'Kid Chocolate' crosses the Bombays

Yeastie Boys 'Kid Chocolate' is lined up to cross the Bombays for this weekends Auckland installment of the New Zealand Beer Festival.

It has been a long time between drinks for any Auckland-based Yeastie Boys fans with highly regarded summer ale 'Golden Boy' missing the rotation at Auckland's two top beer venues - Galbraith's Ale House and Hallertau Brew Bar - and a single keg of 'Pot Kettle Black' only lasting 48 hours all the way back in October.

The forecast for Saturday looks a little damp, but with warmish eastierlies, which is a whole lot better than the big chilly wet that hit Wellington a couple of weeks back.

Thanks to Paul and Nigel at Rotorua's Croucher Brewing for hosting Yeastie Boys on their stand. Make sure you try the lovely Croucher beers while checking out 'Kid Chocolate'.

Yeastie Boys 'Kid Chocolate' Punches Above Its Weight

After advanced tastings of Yeastie Boys 'Kid Chocolate' turned up for a few rounds at a couple of Wellington events over the last couple of weeks (the New Zealand Beer Festival and Newtown Fair) it is now available for general release.

Already known for pushing limits and breaking free of styles, Kid Chocolate may be Yeastie Boys most outrageous beer yet. It is, in some respects, the craft beer version of New Zealand Draught. Where Tui, Sepight's Gold, Lion Brown and DB Draught fail to perform, Yeastie Boys deliver in spades. As most other craft brewers push the upper ends of beer flavour (and alcohol limits) the Yeastie Boys drop down to the lower end (to Mild ale, our favourite beer style) in an attempt squeeze as much flavour as they can from a beer of only 3.6% ABV.

"It was an obvious choice to go with a mild ale" says Yeastie Boy Stu McKinlay. "We created Pot Kettle Black for our beer loving friends, Golden Boy for those who were curious but less initiated in the world of flavoursome beer, and now this one is for us - the perfect quaffer for thirsty men and women". Look out for Kid Chocolate on keg or handpump at your local soon, or order a bottle or two online at www.beerstore.co.nz.

English Mild Ales are refreshing, flavourful, light-flavored, malt-accented beers that are extremely difficult to make but are readily suited to drinking in quantity by thirsty (and 'Yeastie') men and women. Yeastie Boys version 'Kid Chocolate', with its unique New Zealand hop twist, is chestnut coloured with a little autumn fruit and chocolate in the nose and on the palate (from the combination of new world Nelson 'Rakau' hops and our old world malts and yeast). Perfect, the Yeastie Boys think, for drinking through the latter days of summer.

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About the beer:
Style: English-style Dark Mild Ale
Stats: 3.6% abv, 14 IBU, 18 SRM
Ingredients: Maris Otter Pale Malt, Caramunich Type I, Brown Malt, Dark Caramalt, Black Malt. Pacific Gem and organic Rakau hops. Fermented with Wyeast's "West Yorkshire Ale" yeast.