What are you drinking right now?

**pete376403** · 7th August 2016, 19:40

When Stones green ginger wine was made in NZ by Nobilos it was good. Then they stopped making it here and imported Australian made Stones which is shit by comparison.
Found some NZ made Haighs GGW which is much more like the original. This is the right weather for it, too.

**WNJ** · 8th August 2016, 02:39

Just home from work, 40 min ride home in the Waikato chill, having a couple of Woodstock Bourbon Nips to warm up

**Swoop** · 12th August 2016, 06:19

Spitfire beer. Bloody nice too.

**Akzle** · 12th August 2016, 12:37

crystal meth

**Jin** · 12th August 2016, 12:59

Frappucino. Overall not bad except to much cream and sugar. Next time I'll make it a double shot.

**Brian d marge** · 12th August 2016, 13:08

Originally Posted by Swoop

Spitfire beer. Bloody nice too.

They sell it here
It is nice

sent for a divine source

**Oakie** · 12th August 2016, 17:42

Vodka Cruiser 'Exotic fruit' flavour. What can I say ... I'm a teenage girl at heart.

**Akzle** · 12th August 2016, 18:38

moa lager.

tis an interesting one. big, any way you drink it, and while it can be drunk english, I much prefer it out the fridge.
much meaty/maltier warm, but if you pour it cold and savour it, you reach a point in the middle when it's quite treacle-ey.

nomnom, anyway.

**idb** · 12th August 2016, 19:12

Stout from our local brewer 'Ferris Rd'.
He's opened a brewery bar in town in the last two or three months...he's my new best friend.

**BuzzardNZ** · 12th August 2016, 19:15

Originally Posted by Akzle

moa lager.

possibly the worst beer I've ever come across. A warm flat tui tastes better.

Enjoy

**Oakie** · 12th August 2016, 19:52

Did a tour of the local brewery in Rarotonga when we were there recently. When I say 'tour', we actually stood in one of the two rooms that made up the brewery while the boss man did his presentation. Well worth it too (and the samples were generous).

Very interesting hearing the story of how they work in an unfriendly environment for craft beer. He told a story about how they got some expensive piece of German made switchgear ($10,000?) when they first set up but that because of the humidity it corroded to to the point of being useless within a year. They went to a local plumber and he fixed them up with a switch which was made from a soccer ball with valves sitting in a container. When the pressure grew big enough the ball expanded and physically tripped a switch which caused something to happen and the pressure in the ball to drop. When it got to a low pressure point it tripped another switch and started inflating the ball again. The system is still working 9 years later. That's an approximation of the story anyway. As I said, the samples were generous so possibly my recollection of the story may not be perfect.