{"id":544,"date":"2008-11-05T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T11:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=544"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:12:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:12:43","slug":"emersons-oatmeal-stout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/11\/05\/emersons-oatmeal-stout\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerson’s Oatmeal Stout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emerson's Oatmeal Stout (overseen by Wolf Blitzer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Emerson’s Oatmeal Stout. This is how I started my day, at 10.00am, watching CNN for coverage of the U.S. Presidential Election. As we all know by now, the Good Guy won<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It pours as absolute darkness in a glass, and is ludicrously smooth to drink, with a great big chocolatey afterglow that tickles the brainstem a few moments after each sip. If Barry White were a beer, this may well be him.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, November 2010:<\/strong> That line about Barry White was very useful. I tend to describe beers very idiosyncratically<\/em> — I’m much more of the impressionistic style than the fine-detailed sound-like-a-wine-wanker sort. (Though the latter does have its place.) I loved this beer, and recommended it by saying that it was Barry White reincarnated in beer form; big, black and deeply sexy.<\/p>\n

And yes, past tense<\/em>; “was very useful”, “loved this beer”. Emerson’s sadly ‘retired’ this beer, and I mourned. You suspect I’m not even being metaphorical, don’t you? Well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Emerson’s Oatmeal Stout. This is how I started my day, at 10.00am, watching CNN for coverage of the U.S. Presidential Election. As we all know by now, the Good Guy won. It pours as absolute darkness in a glass, and is ludicrously smooth to drink, with a great big chocolatey afterglow that tickles the … Continue reading Emerson’s Oatmeal Stout<\/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":[14,29,11],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-nz","tag-facebookers","tag-stout"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":550,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/11\/05\/emersons-pilsner\/","url_meta":{"origin":544,"position":0},"title":"Emerson’s Pilsner","author":"Phil","date":"November 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Emerson's Pilsner. 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