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ess analogies you can t put stuff like that into a classy font and make people pay for it but guess what they did how to have a beer is kind of a beginner s guide to beer crossed with a personal retelling of my own beer journey with a few dick jokes thrown in for good measure and then mostly thrown out again by the editor which in hindsight was the right call it s sort of hard to explain all i can say is if you made it through beer for a year or even this far down this post you are probably just strange enough to enjoy it how to have a beer launches this thursday at 6 15pm at the grey lynn rsc and i would love nothing more than to see some of the old blog readers there your favourite professional beer geek phil cook will be officially launching the book and garage project bless them have bravely brewed me my very own cock bock for the occasion you may remember i attempted something similar during this blog all in all it s going to be a bloody great time here are the deets if you can t make it don t worry you can still buy a copy of my book for yourself and everyone you love for christmas it should be out at the usual outlets soon but i believe it s available right now from awesome independent bookstores time out in mt eden or page blackmore in nelson hope to see you thursday you ll find me where i always am at these events over by the snacks table alice xx published in uncategorized on november 20 2016 at 4 09 pm leave a comment the last post in which in an unprecedented display of self indulgence i conduct my own exit interview ag hi alice bfay alice hi ag it s a bit sad that i m interviewing you for your final post isn t it weren t there any journalists that wanted to do it bfay probably loads i think perhaps too many of them were trying to call me at once and might have jammed the phone more published in uncategorized on august 30 2012 at 2 37 pm comments 20 365 liberty 365 name 365 brewery liberty style imperial red ale abv 8 5 source galbraith s alehouse i ll admit there have been times over the year when this project seemed insane the days where i had twenty five posts to write for example or as i forced back beers while every cell in my body protested but every hangover every dollar spent and every hour passed at my laptop seemed suddenly worth it last night aside from a momentary panic that i could be peaking at 26 the end of blog party was probably one of the most enjoyable nights of my life thank you so much to everyone who came down to galbraith s to celebrate with me it was so lovely to have all my family and friends beery and otherwise gathered together in my favourite pub and the beer the beer as phil pointed out it would have been p r e t t y awkward if i hadn t liked my final beer although with liberty in charge there was never any real danger of that still i m happy to report that i m going to annoy my parents one last time by swearing on the blog it was fucking delicious to make 365 a hoppy imperial red ale was a genius decision by jo looking back over my year the beers i first fell in love with were huge highly hopped ipas and then i steered away from them in favour of malt mosters eventually i decided i loved both just so long as they were balanced i might be a total fluke but 365 encompassed this journey perfectly the fresh fruity new zealand hops were the perfect partner for the mouth filling toffee malt and it succeeded in being both rich and endlessly drinkable it finished on a lip smackingly crisp note but without that lingering harshness that puts me off so many hoppy beers did i mention also that it was 8 5 i m pretty sure that made the party 85 more fun plenty of clever sods have pointed out that this was a leap year and so technically i should be doing 366 beers quite right and that s why kate jordan richard jack and i brewed stickler a hoppy american stout which we gave away at galbraith s last night i saved a little to drink tonight although i won t be blogging about it because surely you re sick of me by now i am actually going to write one last post in the next week or so which will be a reflective epilogue type thing for now i just want to say a ginormous magnum sized thank you to everyone who has been with me on this journey your comments tweets and even just page views were what motivated me to pick up the next bottle so both the success of this blog and the possible failure of my liver are on you oh god i m actually getting a little bit teary as i realise this is the end my workmate is looking at me funny and i m trying to pretend i m just yawning it s ok i have an emergency sized can of dab under my desk i m going to open that and we ll just say goodbye for now i ll see you next week at beervana published in amber ale new zealand on august 8 2012 at 12 41 pm comments 17 tags liberty brewing 364 west coast the artist name the artist brewery west coast brewing style barley wine abv 10 source dave kurth today is a momentous day do you know