NWBCA Reviews: Otago Brew School Klassenbester
Saturday 3 June 2023‘Klassenbester’ translates roughly to ‘best in class’, and that could not be a more apt name…
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NWBCA Reviews: McLeod’s Paradise Pale Ale
Friday 2 June 2023After the better part of a decade on the market and a steady string of awards,…
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Thursday 1 June 2023Urbanaut Newtown is the second hazy from this brewery on the New World Beer & Cider…
Read MoreNWBCA Reviews: Tiger Crystal Ultra
Wednesday 31 May 2023Tiger Crystal Ultra is not a craft-positioned beer. Even the name sounds like something I would…
Read MoreNWBCA Reviews: Monteith’s Tight Lines
Tuesday 30 May 2023When a cheap, mass-produced beer such as Monteith’s Tight Lines Pale Ale shows up on a…
Read MoreNWBCA Reviews: Asahi Super Dry 0%
Monday 29 May 2023When it comes to true no-alcohol beers, our craft brewers have only just cracked the nut…
Read MoreNWBCA Reviews: Parrotdog Sundog Pilsner
Sunday 28 May 2023Pilsner in New Zealand has become a slightly treacherous style of late. As the brewer, do…
Read MoreNWBCA Reviews: Bootleg Apehanger IPA
Saturday 27 May 2023Bootleg Apehanger IPA (something about motorbikes, presumably*) will always be a special beer to me after…
Read MoreNWBCA Reviews: Mac’s Gold
Friday 26 May 2023When this year’s Top 30 was revealed to me there were more than a few surprises…
Read MoreNWBCA Reviews: Urbanaut Silver Palace Citra Hazy
Thursday 25 May 2023Anyone who reads my profiles knows I mark pretty hard on hazy beers. I think too…
Read MoreNWBCA Reviews: Martinborough Hop Elixir
Wednesday 24 May 2023Martinborough is far more well known for classy (if extremely vintage dependent) pinot noir than it…
Read MoreNWBCA Reviews: Panhead SuperCharger
Tuesday 23 May 2023When you go rural (and I mean rural rural, not tourist rural) craft beer begins to…
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