{"id":5679,"date":"2013-07-12T03:11:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:47:58","slug":"beer-diary-podcast-s03e03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/12\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e03\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Diary Podcast s03e03: Beer Names (and Festivals, again), with Hadyn Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up for the first time in a while, and not long after a now-notorious kerfuffle over the &#8216;Death From Above&#8217; beer put out by Garage Project (site of my day job, if you haven&#8217;t already noticed), my friend and fellow red-bearded beer writer Hadyn Green and I were about to have a ramble about potentially-offensive beer names when George leapt in and suggested \/ insisted we save it for a podcast. And here, perhaps obviously, is the result. The conversation looped around the place \u2014 frequently bouncing back to the &#8220;beer names&#8221; theme, with detours for recent and upcoming festivals among other more-random topics (and no shortage of videogames).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: medium;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/2393009\/height\/128\/theme\/modern\/size\/standard\/thumbnail\/no\/custom-color\/24890d\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/FFFFFF\" width=\"100%\" height=\"128\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As always,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/beerdiary\/s03e03_-_Hadyn_Green.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a\u00a0direct download\u00a0is available<\/a>, there\u2019s a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/beerdiary.libsyn.com\/rss\">podcast-specific RSS feed<\/a>, and you should be able to get us\u00a0<a title=\"The Beer Diary Podcast, on iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/nz\/podcast\/the-beer-diary-podcast\/id438440794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on iTunes<\/a>.\u00a0<a title=\"@GeorgeLanglands\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GeorgeLanglands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"@Phil_Cook\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Phil_Cook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myself<\/a>\u00a0can also both be reached on the Twitterthing, or you can leave comments here or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebeerdiary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the Bookface<\/a>; feedback is absolutely always welcome. Cheers!<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 20px 0px 20px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5769\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/s03e03-BOTW.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5679]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5769\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/12\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e03\/s03e03-botw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/s03e03-BOTW.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,449\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Beers of the Week, s03e03 (My house, 29 June 2013)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Beers of the Week, s03e03&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/s03e03-BOTW-300x168.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/s03e03-BOTW.jpg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5769\" title=\"Beers of the Week, s03e03 (My house, 29 June 2013)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/s03e03-BOTW-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Beers of the Week, s03e03\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beers of the Week, s03e03<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 20px 0px 20px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5770\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garage-Project-Death-From-Above-label.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5679]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5770\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/12\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e03\/garage-project-death-from-above-label\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garage-Project-Death-From-Above-label.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;Death From Above&amp;#8217; bottle label (Garage Project, 11 July 2013)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8216;Death From Above&amp;#8217; bottle label&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garage-Project-Death-From-Above-label-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garage-Project-Death-From-Above-label.jpg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5770\" title=\"'Death From Above' bottle label (Garage Project, 11 July 2013)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garage-Project-Death-From-Above-label-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"'Death From Above' bottle label\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Death From Above&#8217; \u00a0label<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 20px 0px 20px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5767\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hadyn-and-I-at-Matariki.