Tui ... A few hours later

This  beer is still aweful, even tho I have had quote a lot now. I have issues with the fact that it labels itself as an East IPA. It's not... It's rubbish 

Heritage Cider

Beer rating

Country: New Zealand

Continent: Australasia

Brewed by: Monteiths

Style: Cider

Percentage: 5%

Aroma: 3/10

Appearance: 5/10

Taste: 3/10

Palate: 2/10

Purchased at: countdown Pakuranga

Additional comments: tastes like bitterness on a stick, full bodied coffee aftertaste. It would possibly make a good silver or brass cleaner but not something I would drink again. Bottle looks groovy.

Heineken (at the races in the Garage)

Beer rating

Country: Denmark

Continent: Europe

Brewed by: Heineken

Style: lager

Percentage: 5%

Aroma: 5/10

Appearance: 6/10

Taste: 5/10

Palate: 5/10

Purchased at: Christmas gift

Additional comments: nice cold with a few races which incidentally I have not collected in.

Tui

This beer Is bland and pointless unless you want to get blithering and beat someone up. It is the only beer you can buy at the cricket however

2/10 based solely on the fact that the best beer is the nearest beer.... And this is it at the moment.

Stoke Recognition (Bill Peck) Rich Porter

> Stoke Recognition (Bill Peck) Rich Porter
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> Beer rating
> Name: Stoke Recognition (Bill Peck) Rich Porter
> Region: Nelson
> Country: NZ
> Continent: Australasia
> Brewed by: McCashin Stoke Brewery
> Style: Porter
> Percentage: 4.8%
> Aroma: 8/10
> Appearance: 4/10
> Taste: 6.5/10 woody
> Palate: 4/10
> Total: 22.5/40
> Purchased at: New World
> Why purchased: lagered out from the day before, so felt like something with a bit of body
> Additional comments:
> A beer that promised so much. Low alcohol for its class. Wonderful smokey malty aroma, as only a Porter can. But poured with a thin fluffy head and was a bit too light on the palate. Picked up again with taste. Fruity malt with medium bitterness. Relative low price would allow for the occasional single bottle to accompany a steak pie and mash. In conclusion though, still a way to go to meet "Ennis Ave Special Porter"

Bavarian Pilsner

Beer rating
 Name: Bavarian Pilsner
Country: NZ
Brewed by: Wigram Brewing Co.
Style: Pilsner
Percentage: 5.0% ABV
 Aroma:6 /10
Appearance: 6/10 clear and golden
Taste: 7/10
Palate: 8/10
Purchased at: Wines Direct Penrose
Additional comments: This is a clear and clean example of a good pils. The flavour of light malt washes over your tongue before giving you a bitter kick as it slides down. It has a lot more character than commercial pilsners on the market, but retains all the traits you want when it's hot outside.
Sit me in the sun and give me a few of these please.

Little Creatures Bright Ale

Beer rating
Name: Little Creatures Bright Ale
Country: Australaia
Brewed by: Little Creatures
Style: Light Ale
Percentage: 4.5%
Aroma: 5/10
Appearance: 7/10
Taste: 7/10
Purchased at: Wine Direct in Penrose
Additional comments: This is a really crisp and light ale that is more like a pilsner than an ale. Clear, clean and refreshing. Lots on a hot day please!

Bloody Dingo

Beer rating
Name: Bloody Dingo
Country: NZ
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Parrotdog
Style: Imperial Red IPA
Percentage: 7.7%
Aroma: 9/10
Appearance:7/10 a pleasing reddish brown
Taste: 8/10
Purchased at: Gifted to me
Additional comments:
WOW, this beer is great. It smells delicious and fully hoppy. It hits the front of the tongue with maltiness and then by the time it washes over the back of the tongue on its way down it hits you with a big bitterness. With an ABV of 7.7% I was definitely feeling the love after a couple of these beauties.

Mistress review

Schippers Mistress Pilsner

Beer rating

Name: Mistress

Region: Mt Eden, Auckland

Country: NZ

Continent: Australasia

Brewed by: Schippers

Style: Pilsner

Percentage: 5.0% 

Aroma: 8/10 

Appearance: 6.5/10 , light hazy

Taste: 8/10 Earthy fruit

Palate: 7.5/10

Total: 30/40

Purchased at: Wine Direct - Lunn Ave, Mt Wellington

Additional comments:

A beer with a tantalising name. Great fruity aroma. Good palate for a pilsner. Slight cheeky bitterness in German style. Enjoyed the first tickle on a hot afternoon, suiting its name. Would recommend a brief encounter, as it showed reasonable features across the board.

