{"id":584,"date":"2008-11-15T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=584"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:13:14","slug":"pink-elephant-golden-tusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/11\/15\/pink-elephant-golden-tusk\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Elephant ‘Golden Tusk’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pink Elephant 'Golden Tusk'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I should’ve been all over this. It’s from a pokey little operation in Blenheim where his bit seems to be making overstrong brews. This one clocks in at 7.1% and is the lowest-booze of the three we have in stock. It’s pitched as a ‘special bitter’, and starts with a nice big nose full of apricots and other orange-coloured stonefruity things. On your first sip, it’s got a pleasantly bitter punch and then… pretty much nothing. Alarmingly thin for a seven-percenter, one wonders how they managed that. You can keep going back for the aroma and the punch-upon-sipping, but your brain just keeps asking why that’s all there is.<\/p>\n

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Diary entry #62, Pink Elephant 'Golden Tusk'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Pink Elephant Golden Tusk Special. 15\/11\/08 $8 @ Malthouse 7.1% 330ml. A special bitter, with punch. Very big nose full of apricots and orangey stonefruits. Taste is pleasantly bitter, but very short. Surprisingly thin for a 7%-er.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, November 2010:<\/strong> Weirdly, this entry and #63<\/a> seem backwards, in the book. There’s all<\/a> sorts<\/a><\/em> of funny little time-loops going on with the uploading of this Diary<\/em> thing. It’s beginning to do my head in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I should’ve been all over this. It’s from a pokey little operation in Blenheim where his bit seems to be making overstrong brews. This one clocks in at 7.1% and is the lowest-booze of the three we have in stock. It’s pitched as a ‘special bitter’, and starts with a nice big nose full of … Continue reading Pink Elephant ‘Golden Tusk’<\/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":[27,6,14],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-pages","tag-nz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":632,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/12\/23\/twisted-hop-ipa\/","url_meta":{"origin":584,"position":0},"title":"Twisted Hop IPA","author":"Phil","date":"December 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A reward-to-self for knocking my Christmas shopping off in one go (and with a whole day to spare). 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