{"id":7443,"date":"2014-08-20T23:50:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2014-08-21T00:11:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:11:33","slug":"station-ident-anticipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2014\/08\/20\/station-ident-anticipation\/","title":{"rendered":"Station Ident: Anticipation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Neon sign outside Trunk bar, Melbourne. (And my Golding’s Free Dive Beer Goggles<\/a> entry, incidentally.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So,1<\/sup><\/a><\/a> as may or may not already be obvious, Beervana<\/a> is nearly upon us. As it does every year, now, it’s brought a swirl of beautiful madness with it\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the City is brimming with beer geeks and the calendar is crammed with things for them to over-occupy their time. Working<\/em> in the beer business, though, can complicate the enjoyment of this week a little precisely because there is such a glorious mountain of stuff going on. Spare an extra thought for your barpeople; they’re likely pulling long hours and achingly envious of your ability to flit from spot to spot.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot going on in my little corner(s) of the industry, as well: flinging beer hither and yon\u00a0\u2014\u00a0slowly driven bonkers by the cautious ordering of restaurants unaccustomed to the\u00a0enthusiasm<\/em> of the beer-drinking public this time of year, and so requiring re-up after re-up \u2014 and lending a minor hand in the pile of other projects entailed by a day job at a brewery that goes utterly batshit on the events<\/a> and special\u00a0releases<\/a> fronts. So I’m mostly hanging out for the festival\u00a0itself, since I’m missing out on most of its satellites.<\/p>\n

And I am, admittedly, superkeen. I stand by my sympathy for\u00a0people who’ll now skip Beervana\u00a0\u2014\u00a0feeling it’s outgrown them or they’ve outgrown it<\/a> \u2014 in this rich ecosystem of ours, but I always enjoy it as pilgrim, participant, hypercritical observer, and raving evangelist. And as performer<\/em> again, this year, with the Beer Diary Podcast: Live!<\/a> on each evening, which should be buckets of fun\u00a0\u2014 and\u00a0the audience is open to all comers.<\/p>\n

This is the big week in beer, in New Zealand. It’s our Christmas. Imagine how run off your feet you’d be, if you were an elf, and bolt that to the giddy excitement you felt when you were a kid. It’s both at once, and it’s bloody marvellous. Bring it on.2<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>1:<\/strong> If this post’s title earworms you as quickly and strongly as it did me<\/a>, I make no apologies.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>2:<\/strong> Meanwhile, I should reiterate that the placeholding ‘Station Ident’ idea is one shamelessly stolen from Honorary Friend Of The Show<\/a> Warren Ellis. If you’re not reading his notes at morning.computer<\/a>, you’re missing out on some of the best short-form stuff around. (And that really is a valid URL, now; the third age of the internet is really going to be strange.)\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So,1 as may or may not already be obvious, Beervana is nearly upon us. As it does every year, now, it’s brought a swirl of beautiful madness with it\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the City is brimming with beer geeks and the calendar is crammed with things for them to over-occupy their time. Working in the beer business, though, can … Continue reading Station Ident: Anticipation<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-7443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","tag-photogenic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":906,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/10\/10\/beer-101-tasting-session\/","url_meta":{"origin":7443,"position":0},"title":"Beer 101 Tasting Session","author":"Phil","date":"October 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"George (the gifter of the original Diary) organised a little tasting session at his house for a few friends of ours, with me playing the Informative Nerd. 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