Beerfest 2011

[Dunc]

I can’t help but feel a little short changed.

 

A no show from Emerson's, Yeastie Boys, Sunshine and Renaissance. (I don’t blame them)

No Baltika...

No lovely little sneaky samples of delicious limited edition seasonals.

No beery talks.

Very few offerings of half glasses.

And what the hell was that VIP zone rubbish?

 

Has Beerfest just become swillfest? There were queues for Carlsberg, Corona and Cobra! If you want to get mothered on insipid mainstream beer, why pay $35 to do so?

 

No wonder the Australian Craft breweries won’t come near us.

 

Am I expecting too much? Anyone? Anyone?

 

However, thank you Epic, Wigram, Harrington’s, Croucher, Bennett’s and Tuatara - for being the small beacons of hope in the embarrassing, slippery, urine covered floor that is NZ beer culture.

 

 

[Martin Bridges]

"No wonder the Australian Craft breweries won’t come near us."

 

Not sure I understand this. I doubt that the standard of one beer festival is the reason behind a limited presence of Australian craft beer in NZ. Even at Beervana the amount of Aussie beer is limited, and outside that festival you'd be lucky to find much if anything making its way over here.

 

Our stuff's better than the Aussies anyway :)

[Dunc]

Obviously, it's not the standard of one beer festival that's keeping the Aussies away but I'm sure it doesn't go unnoticed. Agreed, our beer is better. Would be nice to see more of it here...they're doing some pretty interesting things over there.