Pacific Beer Expo, 20th-21st Oct.

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http://www.cultbeerstore.co.nz/collections/festivals/products/the-2012-pacific-beer-expo

Sat Oct 20th and Sun Oct 21st at the Boatshed.

Around 30 beers from NZ, Aussie, Jap and USA. A more civilized sampling - 270ish at Beervana was far too epic!

I\'m volunteering for the Sunday session, so get to go on Saturday for free (saving the $40 entry fee). It is run very similar to Beervana, you can buy tokens and redeem for beer sampling, and food.

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Great beer festival to those that missed it. I would highly recommend it for next year: 30-ish beers over 5 hours is easily do-able versus the 271 at beervana in 4 hours! And the serving sizes are 100ml (beervana 75ml) - although I was being generous with my pours...

Helping to setup on Sunday arvo, 1pm-ish

Some behind the bar/serving experience

It got busy...around 300 tickets sold!

Beers sampled over the weekend - an interesting mix of imported American beers:

Brewacrazy - Punkin Image (6.5%)

Fitzpatricks - American Amber Ale (5.5%)

Kereru - Kumara Brown Ale (6.5%)

Garage Project - Coconut Kava (5.8%)

Kereru - Velvet Boot Belgian Stong (8%)

Funk Estate - Clusterfunk Black IPA (9%)

Mike\'s - Great Wit IPA (6.3%)

666 Brewing - Angels on a Pin Cream Ale (5.2%)

Parrotdog - Sleuthhound (6.1%)

Mike\'s - Whisky Porter (8%)

8 Wired - Barrel Aged Imperial Big Smoke (10%)

Garage Project - Barrel Aged Double Day of the Dead (8%)

Liberty - Burning Evil Monster Imperial APA (10.5%)

Ballast Point - Smokescreen Helles (5.4%)

Southern Tier - Pumpking (8.6%)

Bear Republic - NorCal Bitter (5.1%)

Ballast Point - Old Balmy Apricot (10.7%)

Feral - White Witbier (4.6%)

Rogue - Hazelnut Brown (6%)

Pelican - Doryman\'s Dark Ale (5.8%)

Feral - Barrel Fermented Hop Dog IPA (5.8%)

Rogue - Double Chocolate Stout (8.7%)

Left Coast - Hop Juice IIPA (9.7%)

Coronado - Orange Ave Witbier (5.2%)

Southern Tier - Creme Brulee Stout (9.6%)

Coronado - Nutter Brown (5.8%)

Feral - Hop Hog IPA (5.8%)

Matt\'s - Amber Rye (7%)

Pelican - India Pelican Ale (7.5%)

Rogue - Chipotle Ale (5.5%)

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