September 16, 2024 • 6 mins
Weekly beer chat with the Guru, This week we talk a Taranaki Brewery.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the cricket field to the cow shed. It's the
Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport A
long time ago, way back, well, they was good drink tea.
Along came the name Honey wonderful.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's time to talk beer on the show now and
catch up with freelance beer writer. I actually read a
great article in the New Zealand's in Flight magazine on
my recent trip to Southland. Michael Donaldson joins us. Morning, Michael,
Good morning, Brian. There was an article about sort of
trying what do they call them paddles? Do they where
you give four or five beers as a selection?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah? Yeah, And I think that it was ended up
talking about mixed six packs. Yeah probably, Yeah, just where
you get the variety of beers from one place and
you can figure out what you like, because sometimes we
don't even know what we like until it crosses our lips.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Some places be very confusing. You'll go into these brew
bars and they might have twenty or thirty beers there
and you think, oh, I hang on, hang on, what
do I try?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Where do I start?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And sometimes they have such crazy names you don't even
know what it's all about really, it's hopefully if they've
got good staff they'll guide you through that. But yeah,
all right, it's a good way. Yeah, get a tasting paddle,
get four or five or six or something like that,
and then you only have a little bit of every
one of them and you don't feel like you've wasted
(01:30):
an investment if you don't like it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, you did right, all right. So our feature brewery
this week comes out of the Taranaki and it's called
Three Sisters.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I believe, yes it is, and the name people familiar
with the Taranaki coastline sort of further north out of
New Plymouth, there's a sort of a rock formation that
they call the Three Sisters sort of I don't know
what you call them, like sort of pillars in the
out in the ocean there. But also the couple that
(02:00):
own it and run it, Joe Emons and his wife Sarah.
They have three girls, so that's also ties into the names.
So Joe's an Englishmen and Sarah is a German, so
you know, good luck to them when the football's on.
It's always a good English German rivalry. So yeah, but
(02:24):
I wanted to talk about them because they are in
the middle of a crowd funding campaign with the organization
called pledge me, and they're trying to raise a minimum
of five hundred thousand dollars and a maximum of quite
audaciously one point six million. They're at about four hundred
(02:46):
thousand now, so I think they're going to reach their
minimum target. And you know, so if any of your
listeners feel like I'd just like to have all we
share in a brewery, you can get in. I'm just
trying to you know, you can get in for a
few hundred bucks. And you know, there's a whole lot
of perks that you get when you sign up for
(03:07):
these crowdfunding campaigns. You know a lot of people say
you'll never see your money again, but it's kind of
supporting a local business. It's the ability to say I
own a share in a brewery and.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, sorry, no, that's fine. So tell us a little
bit about the brews that come out of Three Sisters
then yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
The look, I just did want to say that they've
done this a couple of times, the crowdfunding, and they're
doing it to expand their capacity because they recently struck
a deal with a distributor in China. To send like
regular batches of beer to China, and they're quite a
(03:50):
small brewery and to get a big export order, it's like,
we need to create more space to brew more beer.
And so it's a it's good for them, you know,
it's a real opportunity for them to kind of grow
and flourish. And they're in a really cool building in
New Plymouth if you ever traveling there, it's in the
(04:11):
old New Plymouth Savings Bank building, which I think that
became the TSB. So it's this beautiful old building that
they're housed and the breweries in there, and yeah, just
they make a whole lot of wacky and weird bruise
like a lot of people do these days. But I
wanted to talk about one that would be quite a
(04:35):
simple beer. I suppose it's called Oakura Blonde. And if
anyone ever do you remember the Surfer page Harrab, Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.
I always swear that it's her image on the front
of the bottle, and Joe tells me it's not. It
just happens to be a blonde haired surfer and silhouette.
(04:56):
But it looks like page to me. But anyway, so
it's got a surf a girl on the label and
look it's a delightful, refreshing blondale, you know, perfect summer drinking.
It win lots of awards, I've got to say, lots
of medals at various brewing awards. So it's well made.
(05:16):
Like they're good people, they're trying to grow. So if
you're interested ortis and beer or go on to pledge
men give them some money.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, it'd be nice to have a sort of share
in a a for a small investment of sharing a
local brewery.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, I think so, and I think it is a
real local thing. They're very Karanaki proud like they do
have a national footprint and you'll find them in supermarkets
around the place, not everywhere like some of the better
known breweries. But you know, they were New Zealand's champion
small brewery, which is a type you know, when they
(05:52):
give awards out in the brewerin awards, they do them
on tiers of small, medium and large. And in fact,
they were the champion micro brewery a few years ago,
didn't They were the champion small brewery. So that they
do good stuff, there no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So absolutely, Michael always great to chat look forward to
our chats on a Tuesday. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Us the man of when Ventor Beer. It's quite a
neat idea for a couple of hundred bucks at the
Three Sisters Buried and you can tell you mates, you
she isn't a brewery.
