Beer thread
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@bovidae said in Beer thread:
Joseph Kuhtze was an Auckland/upper NI beer. Terrible stuff from the DB family.
Waitemata?
If you haven't got munted on 440ml 'Ranfurly draft' or 'South Island draft' you haven't lived
... (with a filthy hangover)
What about those Victory beers? Some cheap as hell imports in the mid 90s $10/doz
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when I played Golden Oldies last month, they had a bucket full of Double Brown sitting in the sun for several hours, and if you were a dick, took things too seriously, head high or whatever else the ref deemed inappropriate, you had to go to the tin bin and consume a 500ml can of warm Double Brown...
Kinda sums up what most think of that beer!
Can't recall which ones I had, but had a few from the McLEods Brewery yesterday while up at Marsden Estate and Duke of Marlborough, I like all thier offerings I have tried...even the Chilli PIls was nice on first tasting...it's what happened several hours later thanks to the Kaitaia Fire Chillis was the problem
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@dogmeat said in Beer thread:
Joseph Kuhtze was a lager - from the days when there really wasn't a hell of a lot of difference between NZ lagers and bitters.
I remember having to drink JK if you wanted a beer at Eden Park. All NZ lagers tasted the same back then, and that wasn't a good thing.
This photo is from a Peter Bush book I have.
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@snowy said in Beer thread:
@bovidae Alan Whetton?
Yes. There is another photo with more of the Auckland team.
Edit: I should add that none of the photos have captions describing who is in the photo, only how the photo relates to rugby. That photo simply says "To the victors, the spoils...".
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@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
@snowy Olo Brown I think.
Def not Olo. Knew most of those guys from my teens at the supporters club. M Jones was always amusing, won MoM an awful lot and had to make a lot of speeches. Such a shy guy back then, head down, - "mumble, mumble, thanks" having just smacked guys all over the park.
Eden Park was good place to grow up. I didn't even mind the shit beer at the time.
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Worst beer on earth is Brains Bitter. I had it at the Welsh Bar in welly that used to be a public toilet ( locals will know where I mean )
It's about 3.5% so even weaker than the horrifically shitty generic draught lagers that NZ produces in abundance. To be substantially shitter than them is quite an achievement.
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@antipodean said in Beer thread:
Hit a few breweries in Sydney the other weekend. My favourites:
- Batch Brewing - Their APA is excellent. Honourable mention for their Double Rainbow, a XXPA.
- Young Henrys - Summer Hop IPA.
- Wayward Brewing - India Pale Ale.
- Grifter Brewing - Neighbourhood NEIPA.
All great breweries.
Been meaning to get down to Grifter to try that NEIPA as I'm a big convert to that style of beer. How was the Neighbourhood NEIPA?
@antipodean have you been to Akasha yet? One of the best breweries in Aus in my opinion.
Worth noting here in Aus, Sydney in particular, Deep Creek brewing, from the north shore of Auckland, now have their beers available at First Choice Liquor.
I'm a huge fan of their Brewtiful Haze NEIPA and consider it one of the best examples of this style of beer.
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@crucial said in Beer thread:
Waitemata Sparkling was an old classic. Was probably the Auckland equivalent of Waikato but drinkable.
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
If you haven't got munted on 440ml 'Ranfurly draft' or 'South Island draft' you haven't lived
My time of drinking shitty beers was late 90's/early 2000's while at Otago Uni
Waitemata was fine. I would have that ahead of most of the usual brands. It was only around for a few months at my local liquor store and only in crate bottles. I think they were offloading soon to be expired stock in the student area
Double Brown was the best of the genuinely shitty beers once you got used to it. The worst part was the last 2-3 sips because the sediment would settle leaving a watery gritty mouthful. You would have another one already open to wash away the taste
Ranfurly was just bad. Tasted metallic. It was slightly cheaper than Double Brown though..
There was one worse than Ranfurly. It had a really generic name.. 'Kiwi' or 'New Zealand' something? It was a whole dollar a dozen cheaper than Ranfurly. That $1 was very important at the time.
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@duluth probably Flame or Ice beer haha...man that stuff was cheap and shite!
Rheineck was another shite beer...although when you were young, cost was usually the determining factor in what you drunk...think we used to get 2L flagons for about $2 - fill yer own mind you haha.
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@taniwharugby said in Beer thread:
although when you were young, cost was usually the determining factor in what you drunk
Dollars per alcohol content. Had a mate that drank vermouth based on that theory - he never went far in life.
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@roninwc said in Beer thread:
@antipodean said in Beer thread:
Hit a few breweries in Sydney the other weekend. My favourites:
- Batch Brewing - Their APA is excellent. Honourable mention for their Double Rainbow, a XXPA.
- Young Henrys - Summer Hop IPA.
- Wayward Brewing - India Pale Ale.
- Grifter Brewing - Neighbourhood NEIPA.
All great breweries.
Been meaning to get down to Grifter to try that NEIPA as I'm a big convert to that style of beer. How was the Neighbourhood NEIPA?
Nice enough for me to recall. Fruity hops with balanced bitterness (in comparison to my usual preference of heavy IBU ales). Although I was about eight hours in on day two by that stage.
@antipodean have you been to Akasha yet? One of the best breweries in Aus in my opinion.
No I haven't. I'll put that on my list. It's not Portland, but there's a fair few breweries these days and we've got Bentspoke and Capital Brewing on our door step.
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I haven't actually tried this:
https://www.moabeer.com/store/legasea-lager
I know that there are quite a few recreational fishermen here so might be worth supporting. I will give it a go and give it to family, friends that I don't like if it is shit.