Moving sucks. Am I right? After a full-on day of moving heavy furniture, scrubbing the old place clean, and unpacking everything at the new place, I felt like a craft beer was in order. Luckily, I had this bottle of Mike’s Flight of the Falcon APA rolling around on the bottom shelf of my fridge, […]

I bought a sampler box of six different beers by Mike’s craft brewery in Taranaki, so expect to see a few of those beers reviewed here at Best Beer HQ in coming weeks and months… ABV: 5.5% Blurb on the bottle: M is for Meerkats, and Malfunctioning Munitions. M is for Motueka hops and More […]

When I saw this beautiful-looking can of Garage Project’s Bliss Lager, I knew I had to have one at the beach. Props to Mount Maunganui artist Ross Murray for the striking design. ABV: 4.5% Blurb about the beer: Bliss, a state of complete happiness and harmony. You can find it in the most familiar of […]

I can’t believe I’ve never tried Liberty Brewing’s Sauvin Bomb before. I’ve seen it around the Kiwi craft beer scene for many years now, but I’ve just never taken the hopportunity (see what I did there?) to try it until my sister-in-law got me this bottle for my birthday. I guess I was too busy […]

I haven’t had a bad beer by Auckland’s own Liberty Brewing Co. yet, so I had high hopes when I opened up this extra-large-sized can of its Uprising West Auckland Pale Ale. ABV: 5.7% Blurb on the can: Our once grand old public houses now stand filled with flavourless brown froth. A pitiful reward for […]