{"id":6950,"date":"2014-02-02T21:10:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T08:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2014-02-02T23:55:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T10:55:45","slug":"sunday-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/02\/02\/sunday-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

They treated the rest of that day as though it was a Sunday, that is to say what you should expect of a Sunday. You need time for big and complicated new concepts to shake themselves down in your brain slowly, without damaging what is already there.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter,\u00a0<\/em>The Long Earth<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Pretty Things ‘Jack d’Or’ \u2014 on a Sunday, just not\u00a0this<\/em>\u00a0particular Sunday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve got a few longer-form and more-detailed ponderings on the go at the moment \u2014 a catch-up on All Things Moa in the year-and-some since their infamous IPO<\/a>, and an attempt to build a bulwark against some of the more-annoying and more-absurd bits of the recent Moral Panic<\/a> around beer (too-often standing in for “booze in general”) and the reflex to restrict its availability. But it’s a Sunday, and they never feel like the occasion for such heavy-lifting \u2014 except perhaps in the garden \u2014 so I’ve instead happily been going through my pile of Interesting Miscellaneous Things To Read.<\/p>\n

Back when I was a paperboy, we relished January as a month of lighter-than-usual deliveries thanks to the end of holiday advertising a the general Slow News Month. In the beer world, at least, it seems there’s no such effect:<\/p>\n