{"id":403,"date":"2008-08-28T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T12:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=403"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:10:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:10:05","slug":"croucher-pale-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/08\/28\/croucher-pale-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Croucher Pale Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Croucher Pale Ale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Croucher Pale Ale, from Rotorua, but with none of that city’s usual aromatic downsides. An after-work drink, and a pretty damn good one. It’s a little bit Little-Creatures-esque, what with being a pale ale, but not being a thwack in the head with a fistful of hops. More just a nice big glass of lively, pleasantly fruity goodness.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> If I<\/em> compare something to Little Creatures Pale Ale, then I like that thing a lot<\/em>. Just so you know. People too-often ask what my favourite beer is (I say too-often because it’s such a loaded question; for what? for when? for how-many in a row?), but if there has to be one all-time winner, Creatures Pale is likely it. For inherent and circumstantial reasons, like any proper ‘favourite’. But if the dear Critters weren’t so blessedly readily available here in the Little Country, methinks I’d drink bucketloads of Croucher’s Pale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Croucher Pale Ale, from Rotorua, but with none of that city’s usual aromatic downsides. An after-work drink, and a pretty damn good one. It’s a little bit Little-Creatures-esque, what with being a pale ale, but not being a thwack in the head with a fistful of hops. More just a nice big glass of … Continue reading Croucher Pale Ale<\/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":[14,29,12,8],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-nz","tag-facebookers","tag-pale-ale","tag-photogenic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1008,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/10\/30\/croucher-pale-ale-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":403,"position":0},"title":"Croucher Pale Ale","author":"Phil","date":"October 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday brought an end to my Hamilton Expedition, but did compensate me with a lovely drive home down State Highway 4 -- I decided I'd done SH1 too often, so thought I'd go around the other side of the Lake. 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