August 12, 2024 • 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the rugby field to the rotary shed.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's the Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sports.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
A long time ago, way back at this Well, they
want to drink nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
But wonderful.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's been a couple of weeks since we've talked beer
with Michael Donaldson Be a Specialist. He is the editor
of Be a Specialist magazine The Pursuit of Happiness, and
in another life was actually a sports journalist who did
attend a few Olympic games. Michael, Good morning, morning Brian.
How are we very well? Thank you? You would have
sat back in your lazy boy and watched some of
(00:44):
the action. Did you have a favorite moment from these Olympics?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think lydiat Cowin and the golf only because I
love golf and I once wrote a book about her.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well, there we go. There, that's portrait of Portrait of
a teen golfing sensation.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That's right, you've rattled that one off the top of
your head pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And what a career. I mean, from what about twelve
years old? She started here in New Zealand and look
at that, she's not even thirty and she's on top
of the world.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, yeah, I just I think, and she just did
it so clinically I think. And on that note, like,
way way back in the day, I had a lot
to do with a guy called John Andrews covering cycling
in christ Church and he's the father of a Less Andrews.
And my words, she destroyed the field in that sprint
(01:40):
final morning, like that was pretty phenomenal performance. So yeah,
I just you know that connection going way way back,
like John was a kilo time trial writer and sprinter,
So you know, it's quite cool when you see the
children of these people report on.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Isn't it all right? We're talking about medals? Could we
head quite quite a metal hall? Some medals have been
headed out for beer around the country.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we just done sort of while the
Olympics were on. Actually we had the New Zealand Beer
Awards and they were held in Auckland, and I just
thought I'd run through some of the highlights because it just,
you know, it gives people an idea of who's hot
and who's not.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Maybe absolutely there are I mean, there are so many
choices now when you go into liquor stores and supermarkets.
So let's look at the big winners.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, so what they The interesting thing that they do
is they have the best brewery, but they tear it
into the's micro brewery award, a small brewery award, medium
size and then large and it's sort to do with
the volume of beer they produce. So we'll quickly run
(02:54):
through those. The micro brewery champion was one called Fork
and Brewer, which is a little brew pub and Wellington.
Great great spot to go if you're in Wrington. It's
in Bond Street, Falkn Brewer. It's been there for a
few years now and so they were the champion micro brewery,
the champion small brewery for the second year in a row.
(03:16):
It's one we've a lot of these we have talked
about already. The small brewery was Shining Peak in Taranaki,
right and they won that title now two years in
a row. And the champion Medium sized Brewery is McLeod's
from Waipou and they have won that before but a
(03:38):
few years ago. But they absolutely smashed it. They were
Lisa Carrington in this event. They won so many medals.
And then the champion large Brewery is Parrot Dog from
Wellington and they dethroned Garage Project who had won it
for years in a row, so that was pretty good performance.
(04:00):
And then they have another award for the Champion Beer
and that again went to Mcloud's for a bear called
Tropical Cyclone and that's double I P eight about eight percent,
so it's a big hoppy bear. Not not for the uninitiated,
but look out for it if you're if you're in
(04:22):
the in the bottle store and you see some Mcloud's beer.
Tropical Cyclone is the is the best bear in New
Zealand right now according to the touches and the other
thing that they They then have this very complicated points
system which I won't come into detail, but it ends
(04:43):
up giving a prize to what they call the the
overall Champion New Zealand Brewery and it's this one basically
based on your consistency would be the best way of
doing it or best way of saying it, and that
went to Three Boys in christ Church and they are
another one we talked about just recently with their oysters
(05:05):
out which are a gold medal. Yeah. So those are
the kind of the big ones that came through in
the awards. But I will say there was a there
was a handful of breweries also that were for one
of a better word perfect. Every beer they entered won
(05:26):
a medal and they that's pretty hard to do like
and at these so Sprig and Fern out of Nelson
they got twenty medals out of twenty entries.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Eric Dog did the same year they got twenty out
of twenty. Shining Peak fifteen out of fifteen. Panhead did
really well. They entered fourteen beers and got fourteen medals.
Three boys we talked about got twelve out of twelve,
as did Good George and another one Batch brewing out
of Auckland. So those are just those are the name
(06:00):
of the breweries that are sort of on top of
their game right now. Would be the best way of
putting it.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The Olympics of brewing in New Zealand. There we go,
Beadles handled out. That's fantastic, Michael, great to chat. We're
doing again soon, shall we?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
All right? Love to.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Five hot seconds, remember Charlie up Yeah, two two, three four,
Such a.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Good beer drinking song.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That one
From the rugby field to the rotary shed.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's the Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sports.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
A long time ago, way back at this Well, they
want to drink nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
But wonderful.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's been a couple of weeks since we've talked beer
with Michael Donaldson Be a Specialist. He is the editor
of Be a Specialist magazine The Pursuit of Happiness, and
in another life was actually a sports journalist who did
attend a few Olympic games. Michael, Good morning, morning Brian.
