Canadians try NEW ZEALAND BEERS PT.2 - FAUX CRAFT 

This one was a little more fun to film 😃 some really great beer in this lineup. Is there a brewery here that brews one of your favourites??

They call the Supercharger the blue collar nz craft beer. Great solid brew, craft n non craft drinkers enjoy plus can be found anywhere

Glad you did this mate! The beers you did last time are your typical father beers 😂

I have no idea why watching other people describe drinking beer is enjoyable, but i'm loving this series.

BOOM.... Another fantastic video guys. Can't wait for the next one

i hate the fact that i am a kiwi and haven't tried half the amount of kiwi beers you two have,i will definitely have to lift my game,plus i live and have lived i welly for my whole life all 48 years of it

There’s a Beer Fest in Christchurch this Saturday 27th, well worth attending if your in the area

My favourite NZ beer is made by Macs called 3 wolves👌

Classic line ups there guys. LOVE the Supercharger as a go-to, has to be in the fridge all the time.

Try one of every product that Garage Project (Wellington) make. Drink them all in one afternoon. Have an ambulance on speed dial. Record for prosperity (and evidence).😁

Some great looking beers nice work cheers 👍🍻

Panhead, garage project , Mount brewing co and Bootleg brewery are great!

LAGAAA 😂😂 good on ya. Great video!

Great video

Such a fun vido Donovan. 👍i am still laughing from some of your beer descriptions 🤣. Both of you are sooooo lovely. Lots of love to both of you.❤️❤️

This was a fun follow-up. Panhead, Tuatara and Emerson's were 'proper' respected craft breweries before being sold to Lion and Heineken. Generally the main reason these craft breweries sell to the big players is because of distribution; with most bars being aligned to the big beer companies (and only able to sell their beers), the only way to see real expansion and growth is to somehow get into those bars and restaurants, and the only way to do that is to be owned by them. BTW, your tasting notes for the Boundary Road (which is not a great beer, TBH) left me thinking that the beer was actually contaminated by iron, possibly from pipes in the brewery.

The Boundary Road brewery was built in Papakura in the early 90's, later that decade the towns water supply was the first in the country to be privatised by the now defunct council and still owned by the french multinational that originally brought it. The water wasn't great but now its poisonous to young children and myself, I got seriously ill from drinking Papakura tap water 18 months ago after moving back from Taranaki after 20 years where the local tap water is sourced from the local mountain. From the early 2000's Papakura tapwater is sourced from NZ's longest river the Waikato which every small town and dairy farm along the river dumps both raw and treated effluent into, also collects a lot of dead animals mainly the 4 legged farm kind but the odd 2 legged human kind and in certain areas the river is the most popular way of disposing cars usually stolen. The tap water is poorly dosed with chlorine, usually overdosed, on a chlorine scale 1 to 10 it's between 9 and Spinal Tap 11. The tap water isn't suitable for swimming pools, getting a truck that usually fills peoples rainwater tanks during summer to fill your pool is far superior. Bottled water is staple for low income families in Papakura, I also can't believe they have the gall to charge for it when most of NZ its free -well included with your rates/local taxes for you NA's. So if BRB is using the town water it could be the reason the beer tastes metallic.

If you like these get a fleet of the Garage Project range. (Make sure you include “white mischief” sour beer.)

Try the boundary road pilsner. It's our go to inoffensive beers we always have in the fridge. Also Urbanaut Diamond Head Hazy IPA and Scott's nineteen-05 golden ale.. Too many to list here 🤷‍♀️

Really enjoy these videos.

Wow, very close to the same scores i would've given these beers. And yes macs gold is made from horse piss so good spotting there. Also we like bitter beers over here because we are too sweet, good job team

Panhead for the WIN 🎉... my go to beer everytime... I do think cans are better than bottles though... Great line up...if you get the chance..Double vision brewery..cream ale

Nice video. If you haven’t yet you’ve gotta go to sawmill brewery or grab some of their beers at the liquor store. Super duper good

Another great video guys and nice to know the beers are chilled 👌 question do you guys also try out Rtd & Fmb drinks as well?? Would love see how you feel about the NZ Codys and whatnot 😂

Re Mac's Gold - it was big like Monteiths back in the day and both ended up getting sold off to the bigger conglomerates. When Stoke brewery started back up I think they had some connection to the OG brewers of Mac's and so their beer was pretty close to how Mac's Gold used to be. But looking at their range now, maybe its a sign that NZ Craft Lager's just aren't that popular as they only have the Mid now and im not sure how well it compares to back in the day.

really enjoy panhead supercharger, lakemans primate pilsner and emersons pilsner for drinking a dozen but for drinking slowly I absolutely love Baylands Skullcracker IPA and Double Vision "Mouth Party", check them out if you haven't

Supercharger and Emerson pils would be my go toos. McLeods make some really great beers. If you get the chance check those out.

