2013 Pacific Beer Expo Lineup Announced

October 22, 2013. For immediate release.

2013 Pacific Beer Expo Lineup Announced

Hashigo Zake takes pleasure in announcing the provisional list of beers that will be available for tasting at the 2013 Pacific Beer Expo on October 27. A few entries await final confirmation and one or two will be added to this list.

While arguably every beer can be considered a highlight in its own right, certain beers will have extra interest. Not least of these is Our Turn Your Turn - the collaboration between locals Yeastie Boys and Massachusetts’ Pretty Things, which is a pale wheat ale with Lindenflower added.

The list include three beers from Singapore, one from Japan, three from Australia, fourteen from New Zealand, fifteen from the US and one international collaboration.

In terms of styles, there are seven IPAs or Imperial IPAs, three saisons, four flavoured wheat beers and ten porters, stouts or imperial stouts.

Adherents to the archaic Reinheitsgebot, or German Beer Purity Law, will be squirming, with many of the beers imbued with additional flavours from adjuncts such as pink pepper, mace, rosehips, orange peel, chillies, civet cat coffee and hemp.

Meanwhile anyone daunted by the promise of big and extreme flavours can be reassured that there are also at least seven beers with alcohol levels at or below 5%.

666/Brewaucracy Devils in the Detail
Baird Kurofune Porter
Ballast Point Black Marlin Porter with Chipotle, Cocoa Nibs & Orange Peel
Ballast Point Fathom India Pale Lager
Ballast Point Sea Monster Stout
Ballast Point Victory at Sea
Baylands Pacific Sunset
Behemoth Hopportunity Cost IPA
Fitzpatrick's American Brown Ale
Fork & Brewer/Brayden Rawlinson MoonBlink
Four Horsemen of the Hopocalyse
Funk Estate Pinky and the Grain
Garage Project Weasel Cah Phe Dah
Golden Bear IPAL
Green Flash Citra Session IPA
Green Flash Saison Diego
Green Flash Serrano Double Stout
Jungle Kiasu Stout
Jungle Nutmeg and Mace Steam Lager
Jungle Tropical Wheat Orange and Mango
Kereru Pohutakawa Golden Ale
Left Coast Boardwalk
Left Coast Tommy Session Ale
Liberty/Hallertau KomissionA
Lobethal Double Hopped IPA
Mike's Hemp IPA
Murray's Wild Thing
Nail Clout Stout
ParrotDog Barrel Aged SleuthHound
Pretty Things/Yeastie Boys Our Turn Your Turn
Renaissance Barrel Fermented Grizette
Rogue Chocolate Stout
Southern Tier Compass
Southern Tier Crème Brulee
Speakeasy Big Daddy IPA
Speakeasy Prohibition Amber Ale

Food will be provided by Ruth Pretty Catering. The menu
includes:

•Turmeric Chicken Satay with Caramelised Peanut
Sauce and Flatbread

•Mocha Crème Brulee

•Rugelach with Apricot, Walnut and Chocolate

Attendees at the festival will all receive a fine piece of Spiegelau stemware, etched with the festival logo, for tasting and taking home.

“With all attendees receiving a generous allocation of tokens to kick-start their sampling, the 2013 edition will consolidate the Pacific Beer Expo’s reputation as the most unashamedly elite, but at the same time best value, beer festival in New Zealand.” – Dominic Kelly, Festival Director.

ENDS

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