{"id":5873,"date":"2013-09-02T23:48:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2013-09-02T23:48:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:48:47","slug":"sunday-reading-130901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/02\/sunday-reading-130901\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sunday&#8217; Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5888\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Dog-Black-Lung-III.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5873]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5888\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/02\/sunday-reading-130901\/moon-dog-black-lung-iii\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Dog-Black-Lung-III.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,668\" 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=\"Moon Dog &amp;#8216;Black Lung III&amp;#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Moon Dog &amp;#8216;Black Lung III&amp;#8217;, one of many Birthday Treats&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Dog-Black-Lung-III-300x167.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Dog-Black-Lung-III-1024x570.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5888\" title=\"Moon Dog 'Black Lung III' (Hashigo Zake, 31 August 2013)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Dog-Black-Lung-III-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Moon Dog 'Black Lung III'\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Dog-Black-Lung-III-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Dog-Black-Lung-III-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Dog-Black-Lung-III.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moon Dog &#8216;Black Lung III&#8217;, one of many Birthday Treats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Attempt to start <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/08\/25\/sunday-reading-130825\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new weekly tradition<\/a>, miss your self-imposed deadline for just its <em>second<\/em> incarnation. That <em>does<\/em> sound a lot like a &#8216;me&#8217; thing to do. But in my defence, it was my birthday. Well, my birthday\u00a0<em>weekend<\/em> \u2014 I took liberties with the calendar when the realities of work broke my usual Take The Day Off commandment; fair&#8217;s fair. It was a marvellous weekend, though: beginning in earnest on the Thursday with the Michael Jackson Memorial beer tasting at Regional, shambling through a few nice pubs on Friday night, baking (or at least vaguely helping-to-bake) a Coopers-Stout-fortified chocolate cake on Saturday, watching some fantastic roller derby with a belly full of (good!) beer I&#8217;d daringly drunk from a can while biking along the waterfront to get there, then mooching at Hashigo with my ears full of superawesome jazz drumming, braving Sunday morning for the sake of the markets, babysitting a mercifully-quiet brewery shop before kicking some serious arse at trivia with friends (and nachos and beer).<\/p>\n<p>But enough gloating \u2014 and, seriously, may all\u00a0<em>your<\/em> birthdays be similarly Your Kind Of Thing \u2014 it&#8217;s (past) time to share my recommended reads for your downtime \u2014 on whatever day it falls this week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Anything<\/strong><\/em> <strong>by <a title=\"(Not the other one.)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beerhunter.com\/tastebydate.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jackson<\/a><\/strong>. Obvious, but mandatory. I shamefully realised that I don&#8217;t actually have my own copy of any of his seminal beer books, despite years of using his Malt Whisky Companion as a reference (I was a whisky nerd before I was a beer one). I&#8217;ll soon remedy that. During Thursday&#8217;s tasting, Geoff read great passages from MJ&#8217;s work, and showed clips from the recent\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerhuntermovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beer Hunter<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerhuntermovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> movie<\/a>, which all reinforced what a terrific chap he was and how much he helped shape and document the beer business. He&#8217;s a member of my own internal pantheon of Authors Gone Too Soon \u2014together with Douglas Adams and Iain (\u00b1M.) Banks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thebottleneck.net\/2013\/08\/28\/the-brothers-banks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A (vague) summary of the \u2018Brothers Banks\u2019<\/strong><\/a>. In charmingly rambling and kind-of beer-clouded Gonzo style, Dylan takes a stab at answering the question that popped into 95% of brains at the Brewers Guild awards:\u00a0<em>who<\/em> won the Morton Coutts trophy?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hardknott.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/08\/why-is-debate-about-craft-beer-important.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A meta piece on the undying &#8220;craft beer&#8221; debate<\/strong><\/a>, from a brewer making the simple point that the term obviously means\u00a0<em>something<\/em>, and sometimes that&#8217;s enough.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thirstyboys.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/29\/six-reasons-why-we-write-beer-haiku\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Thirsty Boys on why they haiku<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Mostly I&#8217;m just happy that they\u00a0<em>do<\/em>, so ably documenting the Beer Geek Church that is Hashigo on a Tuesday \u2014 which has sadly become less <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/05\/17\/resolute-zaragoza-mole-stout\/\" target=\"_blank\">a part of my own weekly routine<\/a>.\u00a0I do confess to hoping that the post <em>itself<\/em> would be in haiku, though, big fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=recursion\" target=\"_blank\">recursion<\/a> that I am.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aleofatime.com\/2013\/08\/25\/beer-cycling-in-belgium\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beer Cycling in Belgium<\/strong><\/a>, an envy-inducing post-holiday ramble from Luke which (especially after more than a few Belgian beers in the MJ Memorial tasting) has me determined to start a specific Holiday Fund.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnews.co.nz\/31881\/keiths-take-are-there-apples-in-that-cider\/\" target=\"_blank\">A piece on <em>cider<\/em> versus &#8220;cider&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>, which needs a great-deal more name-and-shame, though I&#8217;m not qualified to engage in such \u2014 if anyone can prod <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/southstarbrew\" target=\"_blank\">Kieran Haslett-Moore<\/a> into ranting out a local version of <a href=\"http:\/\/petebrown.blogspot.co.nz\/2013\/08\/alcopop-drink-that-dare-not-speak-its.