Booze Review: Vote Hoiho NZ Pale Ale

Posted 3:58am Monday 16th September 2024

There are many pleasures in life. In Dunedin, it’s the Peninsula wildlife and alcohol. Put ‘em together and what do you get? Penguin piss. In honour of this year’s Bird of the Year election, the master brewers at Emerson’s have made a limited edition ‘Vote Hoiho’ Read more...

Booze Review: Parrotdog Birdseye

Posted 4:19pm Saturday 7th September 2024

Parrotdog is patriotic. It’s New Zealand owned and made, and nothing screams New Zealand more than nationwide pride in birds and an economy so dire you’ll have to sell a kidney to afford a box. There wasn’t a price listed on these bad boys, and with there only being three boxes on Read more...

Booze Reviews: Lemon Ice Grog!

Posted 6:57pm Sunday 25th August 2024

Grog! is the Australian version of Prime, and that means two things: one, like anything truly Australian, an obscene amount of alcohol is needed; and two, this drink has reached Hyoketsu levels of shameless breatha-targeted marketing. The pretty colours are perfect for an audience who hasn’t Read more...

Booze Review: Kingfisher Strong

Posted 4:46pm Saturday 17th August 2024

Kingfisher Strong, unlike the kōtare, is an allegedly exotic and foreign beer. Yes, it may be foreign, but this beverage tends to be about as exciting as that one wounder at a party showing you his Year 12 1st XV highlights on Hudl whilst unironically calling them his ‘glory Read more...

Booze Review: Cleanskin Sauvignon Blanc

Posted 10:36pm Saturday 10th August 2024

To the best of our knowledge, good wine does exist out there. Maybe you can find it at the Central Otago, Martinborough, or Canterbury wineries where middle-aged mums flock in the summer months. But Cleanskin Sauvignon Blanc makes this hard to believe. With each reluctant sip it extinguishes all Read more...

Booze Reviews: Brookvale Union Alcoholic Ginger Beer

Posted 3:08pm Sunday 4th August 2024

Since the dawn of time, students have been looking for the ideal alcoholic beverage that actually tastes good while also getting you ruined. Our wait is finally over, thank fuck,  with the introduction of Brookvale Union to Dunedin shores. The Australians have pulled off a mighty fine beverage Read more...

Booze Review: Mac’s Apparition

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 28th July 2024

The Mac’s line of beers can aptly be described as fake craft beer. Like weed, Mac’s beers are a gateway to the expensive, harder shit. Before you know it, this drop will have any soon-to-be graduate breatha loudly expressing their political views over a pint and reflecting on their glory Read more...

Booze Review: Heineken 0.0%

Posted 3:41pm Saturday 20th July 2024

Drinking a non-alcoholic beer for the first time is a strange experience. It tastes like beer, smells like beer, makes you crave nicotine like beer, yet there’s something missing. It’s like drinking out of a week-old luke-warm keg that has long lost any sense of its carbonation. Read more...

Booze Review: Steinlager Classic

Posted 6:01pm Saturday 13th July 2024

It’s been argued that Steinlager is New Zealand's beer. It's what defines us as Kiwis compared to the god awful beers that Australia produces. Steinlager is like Speights' older cousin who lives in Auckland; a bit more classy, but punishing whenever they speak. After tasting, we Read more...

Booze Review: Export Gold

Posted 8:09pm Sunday 26th May 2024

I once drunkenly asked a bartender if they had any Speight’s, to which they replied “We only have good beer.” Turns out all they had on tap was Export Gold. Critic begs to fucking differ. Now, Export Gold is many things but a good beer it definitely is not. While the drop Read more...