Brain Dead Bottle Stores
Thursday 08 June 2006 at 4:10 pm. The Kiwi palette has moved on slightly since the bad old days when you were either a Lion drinker or a DB drinker and if you had enough money and were a little bit fancy you'd drink Steinlager.Now most liquor outlets have a decent variety of beers - imported and domestic. In fact theres even a good Belgian bar in Wellington now. A number of the micro-breweries have really really really tasty stuff. Even my favourite general consumption brand (Monteiths) is from one of the big two companies (DB). Monteiths have just released a rather fantastic seasonal Tripel beer which at 8% really packs a punch and makes a pleasant change to my usual Winter ale fix.
The one catch to all this newly discovered beery goodness is that idiot bottle-store owners and outlets insist on putting almost all beer into a walk-in fridge thereby chilling the hell out of it.
Why the f%@k would you chill anything other than a drought, pilsner, wheat beer or lager ?
If they can keep red wine on the shelf and chill white then why is it so hard to treat beer properly ?
Nothing worse than returning from the super-market with a stash of stout or ale and having to wait for it to warm up . . . .
I know I know I'm just a beer snob.