....you did it again👏😜... Donovan, you're truly a beer wizard! And those descriptions from you and Brittany ...."sucking on a penny", "horse pee" 🤣 o gosh🤣... no thanks, I'll pass! 😜🤣 Love you guys to the moon and back! 💖💖

Awesome videos!

Great ratings guys. 100% agree. The ratings would be pretty consistent with the price of the beer and the commitment of the various breweries to creating their respective beers.

I'm glad you did this video! As a new Zealander I was embarrassed when I saw you were going to rate our terrible tasting mass produced beers!

You need to try some Stoke and Sprig & Fern beers. Their great.

You need to find a New World Supermarket, and the Liquor stand, if you do, walk around the stand with all the cans & bottles of NZ Craft Beer - pick 6 and try them.

Out of the faux craft brews, Monteith's Golden Lager is my go to, but if its a scorching hot Far North day like today, a Monteith's Summer Ale slides down an absolute treat. I've had the Mac's Gold in the past and didn't mind it but I'd sooner pick up my trusty Double Brown than buy a box of those. Boundary Road Brewing was just round the corner from where I used to live. Not a place you'd go for a brewery tour shall we say....The brewery they're based in is also responsible for the war crime known as Ranfurly Draught, Woodstock Bourbon and Cola (first hangover I ever had, that was a bad bad time, also known as the OG court order in a can until that mantle was claimed by the 11% William Cody's, which you can't get anymore) and Vodka Cruisers (lolly water with a hit of locally made potato water and more sugar than a bottle of Coca Cola; its garbage)

Panhead Supercharger 100% , great beer. Like you I find the BRB beers taste metallic and bitter.

Shakespeare brewery gastro bar Srig an d fern.Invercargill brewing.Brown Bros Auckland. SAWMILL..Cok and bull pub.Monteiths golden and original.

do one on non mainstream craft. Try urbanaut , Duncans etc . ($10 ish cans)

Water 🌊 quality is in general bad in new zealand ,there are some good brews in new Zealand.alot of the smaler brewers in nz try to cram flavours into a drop , sometimes basic hoppy beers are the best drinkers.

Wow, I've been drinking Steinlager for years and never picked up on the whole gasoline/diesel/cat piss vibe. Guess my taste buds must be messed up!

Re the faux craft beers: most of them start life as genuine micro brewery craft beers. The locals get a taste for them so they grow, they get a bigger market, and eventually they get on the radar of DB and Lion & one or both of them offer a stupid amount of money that the founders of said beer would be stupid to turn down, and another upstart little brewery gets swallowed up by the corporate behemoth. A sad progression that I have no doubt happens all over the world in in many different industries.

You guys have the best reality show. Shame i don't like beer. Great presentaion tho

You try Rotorua and Taupo craft beers love your RU-vid channel

Should give something from Sunshine Brewery a crack. They make some pretty wacky beers

Blind test/try Rex Attitude, from Yeastie Boys. It will... well it just will.

Do Kiwi craft beers from Kiwi independent craft breweries not former Craft Breweries now owned by DB or Loin they tend to slow change recipes. Try if you can Parrot Dog, Garage Project, Urbanaut Brewing Company, Sawmill Brewing Company also these Breweries do Low Carb Beers.

I really really like BRBs APA

There is no such thing as mainstream craft beer. There is mainstream beer and on the other side of the aisle is craft beer. The difference is Russian River to Modelo. Panhead is the closest you got to craft in that bunch,

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Get a quality Ozzie beer up ya !!

4 fk sake!!!!

Bro DO NOT try Kingfisher, it'd be safer for your health to just drink kerosene 😂😂😂 I know anyone else who's ever had more than one in a single sitting will vouch just how poisonous that 'beer' is

You should just keep on making up different beer tests… just saying

Having tried more than my fair share of American beers there was only one that I got truly pleasantly pissed on in Hawaii back in the 90s and that was RedWolf, but I don’t think they make it any more.

Omg , don't put fruit in beer . Beer is beer , fruit in beer is for the limp wristed fraternity.

Yawn.

Tuatara haze I think is awesome. Good work mates. How about Monteith's Summer Ale?

love a good double hazy they can sneak up on you though