Local beers
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Mac’s range:
- The new “Hop Rocker” Pilsener
- The legendary, no-longer-being-made Mac’s Blonde :(
- Great White - The (sadly) new Mac’s wheat beer
- Black Mac
- Reserve lager
- Copperhop pale ale
- Sassy Red red ale
- Sundance summer ale
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Montieth’s range:
- Original ale
- Summer ale {I used to love this, but now I find it a bit too sweet fraser}
- Celtic red ale
- Gold lager
- Black
- Radler
- Doppelbock
- Steinlager
- Speights Old Dark
- Speights Harvest wheat and apricot beer {Decent considering its speights, but its a bit fruity to start, and then really bland}
- Epic Pale Ale - With an insane 15 different hops!
Imported beers
Includes international beers brewed under license
- Corona
- Hoegaarden
- Stella Artois {Pales in comparison to many other Belgian beers âStephen}
- Sol
- Leffe
- Becks
- Heineken
- Thomas Hardy Ale (A Barley Wine, for the sophisticated palate)
- Kilkenny Draught irish cream ale
- Guinness Extra Stout {Beautifully chewy but takes a lot of effort and a somber mood to get through. christina}
- Guiness Special Export {high strength but sooo incredibly tasty. stephen}
Microbrewed beers
- The one Martinborough White Rock (Wheat beer) I had was rather nice.
- Three Boys Wheat.
- Haulashore Bitter
- Mata Artesian – Nice bit a bit boring
- Mata Manuka
Emerson’s
- Organic Pilsner
- Old 95
- 1812 India Pale Ale
The Dux
- Ginger Tom [an alcoholic ginger beer]
- Non-tom {a non-alcoholic ginger beer}{soooooo gingery! — Jim}
- Nor’wester
- Black Shag Stout
- Blue Duck Draught
- their pale ale {what’s it called? fraser}
Twisted Hop
- Twisted Ankle – a very nice dark ale; packs a wee punch
- Golding Bitter
- Challenger
Trappist
- Chimay red
- Chimay white
- Chimay blue
- Orval
- Westmalle dubbel
- Westmalle tripel
- Rochefort 6
- Rochefort 8
- Rochefort 10
- La Trappe dubbel
You’d be better off drinking urine
- Export
- Tui
- Speights
- DB
- VB
- Budweiser
- Canterbury Draught
- Waikato Draught
- Any ‘lite’ beer [what about Mac’s light? fraser]
- Guiness brewed in NZ {tastes like pants stephen}
Speights - A Highly Scientific Statistical Analysis
Since people can’t agree on the correct position of Speights in this list, lets have a poll {yeah Poll!! — ruth well where’s your vote? — Greg}. Leave your name and the category you’d place it in here, and we’ll tally it up later.
(We’re talking standard issue Speights here. — Greg )
Comments
Personally, I’d have Export and Tui firmly rooted in the bottom category, and I’d move Speights up one. — Greg
Eeek! You’d what? I cannot stand Speights — had a bottle at xmas (no other choice), and wished I hadn’t, it was terrible. Tui, on the other hand, is pretty inoffensive. Export, I could be convinced that it should be shunted downwards. — mattw
We have Speights at work on Friday afternoons (not my choice mind) and I find it drinkable… each to his own I suppose. Tui I’m not sure about, maybe I just have negative mental associations with it from Halls of Residence days. — Greg
You can’t go past a good pint of bitter. fraser
Is it just me, or am I the only girl drinking and rating beer? christina
Isi t just me, or did you just inadvertantly admit to being the resident “booze hag!”? — Jim
No, itsn ot jsut you — mattw
Ironically enough, I’m not the girl who lives in a girl’s flat with the fridge crammed full of beer. On the other hand, it appears that in the space of a week I have somehow become Heresy’s unofficial “booze hag” and people are commenting on my “alcohol problem”. Meh christina
