Mrs Best Beer HQ and I spent our fifth wedding anniversary in Raglan, Waikato’s sun-soaked surfing mecca. Not that we did any surfing; it’s way too cold for a wimp like me, and my wife is eight-months pregnant with our first child. Thus, I was drinking to Best Beer HQ Jr. and five years of […]
Although Boundary Road Brewery isn’t actually a ‘craft brewery’, it wants us to think it is. That’s why it has released three new beers that don’t look too dissimilar to the stuff you might get from Garage Project or Funk Estate (I’ve already reviewed its ‘Powder Hound’ XPA, the ‘Chocka Riwaka’ Southern Pale Ale, and […]
I gave Boundary Road Brewery’s new ‘Powder Hound’ XPA a rave review last time out (and I don’t use that word ‘rave’ lightly). Will ‘Chocka Riwaka’ be as good? I certainly hope so! Let’s find out… ABV: 5.5% IBU: 28 Malts: Ale, toffee, roasted barley Hops: Riwaka Blurb on the can: Our Chocka Riwaka is […]
While it’s not strictly “craft beer” as beer snobs know it (Boundary Road Brewery is owned by Independent Liquor, New Zealand’s third largest brewer, which happens to be owned by Asahi), I appreciate that BRB isn’t completely phoning it in like some other faux craft-beer brands (*cough* Monteith’s *cough*). Today I’m reviewing Boundary Road’s new […]
Margarita + beer = Tuatara ‘Sourgarita’ Summer Sour… but is it any good? ABV: 5% Ingredients: water, malted barley, lemons, limes, hops, yeast. Blurb on the bottle: Globrally, we’re about as South of the Border as you can get. Combining the best of both worlds, we’ve wedded the famous Mexican margarita with a Kiwi hopped […]
