{"id":442,"date":"2008-10-02T00:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T11:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=442"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:10:18","slug":"little-creatures-bright-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/10\/02\/little-creatures-bright-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Creatures ‘Bright Ale’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Little Creatures 'Bright Ale'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The golden ale little brother to the very-much-loved Creatures Pale, ‘Bright’ isn’t as socks-off-knocking as the classic Critter, but is bloody lovely. Reminiscent of fellow Australian legend Cooper’s ‘Sparkling’, it’s lively, fruity, and (like I said; there’s no better word for it) lovely.<\/p>\n

Really, I’m only surprised that it (apparently) took me this long before I had one. My love affair with Cooper’s Sparkling began way back in 2001 or so, on a stupidly hot Australia Day. I apparently had slack beer advisors; nobody told me I’d love this, too. It occurs to me that I’ve used the word “love” a lot, here. Basically, it’s just that tasty.<\/p>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Little Creatures Bright Ale. 2\/10\/08 $3.5 @ IGA. Reminiscent of Sparkling, unless the name is confusing me. Very lovely + fruity. Apply, I think. Not as socks-knocking as Pale Ale, but yummy. Named just too compare against it?<\/p>\n

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Diary entry #52, Little Creatures Bright Ale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> As I know now (and as you, clever reader, may or may not already know), ‘bright’ here really refers to the filteredness<\/em> of this beer as against the slightly-sedimenty (slightly ‘with-Creatures’, after all) Pale Ale. Golden ales<\/a> really do develop into an obsession, with me; I bloody loves them, I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The golden ale little brother to the very-much-loved Creatures Pale, ‘Bright’ isn’t as socks-off-knocking as the classic Critter, but is bloody lovely. Reminiscent of fellow Australian legend Cooper’s ‘Sparkling’, it’s lively, fruity, and (like I said; there’s no better word for it) lovely. Really, I’m only surprised that it (apparently) took me this long before … Continue reading Little Creatures ‘Bright 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":[6,15,28],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-australia","tag-golden-ale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1489,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/01\/26\/little-creatures-pale-ale-on-australia-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":442,"position":0},"title":"Little Creatures Pale Ale on Australia Day","author":"Phil","date":"January 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Ordinarily, I have a fairly 'involved' Australia Day. 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