RealBeer.co.nz Beer Blog: July 2005

Beer festival - Here in Welly!

The BrewNZ event kicks off for its 4th year on Thursday 28th with the NZ Beer Awards dinner, where the winners of (x) categories will be awarded for a total of 161 entered beers.

161 NZ beers…161 beers! Go on name as many as you can, got 18? Maybe 20? 30 tops I’ll bet. It just shows how we are blanketed by commercialism. Well here’s a golden chance to strike back at those sad adverts and dated billboards of chemical beers and go out there and sample what quality NZ beers really has to offer.

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161 beers entered in the annual BrewNZ New Zealand Beer Awards

BrewNZ - New Zealand Beer Awards

Festive Brews featured include Speight’s Chocolate Ale at Speight’s Ale House; Mac’s Demonic Ruby at Shed 22; Monteith’s Maximalt at The Occidental, The Tasting Room and The Cornerstore; The Twisted Hop’s Islay Porter at Bar Bodega; Limburg Oud Reserve 2004 at Shed 5; Cock & Bull’s King Kong-ESB at Bar Bodega; Emerson’s Lunar Dunkel at Imbibe Antipasto; Sunshine Brewery’s Black Beauty at The Malthouse; Tuatara ESB at Bar Bodega; and Ye Old Dark at The Loaded Hog.

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Down a crafty ale - it's now a fine art

Eight hundred litres of Christchurch Arts Festival Red Ale went into production on Wednesday. Dicky Fife, Dux de Lux Brewery operations manager, knows it's a gamble trying to produce a drink designed to appeal to an arteratti more used to sipping Bordeaux than beer.

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"Maximalt" from Monteith's for BrewNZ

The Monteith's brewing team has crafted Monteith's Maximalt to enter in the 'Festive Brew' category at the New Zealand Beer Awards, being held in conjunction with BrewNZ in late July.

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Ina The Bulgarian Crowned Miss Tui 2005

Ina the Bulgarian crowned Miss Tui 2005

See the gallery of contestants

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Belgian National Day: Celebrate with Stella

Thursday July 21st is a public holiday. Well it is in Belgium when the locals celebrate Belgian National Day. So why not take their lead and join in the festivities by getting along to your local Belgium Beer Caf� for a glass of Stella Artois� and a bowl of steaming mussels?

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Stella Artois Opts for Public Exposure

Stella Artois® New Zealand Draught Master Competition, which will be part of the NZ Food Show this year. A photo of last year's winner, Suhardi Wisata of De Fontein in Mission Bay, Auckland

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DB Export Dry Re-launch

DB Export Dry Re-launch

Many kiwi drinkers have quietly been enjoying the premium taste of Export Dry for years – crisp and dry to the last drop. Here are some of their comments (Colmar Brunton Research, March 2005).

“I really like Export Dry because it’s a little bit different – it’s a really good beer, but its not one of the normal flashy ones.”

“It’s about taste…it’s so easy to drink…doesn’t have the nasty aftertaste that some of the other (premium beers) have.”

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