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5679]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5767\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/12\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e03\/hadyn-and-i-at-matariki\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hadyn-and-I-at-Matariki.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hadyn and I, at &amp;#8216;Matariki&amp;#8217; 2012, hamming up our superficial similarity (The Boatshed, 14 July 2012)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Hadyn and I, &amp;#8216;Matariki&amp;#8217; 2012&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hadyn-and-I-at-Matariki-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hadyn-and-I-at-Matariki.jpg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5767\" title=\"Hadyn and I, at 'Matariki' 2012, hamming up our superficial similarity (The Boatshed, 14 July 2012)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hadyn-and-I-at-Matariki-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hadyn and I, 'Matariki' 2012\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hadyn and I at &#8216;Matariki&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 20px 0px 20px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5771\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yeastie-Boys-Golden-Age-of-Bloodshed.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5679]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5771\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/12\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e03\/yeastie-boys-golden-age-of-bloodshed\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yeastie-Boys-Golden-Age-of-Bloodshed.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Yeastie Boys &amp;#8216;Golden Age of Bloodshed&amp;#8217;, and beetroot-tattoo&amp;#8217;ed Kita from the Cafe next to work (Garage Project, 7 June 2013)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8216;Golden Age of Bloodshed&amp;#8217;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yeastie-Boys-Golden-Age-of-Bloodshed-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yeastie-Boys-Golden-Age-of-Bloodshed.jpg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5771\" title=\"Yeastie Boys 'Golden Age of Bloodshed', and beetroot-tattoo'ed Kita from the Cafe next to work (Garage Project, 7 June 2013)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yeastie-Boys-Golden-Age-of-Bloodshed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Yeastie Boys 'Golden Age of Bloodshed'\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Golden Age of Bloodshed&#8217;, and a beetroot tattoo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 20px 0px 20px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5772\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Goldings-Free-Dive-Beer-Is-Love.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5679]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5772\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/12\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e03\/goldings-free-dive-beer-is-love\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Goldings-Free-Dive-Beer-Is-Love.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,449\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Beer Is Love (Golding&amp;#8217;s Free Dive, 15 April 2013)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Golding&amp;#8217;s Free Dive motto&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Goldings-Free-Dive-Beer-Is-Love-300x168.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Goldings-Free-Dive-Beer-Is-Love.jpg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5772\" title=\"Beer Is Love (Golding's Free Dive, 15 April 2013)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Goldings-Free-Dive-Beer-Is-Love-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Golding's Free Dive motto\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golding&#8217;s Free Dive motto: Beer is Love<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 20px 0px 20px;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5773\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-Adams-Boston-Lager.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[5679]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5773\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/12\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e03\/samuel-adams-boston-lager\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-Adams-Boston-Lager.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Samuel Adams &amp;#8216;Boston Lager&amp;#8217; (Malthouse, 10 November 2009)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Samuel Adams &amp;#8216;Boston Lager&amp;#8217;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-Adams-Boston-Lager-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-Adams-Boston-Lager.jpeg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5773\" title=\"Samuel Adams 'Boston Lager' (Malthouse, 10 November 2009)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-Adams-Boston-Lager-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Samuel Adams 'Boston Lager'\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original <em>Diary<\/em> and Sam Adams &#8216;Boston Lager&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3>\u2014 Show notes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>(0.45) George feels he undersold Hadyn, here, and now offers &#8220;writer, announcer, gamer, raconteur&#8221; \u2014 which is all definitely true \u2014 as a tagline. You can find Hadyn, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hadyngreen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the Twitters<\/a> and occasionally <a href=\"http:\/\/publicaddress.net\/fieldtheory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Public Address<\/a>, among many other pursuits.