Beer thread
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@Kruse said in Beer thread:
@dogmeat I tried one of Double Vision's at the Taranaki Beer Festival - it was excellent. Favourite beer of the day.
Unfortunately - I can't remember which one it was (they've got three this year). I guess I'll need to go buy some to figure it out.I know you’re the man to turn to when it comes to Movie reviews……any chance you can give us a run down on the Beer fest ? That’s one that I’d love to do a roadie to one of these days….
Thanks in advance.
It was a while ago... and I was drunk... and I'm a little drunk now... so... fuck it? I'll give it a go?
Not sure how to review it other than - it's what it says on the tin.
It's a beer festival - in Taranaki. Taranaki is a prick of a place to get to - so fuck all breweries bother to attend.
So - you get a mini-Beervana - with a few local breweries that you wouldn't get anywhere else - and not many of the 'bigger' breweries that you get at all the other things like this.
Maybe 18 beer stalls? 7 or 8 food stalls.
Oh - and shit - nearly forgot... they set up a professional wrestling ring in the hall as entertainment. C-grade pro-wrestling going on in the background... how the fuck did I nearly forget that?
The more I think about it - the more I highly recommend. Taranaki breweries that would never go to Beervana or even Hamilton's Great Beer Festival... and C-grade rasslin'. A metric fuck-tonne of pricks wearing Taranaki-Hardcore clothing. Taranaki in a nutshell. -
OK. The IPA from the Hand Crafted range is OK but not in the same league as their top range. I have their West Coast IPA brewing and will report back in a month. 7% alcohol with this beastie.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Beer thread:
OK. The IPA from the Hand Crafted range is OK but not in the same league as their top range. I have their West Coast IPA brewing and will report back in a month. 7% alcohol with this beastie.
I’ve just read the small print on my Belgian dubbel and realised I’ve brewed using liquid malt extract which they don’t recommend.
Even master brewers have their off days.
Proof will be in how it tastes I guess which I’ll find out in a few weeks but I thought this brewing shit was supposed to be easy ?
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Having a week in Holland. Loving it, but the beer is bloody awful. Tried all sorts but all tastes the same - close to zero.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Beer thread:
Having a week in Holland. Loving it, but the beer is bloody awful. Tried all sorts but all tastes the same - close to zero.
Smoke some weed instead
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Lager. Shit like - forever
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Lost in a haze: North American craft beer searches for mojo - Just Drinks
The once-dynamic North American craft beer market is now stagnant. A lack of innovation in a sector awash with hazy IPAs has been blamed.
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@Tim said in Beer thread:
Lost in a haze: North American craft beer searches for mojo - Just Drinks
The once-dynamic North American craft beer market is now stagnant. A lack of innovation in a sector awash with hazy IPAs has been blamed.
Same as here. Fucken hazys everywhere
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@Tim said in Beer thread:
Lost in a haze: North American craft beer searches for mojo - Just Drinks
The once-dynamic North American craft beer market is now stagnant. A lack of innovation in a sector awash with hazy IPAs has been blamed.
Same as here. Fucken hazys everywhere
Awesome.
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@Tim said in Beer thread:
Lost in a haze: North American craft beer searches for mojo - Just Drinks
The once-dynamic North American craft beer market is now stagnant. A lack of innovation in a sector awash with hazy IPAs has been blamed.
Same as here. Fucken hazys everywhere
Awesome.
Once they resemble juice more than beer I lose interest
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I like hazy, but want some variety. And the 'we've got the haziest ale' dick waving is stupid. It's like the over oaked Chardonnay a few years ago, next thing someone puts out an un oaked Chardonnay, and wow some other flavours.
I haven't had a beer for a few months, following Dr Moseley (RIP) diet. Tagging onto the wife's convention work to to Auckland next week. Can't wait after less than 800 cals a day! Andrew Andrew and 16 Tun, here I come!
I'll probably be fucked after two beers and in bed at 7
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@Machpants said in Beer thread:
Andrew Andrew and 16 Tun, here I come!
Is Andrew Andrew actually good sometimes?
I dropped in there when last in Auckland - after seeing the claims of being "NZ's home of craft beer"... and walked out thinking "Oh - okay... money-laundering".
It was completely empty, except one regular sitting at the bar chopping down premix bourbons... and they were playing LOUD shit music - as in... the very LAST type of music I can imagine anybody would listen to drinking craft beer. Hip-hop/RnB - but not the good 80s/90s stuff... modern bland filth.
If there was a venn diagram of "people who drink craft beer" and "people who listen to this music" - zero crossover.
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@Kruse well I've been twice always very quiet, but I don't give a shit about that. I'm not sure how they stay open, maybe it gets busy late. But the beer range was extensive, so I was happy. Sat out in the balcony area last time, and watched the rugby on TV. Good enough!
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@Kruse @Machpants don't love Andrew Andrew
Vultures Lane - just a great small craft beer bar with decent pub grub. Sit downstairs if you don't like humans
Brewers Cooperative has a good beer range and decent fish and chips. Solid no 2.
16 Tun is very good, but a bit out fo the way.AndrewAndrew is a bit weird, and definitely second tier, along with brew on quay.
have fun!
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@Kruse @Machpants don't love Andrew Andrew
Vultures Lane - just a great small craft beer bar with decent pub grub. Sit downstairs if you don't like humans
Brewers Cooperative has a good beer range and decent fish and chips. Solid no 2.
16 Tun is very good, but a bit out fo the way.AndrewAndrew is a bit weird, and definitely second tier, along with brew on quay.
have fun!
Thanks, I'll try and find those
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Vultures is my favourite. I am biased.
They do a pie and a pint for twenty bucks, and the pies are absolutely top tier. differnet fillings, but a meal in themselves. Strong recommend along with the fried chicken (solid, used to be top top tier, now just good)
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I realise I have been to both, left vulture as live band was winding up. Too loud for grumpy old Man. Cooperative was spit and sawdust, and dead when I went, so only had one there (end of night haha). But we'll go back to vulture, no live bands on weekday night I reckon
Craft brewer, gastropub business Brothers Beer tumbles into liquidation
