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Beer And Food: Potted Shrimp With 8 Wired Hopwired Ipa

Review Date: 18-Aug-2010
Potted Shrimp are a traditional snack from the North of England. I was originally inspired to try out this match after watching Zak Avery blog about matching Scottish brewer Brewdog’s 77 Lager matched with potted shrimp. 77 Lager uses New Zealand Motueka hops and More...

Beer And Food: Slow Cooked Beef Short Rib Braised In Porter With Mint Gremolata On Lentils With Yeastie Boys Pot Kettle Black.

Review Date: 18-Aug-2010
This match is all about winter comfort. Beef short rib is a cut that’s perfect for slow cooking as it has heaps of flavour and a hearty richness from all the marbled fat. More...

Emerson’S Masterclass 2010 With Richard Emerson And Geoff Griggs

Review Date: 29-Jul-2010
The final vote showed a landslide preference for the Oreti Red making it possibly one of the highest scoring beers ever at the Regional tasting. More...

Beer And Food: Emerson's Week Gastronomy

Review Date: 28-Jul-2010
The event sparked a lot of debate and got those in attendance thinking about how beer works with food in different ways to wine. One of the dishes didn’t match well with either the beer or the wine which was the perfect spark to get people talking about how and why certain drinks work with certain foods. More...

Young Guns Tasting With Søren Erikson, Stu Mckinlay And Kieran Haslett-Moore

Review Date: 07-Jul-2010
The vote at the end of each night threw up some extremely close results with ties occurring on both nights. This was almost certainly a testament to the extremely high quality and diverse nature of the beers on show. More...

Back From The Best Tasting With Geoff Griggs

Review Date: 01-Jun-2010
As we watched the slides and listened to Geoff we tasted a range of American craft beers put together to illustrate just how diverse American Craft brewing is. More...

Beer And Food: Chimay And Belgian Cuisine

Review Date: 13-May-2010
While the English hold the crown for low strength but high flavour session beers, the American’s excel at highly hopped aromatic pale ales and the Germans make a point of their ‘pure’ lagers, the Belgians refuse to be ‘pigeon holed’ by style instead brewing a staggering range of fruity, More...

Big Bold And Beautiful Tasting

Review Date: 26-Apr-2010
April saw the return of a strong beer tasting to Regional, the last one having been the “Muscle Brews” tasting that was held in May 2006. For the Big Bold and Beautiful Tasting we were able to make use of all the interesting strong American beers that we have been able to source recently with some interesting and rare New Zealand beers and a beer from an iconic English brewery thrown in for good measure. More...

The Fourth Annual Regional Wines And Spirits Beer And Cheese Tasting

Review Date: 29-Mar-2010
The fourth Annual Regional Wines and Spirits Beer and Cheese Tasting was held over 3 days at the end of March. This year I presented 8 different beers matched with 8 different New Zealand artisan cheeses. The tasting was a great success with two of the combinations, that of Pink Elephant Mammoth More...

Top Picks For Easter Drinking

Review Date: 22-Mar-2010
Easter tends to be a good excuse for a lot of people to get away to the bach and enjoy the last long weekend before winter really sets in. More...
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