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@dogmeat said in Beer thread:
I don't rate Andrew Andrew at all. 16 Tun is pretty meh. Vultures Lane is OK but nothing special. Every time I've been I've found what was on offer a bit underwhelming.
Catch a bus from outside Commercial Bay and head across to the Birkenhead Brewing Co. Would take less time that to walk to 16 Tun even if the bridge was open. Pies are supposed to be primo but it's always an interesting range of beers. Live music about 3x a year.
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Tell them dogmeat sent you and they won't have a fucking clue what you're on about
We're planning on doing a weekend thereabouts another time, last time I spent any time out on the North Shore was when I cycled around both islands with the UK forces - 30 years ago. Will file that for the next dirty weekend with the wife
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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 chipsbolded text. 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!
Seconded, The Brewers Co-operative - NZ Craft Beer Bar & Fish & Chips on 128 Victoria Street West, Auckland is a venue I will always make time to visit when I'm in Auckland. Approximately 20 taps with beers from all over NZ plus a good collection of bottles.
Great food as well.
Also not far away is the Sweat Shop Brew Kitchen which has a decent but not more than that selection of beers on tap.
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@RoninWC said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
Brewers Cooperative has a good beer range and decent fish and chipsbolded text. 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!
Seconded, The Brewers Co-operative - NZ Craft Beer Bar & Fish & Chips on 128 Victoria Street West, Auckland is a venue I will always make time to visit when I'm in Auckland. Approximately 20 taps with beers from all over NZ plus a good collection of bottles.
Thank you both, at my age a solid number 2 is nothing to sniff out, will def put this on the list when next in town.
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Brothers Beer back from brink as it gets new owners
Embattled brewer will focus on its Mt Eden base after a spell in liquidation.
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@dogmeat said in Beer thread:
Vultures Lane is OK but nothing special. Every time I've been I've found what was on offer a bit underwhelming.
I've been there are a couple of times, and thought it was pretty lousy to be honest. Mediocre selection. Bar tender got offended when I said I didn't like one of his suggestions. Beer isn't good just because it's from NZ ...
Is the old Corner Bar at Hotel De Brett still there? Good selection and good staff.
Brewers Co-op is very solid.
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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.
Yeah, just getting into them. Couple of decent ones on tap in Cornwall
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Muntons West Coast IPA. Chinnok, Columbus & Summit hops. 7.5% alc.
Quite complex but not 100% sure it's for me. Not a "relaxing" beer if you get what I mean but that might be my inexperienced palate. More experienced beer aficionados will be sampling in the weeks ahead. Will update.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Beer thread:
Muntons West Coast IPA. Chinnok, Columbus & Summit hops. 7.5% alc.
Quite complex but not 100% sure it's for me. Not a "relaxing" beer if you get what I mean but that might be my inexperienced palate. More experienced beer aficionados will be sampling in the weeks ahead. Will update.
Hard to go wrong with an IPA of that strength. Nice looking head on it too. I suspect it’s pretty decent
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
Hard to go wrong with an IPA of that strength. Nice looking head on it too. I suspect it’s pretty decent
I've got the 5L keg and beer dispenser pretty much sussed now. Might keep a keg of this for a couple of months to see how it goes/improves.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
Hard to go wrong with an IPA of that strength. Nice looking head on it too. I suspect it’s pretty decent
I've got the 5L keg and beer dispenser pretty much sussed now. Might keep a keg of this for a couple of months to see how it goes/improves.
Yeah kegging is the next level I need to decide if I’m going to go to.
Not sure I can justify the cost with home renovations I have coming up !
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
Hard to go wrong with an IPA of that strength. Nice looking head on it too. I suspect it’s pretty decent
I've got the 5L keg and beer dispenser pretty much sussed now. Might keep a keg of this for a couple of months to see how it goes/improves.
Yeah kegging is the next level I need to decide if I’m going to go to.
Not sure I can justify the cost with home renovations I have coming up !