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Brown&#8217;s recent piece<\/a>, that&#8217;d be great.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/zythophile.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/31\/a-tale-of-two-beer-festivals-gbbf-versus-lcbf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martyn Cornell in reportage mode<\/a><\/strong> (rather than in his mythbusting historian hat) on the emerging <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Two_Cultures\" target=\"_blank\">Two Cultures<\/a> of (UK) beer festivals, something that&#8217;s been on my mind since Matariki \/ Beervana. Though, while I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massobs.org.uk\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">(mass) observation<\/a>, what I really want is\u00a0<em>data<\/em>; I must try and get some real sampling going.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.narrative.ly\/drinking-buddies\/the-wonderbrewer-of-nowheresville\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Wonderbrewer of Nowheresville<\/strong><\/a>, a really nice long-form piece on the brewer from Hill Farmstead, the ludicrously high-scoring Vermont brewery which can&#8217;t help but put you in mind of the Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes effect\u00a0<em>and<\/em> superdeadkeen to try their beers for yourself. Massive thanks to <a title=\"@teh_aimee; she really does seem to prefer the no-Capitals approach, and fair enough\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teh_aimee\" target=\"_blank\">aimee whitcroft<\/a> for the link, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.narrative.ly\/drinking-buddies\/\" target=\"_blank\">the rest of the week&#8217;s articles<\/a> \u2014 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.narrative.ly\/\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8216;magazine&#8217; in general<\/a> \u2014 looks like it&#8217;s got plenty of other goodies to be going along with.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2013\/08\/28\/10-inspiring-bookshops-around-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">And finally, an irrelevancy<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2013\/08\/28\/10-inspiring-bookshops-around-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>, because the world needs more good books just like it needs more good beers \u2014 and you can judge a person by how they consume both.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attempt to start a new weekly tradition, miss your self-imposed deadline for just its second incarnation. That does sound a lot like a &#8216;me&#8217; thing to do. But in my defence, it was my birthday. Well, my birthday\u00a0weekend \u2014 I took liberties with the calendar when the realities of work broke my usual Take The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/02\/sunday-reading-130901\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Sunday&#8217; Reading<\/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":[55],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-finds","tag-sunday-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5895,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/15\/sunday-reading-130915\/","url_meta":{"origin":5873,"position":0},"title":"Sunday Reading","author":"Phil","date":"September 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a vaguely productive but incredibly restoring weekend, here. I've been going through the dimmer recesses of my fridge and finally pulling out things like Brewaucracy's 'In Triplicate' \u2014 pictured, at right, not too long ago and still going as I write this \u2014and belatedly realised that last weekend was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mediawatch&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mediawatch","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/interesting-finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Brewaucracy 'In Triplicate'","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brewaucracy-In-Triplicate-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5957,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/30\/sunday-reading-130929\/","url_meta":{"origin":5873,"position":1},"title":"Birthday Reading","author":"Phil","date":"September 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"My recent little trip to Sydney was a marvellously-restoring one, but also did a fine job of further-breaking my already-fragile relationship with the \"working week\" as traditionally understood, in the process dealing another knock to my ongoing efforts to habituate myself into my Sunday Reading project.\u00a0The holiday also coincidentally contained\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mediawatch&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mediawatch","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/interesting-finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Little Creatures IPA, and its older Pale Ale sibling","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Little-Creatures-IPA-300x221.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7353,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/08\/09\/weekend-re-reading-beer-for-a-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":5873,"position":2},"title":"Weekend (re-)Reading: Beer For A Year","author":"Phil","date":"August 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been meaning to re-read Alice Galletly's marvellous 'Beer For A Year' for ages. 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My general timetable still hasn't settled down so much that I'm getting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mediawatch&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mediawatch","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/interesting-finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Yeastie Boys' Big Mouth Zine","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yeastie-Boys-Big-Mouth-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3934,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2012\/05\/09\/alaskan-winter-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":5873,"position":4},"title":"Alaskan Winter Ale","author":"Phil","date":"May 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The best-laid plans and all that, right? Four different U.S. imports arrived in the keg fridge at work in the early stages of last winter, and all four\u00a0had glorious great big ostentatious American-style tap handles. 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