Food & Drink

Samichlaus Classic Doppelbock by Schloss Eggenberg is Austrian for: massive smash you in the face beer. It is also a not so subtle reminder that while we brew some awesome beers here, the Europeans have over a thousand years more experience than we do, and when they do it right, …

8 Wired are an amazing brewery, based in Warkworth, not long ago they celebrated the 18th batch from their new brewery. They did so in the finest way possible, with this Oak Aged Imperial Stout. Aftering being brewed with lots of goodies it was fermented in open oak vats with dates, …

Angel is a deep rich barley wine from the folks at Deep Creek. Not for the weak willed, it’s loaded with flavour and sits at a healthy 9.8%ABV -Moppie

Frankfurters Cheese, cut into about 5mm strips Streaky Bacon Long buns Mustard Good old tomato sauce (You’ll need enough frankfurters and buns to feed everyone) slice each frankfurter nearly all the way through down the middle, leaving about 5mm at each end with no cut. Stuff cut with a piece …

We popped into the Speights ale house in Wanaka pretty much because it was the closest place to where we were staying and we needed a good feed after a long day! Given we got there a bit early for the dinner rush we ordered a round of Speights (cause …

Steven Decided he wanted pies for dinner, but didnt know what pie to choose, so he decided to choose 3 and let you guys know which was the best There wasn’t a huge amount of science involved in this, all pies were oven cooked to the instructions on their packets …

So I as many other jumped on the band wagon and went to try the Whittakers Jelly Tip chocolate I didn’t go so far as to make a special trip, but I did pop into a store to check if they had it, thankfully they did.. So first things first …

JELLY TIP CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE 100% NEWZEALAND MADE!!! Base: 1 pack of malt biscuits 1 pack of jelly tip chocolate biscuits 100g melted butter filling: 250g cream cheese 300g cream 1 block of Jelly tip whittakers chocolate Topping: Half a block of Jelly tip whittakers chocolate Method: Combine malt & Jelly …

As the name would imply these burgers should be better? Right? Well, given the hype around this place and everyone telling me that we HAD to go check it out for burger Tuesday, I gave into the hype (which many of you know isn’t like me at all haha, come …

As has become ritual for Tuesday nights, we’ve been on the hunt for the best burgers out. Burger Burger came highly recommended by many people so it had to be done! First things first, when I checked the website it listed first ( didn’t realize there was more than one) …