{"id":5895,"date":"2013-09-15T20:10:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T08:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=5895"},"modified":"2013-09-15T20:10:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T08:10:36","slug":"sunday-reading-130915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/15\/sunday-reading-130915\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5943\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brewaucracy-In-Triplicate.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5895]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5943\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/15\/sunday-reading-130915\/brewaucracy-in-triplicate\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brewaucracy-In-Triplicate.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=\"Brewaucracy &amp;#8216;In Triplicate&amp;#8217; (My house, 15 September 2013)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Brewaucracy &amp;#8216;In Triplicate&amp;#8217;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brewaucracy-In-Triplicate.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5943\" title=\"Brewaucracy 'In Triplicate' (My house, 15 September 2013)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brewaucracy-In-Triplicate-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brewaucracy 'In Triplicate'\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brewaucracy-In-Triplicate-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brewaucracy-In-Triplicate.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brewaucracy &#8216;In Triplicate&#8217; \u2014 mere minutes ago, in fact<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s a vaguely productive but incredibly restoring weekend, here. I&#8217;ve been going through the dimmer recesses of my fridge and finally pulling out things like Brewaucracy&#8217;s &#8216;In Triplicate&#8217; \u2014 pictured, at right, not too long ago and still going as I write this \u2014and belatedly realised that last weekend was <em>so<\/em> (oddly) productive that I neglected my Sunday Reading completely. As a tradition, we&#8217;re off to <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/02\/sunday-reading-130901\/\" target=\"_blank\">a shaky start indeed<\/a> \u2014 but <a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/11\/beer-diary-podcast-s03e04\/\" target=\"_blank\">postponements of various kinds and durations<\/a> are par for the course, around here; if anything, <em>that<\/em> is the meta-level tradition.<\/p>\n<p>George and I \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phil_cook\/status\/378816097178230785\" target=\"_blank\">a plus-one<\/a> who didn&#8217;t really count as a <em>guest<\/em> in the usual sense \u2014 sat down for a podcast recording session yesterday, and I&#8217;ve got my Matariki and Beervana debriefs in draft form; more-regular transmission stands a good chance of soon resuming.\u00a0<em>Meanwhile<\/em>, there&#8217;s still plenty going on to catch up with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Boak &amp; Bailey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/boakandbailey.com\/2013\/07\/lets-go-long-in-september\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Let&#8217;s Go Long&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0collection<\/strong>. If you&#8217;re ever short of reading material, <a href=\"http:\/\/boakandbailey.com\/2013\/09\/long-posts-from-around-the-blogoshire\/\" target=\"_blank\">checking in\u00a0<em>here<\/em> is a wise move<\/a>, and it looks like they&#8217;re planning on making a tradition out of it \u2014 which is good news for all concerned and something for us Antipodeans to aspire to joining in. Ron Pattinson contributed <a href=\"http:\/\/barclayperkins.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/09\/1815-1850-porter-supreme.html\" target=\"_blank\">a head-crushing thirty-five <em>tonnes<\/em> of words in the form of his work-in-progress history of porter<\/a>, which is worth a look for the detail into which\u00a0<em>real history<\/em> \u2014 of the myth-busting and evidence-gathering kind \u2014 must necessarily go. But my favourite so far is the curators&#8217; own piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/boakandbailey.com\/2013\/09\/a-brief-history-of-women-and-beer\/\" target=\"_blank\">the (often shamefully untold) history of beer and women<\/a>. (B&amp;B&#8217;s site also sets the gold standard for <a href=\"http:\/\/boakandbailey.com\/disclosure-stuff-we-got-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">lists of disclosures<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/boakandbailey.com\/hey-pr-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">pre-emptive responses to lazy PR<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Froth-Blower&#8217;s Manual<\/em>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcouncil.org.nz\/Writers\/Profiles\/Lawlor,%20Pat\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Lawlor<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"#fn-sunday130915-1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><a name=\"tag-sunday130915-1\"><\/a>. Em found me this for my relatively-recent birthday, and it&#8217;s an enduring source of flip-through-it entertainment. It&#8217;s positively a relic, published in the sixties though with content that apparently mostly dates from closer to a century ago, but is properly charming despite its incredibly-dubious reliability. Neil Miller&#8217;s raved about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalthouse.co.nz\/index.php\/blog\/142-the-encyclopaedia-of-beer\" target=\"_blank\">a few times before<\/a><a name=\"tag-sunday130915-1\"><\/a>, and it seems relatively easy to find in libraries and second-hand bookstores.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heineken&#8217;s effort to target the over-60s<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thebeercast.com\/2013\/09\/heineken.html\" target=\"_blank\">as reported on The BeerCast<\/a>, with assistance from the author&#8217;s admirably-crotchety dad. It turns out that Heineken run a kind of crowd-sourcing &#8216;Ideas Brewery&#8217;, which feels like a fairly stark and sad admission that they don&#8217;t really know what they&#8217;re doing. The insight into their processes is hugely telling; the blunt reaction of a\u00a0<em>relatively random real person<\/em> is damning.