Beer thread
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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
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@Machpants said in Beer thread:
Busy is fine, live bands so loud you can't talk suck. I'm a grumpy old Man
bands there are very rare. In fact, I've never seen one there - but hey, you clearly head out at more popular times
I like them as they know what they are: craft beer, food and that's about it.
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@Duluth said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
16 Tun is very good, but a bit out fo the way.
That was my favourite when I lived in the city
Yeah bridge is fucked, so might not make it there
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@Machpants said in Beer thread:
@Duluth said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
16 Tun is very good, but a bit out fo the way.
That was my favourite when I lived in the city
Yeah bridge is fucked, so might not make it there
I think there is a ferry service shuttling back and forwards - but not sure of times. Will see what I cna google.
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
@Machpants said in Beer thread:
@Duluth said in Beer thread:
@nzzp said in Beer thread:
16 Tun is very good, but a bit out fo the way.
That was my favourite when I lived in the city
Yeah bridge is fucked, so might not make it there
I think there is a ferry service shuttling back and forwards - but not sure of times. Will see what I cna google.
looks like sat and sun, 10-5. But it was hard to tell.
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@nzzp said in Beer thread:
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)
That same visit I tried A-As... my first evening I defaulted to Vultures, from very OLD memories of Akld. It wasn't exactly as I remembered it - but yeah... it does what it does, and what it does - is mostly what I want.
Except they forced a free pie on me at the end. One night's custom, and they insisted I walk out with a free pie.. "for breakfast". It seemed like a well-built pie, but probably not as appreciated as well as it should have been.
16 Tun - I think is where my workmates insisted I eventually go on my 2nd evening there... and it did indeed have a decent selection, but not worth the fucking walk with the bridge out. It seemed stereotypical 09-pretentiousness to go all that distance for something not much better than Vulture's or even just any bog-standard pub Viaduct bar with a few brews on tap.
Free Wynyard Quarter 'Red Boats' ferry
