Garage Project - Old Grinderman Dark and Bitter Sweet Stout

Toasted chocolate and coffee with a dark appearance.  It has a dry bitterness with a sharp bitterness.  I also get a light smoke flavour.  It is pretty light for a stout.

7/10

Garage Project - Biere de Garage Belgian Pilsner

Tart strawberry and cream aroma with a brown and red appearance.  There is a light raspberry flavour with a slight tartness.  The hops are light and toasty with a bit of creaminess.  Nice summer beer.

7/10

Doctors Orders Brewing Company - Anaphylaxis Manuka Smoked Chipotle Black IPA

Sharp crisp aroma with a dark black appearance.  There is a bitter maly chocolate flavour.  The bitterness lasts quite a long time and is quite toasty.  There a sweetness and pepper note there.

6/10

Joadja Distillery - Wee Heavy Scottish Ale

The aroma is sour and hoppy with a deep brown appearance.  There is a light cherry and buttery flavour with a toasty hop note.  It has a maltiness and silkiness.

7/10

Garage Project - Cabbages & Kings Oyster Horopito Stout

Dark chocolate with a salty note.  There is a creaminess and butteriness.  There is a silky mouth feel.  There is a sweet buscuit flavour.

7/10

Garage Project - Cookies & Cream Ale Dark Ale

Creamy vanilla and chocolate buscuit.  Medium body.  Tastes like cookies and cream ice cream.  Tastes so good.

9/10

Garage Project - Marvelous Madam Mahvash Blonde Ale

Tangy and sour.  Sweet and fruity aroma.  Light bitterness.  Like a gose.

6/10

Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma - Bohemia Clásica

Sharp, yeasty and butter beer.  Light body but a bit sticky.  Ok not great.

4/10

Cervecería Mexicana - Rio Bravo Lager

Served with salt and lime.  Fresh and summery with a zesty brightness.  Similar to a corona but more interesting. 

6/10

Kona Brewing Company - Big Wave Golden Ale

There is a strong fruit flavour.  A medium body.  I get pineapple and coconut flavours.  Tasty fruity beer.

6/10

4 Pines Brewing Company - Breakfast Porter

Sweet and toasty with a nice grain note.   It is silky with a chocolate malt.   It is full bodied but not too heavy.  Really tasty.

7/10

4 Pines Brewing Company - Idaho #7 XPA

This beer is bitter and sour.  There is some kind of toastiness in there.  It's quite a dry beer.  I get butter as well. 
It's complex but I'm not sure how enjoyable it is.

5/10

4 Pines Brewing Company - Guava Gose

Lemon and citrus.  Light and fresh.  Balanced sourness.  Sits on the pallet for a short time and goes to a silky fruit finish.

6/10

Doctors Orders - Black Lung Black Imperial Pilsner

Candied orange aroma with a black appearance.  There is a light sweetness with a creamy but light malt.  This is delicious.

8/10

Speakeasy Ales & Lagers - Old Godfather Barley Wine Ale

Strong malt and with a strong sherry flavour.  There is a deep red fruit flavour.  This is a strong flavoured beer.

6/10

Garage Project - Touchwood Elderflower & Honey Tripel

The aroma is oaky with a light sweetness.  The appearance is a coudy apricot.  There is  a nice oak up front with fruity notes like mandarin and apricot.  This is a silky and smooth beer.

7/10

Mismatch Brewing - Session Ale

Sweet yeasty aroma and pale appearance.  A nicely balanced apricot and feijoa flavour.  A little bitter and savory at the end.  Good on a hot day.

6/10

4 Pines Brewing Company - Double Cascadian Dark Ale

Smells like chocolate buscuits with a deep dark appearance.  Toasty malts with a syrupy chocolate flavour.  There is a floralness with a turkish delight note and a bit of spice.

6/10

4 Pines Brewing Company - Hoppy Doppelbock

Smells like  apricot juice with a burnt caramel appearance.  This is a big beer.   It is quite syrupy with a sugary flavour a strong pineapple flavour.  There is a large hoppyiness.

6/10

Garage Project - Texas Tea Brown Ale

A light spicy aroma with a surprising dark appearance.  There is an oakiness with a chilli space.  There is a souriness and silky fruit.  The chilli sits really nice on the pallet.

7/10

Stone & Wood - Fore Fathers Willie Simpson Doppelbock Lager

Chocolate and Malt aroma with a dark slightly red appearance.  There is a dark toasted malt flavour up front and citrus sourness at the end.  The beer is quite light and sweet.  It is a well balanced beer.

8/10

Garage Project - Beyond The Pale - China White

Sweet pear aroma with a pale yellow appearance.  There is a sweet white tea flavour with a light floral note.  There is a light pepper and a buttery mouth feel.

7/10

Garage Project - Hop Boy IPA

A crisp light berry aroma with a cloudy apricot appearance.  Toasty and rounded hops that are quite smooth.  There is a light fizziness in the mouth which is almost almondy.  A really easy to drink beer.

7/10

Garage Project - Los Lobos Imperial IPA

Apricot aroma with a cloudy orange appearance.  There is a creamy citrus flavour up front with a pleasant freshness.  Toasty hops. This is a dynamite beer.  So good.