<\/li>\n<li>(1.20)\u00a0<strong>Beer of the Week #1: Regent 58 Stout<\/strong>. I&#8217;d link to the relevant column in FishHead, but the magazine stubbornly hasn&#8217;t properly joined the internets.<\/li>\n<li>(3.50)\u00a0<strong>Beer names<\/strong><strong> and &#8216;offense&#8217; versus good form<\/strong>, with the usual heavy disclaimers about my day job: I&#8217;m here strictly on my own time and not even remotely speaking on the brewery&#8217;s behalf. The seminal article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/8579131\/Playful-Death-from-Above-beer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Death from Above &#8216;nontroversy&#8217;<\/a> is worth a re-read, along with its comments and (in particular) Dom Kelly&#8217;s two blog posts thereafter \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/theliquorladder.blogspot.co.nz\/2013\/04\/lift-your-game-dominion-post.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one pointed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/theliquorladder.blogspot.co.nz\/2013\/04\/offensive-beer-names.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one parodic<\/a>. Moa&#8217;s &#8216;Black Power&#8217; got <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/05\/07\/moa-black-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a\u00a0<em>Diary<\/em> write-up<\/a>, and &#8216;Bye Bye Blanket Man&#8217; was one of one of the Wellington In A Pint beers we got through <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/02\/28\/the-lost-podcast-archive-part-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a podcast episode last year<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(8.20) Apparently George cut out a\u00a0<em>lot<\/em> of Apocalypse Now exegesis around here.<\/li>\n<li>(9.20) I&#8217;ve had Murray&#8217;s (unrelated) &#8216;Heart of Darkness&#8217;, and it was great. By the way.<\/li>\n<li>(10.10) People may notice my uneasy relationship with &#8216;open secrets&#8217;. I tend to want to make them\u00a0<em>more<\/em> open. Which might get me in trouble, but I honestly think\u00a0<em>all<\/em> sides of <strong>the\u00a0<em>Hopocalypse Now<\/em> saga<\/strong> \u2014 as it could be called \u2014 are readily understandable; but clusterfuck inadvertently sparked by bad timing was unfortunate.<\/li>\n<li>(12.50) There do exist <a href=\"https:\/\/untappd.com\/search?q=hopocalypse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a great deal of Hopocalypses<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(15.00) It&#8217;s entirely irrelevant to his point, but if you haven&#8217;t had the pleasure of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/gunpowderrum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Smoke &amp; Oakum&#8217; Gunpower Rum<\/a>, you should. It&#8217;s sublime and fantastic. (But it\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> also fair to say that piracy isn&#8217;t free from controversial references, either! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/industries\/8902154\/Kiwi-brewery-opens-Bar-of-Arr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moa are learning\u00a0<em>that<\/em> the hard way<\/a>, and while I think it&#8217;s obvious they didn&#8217;t intend to make the connection \u2014 they&#8217;d never be so <em>subtle<\/em> \u2014 they shouldn&#8217;t be at all surprised people could think so little of them. I just wish the media better-covered their <em>actual<\/em> nonsense.)<\/li>\n<li>(17.10) The general <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parachutist_Badge_(United_States)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feathered-wings motif<\/a> is pretty common among U.S. Airborne logos and badges and whatnot, and you can find (weirdly childlike) <a href=\"https:\/\/82ndairbornedivisionmuseum.com\/cube\/pins\/death-from-above-wings-pin\/prod_367.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">versions with skulls and\/or the slogan around the place<\/a>, as well.<\/li>\n<li>(18.30) Seriously, though, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/view\/zero-punctuation\/6021-Spec-Ops-The-Line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Spec Ops: The Line<\/em> is a masterpiece<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(20.50) Oh look, there&#8217;s me still saying <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/02\/brewdog-boundary-road-and-becoming-the-villain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">positive things about BrewDog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(21.20) Blatantly sexist\u00a0<em>themed<\/em> beers are left as an exercise for the listeners. Write in!<\/li>\n<li>(22.20) <a href=\"http:\/\/pumpclipparade.blogspot.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pumpclip Parade<\/a> makes me equally sad, angry, and amused.<\/li>\n<li>(23.10)\u00a0I do hear of B.O.T.Y. #1 having consistency issues, as is par for the course for such small operations, so <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/your_mileage_may_vary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Y.M.M.V.