Auckland Breweries worth visiting.

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Permalink Reply by Martin Bridges on October 10, 2010 at 7:14pm

Must see brewpubs: Galbraiths & Hallertau

Bars worth visiting: any of the Cock & Bulls, Brew On Quay, O'Carroll's

Avoid: The Shakespeare

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Permalink Reply by Chris Banks on October 10, 2010 at 7:17pm

Are you going to Metallica Chris ?

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Permalink Reply by Chris Scott on October 10, 2010 at 8:07pm

Thanks Martin, was looking at Hallertau.Galbraiths is pretty central?
What's wrong with the Shakespear?
Haha sure am Chris... are you? It's about time to release my inner bogun spirit.

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Permalink Reply by Martin Bridges on October 10, 2010 at 8:57pm

Yeah, Galbraiths is pretty central. 20 mins walk from the city centre or grab a bus. Hallertau is a bit more of a mission!

What's wrong with the Shakespeare? The beer's crap, the staff don't have a clue, the atmosphere's scary. Other than that, all good!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Banks on October 10, 2010 at 9:26pm

Yep sure am! wouldnt miss it for the the world I would say there will be a few inner bogan spirits floating around auckland next week!

Sounds like it might be worth giving The Shakespeare a wide berth.

I've been to Hallertau once before highly recommended! I also plan to check out Galbraiths this time seen plenty of good reviews about them.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Neilson on October 11, 2010 at 6:58am

Yip im one of those~!~

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Permalink Reply by JoKing on October 11, 2010 at 8:09am

I'd still visit the Shakespeare. I've tried to deal with the brewer there... but he's a bit unfriendly to say the least. Their lagers are pretty good (last time I was there) which is pretty cool considering most breweries of this scale are only doing ales.

If anything a visit to the Shakespeare will give you some scope to appreciate how good Hallertau and Galbraiths really are.

I remember Jamil Zainasheff saying that most brewpubs in the small towns of the USA could be compared to the Shakespare: once loved, and the beers inconsistent. Then he said that the beer at Hallerau could be compared to only the very best of the brewpubs over there. He said you'd be hard pressed to find a pub whos beers were all so consistently good and brewed to such a high standard.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew on October 11, 2010 at 8:53am

Well last I heard is that the Shakepeare brewer is no longer there and I,m not aware of them hiring a new one. This only happened 2-3 weeks ago so I,m not sure what the story is now, but I tend to agree with Martins comments.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Banks on October 17, 2010 at 5:12pm

Well I went to Hallertau,Galbraiths,Cock&Bull,Brew On The Quay,And The Shakespeare.
All were good but the first 3 were awesome!
Then we found Liqourland Newmarket which had a very very good range of nz craftbeer hidden in the corner of the chiller !
They had big bottles of Crown - Ambasador in a flash cardboard box ~$65 anyone tried that before?

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Permalink Reply by Mike Neilson on October 17, 2010 at 5:58pm

Bull Shit? Should of bought the overrated shit!!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Banks on October 17, 2010 at 8:57pm

So Im guessing I did well steering clear of that one then?