{"id":532,"date":"2008-10-17T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T11:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=532"},"modified":"2011-03-15T23:20:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T10:20:05","slug":"renaissance-stonecutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/10\/17\/renaissance-stonecutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaissance ‘Stonecutter’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Renaissance 'Stonecutter'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Renaissance ‘Stonecutter’ Scotch Ale. Partially because of a long day, partially because it’d go well with sitting and finishing off a couple of books, partially because of the easier-going one<\/a> I had in Melbourne, and partially because I didn’t yet have a photo of it, I had another one of these. And oh my god do I love it to bits. Absolutely huge malty fruity flavour to it. Big and dark and smooth and a little bit Christmas cakey, it hides its 7% booze worryingly well, and often proves itself surprisingly popular with the “I don’t drink beer” crowd, once we just plonk a taster in front of them and insist they have a go.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, November 2010:<\/strong> The books, incidentally are, 1) Irreligion<\/em><\/a>, by John Allen Paulos and 2) The Year of Living Biblically<\/em><\/a> by A.J. Jacobs. Both are utterly excellent in their very-different (althought thematically-related) ways. And it’s only just occurred to me that a beer named after the Freemasons-lampooning sect on The Simpsons<\/em> makes an extra-good accompaniment to such reading material. Aren’t I (accidentally) clever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Renaissance ‘Stonecutter’ Scotch Ale. Partially because of a long day, partially because it’d go well with sitting and finishing off a couple of books, partially because of the easier-going one I had in Melbourne, and partially because I didn’t yet have a photo of it, I had another one of these. And oh my … Continue reading Renaissance ‘Stonecutter’<\/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":[27,14,37,29,8],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-nz","tag-gateway","tag-facebookers","tag-photogenic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":484,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/10\/05\/red-hill-scotch-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":532,"position":0},"title":"Red Hill Scotch Ale","author":"Phil","date":"October 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Pouring a hazy dark amber with a reddish tint, this surprised me by being a good deal lighter than I was expecting.\u00a0 It's nicely fruity and smooth, but stays a bit too 'small' in the taste department for me. \"Scotch Ale\" just makes me expect massive great big fullness, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Actual Diary entries"","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Red Hill Scotch Ale","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Red-Hill-Scotch-Ale-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":280,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2007\/05\/20\/hofbrau-munchner-weisse-et-al\/","url_meta":{"origin":532,"position":1},"title":"Hofbrau Munchner Weisse (et. al.)","author":"Phil","date":"May 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Hofbr\u00e4u M\u00fcnchner Weisse. 500ml, 5.1%, 20\/8\/07. 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