- Rogue Beer on Tap
- Mike's Imperial India Pale Ale
- Other Upcoming Beers
- June Tastings
- The Stanley Cup
- Matariki Winter Ale Festival
- An Archive of these emails
Rogue Ales on Tap
We've been running through our stock of Rogue kegs at an indecent pace - kegs of Yellow Snow IPA, American Amber Ale, Tracktown 200m IPA, Dead Guy Ale and Captain Sig's Northwestern Ale have already been drained. Right now St Rogue Dry Hopped Red is on. It's one of three amber ales that won silver medals for Rogue at last week's Australian International Beer Awards and is highly recommended.
For those who have missed out on the aforementioned beers - don't worry, we have more of all of them. And we still have Tracktown Triplejump Pale Ale, Shakespeare Stout and Mocha Porter waiting in the wings.
Mike's Imperial India Pale Ale
We mentioned last week that this would be on tap soon and a few minutes ago its time came. This is a big departure for the White Cliffs Brewery and we've been looking forward to it for some time. If the Organic Mild Ale is fine and worthy, the IIPA is a bit of a rock star. It might just change the way we all view the brewery.
It weighs in at 9% and an IBU level that resembles a cricket score. Rumour has it that a certain New Plymouth home brew shop proprietor played a part in its development and it should appeal to his customers.
Most of the batch will be going into bottles, but they've filled a handful of their unique 10L kegs for their favourite bars. Because of the high octane level we're serving it in stemmed glasses only. Look for it coming from the unassuming chrome and black cylon beer dispensing machine at the end of the bar.
Other Upcoming Beers
Output from Golden Bear in Nelson is unpredictable so we're always glad when some comes our way. We've got additional kegs of their Seismic IPA and California Pale Ale coming up in the next few days.
And slightly less rare but equally loved are beers such as Three Boys Pilsner, Three Boys Wheat, Mussel Inn Captain Cooker and Twisted Hop IPA which are all on now or soon.
And a keg each of two of 8 Wired's most recent beers - Red Dwarf Amber and Big Smoke Smoked Porter - are waiting patiently too.
June Tastings
Mikkeller Single Hop IPAs
In the past when we've held tastings of beer from Denmark's gypsy brewery Mikkeller the response has been pretty meek. A few hardcore beer geeks, a few regulars with nothing better to do and a few relatives feeling sorry for us. It suggested that extreme, experimental and obscure is just asking too much.
So it's been a surprise that the most obscure and geeky tasting we have ever planned seems to have captured your imagination. The Mikkeller Single Hop IPA Tasting on June 8 is fully booked and we are running a waiting list. If anyone would like to join the waiting list or give up your place to someone on the waiting list, please get in touch.
For some pre-study, this article at the Washington Post has a nice background on Mikkeller and Scandinavian beers in general.
Sake 2010
We ran a couple of sake tastings last year and they proved quite popular. This time, to spice things up, our Japanese staff have been tapping contacts in their home towns and prefectures and getting rare and special sakes flown over.
This event will be equally suitable for sake-newbies or regular drinkers. In-house sake expert Shigeo Takagi will be on hand to explain things and everyone will feel like an expert by the end.
The date for this one is June 15.
The Stanley Cup
The finals series between the Philadelphia Flyers and Chicago Blackhawks starts at midday on Sunday. We'd like to assure anyone wondering where they can watch this and enjoy a good North American beer that we're here for you.
Matariki Winter Ales Festival
SOBA have announced that their Matariki Winter Ales Festival will take place on June 26 at the Boat Shed, not far from us here at 25 Taranaki St. Hashigo Zake will support the event in some capacity or other and we encourage our customers to go along. Tickets are already on sale at SOBA's website (www.soba.org.nz).
Archives of the Email
It's hard to say who needs this particular service, but from last week we've been posting copies of these messages to this blog.