why i mean sure the history books might remember it as curiosity s first full day on mars and yes the newspapers have chosen to prioritize tongariro s eruption but if you cut science out of the picture and really who needs it then what are you left with the 365th day of beer for a year i should warn you that i m too excited to sit still and have consumed nothing but coffee two and cupcakes three today as a result of my hyperactivity this post may not be 100 cohesive i drank the artist at my dining table last night the same place i ve enjoyed the majority of the beers on the blog so far and realised as i photographed it that this was the last time i would perform this little ritual i got a bit sad and melancholic for a minute but then i had a sip of this 10 beer and felt great on the nose i got sweet fruity flavours of dried apricots barley sugars toffee and a little savoury hint of something like marmite in the mouth it was sweet and mouth filling with all those fruity toffee malt flavours blossoming into something epic before being curtailed at the last second for a bone fry finish i never intended to drink the whole thing myself but somehow that s exactly what happened dave kurth sent me the artist a few months ago and it was supposed to be released soon sadly the brewery went into liquidation in may and so he and this beer are just stuck in limbo for now i really hope it does eventually get released because apart from the fact it s bloody nice the most beautiful label has already been created for it elephants in the atmosphere by jo cringle today s thanks goes to my dad when i first told dad about the blog his exact response was you will get very fat young lady but it didn t take long for him to become almost more enthusiastic than me he s since bought me loads of fancy beers i could never have afforded myself ventured into the wonderful world of homebrewing with me and like mum become a total craft beer enthusiast bordering on geek himself dad is even flying all the way up from wellington today to drink my final beer with me thanks dad finally in case you somehow missed it on here twitter facebook i will be drinking my 365th and final beer at galbraith s tonight i had considered doing some sort of live blog type thing but as the beer will be 8 5 i think spelling could prove a challenge if you re in auckland please join me and book wednesday morning off work published in barley wine new zealand on august 7 2012 at 3 38 pm comments 13 tags west coast 363 cock bull monk s habit name monk s habit brewery steam brewing style ipa abv 7 source cock bull ellerslie of all the beers i ve had so far this one was definitely the saddest you see this was not only my first taste of monk s habit the cock bull s multi award winning flagship beer it was almost certainly my last cue violins the chain of pubs which has been around for nearly 20 years and sells its own range of iconic beers produced by its brewery arm steam brewing has recently been bought by nourish group you d think this could be a good thing nourish group owns a few swanky restaurants about the place and is partly owned by celebrity chef simon gault so a bit of a spruce up and better food could be expected sadly and completely bizarrely if you ask me nourish have signed an agreement with lion and will be discontinuing the cock and bull beers i didn t fully register how tragic this all was until i visited the ellerslie branch last night it was busy verging on rowdy and it had that cosy english pub feel that patterned carpet and wooden joinery provides the music was crap and there were too many tv screens for my liking and yet i felt a sharp pang of regret for not coming here earlier the fact that i could get good beer here beer that i couldn t get anywhere else made all the difference the fuggles which i loved and wrote about here is already gone the monk s habit which seems to be the one the beer community will miss the most is nearly all gone newmarket have definitely sold out and i m pretty sure ellerslie were on their last keg and that s a goddamn shame because it really is a delicious drop with a name like monk s habit you d expect something belgian but in actual fact it s a bright gorgeous ipa on the nose it was bursting with american hops grapefruit marmalade and pine resin with a underlying toffee sweetness in the mouth it was super crisp with fresh green hoppy bitterness balanced by rich caramel malt if this has been around since 2005 and google suggests it has been then it must have been one of the first really hoppy beers ever produced in new zealand nourish group you are crazy and frankly a little cruel it s true these beers will be more expensive to serve than mac s gold but they are what makes the cock bull great the thought of another chain of gastropubs how i loathe the word serving boring beers with overpriced salt n pepper squid it s enough to make a grown woman weep i guess the best thing we can hope for is that steam brewing who brew beers for epic and