Beer thread
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@booboo said in France v Fiji:
@canefan said in France v Fiji:
I only remember double brown as one of a number of odd labels of beer they used to stock at the North Dunedin Liquor King seemingly just for the scarfies, such as reineck dry
Any Joseph Khutze?
I vaguely remember the name. I guess they searched far and wide to sell $10 dozens and still make a profit in the early 90s
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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.
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@bovidae said in Beer thread:
Joseph Kuhtze was an Auckland/upper NI beer. Terrible stuff from the DB family.
Waitemata?
Waitemata Sparkling was an old classic. Was probably the Auckland equivalent of Waikato but drinkable.
JK was a new classic made for the puriofa cheap session with a guaranteed hangover -
@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)
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@bovidae said in Beer thread:
Joseph Kuhtze was an Auckland/upper NI beer. Terrible stuff from the DB family.
Waitemata?
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.
Named after an Austrian who was one of NZ's pioneering brewers starting up breweries in Dunedin Napier Auckland and Palmie -as well as Oz.
One of his sons founded Auckland's Waitemata Brewery (hence Waitemata Sparkling) which became Dominion Breweries under the direction of another grandson Morton Coutts and a Kelliher (they anglicised their surname during WW1).
Morton Coutts invented continuous fermentation. So what with his son being a big part of the drive to a duopoly controlling NZ brewing and his grandson introducing the (incredibly profitable) process that turned all NZ beer into insipid swill it is highly appropriate that a piss weak lager was named in his honour.
TBF the Coutts along with the Myers have to be the two most influential families in NZ brewing history.
Morton only retired from the company in the 80's not long before Brierleys took it over - the process that ultimately led to Heineken's ownership. He died at 100 in the early 2000's.
My old man knew the Kellihers Coutts and Myers families which is how I know all the above. Hadnt drunk any of their beers foir years until Lion started buying craft breweries
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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)
The Mill in Palmy did some sort of special on Ranfurly Draught 440ml (or 500ml?) dozens... at some ridiculous rate. Then made up some bullshit about a maximum amount a single person could buy - after we turned up with several vehicles.
It didn't matter... such rules are easily bypassed.
There was then a party.
With fucking horrible tasting cheap beer. 50 doz, if my obviously (shouldn't) memory serves me well. -
@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.