<\/a>. But I liked mine, and it wasn&#8217;t my first.<\/li>\n<li>(24.30) Apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haile_Selassie_I#Question_of_his_divinity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the status of Haile Selassie vis-\u00e0-vis Rastafarianism<\/a> is a <em>little<\/em> murkier than I suggest, here, but still. The philosopher in me always also asks how come cannabis is a sacrament, but <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conium#Socrates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">people still shy away from hemlock tea<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>(25.30)\u00a0<strong>Beer of the Week #2: Townshend &#8216;Flemish Stout&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>(28.50) I notice that George didn&#8217;t edit this. So he&#8217;s probably mostly right.<\/li>\n<li>(29.30) Blasphemous local beers are also left as an exercise for the audience.<\/li>\n<li>(31.40)\u00a0<strong>GABS debrief\u00a0\u2192 Beervana preview<\/strong>. Last year&#8217;s posts, for comparison&#8217;s sake, form a good chunk of the <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2012<\/a> sections of the archive. Short version: tonnes of fun. And just awesome to see how the whole of Melbourne gets in the beery swing all week. I&#8217;ve got\u00a0<em>heaps<\/em> of notes from this year; I&#8217;ll have to do a proper post. <a href=\"http:\/\/theliquorladder.blogspot.co.nz\/2013\/05\/spectapular-time.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dom&#8217;s write-up<\/a>, just to throw you in his direction once more, is pretty-much bang on.<\/li>\n<li>(39.30) The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hundredth_monkey_effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hundredth Monkey Effect<\/a> is, of course, bollocks. But still an apt analogy.<\/li>\n<li>(42.20) From memory, it was Sam from Hashigo Zake who told me, and the beer was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenflashbrew.com\/images\/promotional_timeline\/promotional-PW.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Palate Wrecker&#8217; (a.k.a. &#8216;Hamilton&#8217;s Ale&#8217;), from Green Flash<\/a>. I&#8217;ll get some for B.O.T.Y..<\/li>\n<li>(43.20) George fell into the double-negative trap and just meant &#8220;clarified&#8221;, here.<\/li>\n<li>(45.45)\u00a0<strong>Beer of the Week #3: 8 Wired &#8216;Bumaye&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>(48.50) The black market beer barter economy is a wonderful, unexpected thing.<\/li>\n<li>(51.40)\u00a0<strong>Malthouse&#8217;s West Coast IPA Challenge<\/strong> is <em>today<\/em>, in fact. This has taken me a little while to get online, evidently. Their\u00a0<strong>Darkest Day<\/strong> was tonnes of fun, and hopefully becomes an annual thing. <strong>&#8216;Matariki&#8217;<\/strong> falls outside, you know,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matariki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Matariki<\/em><\/a> this year and I suppose therefore reverts to simply being the Winter Ale Festival. Meanwhile, to return to the theme, Garage Project&#8217;s entry is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=545499325497846&amp;set=a.219928491388266.52779.193825113998604&amp;type=1&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Love From Above&#8217;<\/a> \u2014 a straight-APA version of &#8216;Death&#8217;, without the unusual ingredients (chili, lime, mint), and rather-obviously referencing the aforementioned clusterfuck.<\/li>\n<li>(53.10) <strong>The &#8216;Tribute&#8217; trademark<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IzK1GLvwj4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Glengarry-Hancock&#8217;s video<\/a> is, I repeat, utterly marvellous. You should watch it (again), and heap scorn upon them for that\u00a0<em>and<\/em> for the trademark application. In an uncharacteristically-wise move, they&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tribute-withdrawn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withdrawn their application<\/a>. But seriously, fuck them for even trying.<\/li>\n<li>(57.30)\u00a0<strong>Recommendations:<\/strong><strong>ParrotDog &#8216;BloodyDingo&#8217;<\/strong>, their GABS festival beer, arguably a potentially-slightly-controversial name, and\u00a0<em>surely<\/em> the spiritual successor to Hadyn&#8217;s mighty BitterHound blend.\u00a0<strong>Yeastie Boys &#8216;Golden Age of Bloodshed&#8217;<\/strong>, which is a reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nP1M6hoygnU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a kick-ass track<\/a>, and was\u00a0<em>another<\/em> potential source of ignition for a good old-fashioned moral panic (which never eventuated). <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/04\/20\/defamation-beetnik-ipa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Wood&#8217;s &#8216;Beetnik&#8217;<\/a> is one of the only home-brewed beers in my\u00a0<em>Diary<\/em>, and it&#8217;s utterly marvellous.\u00a0<strong>Baylands American IPA<\/strong>, which <em>narrowly\u00a0<\/em><em>avoids<\/em> being an offensive style name.<\/li>\n<li>(1.10.00)\u00a0<strong>Hadyn&#8217;s Heineken lessons<\/strong>, with Franck.