{"id":649,"date":"2009-01-10T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=649"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:14:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:14:14","slug":"oharas-celebration-stout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2009\/01\/10\/oharas-celebration-stout\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Hara’s ‘Celebration’ Stout"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"O'Hara's<\/a>
O'Hara's 'Celebration' Stout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’d been meaning to have this for ages, and the occasion of KT’s birthday — her being a good friend and fellow stout drinker — provided the perfect excuse, since it’s one of those beers that the brewery made for their own<\/em> birthday. As if I really need an excuse. But it is awesome, this. Superbly big and smooth, tilting more towards the coffee-ish notes than the chocolatey ones, unless the chocolate you’ve got in mind is the savagely dark bitter yumminess that kinda blurs the difference right out.<\/p>\n

\"O'Hara's<\/a>
Diary entry #69, O'Hara's 'Celebration' Stout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> O’Hara’s Celebration Stout. 10\/1\/09 750ml 28$ @ work 6%. Belated birthday drink with KT. And it’s awesome. Super big and smooth. More coffee-ish than chocolate, very nice sideline of yummy dark bitterness. Perfect for the occasion.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, November 2010:<\/strong> I do like to drink occasion-appropriate beers when I can, and I’d had this in mind for KT’s birthday for weeks after seeing we had this in the fridge. KT is one of those wonderful women I cite as a counter-example when I’m grumping about how people talk about “girly” beers, and seem to have something irrelevantly particular in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d been meaning to have this for ages, and the occasion of KT’s birthday — her being a good friend and fellow stout drinker — provided the perfect excuse, since it’s one of those beers that the brewery made for their own birthday. As if I really need an excuse. But it is awesome, this. … Continue reading O’Hara’s ‘Celebration’ Stout<\/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":[6,18,11],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-ireland","tag-stout"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2004\/08\/20\/carlow-oharas-celtic-stout\/","url_meta":{"origin":649,"position":0},"title":"Carlow \u2018O\u2019Hara\u2019s Celtic Stout\u2019","author":"Phil","date":"August 20, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: O'Hara's Celtic Stout. 12oz, 4.3%, <$5, 20\/08\/04, at home. 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