Small breweries are booming these days and their beers are much more available with the craft beer wave washing over everything. That means you get ready access to beer which might previously only have been available if you visited the brewer themselves. With that in mind I decided to pick up a bottle of Regent 58 Pale Ale from the local New World.
Regent 58 is a pretty new brewery from Carterton started by a couple of long term home brewers. They want to do something a bit different than the standard heavily hopped beers which dominate the NZ brewing scene at the moment. I have a lot of respect for that as I agree that the market is probably too full of hoppy beers at the moment.
I mentioned that Regent 58 was formed by home brewers and that is what you get...home brew. It looks like home brew (sediment and all), it has a home brew smell and it tastes like home brew. It is good home brew, but still home brew. I wouldn't pass it up if I was offered one but it has a ways to compete with the depth and range of the craft beer market out there at the moment.
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