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A few final pix from NZ... Pink Elephant Mammoth Strong Ale. Sweet/spicy aroma. Real medly of flavours. Another well made beer from this brewery. Emerson Old 95. I wanted to try my old favourite -Emerson IPA - but drinking time was running out so I grabbed to grab a beer to compare with...

Next port of call was the oldest pub in NZ - Moutere Inn. Graeme Mahy (ex Murrays brewer now 666 Brewing) had put me onto the place as it had his new beers on tap. Turns out that this pub also has a great rotating selection of beers (a sign on the wall said that they'd served over 100...

Wigram Brewing Spruce Beer. Apparently this is based on a recipe from Captain Cook and is flavoured with spruce (rimu) and tea tree (manuka). It has a really unique/intense taste that I struggled to like. Green Man Choc Krystal Weisse. It sounded like an interesting combination, but it...

According to the beerstore.co.nz site - "The Beer Store is a wholly owned subsidiary of Totally Mac Limited, a well respected Apple Authorised Dealer, trading since 1997. The Beer Store is 100% NZ owned". Just guessing, but they are probably a couple of beer/computer geeks (said in the nicest...

three boys Oyster Stout. Hints of brine. This was quite a drinkable oyster stout, especially compared to the "oyster sauce" I had at Porterhouse earlier in the year. Renaissance Chocolate Oatmeal Stout. Very smooth and easy drinking stout. three boys IPA. Fairly good IPA. Peak...

Emerson's Brewers Special Release Hoppy Porter (or something like that). Nice firm bitterness and hop aroma. I haven't liked hoppy porters in the past, but this one nailed it. Great beer. BTW - This was a "rigger" from Regional Wines in Wellington. ie. You fill a plastic bottle from a keg...

Macs Sassy Red. As per my non-beer geek brothers words (after having gone through a Lupulin thresholdshift the night before) "tastes watery". Mangatainoka Dark (think this is made by DB Breweries). Was supposed to be some sort of East India Ale. Probably an okay session beer. This was from...

Avery IPA. This is where the sinusitis was hurting me. I wasn't getting much hop flavour/aroma. Deschutes Inversion IPA Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA Green Flash West Coast IPA Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA. Bitterness was quite muted so it was either very well balanced or perhaps I...

Just got back from two weeks in NZ. Had a great time over there, but unforunately the early beer tastings were a write off thanks to sinusitis. Whilst I couldn't get a lot of hop flavour/aroma, I could pick up bitterness and other flavours. Emerson's Book Binder. Easy drinking session beer...

Awesome pix. All you needed to do was get across to Germany and you would've hit all the major beer centers. By the way, I look forward to seeing a Belgian IIPA joing the Black IPA on your "Planned brews" list.

You need these... http://cgi.ebay.com.au/DENTIST-DRILL-BITS-...id=p3911.c0.m14

According to the Weyermann site, you can use rauchmalt for up to 100% of the grain bill so it should convert okay. http://www.weyermann.de/eng/produkte.asp?i...7&sprache=2

:icon_offtopic: Expensive, but cheaper than a flight to Belgium... http://cgi.ebay.com.au/6-RARE-bottles-ABT-...id=p3286.c0.m14

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I was only joking around, but perhaps I have sinned... http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...st&p=521910

Following on from Beerforal's suggestion, I'm going to catch up with Graeme (ex Murrays) if I can make it to Blenheim. Gulpa - The NZ scene does look really good. You just have to look at the the Aus vs NZ comparison on Rate Beer to see that they're doing a really good job over there...

Or you can get free peroni cuff links with a case of Peroni... but you'll have Peroni. Edit: Interesting looking glasses though. And speaking of cuff links, you can get Ruddles County cuff links quite cheap on ebay... http://cgi.ebay.com.au/RUDDLES-COUNTY-ALE-...id=p3286.c0.m14

Money transferred for 2 * taps, shanks and handles (+ postage). PM sent to Pete confirming this.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll keep an eye out for his beers. Looks like he is continuing the "not brewing to style" slant of Murays. http://www.666brewing.com/Products.html

+1. Whilst I can appreciate that the situation isn't ideal, it is hard enough to get judges (especially judges with experience) to run an event. I'm comfortable with the integrity of the judging panel for the NSW titles so well done again to everyone involved.