{"id":767,"date":"2010-09-16T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T12:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=767"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:17:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:17:20","slug":"brew-moon-hophead-ipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/09\/16\/brew-moon-hophead-ipa\/","title":{"rendered":"Brew Moon ‘Hophead’ IPA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brew Moon 'Hophead' IPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m still kicking myself that me and my friends didn’t know about the Brew Moon Cafe<\/a> when we were on our South Island roadtrip a few years ago. They’re in the charming-enough little town of Amberly, in North Canterbury, and we stopped there (we stop a lot<\/em>, on our roadtrips) to see the statue of Double-VC soldier Charles Upham<\/a>, who once farmed nearby. Now that I do<\/em> know about this place and their beers, I really must go back.<\/p>\n

‘Hophead’ is a lovely beer; it’s not a crazypants kind of over-done \/ attention-grabbing IPA, it’s just a solid bottle of yum. And I can’t help but notice this Diary<\/em> entry’s place in the timing of this blogthing; I’d just reached frustration-point with the fact I wasn’t carrying Diary I<\/em> with me and so couldn’t remember which note-worthy beers already had been appropriately noted. So there’s a weird sort of particular satisfaction in putting this<\/em> note up, I must say.<\/p>\n

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Diary II entry #6, Brew Moon 'Hophead' IPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Brew Moon ‘Hophead’ IPA 16\/9\/10 500ml\u00f73 with Scotty & Peter. $9ish from Rumbles, 5%. We randomly had this a while ago, but I can’t remember if I Booked it, I really must get these online. And it’s pretty tasty all over again. Good orangey-coloured body, fruity hops and just general good-drinkin’ yumness. Not a mucked-with loopy IPA; just a perfectly-solid one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m still kicking myself that me and my friends didn’t know about the Brew Moon Cafe when we were on our South Island roadtrip a few years ago. They’re in the charming-enough little town of Amberly, in North Canterbury, and we stopped there (we stop a lot, on our roadtrips) to see the statue of … Continue reading Brew Moon ‘Hophead’ IPA<\/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":[6,14,12],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-nz","tag-pale-ale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3098,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/05\/26\/rescue-red\/","url_meta":{"origin":767,"position":0},"title":"Renaissance \/ 8 Wired \/ Yeastie Boys ‘Rescue Red’","author":"Phil","date":"May 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Around a year ago, Luke Nicholas was talking to Sam Calagione and was able to apparently-accurately say that their 'Portamarillo' would be New Zealand's second-ever collaborative brew -- after the also-with-Luke Epic \/ Thornbridge Stout. 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