Exciting times for brewers and brew imbibers alike! Along with the done-and-dusted St Patricks Day
and Marchfest; the Nelson hop harvest currently under way, and the soon-to-be-accomplished
“Great Kiwi Beer Festival” in Christchurch, there is a bit of malt madness in
March. And squeezed in the middle is
Easter where one of the most bizarre days of the year occurs: a day where everything is shut with nothing to
do, and everything on the shelves get one day older. It’s called Good Friday, go figure?
If that’s not enough to wet your whistle and you’re still a
bit hoarse then why not try Horsebox, Nelson’s latest brewery. Boasting two brewers who beerly cut their
teeth on homebrew but instead took the horse by the bit, delving straight into
brewing three quality beers, all sessionable but carry lot of clout:
‘Ronin’ is perhaps one of the better tasting Pilsners below
5% out there. Here you have everything
you would expect from a flavoursome Pils. It’s got that inimitable character with a crisp,
clean taste, tingly effervescence and a bite-of-a-lime finish.
‘Black Stallion Milk Stout’ has a robust body with easy caramel
and liquorice tones nourished with scorched roasted malts. Leaving it to warm will bring out its milky
smoothness from the lactose sugars. A
lot of stout for 5%.
‘Storm Hopper APA’ has a thunderous dark berry hop aroma and
tastes just like it smells. Dark berries
with melon and tangelos and a bitterness from start to lingering finish. Bigger than its 5.7% might suggest, which is
good as you might be able to sneak in another bottle without getting into too
much trouble? This brew is most excellent
with Sealord’s new “Salmon Cakes with Cheese Sauce” selected from the deep-freeze
at FreshChoice.
Keep browsing the FreshChoice fridge for the soon-to-be-released
Horsebox ‘Vigilante’, a New Zealand IPA that promises bold bitterness, woo hoo!
See me @FreshChoice this Thursday from 3–6 pm for some
exciting Easter elixir taste-teasers in the shape of stout stouts.
Gallop down to FreshChoice but no horsing around ’cause it
ain’t open Friday!
Denis stout lout Cooper
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