 

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Leffe Blond

Beer rating

Country: Belgium 

Continent: Europe

Brewed by: leffe

Style: blond

Percentage: 6.6

Aroma: 6/10

Appearance: 6/10

Taste: 7/10

Palate: 7/10

Purchased at: freebie at a staff function

Additional comments: fruity taste with a hint of spice. Very a kin to Hoegaarden. Would definitely drink again.

Pinot Gris Lager

Beer rating

Country: New Zealand 

Continent: Australasia

Brewed by: Monteiths

Style: Lager

Percentage: 5%

Aroma: 8/10

Appearance: 9/10

Taste: 8/10

Palate: 7/10

Purchased at: Countdown Highland Park

Additional comments: light colour, light taste reminded me of a lager top but not as sweet. Great drink ice cold in a hot day. Popular with the ladies. (My wife anyway)

Stoke Double IPA

Beer rating

Name: Stoke recognition
Country: New Zealand
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Stoke
Style: Double IPA
Percentage: 5.5%
Aroma: 9/10
Appearance: 9/10
Taste: 9/10
Palate: 9/10
Purchased at: Countdown, Highland Park
Additional comments: I have found a beer that I love and will go back to again and again. The flavour is strong, the hoppiness is fantastic, flavour and aroma. This is a beer that should be tried by everyone.

Digital IPA

Beer rating 

Name: Digital IPA
Country: New Zealand
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Beastie Boys
Style: IPA
Percentage: 7%
Aroma: 8/10
Appearance: 8/10
Taste: 8/10
Palate: 8/10
Purchased at:
Glengarry's Kingsland
Additional comments: Smooth taste, very hoppy. This beer is great tasting, with a nice mouth feel and lovely aftertaste. I would highly recommend this beer to anyone.

Pils 'N' Thrills

Name: Pils N Thrills
Country: NZ
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Garage Project
Style: Pilsner
Percentage: 5.5%
Aroma: 6/10
Appearance: 8/10
Taste: 7/10
Palate: 7/10
Purchased at:
Brothers Brewery- Auckland
Additional comments:
A nice clean beer with a good amount of hops bite to it. Not overwhelming bitterness of hoppiness but enough to keep it interesting. Great looking design and i bought it in the can which is cool. Looking forward to trying more from the Garage Project

1903 Red Ale

Beer rating 

Name: 1903
Country: New Zealand
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Founders
Style: Red Ale
Percentage: 5.5%
Aroma: 7/10
Appearance: 8/10
Taste: 7/10
Palate: 8/10
Purchased at: Thirsty Liquor
Additional comments: Another offering from the Founders range. When poured into a glass it has a mahogany colour with beige head which quickly disappears. 
Slightly sweet, medium bodied, light on the carbonation, hoppy/bitter on the finish overall a nice drop.

Tui

Beer rating

Name: Tui Pale Ale
Country: New Zealand
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Tui
Style: Pale Ale
Percentage: 4
Aroma: 5/10
Appearance: 5/10
Taste: 5/10
Palate: 5/10
Purchased at: Huka Prawn farm restaurant

Additional comments: Great cold, nothing really to write home about. Not strictly a pale ale more of a dark lager but easy to drink. Cheap to buy in bulk to complete the 101 ways to open a beer challenge.
Yeah Right!

Budweiser

Like Heineken but worse!

This is good when you are really hot and thirsty and it is icy cold. 

Quite sweet and bland. No discernible hops and not particularly malty. You find yourself asking why did I bother. 

 

Good Island IPA

Goose Island Brewery

5.6%

Aroma 7/10 mild pear and lime

Mouthfeel 7/10

Taste 7/10 

A refreshing IPA. This has all the right characters but not in big doses making it a really refreshng beer. The pear and like are very subtle  in the aroma and the taste is a start of pleasant bitterness with the flavour. The hops then comes in through gently. A good session beer.

Shock Top

Aroma 7

Taste 5

Mouthfeel 6

Earl of sandwich downtown Disney

Pretty average wheat beer. Trying to be more than it is. Buy another one? Nah!

