The 2013 Pacific Beer Expo

October 14, 2013. For Immediate Release

The 2013 Pacific Beer Expo

Outstanding craft beers from five Pacific nations will help make the Third Pacific Beer Expo on October 27 the highlight of 2013 for New Zealand’s most demanding consumers of beer.

With less than two weeks to go until the annual Labour Weekend event, the lineup is close to being finalised. Organisers can confidently predict that the carefully selected menu will represent the most geographically and stylistically diverse range of beers ever offered at a single event in New Zealand. From experimental spiced beers from Singapore to Californian hop-bombs, the festival will once again present the state of the art of brewing by small, independent breweries in the Pacific Rim.

In addition the event will represent exceptional value for money compared with other recent beerthemed festivals in Wellington. Every ticket-holder will receive a generous allocation of tokens for the purchase of food and drinks even though the event has never sought nor been given a subsidy from Wellington ratepayers.

Among the dozens of beers available will be: Our Turn Your Turn – a collaboration between New Zealand’s Yeastie Boys and Pretty Things Brewing Company of Massachusetts, a wheat ale flavoured with Lindenflower.

Tropical Wheat Orange & Mango – a flavoured wheat beer from Singapore’s Jungle Brewery Serrano Stout – a chilli-infused stout from San Diego’s legendary Green Flash Brewery Citra Session IPA – a moderate strength, highly hopped pale ale, also from Green Flash Brewery Payback Porter – a smoked porter from San Francisco’s Speakeasy Brewery Crème Brûlée – a famous and intense vanilla-infused Imperial Milk Stout from New York’s Southern Tier.

There will be experimental and unusual new beers from local favourites Garage Project, Funk Estate and Baylands Brewery, new releases from Upper Hutt’s Kereru Brewing and Tauranga’s Fitzpatricks and a number of other representatives from New Zealand, Australia and Japan.

The Pacific Beer Expo takes place on Labour weekend, as it has since 2011. It is expected to draw a number of visitors from around New Zealand and Australia. This year the event moves to a larger venue – the St James Theatre First Floor gallery – and so consists of a single session on Sunday October 27, from 2pm until 7pm. Tickets are on sale now at Ticketek.

The Pacific Beer Expo is a venture of Hashigo Zake Limited, which is a Wellington based bar and a distributor of elite local and imported beer.

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