{"id":610,"date":"2008-12-05T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=610"},"modified":"2011-10-20T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T11:24:00","slug":"emersons-bookbinder-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/12\/05\/emersons-bookbinder-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerson’s ‘Bookbinder’, again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emerson's 'Bookbinder'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Emerson’s ‘Bookbinder’. Again. The previously-promised<\/a> photo in “proper” glassware. Actually, I cheated a bit and upgraded my after-work glass to the ever-so-slightly-bigger version than what I was strictly-speaking supposed to. All in pursuit of a wee bit more Bookbinder, so totally justified. The Booky-book — or Wookie-book, if you’re Amelia — is always worth another visit, and has long-since had a place on the All Time Favourites list.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, November 2010:<\/strong> A year later, it was one of two beers I wrote about for the Malthouse blog<\/a>, and so it was still happily on that Favourites List. And now<\/em>, a year after that<\/em>, it still is. We need some kind of Lifetime Achievement Award around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verbatim: Emerson’s ‘Bookbinder’. Again. The previously-promised photo in “proper” glassware. Actually, I cheated a bit and upgraded my after-work glass to the ever-so-slightly-bigger version than what I was strictly-speaking supposed to. All in pursuit of a wee bit more Bookbinder, so totally justified. The Booky-book — or Wookie-book, if you’re Amelia — is always worth … Continue reading Emerson’s ‘Bookbinder’, again<\/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":[27,14,29,42],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-nz","tag-facebookers","tag-sessionable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":575,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2008\/11\/09\/emersons-bookbinder\/","url_meta":{"origin":610,"position":0},"title":"Emerson’s ‘Bookbinder’","author":"Phil","date":"November 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Emerson's 'Bookbinder'. 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