Chelada

Bud Lite  & Clamato (vegetable juice) 

Aroma 1/10 

Mouthfeel 1/10 

Taste 1/10

This is not anything that people should drink. It looks smells and tastes horrible. It is exactly what you would imagine from putting tomato juice with beer. It is dreadfully horribly wrong. I thought it must be surprisingly refreshing, but no. It is grotesque and possibly the only way to make Bud Lite taste even less of a beer.

God help my taste buds. This will haunt me for a long time to come.

Harvest Pumpkin Ale

Samuel Adams new range. I assume that this is a Halloween seasonal beer as it does indeed have pumpkin in it. It tastes a little of pumpkin and a fair bit f spice too.... Clove and nutmeg???

Quite refreshng....I would even buy it again.

5.6%

Taste 6/10

Aroma    7/10

Mouthfeel 6/10

Hop Rocker

Beer rating
Name: Hop Rocker
Country: NZ
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Mac's
Style: Pilsener
Percentage: 5%
Aroma: 8/10 citrus
Appearance: 6/10
Taste: 7/10
Palate: 7/10
Purchased at: anywhere
Additional comments:

This is a staple in my fridge. Refreshing smell and a good amount of bitterness really may this a really nice beer. Easily a session beer for hop lovers. It doesn't get too overbearing too quickly.
Good one!!

Winter Ale

Beer rating
Name: Winter Ale
Country: NZ
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Monteith
Style: Doppelbock
Percentage: 6%
Aroma: 7/10
Appearance: 8/10 A lovely dark red
Taste:8/10
Palate: 8/10
Purchased at: Countdown
Additional comments:
I really like this beer. Very malty and flavoursome. It's not overly complex but hugely satisfying to me.
Several of these in a row on a cold evening please.

Epicurean Coffee & Fig

Beer rating
Name: Epicurean Coffee & Fig
Country: NZ
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Epic
Style: Stout
Percentage: 8%
Aroma: 9/10 Coffee coffee coffee
Appearance: 8/10
Taste: 8/10
Palate: 8/10
Purchased at: Freebie
Additional comments:
Holy Cow! Almost overwhelming with strong burnt notes and coffee with the slight sweetness of fig.
If you like really strong coffee flavours then this is great.
By the end of this though my tastebuds were blown out.

Munchner Dunkel

Beer rating
Name: Munchner Dunkel
Country: NZ
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Wigram Brewing Co.
Style: Dark Lager
Percentage: 5%
Aroma: 6/10
Appearance: 6/10
Taste: 7/10
Palate: 7/10
Purchased at: Freebie
Additional comments:
This is a great example of a dark lager. A lovely dark malty taste without the burnt notes. Nothing too overpowering, so could easily drink a few at a time. Refreshing!

Golden Glory

Beer rating
Name: Golden Eagle
Country: England
Continent: Europe
Brewed by: Badger Brewery
Style: Golden Ale
Percentage: 4.5%
Aroma: 4/10 Smells like rotting peaches
Appearance: 7/10
Taste: 5/10
Palate: 5/10
Purchased at: Big Fresh, Half Moon Bay
Additional comments:
I tried really hard to like this beer. I drank it whilst eating a bit of chocolate and it seemed to compliment the sweetness, but when the choc was gone it just tasted weird. If you like the idea of beer that tastes like peaches, then this is for you. There is no subtle peachiness to it at all. It is pretty full on.
I love peaches, but not in beer!

Heineken

Beer rating
Name: Heineken
Country: Holland
Continent: Europe
Brewed by: Heineken
Style: Lager
Percentage: 5.0%
Aroma: 4/10
Appearance: 4/10
Taste: 4/10
Palate: 4/10
Purchased at: Freebie

Additional comments:  a translucent light amber colour with quickly fading white head. Aroma is very faint, yeasty, slightly grassy. Mouthfeel is light, really carbonated but rock all bubbles. Taste is light, and very watered down tasting. Overall, yeah, nah.

Steinlager Pure

Beer rating

Name: Steinlager Pure
Country: New Zealand
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: NZ Breweries
Style: Lager
Percentage: 5.0%
Aroma: 3/10
Appearance: 4/10
Taste: 3/10
Palate: 2/10
Purchased at: Freebies (Thank goodness)
Additional comments: Pure Average, is a good palate cleanser. In between the good beers.

