2024 IMHO Beer Ratings
My picks for each style this year:
West Coast IPA
Hazy IPA
Double IPA
Ale
Pilsner
Lager
Porter
Stout
Sour
Wheat
APA
Pale Ale
First guitar, 2004
Squier California Series Stratocaster. Cheap with a god-awful neck, but it fitted the undergrad budget and was good enough to learn the basics on.
Gardening companion
C/o RGK.
Self-administered mohawk, Cambodia (2009)
The roughest of cuts in what was a pretty rough place to backpack through at the time.
Hayman at Albar, ~2008
Surely Dunedin’s greatest band.
London Street flat, 2010
Against all odds it's still standing.
2000s pre-Spotify flashback
The bombproof Aiwa system (it's probably still working somewhere). CD towers and wallets galore. Tight.
Back from the dead
After 14 years of sitting in storage I finally pulled the trigger on recovering the files off an old hard drive from the university era. Surprisingly, having not been powered on for that entire period, 99% of the files were recoverable (cheers DataLab).
A proper time capsule so far. Exhibit 1: ~2007, the trusty Epiphone Les Paul, and for some reason long lost to history, a “Pakehas know how to party” t-shirt:
