Kid Chocolate Packs A Punch

"Thankfully Mild’s day has come again as a new wave of British Micro brewers have taken to the style, revitalising it with new interpretations and an altogether cooler image.

Well now, that movement has hit here, because in the brewing world you don’t get much cooler than the Yeastie Boys. Their autumn release, Kid Chocolate is a mild through and through.

Named for the New Orleans Featherweight boxer and RnB singer who in the 1950s punched way above his modest stature, Kid Chocolate at 3.6%abv is packed with earthy chocolate, bready malt, subtle berry fruit notes and a balanced finish which makes for a very tasty session-able drop."

Full story from Kieran Haslett-Moore at Capital Times.

Beer tasting golden boys toast back-to-back victory on Yeastie Boys

Last night a group of Wellington beer legends - aka 'White Rino' - took out Regional Wines and Spirits' annual Gisborne Gold Beer Options competition for the second year running. In a town as fiercely "beer geeky" as Wellington this is an enormous effort.

The final beer, and the one that catapaulted the team to victory, was Moa St Joseph's (a Belgian-style Tripel from Marlborough, which the team had recently used as a "practice" beer). It seems to be true, as Gary Player said, that the harder you practice the luckier you get.

Sick of sipping and sniffing such small samples of beer all night, the White Rino boys went on to pull some longer draughts at The Malthouse. Their beer of choice for the toast - Yeastie Boys' new summer ale 'Golden Boy' (spending all of their 1st place voucher on our beer! We're impressed fellas, thanks for letting us know).

Congratulations 'White Rino'. Looking forward to the three peat attempt.

White Rino is:

Adam Melville, David Wu, Ford Brownlie, Gareth Meates (missing from pic), Kieran Haslett-Moore and Pete McIver.