okay, so...

here we are back again.  Figure, seeing as i'm not brewing anything, but doing some quantum of enjoying other people's products, may i well speak a little about them?

8wired, some of my favourites, saison sauvin, hopwired, regulars, others.
yeasties, were up there, fallen a bit.  good tasting at poms.  hudawah was good. her majesty, spectacular. and again this year, finally trying. his maj.2011 really didnt do it for me.
liberty.  tasting, awesome.  other's?
nogno.  /'s thru the O's. yum.  #500 was spectacular - i got a bunch of people drinking that at Hashigo's.  heh heh, dont think any of us realised what hit us...
their collabo with 8wired and renaissance was the best ever, O for Awesome.  #100 in the cupboard,
epic.  truly epic, so good i had to buy the teeshirt.  hop zombie is off the chart.  love their regular pale ale as trusty go to, wish every bar carried it.  but Mayhem and Armageddon are two of my absolute favourites.
renaissance.  their MPA (marlborough pale) was awesome, alas, 8wired's basically taken their share of the market.  still really like their stonecutter.  the porter, meh, stout, nah, perfection, so so.
twisted.  a hopback tonight.  better this time than last.  definitely a return to.
raindog.  pangalacticgargleblaster is very good.  others with the rolleston eagle at tasting varied.  would try more.  works for twisted.
wanaka.  taken over something that was quite mediocre.  now starting to get out there and waaaay better..  tasting at poms.
cassels
3boys
emersons
mussel inn
garage project
dales
townsend
riwaka
Dead Good.  1.3L rigs from freshchoice nelson, yeah, baby.  good shit.
sprig and fern. meah
bears.  mapua?  nothing memorable,
eagles.  good, for something from someone in Rolleston's garage.

duvel.  enjoying one tonight.
rochfort.  tried the 10 in HashigoZ.  good, but tasted old.  travelled.
chimay.  enjoy this when i have it.  what's not to enjoy.

la trappe