{"id":555,"date":"2008-11-05T00:03:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T11:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=555"},"modified":"2011-06-13T15:09:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T03:09:02","slug":"tuatara-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/11\/05\/tuatara-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuatara Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tuatara Porter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Tuatara Porter. A quiet little achiever, this one. On hand pump at das Malthaus, and so lovely and smooth and, well, flat. A nice way to ease yourself (and others) into drinking dark beer, it’s subtly coffee-ish and toast-ish and slightly chocolatey. A surprisingly good pre-lunch pint, too.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, November 2010:<\/strong> After a long run of having the Tuatara IPA as my habitual after-work drink (roughly around the time of this ‘entry’), I think the porter has eventually become my favourite of the range. Especially on the handpull at work.<\/p>\n

And in the background there is the deliciously nerdy fivethirtyeight.com<\/a> (now deservingly subsumed into the New York Times webpage). I do love watching politics unfold, and am definitely fond of actual data<\/em>, rather than talking heads wobbling their faces and venting their half-baked opinions. FiveThirtyEight and (the earlier, but somewhat more basic) electoral-vote.com thus necessitated that we be armed with a laptop as we watched the election. We did get some funny looks, but we also started a trend; just this week at the pub, people were gathered around, just as we were, to watch the American midterms. The most-recent local national election was up on the big screens, too — despite the result, there, it was nice to have something playing other than sport upon sport upon sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Tuatara Porter. A quiet little achiever, this one. On hand pump at das Malthaus, and so lovely and smooth and, well, flat. A nice way to ease yourself (and others) into drinking dark beer, it’s subtly coffee-ish and toast-ish and slightly chocolatey. A surprisingly good pre-lunch pint, too. Afterthoughts, November 2010: After a long … Continue reading Tuatara Porter<\/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":[14,37,29,30],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-nz","tag-gateway","tag-facebookers","tag-porter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1239,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/12\/29\/tuatara-porter-doubly-modified-croucher-mrs-claus\/","url_meta":{"origin":555,"position":0},"title":"Tuatara Porter (doubly modified) & Croucher ‘Mrs. Claus’","author":"Phil","date":"December 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"There some beers that you want to like, but you just can't. 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