{"id":5276,"date":"2012-10-28T22:12:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2018-06-28T20:41:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T08:41:17","slug":"desert-island-beers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/10\/28\/desert-island-beers\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Island Beers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yeastie<\/a>
Yeastie Boys ‘Gunnamatta’ (at Gunnamatta, NSW)1<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Desert Island Discs<\/a> is one of those inelimably\u00a0British<\/em> British cultural institutions.2<\/sup> It’s been going since WWII, and is likely responsible for all those brilliant scenes in\u00a0High Fidelity<\/em>3<\/sup> wherein the record shop staff assemble their Top Fives for various (increasingly random) scenarios. The idea is simple: imagine yourself cast-away on a remote but pleasantly habitable island. What records would you wish were there with you? What would you summon to keep you company, if you could? Pausing to take stock of enduring favourites is a genuinely worthy meditative experience \u2014 especially with a memory like mine.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Desert Island\u00a0Beers<\/em> is an ongoing project run in collaboration between the All Gates Brewery’s blog<\/a> and Real Ale Reviews<\/a>. Recently, they embarked on a bit of an Australasian Excursion, inviting a bunch of Antipodeans to participate and ponder what they’d want to have with them on their hypothetical island. I was chuffed4<\/sup> to be asked to join in, and spent an enjoyable evening at the Malthouse, perched on the bar with laptop and beer(s), flicking through my\u00a0Diary<\/em> and contemplating my options.<\/p>\n

In no particular order \u2014 by which I mean to say this isn’t a ranking or a table of medals, this is just the sequence in which I put them on the list \u2014 my Desert Island Beers were:<\/p>\n

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  1. Little Creatures Pale Ale<\/a> (my Fallout Boy)5<\/sup><\/li>\n
  2. Hallertau ‘Minimus’<\/a> (for sessionable loveliness)<\/li>\n
  3. Liberty ‘Never Go Back’<\/a> (a mandatory B.A.M.F.)<\/li>\n
  4. Rochefort 6 \/ 8 \/ 10<\/a> (a Big Belgian Trappist Thing)<\/li>\n
  5. Yeastie Boys ‘Gunnamatta’ Earl Grey IPA<\/a> (as my “weird”)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \n

    My full write-up went up on the All Gates Brewery website<\/a> over the weekend \u2014 my phone beeped and notified me as I arrived at Gunnamatta beach, as featured in the above photo, fittingly enough \u2014 and includes elaborated reasons for picking each of the above, as well as my attempts to choose books, an album, a meal, and a luxury item to take in addition to all that lovely beer. It was heaps of fun to participate, and reading around the other entries is a great little window into the personalities of other ‘beer people’ that you might not otherwise hear a lot from; I wholeheartedly recommend you have a wander through their collection and keep and eye out for new local castaways over the next few weeks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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    \"Little<\/a>
    Little Creatures Pale Ale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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    \"Liberty<\/a>
    Liberty ‘Never Go Back’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
    \n
    \"Rochefort<\/a>
    Rochefort glass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
    \n

    1:<\/strong> Which is the wrong<\/em> Gunnamatta \u2014 it’s named for a song which is, in turn, named for a surf beach a thousand kilometers away in Victoria<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 but the beer-and-beach-matching was gloriously nerdy enough to justify a minor diversion to end my recent (i.e., it finished\u00a0yesterday<\/em>) little roadtrip around the NSW South Coast. To compound the matching (and to atone for being in the wrong\u00a0state<\/em>, perhaps), we were listening to the song<\/a>, at least.<\/span>
    \n2:<\/strong> The Beeb’s website isn’t massively helpful \u2014 for slaves-to-copyright reasons \u2014 to those of us in further-flung parts of the world. But there’s a rumour, you know, that, apparently, I hear, you can download these things through, um, unofficial channels.<\/span>
    \n3:<\/strong>\u00a0In both the book\u00a0and<\/em> the film;\u00a0H.F.<\/em> is a very-rare instance of a page-to-screen adaptation that works brilliantly well, if you ask me \u2014 especially considering that the latter translated the story forward in time and to another continent.     The Wikipedia page for the novel<\/a> \u2014 in true fantastically-geeky style \u2014 includes the lists, if you’re impatiently curious.\u00a0<\/span>
    \n4:<\/strong>\u00a0Which felt suitably British.<\/span>
    \n5:<\/strong> Not<\/em>, I hasten to emphasise, my     Fall Out Boy<\/a>. The story goes that the band were nameless and called for audience help, whereupon someone suggested the name of Radioactive Man’s sidekick<\/a>. The band fucked up the spelling \/ typography, evidently having missed the reference \u2014 which, to me, amounts to proof of a deprived upbringing and a possible cause of their relentless crapness.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Desert Island Discs is one of those inelimably\u00a0British British cultural institutions.2 It’s been going since WWII, and is likely responsible for all those brilliant scenes in\u00a0High Fidelity3 wherein the record shop staff assemble their Top Fives for various (increasingly random) scenarios. The idea is simple: imagine yourself cast-away on a remote but pleasantly habitable island. … Continue reading Desert Island Beers<\/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":[35,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-blahblah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4431,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/06\/30\/yeastie-boys-gunnamatta\/","url_meta":{"origin":5276,"position":0},"title":"Yeastie Boys ‘Gunnamatta’","author":"Phil","date":"June 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It's rather fitting that, now I've finally finished uploading my GABS Weekend notes, I actually have a proper Diary\u00a0entry for the beer that started my trip. 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