Wellington bottled beer goodness!

[Kempicus]

Popped into Moore Wilson last night....GOLD!

Epic still at $15.90 a six pack
Renaissance Discovery, perfection and porter at $6.50 a bottle
Tuatara at around $14 a 6 pack

[JoKing]

I called in to "The Mill" yesterday:

No Epic
No Renaissance
No Tuatara

Export Gold was $15 a doz
Lion Red was $15 a doz
DB was $15 a doz
Ranfurlly was $12 a doz for 440ml cans
Monteiths, Mac's, Heineken, Steinlager and a few Ozzy beers were all over the $20 mark.

I bought a tall heineken and a bottle of coopers, then drank a mouthful the coopers, screwed up my nose only to find out it had expired in August last year. GO NEW PLYMOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!

I drowned my sorrows in a glass of Jim Beam Distillers Series.

[James P]

Epic @ $7 a 500ml bottle
Wigram @ $6 a 500ml bottle

Drinking Ged's Number 2 priceless.... it's a bitter though!

[Kempicus]

I liked Ged's Number 1....only the cats have tried his number three though....

[James P]

Don' forget the boxster got a little sip too! :)

[Kempicus]

I did see that in the corner of the picture!

[Ged]

Keep those appreciative comments coming and I'll supply you with beer all year round :)

[Kempicus]

Mate i thought it was great! a truly awesome first AG brew....like i said adjust the hop schedule a tad and enter it in the homebrew comp as an ESB. Reminded me of a cross between Ringwood old thumper and Gales HSD

[James P]

It went down very well last night, chilled to 5 or 6 C, poured into a frozen jug, and sipped (or the first couple were gulps) in a balmy 29C temperature in CHCH.

[Kempicus]

Oh man that's dire!

[Greig McGill]

I'd have gone for a dozen Lion Red and cellared them to let the fine and subtle malt flavours meld properly, massaged gently by time's smooth fingers.

[JoKing]

I'll try that next time Greig - thanks for the advise. Tell me something though - there were some wonderfully complex aromas and flavors from the 3 year old coopers that would perhaps be made available if Lion Red were to be cellered in the same manner. Please read my tasting notes for Coopers Pale Ale vintage 2006.

Appearance:

Pours a golden hue of orange with a slight note of mud in there - upon closer inspection, there was some peanut butter yeast as well as stunning precipitations of protein that clung to the readily disipating head of this wonderous brew.

Aroma:

Reminisent of the boot of my old Datsun - hints of old Carpet with the metallic tang of Rust. The Malt had aged spectacularily into the smoothest perceivable sweetness that coopers has been famous for. A floral hint of Black Wattle rounded out the nose of this drink.

Taste:

As with the aroma - rusty Datsun Boot was dominant along with a subtle hint of Marmite (not to be confused with Vegemite of course) with a dry sour finish.

Has anyone else cellared Lion Red, who might be able to ellaborate on what time might do to such a finley crafted Ale?

[Horace]

To be honest I have a dozen that have been in the deepest recess of the pantry for the better part of two years. Left over from a party I think.

I might crack one tonight just to see if it's matured enough yet