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Issue 60 – 14 February -
NEW BEER – PALE ALE, BELGIAN WHEAT
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The Institute of Brewing - Symposium Auckland 26th & 27th March 2001 Waipuna Lodge, Mt Wellington, Auckland
More information at http://www.brewing.co.nz/20010214iob.htm
A special invitation is extended to non-members of the I to attend as well
LION LAUNCHES SOUTHERN CROSS WHEAT BEER
Southern Cross Wheat Beer, brewed in the Speight's (Dunedin) brewery is the fourth release in the Brewmaster's
Selection, available from 12 February. It is a Belgian style Wheat beer, developed using premium ingredients. The name
is derived from the Southern Cross hops, which are grown in the South Island and provide this beer with a mild
bitterness to balance the natural sweetness of the Wheat and Pilsner malt blend.
http://www.brewing.co.nz/20010212brewmasters.htm
SPEIGHT'S LAUNCHES PALE ALE The Speight's brewery has launched Pale Ale to co-incide with the introduction of the
Speight's Legacy Series on February 12. Speight's Pale Ale is a special malt blend, brewed by J Speight & Company 1949 - 1953. Today's beer is based on the original recipe, using the same high quality ingredients to retain
the heritage and features of the early brew. http://www.brewing.co.nz/20010212speightspaleale.htm
SPEIGHT'S REFLECTS ON HERITAGE
Speight's has launched the Speight's Legacy Series, a range of specialty beers, based on the original recipes of the J
Speight and Company brewhouse "The Legacy Series has been launched in anticipation of the Speight's 125th anniversary in
2001. It contains Speight's Distinction Ale and the newly launched Speight's Pale Ale."
http://www.brewing.co.nz/20010212speights.htm
AN EAR FOR BEER
How the PC can improve God's wonderful beer by listening to it.
http://www.pcformat.co.uk/news/detail.asp?id=27699
THE ALE FILE by Luke Nicholas
"Ask for a watermelon"
What's in the glass?
Rangitoto Brewing Company's Watermelon Ale, 4.0 per cent alcohol by volume.
What's interesting about this beer?
Inspired by a recent trip to the US, Kevin Schwass (owner of R'toto) returned with a taste for these fun beers,
flavoured with real fruit extracts from California. Seeing this popular trend of fruit beers in brewpubs in the US, the
idea has been introduced at R'toto. Garnished with a slice of watermelon, the beer will only be on sale as long as
watermelons are in season.
What does it taste and smell like?
The actual beer looks like any normal pale lager, till you bring it to your nose and smell the huge watermelon aroma, so
big in fact it is surprising. On drinking you are immediately hit with a Shrewsbury or jam-like flavour that is
big but disappears into a clean refreshing, slightly sweet beer with a full body.
Where do you get it?
On tap at R'toto Pub & Café, Takapuna $4.80 a glass; also at Hugo's Frog Bar, Newmarket. As with all good brewpubs (pubs with breweries in
them) you are able to get a free taste of the beer before you buy a glass.
The Ale File appears every Wednesday in VIVA, NZ Herald.
CZECH BREWER BUDVAR'S BEER OUTPUT UP IN 2000
Budejovicky Budvar NP, the Czech Republic's third-largest brewer, reported that beer output rose 7.1% last year from
1999's numbers due to higher local demand and increased exports to Western Europe, according to a Feb. 7 Bloomberg
report. The state-owned brewery said that its output reached 1.35 million hectoliters, up from 1.26 million hectoliters
in 1999. Revenue was up 11.4% to 2.67 billion koruna ($71.8 million). Home sales totaled 843,000 hectoliters and exports
rose to 504,000 hectoliters, approximately one-third of all Czech beer exports. "Budvar has been successful in
increasing its production, sales and revenue for the seventh year in a row, especially on the domestic market," said
Petr Jansky, Budvar's economic manager. Budvar sells its beer in its local market under the Budweiser Budvar label, but
has been locked out of the United States due to legal battles with Anheuser-Busch Companies over the Budweiser
trademark. Recently, to avoid the trademark dispute, Budvar has exported to the United States under the brand-name
Czechvar. From www.beerweek.com
BEER TASTINGS
AUCKLAND The Beer Cellar, 158 Garnet Road, Westmere 6.30pm - Tuesday 27th February NZ$15.00 – 8 beers
CHRISTCHURCH Mainstreet Café, 840 Colombo Street 6.00pm - Tuesday 6th March NZ$10.00 – 5 or 6 beer, to be announced
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kegs.
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