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R and R make top 30
Toasting a top brew – Rhyme and Reason team members Danielle Davies, Calvin Popp, Simon Ross and Ben Johnson.
n the words of Wānaka brewery Rhyme and Reason… they’re “frothing”. The brewery’s Space Monkey – a pilsner inspired by Chester Ellis - was this week named among the country’s top 30 in the New World Beer and Cider awards. Chester was at the Gordon Road brewery as an assistant brewer while on a working holiday last year and was curious about developing a New Zealand pilsner using locally sourced malt and hops. The winning formula comes with barley from Central Otago and malted in Canterbury and hops from Nelson The brewery, owned by Jess Wolfgang and Simon Ross, runs a crew brew series where a staff member gets to create a recipe, come up with a concept for the label design and take part in the brew and packaging days. In the words of the judges: “Space Monkey
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is stacked full of New Zealand hops that deliver layers of apricot, tangelo and passionfruit with a hint of pungency you might normally find in a pale ale.” It’s “a very satisfying, full-flavoured drop”. “It's only been in recent times that New Zealand Pilsner has been recognised and given its own category in the BJCP (Beer judge certification programme) guidelines and the American Brewers Association - so having our Space Monkey acknowledged for being a world class example of this style is a pretty rewarding feeling,” Jess Wolfgang told the Wānaka Sun. Chester, meanwhile, will toast his success overseas - “he is following his ambitious brewing dreams and building a brewery - Somer Valley Brewing - with family back home in the UK,” Jess added. The competition attracted 700 entries from New Zealand and overseas.
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Winners on parade Snow Sports NZ will celebrate the achievements of their athletes over the past six months with a parade in Wānaka on Sunday. The athletes have clocked up 31 podium positions on the global stage, including 16 as gold medals or top spots and titles in international competition. The parade in Wānaka will feature snow sports athletes parading along the lakefront and then being available to meet and greet fans. The parade will start on Ardmore Street at the road closure (near Lake Bar) at noon and
finish at the Lake Wānaka Centre, wrapping up the festivities at 2pm. Wānaka’s Mount Aspiring College band Powder Chutes will also play at the free event. Athletes Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, Nico Porteous, Adam Hall and Corey Peters will then travel on the Snow Sports NZ Celebration Tour to Queenstown, Auckland, Ohakune, Wellington and Dunedin. Sadowski-Synnott, Porteous, Hall and Peters all collected medals at the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics.
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