Beer thread
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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.
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@Machpants make sure yuo post a match report when you get home! Keen to see your take on the city beers (and if you felt any major changes downtown, better or worse)
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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.
BIRKENHEAD BREWING COMPANY
FREEHOUSE TASTING STUDIO, BREWING AND EXPORT, craft beer auckland, BBC, BIRKENHEAD BREWING COMPANY, BAR, NORTH SHORE CRAFT BEER,
Tell them dogmeat sent you and they won't have a fucking clue what you're on about
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"hi Birkenhead Brewing Co. I'm paying you for a visit because I heard about your pies. I'm supposed to mention dogmeat."
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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.
FREEHOUSE TASTING STUDIO, BREWING AND EXPORT, craft beer auckland, BBC, BIRKENHEAD BREWING COMPANY, BAR, NORTH SHORE CRAFT BEER,
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.
Free Wynyard Quarter 'Red Boats' ferry
https://www.facebook.com/BirkenheadBrewingCompanyBBC