Clouded Yellow

Beer rating
 Name: Clouded Yellow
Country: England
Continent: Europe
Brewed by: St Austell Brewery
Style: Wheat Beer
Percentage: 4.8%
Aroma: 8/10 subtle banana
Appearance: 7/10
Taste: 8/10 Distinctive clove but not overpowering
Palate: 7/10
Purchased at: Fresh Choice, Half Moon Bay
Additional comments:
Yummo! Everything good about a wheat beer. The cloves bite at first but then leave a lovely warming flavour in the mouth. The banana offsets the bite and is subtle enough for you to enjoy it every mouthful.
Give me another one please!

Golden Champion

Beer rating

 Name: Golden Champion
Country: England
Continent: Europe
Brewed by: Badger
Style: Golden Ale
Percentage: 5%
Aroma: 6/10
Appearance: 7/10 Golden by name....
Taste: 6/10
Palate: 7/10
Purchased at: Fresh Choice, Halfmoon Bay
Additional comments:
A really interesting beer. My first impression was a really earthy fresh beer but I couldn't quite pick the flavour. After reading the label though it mentions elder flower and that is the perfect description.
I would certainly drink more of this. It is refreshingly different from the regular IPA's and Lagers.

Founders 1981 pale ale

Beer rating
Name: Founders 1981 Pale Ale
Country: NZ
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by:Founders Brewery
Style: Pale Ale
Percentage:5.2%
Aroma: 5/10
Appearance: 4/10
Taste: 5/10
Palate: 5/10
Purchased at: Freebee at a mates
Additional comments:
I felt underwhelmed by this. It's not bad....but it's not great either.
I got a bitterness to it that isn't really satisfying.
Also having an old computer on the label is naff!!

5 Malt Old Dark

Beer rating
Name: 5 malt old Dark
Country: New Zealand
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Speights Brewery
Style: Porter?
Percentage: 4%
Aroma: 3/10
Appearance:4 /10
Taste: 4/10
Palate: 4/10
Purchased at: Thirsty Liquor Cascades Road

Additional comments: Very light for a porter, would make a reasonable light brown ale. Has a unique malty flavour. Easy to drink.

Armageddon IPA

Floral taste

Beer rating
Name: Armageddon
Country: NZ
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Epic
Style: IPA
Percentage: 6.7%
Aroma: 9/10 Citrus
Appearance:7 /10
Taste: 8/10 Floral notes
Palate:7 /10
Purchased at: Freebee at a mates house
Additional comments:
This is truly an epic beer. Smells great, feels great in the mouth, tastes gorgeous, and gets you muddle headed quickly.
The whole experience is just hops hops hops! If you are a hophead then you'll like this for sure.

The Chosen One

Beer rating
Name: The Chosen One

Country: NZ
Continent: Australasia
Brewed by: Boundary Road Brewery
Style: Lager
Percentage: 5%
Aroma: 3/10
Appearance:6 /10
Taste: 6/10
Palate:6 /10
Purchased at: Liquor store in Farm Cove
Additional comments:
Good clean lager.
What else can you say?

Bath Ales Gem

Beer rating

Name: Gem
Country: England
Continent: Europe
Brewed by: Bath Ales
Style: Amber Ale
Percentage: 4.8%
Aroma: 7/10  sweet toffee
Appearance: 7/10 Clear deep auburn
Taste: 7/10
Palate: 8/10
Purchased at: Wine Direct Penrose
Additional comments:
Gorgeously smooth mouth feel. Starts with a short bitterness and smooths over the tongue with malty sweeter flavours.

St Peter's IPA

Beer rating

 Name: St Peter's India Pale Aile
 Country: UK
 Continent: Europe
 Brewed by: St Peter's Brewery, Suffolk
 Style: IPA
Percentage: 5.5%
 Aroma: 6/10
Appearance: 6/10
Taste:7/10
Palate: 7/10
Purchased at: Wine Direct, Penrose
 Additional comments:
Happily surprised by this beer. It is not as aromatic as some IPA's these days but the taste and mouth feel was well worth it.

NZ Pure

Beer rating

Name: NZ Pure

Country: NZ

Continent: Australasia

Brewed by: Boundary Road

Style: Lager

Percentage: 5%

Aroma: 2/10

Appearance: 3/10

Taste: 2/10

Palate: 2/10

Purchased at: Thirsty Liquor

Additional comments:

Light colour, weak aroma, bitter taste not in a hoppy way. Leaves a funny after taste. I wouldn't buy this again, but you get what you pay for.