Trying all New Zealand Craft Beer: A Beer Club

I decided that it would be a good plan to try as many beers made in NZ as possible (ignoring the stock standard fare until later). And so the challenge begins. Myself and 6 "colleagues" who have the same interests will gather once a month at a beer club and sample New Zealand Craft Beer! The initial brief is...Lets start with ale...s! I'm starting with the southern most brewery, Invercargill Brewery and their Pale Ale "Stanley Green" The rest will be revealed after the "tasting"

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Beer IV

[3 Aug 2009]

I like beer Beer is good I like beer Beer is good.

First up - Epic pale ale shipped in via J's "special contact"...believe the hype...its good, no lingering aftertaste.

Now for Green man no. 2: the IPA with a psychedelic label. Maybe its design to distract you. As an IPA its not a bad banana flavoured wheat beer!....The Green Man...You don't know whats in there! This one we think was mislabeled...or simply odd as an IPA!

And now on to the Weka brewed by EPIC...no wait thats a MOA! Big honey flavour...unfortunately not much else....would be worth trying again on a hot day!

No 4. Renaissance American Pale Ale. Mr D was musing that if only renaissance berwery could move to Dunedin we would be twice as happy.... (two excellent breweries in Dunnas). Another fine ale. Good!!!

Last but not least....The Manuka beer! the mussel inn Captain Cooker. AS the story goes, Captain cook ...herbal.... anyway its brewed with Manuka. No other beer has created soooo much discussion. Yes its unusual and the flavour definitely grows on you but is it actually beer? The initial "nose" is...well.. furniture polish! (wood furniture of course). Its like drinking beer with granny with Great Aunty Mabel's hanky drawer open on the sideboard. Next thing you know we are talking crap on stuff from 200 years ago. A VERY unusual drop. Parfait Amour We must have liked it, there was nothing left!

So next time is bonus beer. H will be wetting the new baby's head! Off to the Speights Brewery to tick those flavours off the list.
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