9/10

Bacchus Brewing Co. - Sex, Drugs & Rocky Road Amber Ale

The aroma is like sweet marshmellow with a dark cherry appearance.  There is a sweet chocolate flavour with a dry nuttiness.  There is a fruity hop flavour with balances really with malty chocolate.  It really does taste like a Darryl Lea Rocky Road Chocolate bar.

8/10

Young Henry's - Pils 'N' Thrills Czech Pilsner

Light and clean aroma with a light pale appearance.  There is light butter and yeast flavours up front with a crisp mouth feel.  There are light spice and floral note.  It's a very drinkable and balanced beer.

7/10

Garage Project - Baltic Porter

A light malt sweet aroma with a deep black appearance.  The flavour is quite subtle and sits in your mouth for a while.  There is a malt and light black pepper flavour.  The texture of the beer is really smooth and silky.

7/10

Garage Project - Golden Brown Original Strength

Not much of an aroma and has a deep brown appearance with alot of head.  There is a sweet malt flavour up front.  I get vanilla and a light orange flavour.  A tasty beer.

7/10

Doctors Orders Brewing / Funk Estate - Dr Funk Citrus Sour Ale

Sweet cirtus aroma with a straw appearance.  There is a mild citrus and a malty vanilla flavour.  I don't like sour beers but this is nice.

6/10

Willie the Boatman - Corn Ale

Vanilla and butter flavour.  Florally and a light turkish delight.  Salt and pepper.

7/10

Hawkes Bay Independent Brewery - Black Duck Porter

Malt and lemon aroma with a deep black appearance.  A light malt up front.  There isn't alot of flavour in this one.  It's a very light and drinkable beer.  I also get a bit of chocolate.

6/10

Crafty Bavarian Brewing Company - Flaming Hellcat XXX Especial

Vanilla with apricot.  Fresh fruit.  Fresh and hoppy.

6/10

Crafty Bavarian Brewing Company - Butchers Bride Pale Ale

Vanilla and lychee.  Light citrus.  Light body. 

6/10

Crafty Bavarian Brewing Company - Devil's Daughter Double IPA

This is really smooth.  Peach and vanilla.  I get red fruit and a light yeast flavour.  Caramel and toffee.

8/10

Baylands Brewery - Petone Pale Ale

Light lemon and yeasty.  Clean and fresh.

6/10

Garage Project - Gyle 500 Barrel Aged Dark Ale

Deep malt .  Smooth with vanilla with a light chocolate biscuit.

8/10

Garage Project - Kakituri Organic Pilsner

This is a light but pretty dull beer.  It's pleasant but nothing more.

5/10

Garage Project - Party And Bullshit Hazy East Coast IPA

Passionfruit with vanilla.  Light bitterness. Fruity with medium body.  Really tasty.

8/10

Garage Project - Lola Sour Cherry and Cola Nut Dunkel

Cola with light sour cherry.  More like a soft drink than a beer.

4/10

Garage Project - Persephone Pomegranate and Balsamic Saison

Grape sour up front.  Tart cherry and pomegranate.

6/10

Garage Project - Two Tap Chocamocha Chino Imperial Coffee Stout

Milky and with a nice chocolate flavour. Smooth medium to full bodied.

7/10

Black Dog Brewing Company - Carrot Top American Amber Ale

Smokey and toasty hops.  Fresh and tasty. Crisp bready flavour.

7/10

Horse Box Brewery - Black Stallion Milk Stout

Light and chocolately.  Smooth.  Medium body.  Malty Biscuit.  It drinks really well.

7/10

Garage Project - Pink Panther Pink Fruity Cream Ale

All I can taste raspberry syrup. It's sickly sweet.  It's a kids drink.  It's just nonsense.

2/10

Behemoth Brewing Company - Dump The Trump American IPA

There is a round bitterness.  I get apricot and orange.  Really balanced and smooth. Medium body.

6/10.

Garage Project - Traffic Light Sweet & Sour Berliner Weisse

A combination of beer and I'm guessing syrups.  The red and green layers are tart with the green being very tart.  I get cherry and vanilla.  It's Fresh but it's not beer.

4/10

Renaissance Brewing Company - M.P.A. Imperial Indian Pale Ale

A cloudy medium brown with not alot of an aroma.  There is a light betterness with a sugary apricot flavour.  There is a floralness in there as well.

6/10

Garage Project - Cat's Pajamas Cream Ale

There is a sweet milky aroma with a light yellow appearance.  This beer has a creamy mouth feel and a light vanilla ice cream flavour.  There is a medium body and a fizziness.  Reminds me of a spider.

6/10

Garage Project - VPA Venusian Pale Ale

A light turkish delight aroma with a orange/brown appearance.  This beer was a real surprise.  I really wasn't expecting this.  There is a citrus bitterness and there is a buttery turkish delight flavour.  It's floral with a medium body.  This is really interesting.

7/10

Garage Project - Traffic Light Berliner Weisse

There is a sweet cherry at the top which is pleasant.  The bottom green part is just sweet and sour.  It's pretty awful.  This really isn't beer.

3/10

Garage Project - Hakituri Organic Pilsner

Light with vanilla yeast.  Light stone fruit.
Nothing special.

5/10