Getting the beer to come to you. Hop Spot.
I like a beer. I like a different beer. I like the new beers. I like the unusual beer. Getting your hands on the best beers available isn’t difficult, sometimes … Continue reading
Beer – #950 – Boneface – Shake Your Blood
Boneface Shake Your Blood. A red IPA. This one a gift from the brewer, on whom I threw my pitiful self, and they took me up and fit me up … Continue reading
Beer – #949 – Boneface – Hoptron APA
Boneface Hoptron APA. Another in the recently available in Auckland beers from a new brewer. They’ve been pretty good so far, polished and easy to enjoy. This one is quite … Continue reading
Beer – #948 – Piha Beer – Salt Water Gose
Piha Beer – Salt Water Gose. This was a swap/gift from a twitter chap, Keith,who also makes a nice line in scented candles. but because he’d brought the all of … Continue reading
Beer – #947 – Boneface – The Darkness India Stout (we go again)
Boneface – The Darkness India Stout. – the rework. Turns out the banter was more than that and the brewer sent me another bottle, they’ve bottled it to a smaller … Continue reading
Beer – #946 – Deep Creek – Steam Funk – Mango Chilli Gose
Deep Creek – Steam Funk – Mango Chilli Gose. I know I said I don’t like the sours, but they keep popping up, some of them more compelling than others, … Continue reading
Beer – #945 – Boneface – The Darkness India Stout
Boneface – The Darkness India Stout. This is a beer that I dropped onto a concrete floor and was dissapointed as it spread out over the concrete. Not as disappointed … Continue reading
Beer – #944 – Wild and Woolly – Sooty Albatross
Wild & Woolly Sooty Albatross. A smoked IPA! Deliciously presented in a paper bag, because the beer is in a green champagne bottle, and they couldn’t figure out how to … Continue reading
Beer – #943 – Deep Creek – Lupulin Effect Wunderbier German IPA
Deep Creek – Lupulin Effect – Wunderbier German IPA. A lovely beer based on that I’ve had it out and about, more than one, and this one is in the … Continue reading
Beer – #942 – Liberty – Uprising
Well more accurately – Liberty Uprising West Auckland Pale Ale – all rise… A present from the boy child, a very welcome one, he does go out of his way … Continue reading
Beer – #941 – Ballast Point – Red Velvet (Nitro)
A side trip to Hopscotch beer company meant I left with a couple of beers that I’ve been looking for, and a couple that I haven’t bit had to have. … Continue reading
Beer – #940 – Moa – N.Z. Gold Ale
Moa N.Z. Gold Ale which was brewed in support of the New Zealand Olympic Team for the 2016 Rio Games. Weirdly available recently in the shops, which is either a … Continue reading
Beer – #939 – Boneface – The Juice Dry Hopped Gose
Boneface. The Juice. A Dry Hopped Gose. I like Gose. Just in case you read somewhere that I didn’t, when in fact it is sour beers I’m not a big … Continue reading
Beer – #938 – Wild and Woolly – Coeur de Cerise
Wild & Woolly Coeur de Cerise – it’s a saison not a sour 🙂 But I do have a sour beer from this brewer in the fridge, stand by and … Continue reading
Beer – #937 – Deschutes – Red Chair
Deschutes Red Chair is the beer of the week for the beer club, on a night when I dropped a bottle of beer, which caused me untold sadness and grief, … Continue reading
Beer – #936 – Zeelandt – Bishop’s Kick
Zeelandt Bishop’s Kick, my beer for a slow Sunday, so slow I didn’t even get the energy to get a vinyl record out, but that just means I’ll be more … Continue reading
Beer – #935 – Boneface – Outlaw IPL
An India Pale Lager. Boneface Outlaw IPL. That’s a hopped up lager isn’t it. I’ve had some in the past and I thought they were alright. Also this is a … Continue reading
Beer – #934 – Victory – Prima Pils
Victory Prima Pils – the regular weekly beer club beer. A pilsner, which I’m hoping has the things I’m looking for, such as that hop bite at the back. Another … Continue reading
Beer – #933 – 8 Wired – Bumaye 2013
Turns out it’s It’s Ali Boma ye, so I was a bit wrong, but we all learnt something. This was the beer that was going to rescue the afternoon, and Mark … Continue reading
