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 it takes a little effort and perseverance.
However, getting your hands on the latest keg fresh best beers provides its own challenge. There are a lot of different beers, niche beers, short run beers, local festival beers, and beers that for a number of reasons don’t have wide enough distribution to make them available local to me.
Far out we’re lucky. We’re lucky to live in this fantastic country and all the good things that go along with it. We’re lucky to have super talented people creating beautiful products all over this country. Some of these super talented people chose to make beer.
But we’re not so lucky that a lot of this beer doesn’t get to see the light of day near us. It’s made in such a short supply or only in kegs that it just stays near where it was brewed making it to a few very local pubs.
Hop Spot, based in Wellington, have found a gap in the craft beer provision chain that is simple and rather clever.
“you can now have them delivered to you at the best pub in town, your home. Your seat is reserved, the DJ is amazing, and there’s no idiots. Well, maybe one.”
but wait… that’s not the best bit.
You order your choice of any 4 of their 750ml bottles, beer freshly decanted, keg fresh, that they then ship of a ridiculously low price.
Joe Cottier of HopSpot said the choice of the 750ml bottles was deliberate
And if you can’t choose from their list (remember there’s no idiots), they put their best 4 forward as their feature packs.
Check out the small company with big potential, I know they’re good, and honestly what could possibly go wrong?
The other option:
Beer Spot : The incredible Beer Spot in Auckland will ship you any 6 beers from their 40 on-tap list. They also use the 750ml bottles, and for all the 40 beers on tap! Imagine that rotation. They are slightly more expensive, you have to order 6 beers and the shipping is slightly more. But 40 tap choices!
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Abbey Dubbel
Abbey Tripel
Abt/Quadrupel
Altbier
Amber Ale
Amber Lager/Vienna
American Dark Lager
American Pale Ale
American Strong Ale
Baltic Porter
Barley Wine
Belgian Ale
Belgian Strong Ale
Belgian Style Wit
Belgian White Witbier
Bière de Champagne / Bière Brut
Bière de Garde
Bitter
Black IPA
Bohemian Pilsener
Brown Ale
California Common
Cider
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Czech Pilsner
Doppelbock
Dortmunder/Helles
Dunkel / Munich Lager
Dry Stout
Dunkler Bock
English Pale Ale
English Strong Ale
Flanders Red Ale
Foreign Stout
Fruit Beer
German Hefeweizen
German Kristalweizen
Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Grodziskie Lichtenhainer
Heller Bock
Imperial Stout
Imperial/Double IPA
Imperial/Strong Porter
IPA – India Pale Ale
Irish Ale
Kolsch
Lambic
Low Alcohol
Mead
NZ Pale Ale
Old Ale
Pale Ale
Pale Lager
Pilsener
Porter
Premium Bitter/ESB
Premium Lager
Red Ale
Russian Imperial Stout
Sahti
Saison
Schwarzbier
Scotch Ale
Session IPA
Smoked ale
Sour Red/Brown
Sour/Wild Ale
Specialty Grain
Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Stout
Strong Pale Lager/Imperial Pils
Sweet Stout
Traditional Ale
Weizen Bock
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Wit Beer
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American Beer
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Swedish Beer
Tahiti Beer
Ukraine Beer
Wales Beer
These are starting to pop up over here as well, but I don’t think it’s as cheap. I think craft brewers are taking advantage of the craze and trying to charge as much as the market will bear. So far, it doesn’t seem like they’ve priced themselves out of business yet.
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