{"id":194187,"date":"2025-04-20T06:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/beer\/beer-birthday-neil-miller\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T06:34:07","slug":"beer-birthday-neil-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=194187","title":{"rendered":"Beer Birthday: Neil Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4050\/4530783755_69f28defe2_o.jpg\" alt=\"neil-miller\" width=\"148\" height=\"39\"\/><br \/>Today would have been the 51st birthday of New Zealand beer writer Neil Miller. He wrote regularly for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerandbrewer.com\/\">Beer and Brewer<\/a> magazine, the beer blog at Real Beer NZ and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalthouse.co.nz\/index.php\/blog\">Malthouse Blog<\/a>. Though born in Scotland \u2014 Broxburn \u2014 he made Wellington his home. I met Neil when he was visiting the states with Luke Nicholas and other New Zealand beer aficionados for the Craft Brewers Conferences in 2009. They came over early to tour the west coast before CBC began in San Diego that year. We met up at my local brewpub, Moylan\u2019s, and Neil <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalthouse.co.nz\/index.php\/blog\/67-the-true-power-of-bookbinder\">hilariously tells a story<\/a> about that meeting that I was completely unaware of at the time. Thanks to the series of tubes known as the internet, we\u2019ve managed to keep in touch since then. Unfortunately, Neil passed away June 1, 2021. Join me in drinking a toast to Neil tonight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4010\/4530781825_92190ec0e7_o.jpg\" alt=\"neil-miller-1\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\"\/><br \/>Neil in his cups at his table at the Malthouse<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4035\/4531413568_96db98aa80_o.jpg\" alt=\"neil-miller-2\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\"\/><br \/>Behind the bar at the Mussel Inn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4051\/4530781915_048f1e505e_o.jpg\" alt=\"neil-miller-3\" width=\"460\" height=\"336\"\/><br \/>With recently married Kate Pullar. The correct caption: \u201cwhen are you going to buy me another of these <em>Epic Armageddon IPAs<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t31.18172-8\/10830556_10152658260860986_1732069506956714347_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=5f2048&amp;_nc_ohc=KgAURQCNJtwAb5z2v_m&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&amp;oh=00_AfB6w0tjg50Zk7pcDBLBf7pQVvWqL6jt1g-UwuyZ_Ddq6A&amp;oe=66496415\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Neil with Luke Nicholas.<br \/>[Note: Photos Purloined from Facebook.]<\/p>\n<p><!--<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\"\n\t\t\txmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\"\n\t\t\txmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n\t\t<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"https:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/beer-birthday-neil-miller\/\"\n    dc:identifier=\"https:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/beer-birthday-neil-miller\/\"\n    dc:title=\"Beer Birthday: Neil Miller\"\n    trackback:ping=\"https:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/beer-birthday-neil-miller\/trackback\/\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>-->\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been the 51st birthday of New Zealand beer writer Neil Miller. 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