{"id":539,"date":"2008-11-01T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=539"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:12:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:12:35","slug":"founders-generation-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/11\/01\/founders-generation-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders ‘Generation Ale’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Founders 'Generation Ale'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Founders Generation Ale. An all-organic brewery, and organic farming\/whatever is something about which I could not give a toss. So: no points on for that, from me. But: indifference also means no points off. Provided the beer is good.<\/p>\n

And the beer is good. Straight up and down nutty brown ale. Which develops some fairly serious nuttiness (in a good way) by the time you’re done with a half-litre of it. But it’s smooth and satisfying and uncomplicated.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, November 2010:<\/strong> Founders Brewery is another one of those ones with a strange relationship with the apostrophe. The labels say ‘Duncans Founders Brewery’, which seems to me to need at least<\/em> one apostrophe, somewhere. Maybe there needs to be a Good Use of Grammar and Punctuation certification regime, like there is for all this organic produce malarky. Since Founders were the first Australasian brewery out of the gate on the organic front (the number is now approximately oodles<\/em>), maybe they’d be willing to take the lead, here, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Founders Generation Ale. An all-organic brewery, and organic farming\/whatever is something about which I could not give a toss. So: no points on for that, from me. But: indifference also means no points off. Provided the beer is good. And the beer is good. Straight up and down nutty brown ale. Which develops some … Continue reading Founders ‘Generation 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":[27,14,29],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-nz","tag-facebookers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1459,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/01\/10\/matilda-bay-fat-yak\/","url_meta":{"origin":539,"position":0},"title":"Matilda Bay ‘Fat Yak’","author":"Phil","date":"January 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"It does seem to me that (though the traffic in both directions is still painfully slow) the Australians are having better luck at getting good New Zealand beer available over there than we are with the vice-versa, over here. 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