From the cricket field to the cow shed. It's the
Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport A
long time ago, way back, well, they was good drink tea.
Along came the name Honey wonderful.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's time to talk beer on the show now and
catch up with freelance beer writer. I actually read a
great article in the New Zealand's in Flight magazine on
my recent trip to Southland. Michael Donaldson joins us. Morning, Michael,
Good morning, Brian. There was an article about sort of
trying what do they call them paddles? Do they where
you give four or five beers as a selection?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah? Yeah, And I think that it was ended up
talking about mixed six packs. Yeah probably, Yeah, just where
you get the variety of beers from one place and
you can figure out what you like, because sometimes we
don't even know what we like until it crosses our lips.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Some places be very confusing. You'll go into these brew
bars and they might have twenty or thirty beers there
and you think, oh, I hang on, hang on, what
do I try?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Where do I start?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And sometimes they have such crazy names you don't even
know what it's all about really, it's hopefully if they've
got good staff they'll guide you through that. But yeah,
all right, it's a good way. Yeah, get a tasting paddle,
get four or five or six or something like that,
and then you only have a little bit of every
one of them and you don't feel like you've wasted
(01:30):
an investment if you don't like it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, you did right, all right. So our feature brewery
this week comes out of the Taranaki and it's called
Three Sisters.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I believe, yes it is, and the name people familiar
with the Taranaki coastline sort of further north out of
New Plymouth, there's a sort of a rock formation that
they call the Three Sisters sort of I don't know
what you call them, like sort of pillars in the
out in the ocean there. But also the couple that
(02:00):
own it and run it, Joe Emons and his wife Sarah.
They have three girls, so that's also ties into the names.
So Joe's an Englishmen and Sarah is a German, so
you know, good luck to them when the football's on.
It's always a good English German rivalry. So yeah, but
(02:24):
I wanted to talk about them because they are in
the middle of a crowd funding campaign with the organization
called pledge me, and they're trying to raise a minimum
of five hundred thousand dollars and a maximum of quite
audaciously one point six million. They're at about four hundred
(02:46):
thousand now, so I think they're going to reach their
minimum target. And you know, so if any of your
listeners feel like I'd just like to have all we
share in a brewery, you can get in. I'm just
trying to you know, you can get in for a
few hundred bucks. And you know, there's a whole lot
of perks that you get when you sign up for
(03:07):
these crowdfunding campaigns. You know a lot of people say
you'll never see your money again, but it's kind of
supporting a local business. It's the ability to say I
own a share in a brewery and.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, sorry, no, that's fine. So tell us a little
bit about the brews that come out of Three Sisters
then yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
The look, I just did want to say that they've
done this a couple of times, the crowdfunding, and they're
doing it to expand their capacity because they recently struck
a deal with a distributor in China. To send like
regular batches of beer to China, and they're quite a
(03:50):
small brewery and to get a big export order, it's like,
we need to create more space to brew more beer.
And so it's a it's good for them, you know,
it's a real opportunity for them to kind of grow
and flourish. And they're in a really cool building in
New Plymouth if you ever traveling there, it's in the
(04:11):
old New Plymouth Savings Bank building, which I think that
became the TSB. So it's this beautiful old building that
they're housed and the breweries in there, and yeah, just
they make a whole lot of wacky and weird bruise
like a lot of people do these days. But I
wanted to talk about one that would be quite a
(04:35):
simple beer. I suppose it's called Oakura Blonde. And if
anyone ever do you remember the Surfer page Harrab, Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.
I always swear that it's her image on the front
of the bottle, and Joe tells me it's not. It
just happens to be a blonde haired surfer and silhouette.
(04:56):
But it looks like page to me. But anyway, so
it's got a surf a girl on the label and
look it's a delightful, refreshing blondale, you know, perfect summer drinking.
It win lots of awards, I've got to say, lots
of medals at various brewing awards. So it's well made.
(05:16):
Like they're good people, they're trying to grow. So if
you're interested ortis and beer or go on to pledge
men give them some money.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, it'd be nice to have a sort of share
in a a for a small investment of sharing a
local brewery.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, I think so, and I think it is a
real local thing. They're very Karanaki proud like they do
have a national footprint and you'll find them in supermarkets
around the place, not everywhere like some of the better
known breweries. But you know, they were New Zealand's champion
small brewery, which is a type you know, when they
(05:52):
give awards out in the brewerin awards, they do them
on tiers of small, medium and large. And in fact,
they were the champion micro brewery a few years ago,
didn't They were the champion small brewery. So that they
do good stuff, there no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
So absolutely, Michael always great to chat look forward to
our chats on a Tuesday. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Us the man of when Ventor Beer. It's quite a
neat idea for a couple of hundred bucks at the
Three Sisters Buried and you can tell you mates, you
she isn't a brewery.
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