croucher among others can keep making the cock and bull beers to sell through some other outlet to simply let these beers dissapear just seems like a terrible waste on a happier note cease violins today s thanks goes to very important person my mum mum has been cheering me on from the get go buying me beers texting invaluable feedback like stop saying you re drunk and can t remember the beer and naturally becoming a total craft beer convert herself thanks for everything mum see you at galbraith s published in ipa new zealand on august 6 2012 at 3 11 pm comments 6 tags steam brewing 362 yeastie boys pkb remix 2010 name pkb remix 2010 brewery yeastie boys ak wgtn nz style black ipa abv 6 8 source yeastie boys ask the yeastie boys when the ideal time for a bottle of pkb is and they probably won t say 11 30am with chinese food still i can hardly think of a bad time to drink pkb and if there is then yum cha isn t it the reason i drank this at yum cha after first lying and pretending it was wine then pleading with the waiter after he read the bottle and found me out was that i wanted to share it with some fellow beer lovers this wasn t any old bottle of beer it was stu s last bottle of pkb remix 2010 and one of his favourite yeastie boys releases it was a real privilege to be able to drink it and one worth breaking all the rules acceptable drinking times permitted byo beverages for like a molecular gastronomer who presents soup as a mousse or turns a savory dish into an ice cream the pkb was delightful in that it completely messed with my head on the nose it was pure american ipa juicy tangerine citrus peel and pine hop aromas perhaps some berries as well if i d sniffed it blind i d be sure it was a much paler beer in the mouth though all that fresh happy citrus met dark roasted malt flavours cocoa and a little coffee a hint of toasted wood it was complex yet had the balance of an expertly mixed long island ice tea in which all those potent ingredients come together in excuse the awful cliché perfect harmony for a while i sat at the table with a dreamy smile and faraway look in my eyes sipping the beer and idly shoveling barbecue pork into my mouth and thinking this this right here is perfection what an incredibly lucky lady i am today s official thanks goes to soba auckland who have done all sorts of useful things over the year from helping me to meet other local beer geeks hosting cool events like the hop and city of ales and reminding me of all the beer launches tap takeovers etc that i m terrible at remembering myself and now that i ve finally paid my subscription fees i can say without hypocrisy that all auckland beer geeks should support a good cause the cause being good beer and sign up thanks soba published in new zealand porter on august 6 2012 at 9 51 am comments 4 tags yeastie boys 361 hallertau porter noir name porter noir brewery hallertau kumeu nz style porter abv 6 6 source new world vic park the beer community like any other loves a good scandal the best ones can make heroes of craft brewers get beer into mainstream headlines even cause boycotts of certain brands if someone s really been naughty this particular beer is at the centre of the latest saga to quickly summarise db has named a new monteith s beer porter noir the same name hallertau coined and gave to this pinot noir barrel aged porter i can see a non beer geek reading this and going whoop de fuck why do we care and fair enough the thing is porter noir is not a style it s a name like hop zombie or rex attitude or santa s butt porter real what s more it s a bit arrogant for db to be stealing names from craft breweries after the radler fiasco in which they pissed everyone off royally by trademarking a name that actually was a style anyway that s all fairly old news now and i didn t drink this so that i could talk politics although if that s your bag go read phil s excellent post on the matter i drank this because the whole thing reminded me that i d never actually tried this beer another upshot of beer scandals they can be great for business i d heard porter noir was good but when i sniffed it got the best surprise a gal could ask for brettanomyces i did not know brett was going to be at this party and i had the silly thought for a moment that he d come uninvited possibly on the coat tails of funkonnay i did quick google and found that no the pinot noir barrels this is aged in are deliberately infected with brett which contributed to this wonderful complex aroma of musty oak sherbert berries and definite pinot noir in the mouth it was dry light and slightly sour with red wine like tannins chocolate and funky fruit from the brett i really liked it and only wish it came in smaller cheaper bottles so that i could drink it a bit more regularly today s thank you goes to someone i ve never actually met regular reader matthew searle matt s a kiwi beer lover living in canada and has spurred me on from afar by leaving loads of enthusiastic and encouraging comments...