New Craft Bars In Auckland

[Hugh Grierson]

If you find a new bar in Auckland with some craft beer, tell us about it. I just dropped some Croucher off to the new Corner Bar on High St. They are running a pure craft range, no Steiniken or Heinlager! That part of town is getting pretty good now with Mezze, O' Carrol's , My Bar. Almost enough for a decent crawl.

[Stu McKinlay]

Raffe... that sounds more like Sheffield: Sex City.

[Raffe]

Heh, but not quite so Jarvis-chic.  But then it was in Reading. It's a Coldplay sort of town. And yes, I know Mike Oldfield came from there.

[Martin Bridges]

Awesome, literally across the road from my office!

[Martin Bridges]

Man I hate the threading on this site.

[Raffe]

I see 4 martin bobble heads!

[Ian Marriott]

Back in the halcyon days of the Eighties the De Bretts Corner Bar was one of the best outlets for beer in central Auckland, Newbigin Breweries (Silver Fern & Old Thumper) Stockan Lager and Ale, Coopers loads of good imports. Also dubiously the first bar to sell Corona in AK. Nice to see it carry on again.

[vdog]

So, a thing to make you go 'hmm' about a craft beer bar. Just spotted this via my email: http://www.grabone.co.nz/auckland/brew-on-quay?utm_source=GrabOne+A....

 

So the deal is $20 for a jug of beer and a platter. Sweet, right? Except that in the small print they've excluded craft taps from the deal! Seems to me that a bar with a focus on craft beer would want to get more people into it, unfortunately that seems not to be the case here. Gutted.

[Stu McKinlay]

and, yet again, we are faced with that perennial question of "what is craft beer?"

Ask for a jug of Armageddon and (when they say no) say... "fuck off, that's not craft beer! It's contract brewed in a 10,000L tank at a automated factory in South Auckland."

[Shane Morley]

Automated,wow so for the last 13 years I have been opening and closing Steam valves, turning off/ on pumps, moving pumps, hoses, kegs when I could have have just turned on a switch. ( I must try to find these Automated switches)

[Stu McKinlay]

sorry Shane... i don't want to cast dispersions on your muscles. 

 

You know what I mean though...  What is "craft"? I bet you have a pump, and an auger... and the mill is motorised.  I'm just trying to get the man a fair deal on that silly grabone promotion.

[JoKing]

I don't think I've ever heard you apologise before Stu...

[Stu McKinlay]

Well, this is certainly not a first. And probably not the last.