{"id":462,"date":"2008-10-05T00:03:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T11:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=462"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:10:39","slug":"emersons-jp-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/10\/05\/emersons-jp-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerson’s ‘JP’ 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Emerson's<\/a>
Emerson's 'JP' 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘JP’ is a regular in Emerson’s healthily-populated series of seasonal releases. It’s named in honour of JP Dufour, a Belgian who is reputedly largely responsible for introducing the fledgling local brewing scene to the joys of beers from his homeland. He was a professor at Otago University, I believe with Richard Emerson’s father — and sales from these beers apparently go towards a scholarship.<\/p>\n

Each year’s ‘JP’ is a different take on a Belgian style, and the 2008 was a big hearty brown ale, matured on cherries. Generally speaking, I don’t go for cherries. But I go for this, in a big way. So that was clever of them. It’s freaking delicious, and has real cross-category appeal.<\/p>\n

\"Emerson's<\/a>
Diary entry #55, Emerson's JP (redacted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Emerson’s JP 2008. 5\/10\/08 $10 @ Markets. I’ve had this before, but it turns out that [REDACTED]. Awesome Belgian brown ale, matured on cherries. I hate cherries, and I love this.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, October 2010:<\/strong> My first piece of censorship, here. The Diary<\/em> was never intended for public consumption, after all. I was elated to find such a worthy Little Country beer at the markets in the Big Country, but also moved to pick this particular one<\/em> because of a certain piece of rumour \/ gossip I’d heard. So I’ve bleeped that bit<\/em> out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘JP’ is a regular in Emerson’s healthily-populated series of seasonal releases. It’s named in honour of JP Dufour, a Belgian who is reputedly largely responsible for introducing the fledgling local brewing scene to the joys of beers from his homeland. He was a professor at Otago University, I believe with Richard Emerson’s father — and … Continue reading Emerson’s ‘JP’ 2008<\/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":[26,6,14],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-belgian","tag-pages","tag-nz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1249,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/12\/31\/emersons-jp-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":462,"position":0},"title":"Emerson’s ‘JP’ 2010","author":"Phil","date":"December 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd managed to draw the early (3pm start) shift for New Year's Eve, and the afternoon was nice and quiet for the most part, giving me time to whip around to the other side of the bar and join my friends for a beer. 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