How are we very well? Thank you? You would have
sat back in your lazy boy and watched some of
(00:44):
the action. Did you have a favorite moment from these Olympics?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think lydiat Cowin and the golf only because I
love golf and I once wrote a book about her.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well, there we go. There, that's portrait of Portrait of
a teen golfing sensation.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That's right, you've rattled that one off the top of
your head pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And what a career. I mean, from what about twelve
years old? She started here in New Zealand and look
at that, she's not even thirty and she's on top
of the world.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, yeah, I just I think, and she just did
it so clinically I think. And on that note, like,
way way back in the day, I had a lot
to do with a guy called John Andrews covering cycling
in christ Church and he's the father of a Less Andrews.
And my words, she destroyed the field in that sprint
(01:40):
final morning, like that was pretty phenomenal performance. So yeah,
I just you know that connection going way way back,
like John was a kilo time trial writer and sprinter,
So you know, it's quite cool when you see the
children of these people report on.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Isn't it all right? We're talking about medals? Could we
head quite quite a metal hall? Some medals have been
headed out for beer around the country.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we just done sort of while the
Olympics were on. Actually we had the New Zealand Beer
Awards and they were held in Auckland, and I just
thought I'd run through some of the highlights because it just,
you know, it gives people an idea of who's hot
and who's not.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Maybe absolutely there are I mean, there are so many
choices now when you go into liquor stores and supermarkets.
So let's look at the big winners.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, so what they The interesting thing that they do
is they have the best brewery, but they tear it
into the's micro brewery award, a small brewery award, medium
size and then large and it's sort to do with
the volume of beer they produce. So we'll quickly run
(02:54):
through those. The micro brewery champion was one called Fork
and Brewer, which is a little brew pub and Wellington.
Great great spot to go if you're in Wrington. It's
in Bond Street, Falkn Brewer. It's been there for a
few years now and so they were the champion micro brewery,
the champion small brewery for the second year in a row.
(03:16):
It's one we've a lot of these we have talked
about already. The small brewery was Shining Peak in Taranaki,
right and they won that title now two years in
a row. And the champion Medium sized Brewery is McLeod's
from Waipou and they have won that before but a
(03:38):
few years ago. But they absolutely smashed it. They were
Lisa Carrington in this event. They won so many medals.
And then the champion large Brewery is Parrot Dog from
Wellington and they dethroned Garage Project who had won it
for years in a row, so that was pretty good performance.
(04:00):
And then they have another award for the Champion Beer
and that again went to Mcloud's for a bear called
Tropical Cyclone and that's double I P eight about eight percent,
so it's a big hoppy bear. Not not for the uninitiated,
but look out for it if you're if you're in
(04:22):
the in the bottle store and you see some Mcloud's beer.
Tropical Cyclone is the is the best bear in New
Zealand right now according to the touches and the other
thing that they They then have this very complicated points
system which I won't come into detail, but it ends
(04:43):
up giving a prize to what they call the the
overall Champion New Zealand Brewery and it's this one basically
based on your consistency would be the best way of
doing it or best way of saying it, and that
went to Three Boys in christ Church and they are
another one we talked about just recently with their oysters
(05:05):
out which are a gold medal. Yeah. So those are
the kind of the big ones that came through in
the awards. But I will say there was a there
was a handful of breweries also that were for one
of a better word perfect. Every beer they entered won
(05:26):
a medal and they that's pretty hard to do like
and at these so Sprig and Fern out of Nelson
they got twenty medals out of twenty entries.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Eric Dog did the same year they got twenty out
of twenty. Shining Peak fifteen out of fifteen. Panhead did
really well. They entered fourteen beers and got fourteen medals.
Three boys we talked about got twelve out of twelve,
as did Good George and another one Batch brewing out
of Auckland. So those are just those are the name
(06:00):
of the breweries that are sort of on top of
their game right now. Would be the best way of
putting it.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The Olympics of brewing in New Zealand. There we go,
Beadles handled out. That's fantastic, Michael, great to chat. We're
doing again soon, shall we?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
All right? Love to.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Five hot seconds, remember Charlie up Yeah, two two, three four,
Such a.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Good beer drinking song.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
That one
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