insane.<\/p>\n

Since the anniversary (October 17) of the event happens to be so coincidentally close to the time when I’m writing this, a useful piece<\/a> recently popped up in a local(ish) paper; it’s worth a read.<\/p>\n

After-afterthoughts, still October, still 2010:<\/strong> I’ve stumbled upon an excellent<\/em> beer blog, Zythophile, and found that the writer there has very nicely covered the story of the Flood, in a book of his and a follow-up posting<\/a>. Even more worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Three Boys Porter. One of very-few good things about Christchurch, these guys make a lovely few brews, and the porter is an especially good way to end your evening. Afterthoughts, October 2010: Firstly, I can’t believe I actually drank something else after the Skull Splitter. No wonder I didn’t actually write anything down for … Continue reading Three Boys Porter<\/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":[14,29,30],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-nz","tag-facebookers","tag-porter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":741,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/09\/08\/yeastie-boys-pot-kettle-black\/","url_meta":{"origin":385,"position":0},"title":"Yeastie Boys ‘Pot Kettle Black’","author":"Phil","date":"September 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"'PKB' -- as it quickly became known; the full version of the name is meant to highlight the seeming-contradiction in a beer being both hoppy and dark -- was the first Yeastie Boys release. 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