{"id":3973,"date":"2012-05-12T04:04:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2012-05-17T23:15:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:15:32","slug":"gabs-day-one-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/05\/12\/gabs-day-one-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"GABS 2012: Day One Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’m back in my dear old Melbourne taking full advantage of my well-timed unemployment to attend GABS: the Great Australasian Beer Spectapular<\/a>. It’s rather a treat, and will warrant a proper write-up (or several), but I just want to use the last few moments before my sleep-deprived brain implodes to upload a few photos.<\/p>\n

— The Location<\/h3>\n

The venue — the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens — is right in my old neighbourhood (at the end of my genuinely lovely one-time ten minute walk to work, in fact), and it’s freakin’ gorgeous<\/em>. The bars were in the East and West wings, renamed as the “Malt” and “Hops” Ends; the latter seeming to have just a bit more going on, which nicely fits the current state of the market and its fashions. The center contained a stage upon which a good collection of bands performed — usually slightly too loud<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"Main<\/a>
Main Hall, looking East<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Fountain<\/a>
Fountain and park outside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Main<\/a>
Main Hall, ceiling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The Hops End<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The Malt End<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Main<\/a>
Main Hall, center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

— The Beer<\/h3>\n

The selection of beer on offer — nearly sixty mostly-one-off brews from New Zealand and Australia — is headcrushingly varied and enticing. It skews somewhat to the experimental and odd, but not in a stuntish or boringly overblown way. The huge bars were well prepped and keyed mainly towards serving five-sample tasting trays, with payments all handled by familiar and ubiquitous tokens that help you forget just how much you’re spending. I kept things fairly sedate — I was slightly less sleep-deprived than now, but still extraordinarily<\/em> so and had odd-job volunteer work to do off and on through the night. I had a tasting tray of the five mildest beers on offer (all \u22644.5% ABV), but later rewarded myself with a proper-glass nightcap of Garage Project’s ‘Double Day of the Dead’, a worthy (and embiggened) reincarnation of my Favourite Beer of 2012<\/a>. There’s plenty more I want to try, but I am<\/em> going to three more sessions; there’s time.<\/p>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The Big Board part 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The Big Board part 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The Big Board part 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Bar<\/a>
Bar 01, prepping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Bar<\/a>
Bar 04, serving<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"$2<\/a>
$2 GABS 2012 Token<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Row<\/a>
Row of taps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Sessionable<\/a>
Sessionable tasting paddle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Double<\/a>
Double Day of the Dead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I’m back in my dear old Melbourne taking full advantage of my well-timed unemployment to attend GABS: the Great Australasian Beer Spectapular. It’s rather a treat, and will warrant a proper write-up (or several), but I just want to use the last few moments before my sleep-deprived brain implodes to upload a few photos. … Continue reading GABS 2012: Day One Photos<\/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":[47],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-3973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports","tag-photogenic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4046,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/05\/18\/gabs-2012-day-two-and-three-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":3973,"position":0},"title":"GABS 2012: Day Two & Three Photos, with Afterthoughts","author":"Phil","date":"May 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"GABS Weekend was genuinely awesome -- and pretty-much exhausting. 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