Tuatara Delicious Neck

Making beer available at movie theatres was a great move. I can still remember a time where the  best you could get was a giant cup of coke and a ridulously large box of popcorn. Trust two of NZ's top talent in their respectives fields, Tuatara Brewery for brewing, and Taika Waititi for movie making, to combine the two at a new level to support Taiki's latest movie, What we do in the Shadows, a story of vampires flatting in Wellington. A trip to the movie at the Embassy Theatre gave me an opportunity to sample the spawn of this union in its intended environment, Delicious Neck - What we brew in the Shadows (got to love a good pun.) All profits from the beer apparently go towards paying for wider distribution of the movie.

The movie was entertaining, although very much an inside nod and wink to Wellingtonians. (Did anyone else notice that all the bars mentioned in the movie don't exist anymore?) The beer has a detailed label, unlike the minimalist art usually favoured by Tuatara. As it was straight from the bottle I didn't get to see its colour (I assume it was dark red...). As an Immortal Pale Ale (perhaps not the first?) it had a strong taste with plenty of hops packed in there. It was a reasonably smooth finish and went down surprisingly easily. Before I knew it I had drained the neck. I didn't taste any blood, but of course the brewers at Tuatara probably have hops running through their veins...