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/marlborough-express\/news\/9133931\/Cloudy-Bay-defends-its-appeal-against-Moa\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Moa&#8217;s Disingenuous Shitfight #1: Cloudy Bay<\/strong><\/a>. Hitting a few stumbling blocks with the consenting process for their \u2014 necessary, if their business plan has <em>any<\/em> hope in Hell \u2014 expansion, Moa are in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/BU1309\/S00270\/pot-calls-kettle-black-moa-beer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a slagging match with one of their neighbours<\/a>. A nearby winery has objected to their proposal and Moa responded with a press release wherein &#8220;Moa CEO Geoff Ross says the brewer is considering housing its new facility in a \u2018winery\u2019 to appease the French&#8221; \u2014 knowing full well that it&#8217;s not the size of the facility that counts, it&#8217;s the level of use; wineries are (largely) once-a-year hives of activity whereas breweries can be productive (and thereby noisy, etc.) every single day. Given how often Moa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moabeer.com\/about\/josh-scott\/\" target=\"_blank\">wank on about their founder&#8217;s winemaking experience<\/a>, I think you&#8217;d be excused for expecting them to <em>know<\/em> that&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoppress.co.nz\/blog\/2013\/09\/tui-vs-moa-battle-continues\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Moa&#8217;s Disingenuous Shitfight #2: Tui \/ DB \/ APB \/ Heineken<\/strong><\/a>. Meanwhile, a Tui billboard appeared, satirising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzx.com\/markets\/NZSX\/securities\/MOA?icharts=true\" target=\"_blank\">Moa&#8217;s recently-tanked share price<\/a>, and Josh Scott (through a rather-obvious ghost writer) hit back with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mjwd\/status\/375771066544566272\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">one of their wordy full-pagers<\/a> which managed to entirely undermine what could&#8217;ve actually been a good dig about the labyrinthine ownership of the Mega-Congloms \u2014 if they hadn&#8217;t <em>just said<\/em> that it should be &#8220;all about the beer&#8221;. If ownership&#8217;s fair game (and <em>it is<\/em>), then share price is fair game. Moa really are levelling-up their Hypocrisy, these days; &#8220;foreign ownership&#8221; is a big element of Shitfight #1, too \u2014 but it&#8217;s a bit rich given that Geoff Ross made a chunk of his brewery-buy-in money by cashing a cheque from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bacardi\" target=\"_blank\">a bunch of Cubans<\/a>. The take-home lesson from both Shitfights, if you ask me, is that there can always be\u00a0<em>more than one<\/em> bad guy in any given conflict; there&#8217;s not necessarily a hero, there&#8217;s often just two equally-obnoxious losers taking drunken, uncoordinated swipes at each other.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/what-will-the-simpsons-look-like-after-the-apocalypse-1266571279\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>And finally, an irrelevancy<\/strong><\/a>, because I&#8217;m an enormous fan of\u00a0<em>The\u00a0<\/em><em>Simpsons<\/em> and was already feeling relatively philosophical about its legacy since I just last night farewelled my beloved \u2014 if anything, even\u00a0<em>moreso<\/em> \u2014\u00a0<em>Futurama<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Futurama#Original_cancellation_and_revival\" target=\"_blank\">Again<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">And with that, it&#8217;s time for the last (delicious) sip of this &#8216;In Triplicate&#8217;. Cheers!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: small;\">1:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Not that <\/span><em style=\"font-size: small;\">that<\/em><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> biography mentions <\/span><em style=\"font-size: small;\">TFBM<\/em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">, shamefully. Meanwhile, the other readily-Googleable &#8220;Pat Lawlor&#8221; is responsible for the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: small;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twilight_Zone_(pinball)\" target=\"_blank\">stupidly-awesome <em>Twilight Zone<\/em> pinball table<\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. It&#8217;s an auspicious name.\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: small;\" href=\"#tag-sunday130915-1\">\u2191<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a vaguely productive but incredibly restoring weekend, here. I&#8217;ve been going through the dimmer recesses of my fridge and finally pulling out things like Brewaucracy&#8217;s &#8216;In Triplicate&#8217; \u2014 pictured, at right, not too long ago and still going as I write this \u2014and belatedly realised that last weekend was so (oddly) productive that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/09\/15\/sunday-reading-130915\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday 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-5895","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":7353,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/08\/09\/weekend-re-reading-beer-for-a-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":5895,"position":0},"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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But in my defence, it was my birthday. Well, my birthday\u00a0weekend \u2014 I took liberties with the calendar when the realities of work\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mediawatch&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mediawatch","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/interesting-finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Moon Dog 'Black Lung III'","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Moon-Dog-Black-Lung-III-300x167.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5849,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/08\/25\/sunday-reading-130825\/","url_meta":{"origin":5895,"position":2},"title":"Sunday Reading","author":"Phil","date":"August 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A day of rest sounds like a fine idea, as the peak of the local beer-business-craziness begins at last to recede \u2014 and even though my Sunday has been relatively productive so far, it's certainly been restfully so. 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":7068,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/02\/24\/sunday-reading-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5895,"position":3},"title":"Sunday Reading","author":"Phil","date":"February 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I'm\u00a0compiling them on Sunday, anyway.\u2020 Unless you live in a very-tardy timezone or wait a while, I guess you're not actually reading them on one. It's been a couple of rather overwhelming weeks here at\u00a0Beer Diary HQ; busy, distracting, exhausting and gradually restoring \u2014 all in ways both good\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mediawatch&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mediawatch","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/interesting-finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Void Stares Also (Wellington harbour, 20 February 2014)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Void-Stares-Also.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Void-Stares-Also.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Void-Stares-Also.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Void-Stares-Also.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6119,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2013\/10\/28\/sabbath-reading\/","url_meta":{"origin":5895,"position":4},"title":"Sabbath Reading","author":"Phil","date":"October 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been on a run of six-point-something-day work weeks, lately; some self-inflicted, some externally imposed. 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