Beer aficionados

[Bikernereid]

there is a Belgian beer bar up Mission Bay Way called the Belgian Beer Cafe (yes very original). They do not sell this particular beer but they do sell very similar ones and they have an ok selection of Blanche and fruit beers. Worth a ride out there.

I just had a quick browse on the foodtown website for La Trappe and they don't seem to have it. Can anyone give me a specific supermarket or liquor store where this is sold?

[Mekk]

there is a Belgian beer bar up Mission Bay Way called the Belgian Beer Cafe (yes very original). They do not sell this particular beer but they do sell very similar ones and they have an ok selection of Blanche and fruit beers. Worth a ride out there.

Thanks but I'd prefer to avoid that area if I could, I'm not a fan of the idiots that flock out that way.

Do you know of any closer to central or out the other way?

[Bikernereid]

Sorry I am not from NZ just know about Belgian beers. I would have thought that the Begian Beer Cafe might be able to point you in the right direction for buying it. I saw some in a wine store near The Living Room in Herne Bay/Ponsonby but was a bit squiffy so can't tell you the exact beers they sold. But they were Belgian. Hope this helps.

Thanks but I'd prefer to avoid that area if I could, I'm not a fan of the idiots that flock out that way.

Do you know of any closer to central or out the other way?

[jrandom]

There are several Belgian Beer Cafes in Auckland.

Blankenberge in Takapuna, The Occidental in Vulcan Lane, De Post in Mt Eden and De Fontein in Mission Bay.

[Bikernereid]

Hence me saying Mission Bay earlier.

There are several Belgian Beer Cafes in Auckland.

Blankenberge in Takapuna, The Occidental in Vulcan Lane, De Post in Mt Eden and De Fontein in Mission Bay.

[jrandom]

For those of you who asked about keeping the beer cool - check this out
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/

Simon's an old acquaintance and ex-colleague of mine. Oddly enough, he also lived next door to my parents for a couple of years (yes, that's where the shed containing the jet-engine-powered beer cooler resides).

I have gazed upon the beer cooler in person, and can attest that it is cool, in all senses of the word.



Edit: Simon is also the gentleman who introduced me, and via me, Mr Skid et al, to the joys of Galbraiths, the best pub in Auckland.

[SPman]

There are several Belgian Beer Cafes in Auckland.

Blankenberge in Takapuna, The Occidental in Vulcan Lane, De Post in Mt Eden and De Fontein in Mission Bay.

And all of them crap!
With crap beer!
Bloody Belgian muck - why don't they stick to things they are good at - like the EU!

[Bikernereid]

You are obviously not european. If you want to dis the beer fine but at least give em credit for the bloody organsmic chocolate them make!!

And I worked for the EU and Belgium sure don't run it!!

And all of them crap!
With crap beer!
Bloody Belgian muck - why don't they stick to things they are good at - like the EU!

[jrandom]

Bloody Belgian muck - why don't they stick to things they are good at - like the EU!

And making clothes for bicycling in.

(I have some very nice Vermarc kit that probably doesn't fit me anymore.)

[jrandom]

You are obviously not european.

Very astute of you.

He is, in fact, a darky of the worst sort.

[SPman]

You are obviously not european. If you want to dis the beer fine but at least give em credit for the bloody organsmic chocolate them make!!

And I worked for the EU and Belgium sure don't run it!!

Organsmic?

Yeah - ok - the chocolate ain't bad.

Just keep everything Belgian (apart from the chocolate) in Brussels.


(people will start saying the French make good beer next...........)

[Bikernereid]

So what is wrong with anything Belgian?

No the French produce sexy men, good wine, excellent cheese (if you like cheese), fantastic music to mention but a few. Not that I am biased or anything.

Organsmic?

Yeah - ok - the chocolate ain't bad.

Just keep everything Belgian (apart from the chocolate) in Brussels.


(people will start saying the French make good beer next...........)

[Steam]

I just had a quick browse on the foodtown website for La Trappe and they don't seem to have it. Can anyone give me a specific supermarket or liquor store where this is sold?

New World has it. They have the best beer department of any supermarket in NZ. New World in Dunedin and Chch and Wellington, don't know about Auckland.

[Usarka]

Brussells is the boringest city on the planet. Other parts of belguim are good craic tho.

Stella is the lion-red equivalent in belguim and it's use should be confined to practical jokes where you need to pretend something is a puddle of piss.

Plus the fact that we dont even follow the original recipe in this country - wtf is that all about????

A good tip for belguim, sneak some good grass in from the 'dam and ho-down on the chocolates when the munchies strike.....

[vifferman]

Stella is the lion-red equivalent in belguim and it's use should be confined to practical jokes where you need to pretend something is a puddle of piss.

Plus the fact that we dont even follow the original recipe in this country - wtf is that all about????

This is what I reckon it's all about.
The two main breweries are eventually going to make every beer in the world under licence, and so eventually all the beer in Noo Zilund will taste the same. Then they'll scrap all the breweries and make only one beer, with a multitude of different labels (Heinekin, Steinlager, Stella, Speights, Macs, Monteiths, etc etc). And all the beer drinkers will say that the beer they prefer is The Best, and they'll all simultaneously be right AND wrong, and it'll all be weasel piss.
And The Brewery shareholders will be even more fantastically wealthy than they are now.
And Alan Clerkclark (or whomsoever is the current NooZilundFuckerUpperer) will be very happy, because we won't have to import any of "that furrin stuff" any more.
The End.