Once again my post complaining about the state of Auckland’s beer culture was put aside when I realised complaining about the beer scene wasn’t going to achieve a thing. I wish I could say I had reached this conclusion on my own, but I didn’t; I received a mass email from Martin, the SOBA’s Auckland Coordinator that finished with ‘If we want a thriving craft beer scene in Auckland we need to support the bars that are brave enough to take a punt.’
Support can mean many things and the best support I can offer is publicity. So I’m setting up a new page that’ll be a one stop shop for finding craft beer in Auckland’s CBD, showing that we do have craft beer. It won’t be through rose-tinted glasses; it’ll have the facts (who, where, when, what) plus a bit of opinion, that I’d love you to go and out and find out if you agree or disagree.
So if you see a girl wandering about taking photos beers and bars this weekend, say hello. It might be me. Or you might have just scared a young art student.
Also if you’re wondering about my other project, the beer and food matching cook book, it’s under way. I’m currently contacting breweries for recipes, so if you’re a brewer and would like to be involved, please send me an email at rosalindaymes@gmail.com
Once place I definitely recommend is Coco’s Cantina on K’ Rd. I had a great dinner there a month ago and they had Galbraith’s Munich and Hallertau 2 (or 3) on tap.
Rosalind, good site for us beer lovers. Wife and I are up for a few days this week so will be checking out a few of these places. Last time we were up the only places worthy of supping in, were the Cock and Bull and Shakespears. Nice to see several are within walking (crawling) distance of our hotel. Cheers, Mr E