Beer dispensers are around £100-150. Kegs are effectively free, re-usable bungs around £2.00
Go for it.
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
Black Rock IPA.
Pretty standard, close to 6%, hints of citrus. A good all rounder. Nice drop
Don't get those here. Will be giving a Mangrove Jack Hazy IPA a go next.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
Hard to go wrong with an IPA of that strength. Nice looking head on it too. I suspect it’s pretty decent
I've got the 5L keg and beer dispenser pretty much sussed now. Might keep a keg of this for a couple of months to see how it goes/improves.
Yeah kegging is the next level I need to decide if I’m going to go to.
Not sure I can justify the cost with home renovations I have coming up !
Beer dispensers are around £100-150. Kegs are effectively free, re-usable bungs around £2.00
Go for it.
Sorry I should elaborate, I’ve been quoted a few hundy to hook up the taps in the wall ( will take a pic to explain better ) and the girl will tell me off for spending it if I do !
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@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
Hard to go wrong with an IPA of that strength. Nice looking head on it too. I suspect it’s pretty decent
I've got the 5L keg and beer dispenser pretty much sussed now. Might keep a keg of this for a couple of months to see how it goes/improves.
Yeah kegging is the next level I need to decide if I’m going to go to.
Not sure I can justify the cost with home renovations I have coming up !
Beer dispensers are around £100-150. Kegs are effectively free, re-usable bungs around £2.00
Go for it.
Sorry I should elaborate, I’ve been quoted a few hundy to hook up the taps in the wall ( will take a pic to explain better ) and the girl will tell me off for spending it if I do !
Bugger me, that's getting seriously serious.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Beer thread:
@MN5 said in Beer thread:
Black Rock IPA.
Pretty standard, close to 6%, hints of citrus. A good all rounder. Nice drop
Don't get those here. Will be giving a Mangrove Jack Hazy IPA a go next.
Kiwi company.
I think they’re more consistent than Mangrove Jacks but perhaps MG is better at its best ? I’ll keep brewing and reporting……
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Been a while since I last posted here with more than just some comments.
For me, the home brewing adventure is still going strong and I've been working on technique and methods for a while now tring to improve the final product.
First, a gratuitous pic of a recent beverage, yet another Hazy IPA, this one my Cryo-supertasm using Citra Incognito, Riwaka, Cryo-Citra, CryoPop and Superdelic hops.
After entering a couple of local competitions and getting some feedback from a few professional brewers, I have made some big changes in fermentation and in particular, how I dry hop.
Basically, the feedback has been that the beers are of excellent standard, especially with aroma and hop flavours however, the main critisim has been that there is this slight residual flavour from leaving the beer on the trub too long, especially the dead yeast whilst doing a second (or third) dry hop. This is a classic homebrew flavour.
I did a lot of research and found that a lot of top level home brewers plus professional breweries move their beer off the trub, especially the dead yeast, as soon as they can.
So late last year, I purchased a new Kegland 30l All Rounder and now, when I do a first, second or third dry hop, when fermentation finishes or is very nearly finished, I then I'll move the beer from my Fermzilla as the first fermenation vessel to the new All Rounder as the final vessel specifically for the final dry hop.
It should be noted that I do the last dry hop, usually 150-250 grams, at around 14°C for 24-36 hours and then cold crash for another 48 hrs at 3°C.
Of course, I need to make sure that this is done in a way that avoids any O2 contamination.
So it goes like this:
Brew Day
Start of Fermentation (yes, I'm using our "spare" bathroom, the joys of brewing in an apartment)
Fermentation in progress:
First Dry Hop added:
3-4 days after first Dry Hop added and fermentation completed, moving beer to clean vessel containing hops which has been purged of O2.
Dry hopping at 14°C in the Kegerator:
Keg beer and stare at the amount of hops left in the All Rounder:
Finally, after a few days in the keg carbonating, drink beer and other stuff...
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