<\/li>\n<li>(1.20.50)\u00a0<strong>More Recommendations: Three Boys Oyster Stoat<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>(1.22.25)\u00a0<strong>Here Be Dragons: Sam Adams &#8216;Boston Lager&#8217;<\/strong>, says George. Now imported by &#8220;Independent&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/02\/brewdog-boundary-road-and-becoming-the-villain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about whom I rambled recently in the BrewDog context<\/a>. In the end, I did write to them. BrewDog forwarded me to the Boundary Road chaps, who straight-facedly said they don&#8217;t mind how their whole business model is roundly and routinely ridiculed by the Scots they now import. But yes, I have a soft spot for Boston Lager, since it is <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/01\/07\/sam-adams-boston-lager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beer #1 in my\u00a0<em>Diary<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>(1.26.10)\u00a0Cue the\u00a0music:\u00a0<a title=\"'SPLIT!' EP by The Coconut Monkeyrocket &amp; Martinibomb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comfortstand.com\/catalog\/016\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Shopping for Explosives\u2019<\/a>, by\u00a0<a title=\"coconutmonkeyrocket.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coconutmonkeyrocket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Coconut Monkeyrocket<\/a>. Audio editing done in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audacity<\/a>. Habitual thanks to both.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5764\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5764\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/GABS-taps-late-in-the-Festival.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5679]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5764\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/12\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e03\/gabs-taps-late-in-the-festival\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/GABS-taps-late-in-the-Festival.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,449\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GABS taps, late in the Festival (Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 26 May 2013)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;GABS taps, late in the Festival&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/GABS-taps-late-in-the-Festival-300x168.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/GABS-taps-late-in-the-Festival.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5764\" title=\"GABS taps, late in the Festival (Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 26 May 2013)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/GABS-taps-late-in-the-Festival.jpg\" alt=\"GABS taps, late in the Festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/GABS-taps-late-in-the-Festival.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/GABS-taps-late-in-the-Festival-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GABS taps, late in the Festival \u2014 \u00a0a great weekend that warrants a full post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up for the first time in a while, and not long after a now-notorious kerfuffle over the &#8216;Death From Above&#8217; beer put out by Garage Project (site of my day job, if you haven&#8217;t already noticed), my friend and fellow red-bearded beer writer Hadyn Green and I were about to have a ramble about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/07\/12\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e03\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beer Diary Podcast s03e03: Beer Names (and Festivals, again), with Hadyn Green<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast-episodes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16602,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/05\/10\/beer-diary-podcast-s04e08\/","url_meta":{"origin":5679,"position":0},"title":"Beer Diary Podcast s04e08: 2014 Year in Review","author":"Phil","date":"May 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Back at last for a traditionally-belated\u00a0'Year in Review' episode, George and I called in a few guests to help ponder what 2014 meant to us in beer, since we were both extra-busy in\u00a0everything else. \u00a0Now-recidivist Friends Of The Show Jono and Hadyn graciously took up the challenge and joined us\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Podcast episodes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Podcast episodes","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/podcast-episodes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"'The Story of Beer' (on my coffee table, 10 May 2015)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gordon-McLauchlan-Lion-The-Story-of-Beer-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17133,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/02\/beer-diary-podcast-s05e01\/","url_meta":{"origin":5679,"position":1},"title":"Beer Diary Podcast s05e01: 3G Coverage \u2014 Garage Project, GABS, and gastrophysics","author":"Phil","date":"August 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"And so the Beer Diary Podcast is back for a fifth season\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and with our traditional delay in hitting 'publish', no less. 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