Monk’s Habit baptised as champion ale ‘in a class of its own’

“You could say that Monk’s Habit leaves other beers without a prayer,” smiled Luke Nicholas. “This newest collection of plaudits for Monk’s Habit verify this beer as a true New Zealand great. No other beer has won as many trophies and medals at the New Zealand International Beer Awards over the years.

“This huge haul shows what can be done when you invest in delivering a quality-driven product. We're not about being the biggest... but we are about being the best. And with two 'best in class' trophies, three gold, two silver and two bronze medals, we've shown that by far.”

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Monk's Habit Awards to April 2005

2 x Supreme Champion Beer winner
11 x Best in Class
15 x Gold
10 x Silver
2 x Bronze

from April 1997 to April 2005

Monk's Wins Gold AGAIN!!

New Zealand International Beer Awards - 15 April 2005 - Nelson

Best in Class, Trophy – Monk’s Habit
Best in Class, Trophy – Buxom Blonde

Gold - Monk’s Habit
Gold – Fuggles
Gold – Classic Draught

Silver – Blue Goose
Silver - Buxom Blonde

Bronze – Dark Star
Bronze – Chubby IV

This brings our medal count to 112 in just nine years

A couple of firsts for us:
Classic Draught, first time Gold medal
Buxom Blonde , first time Best in Class

Regional gets new special beer

Regional Wines & Spirits will be our first outlet for the new seasonal beer (Chubby IV) for the Cock & Bull pubs, with a delivery overnight tonight.

Chubby IV - is brewed in the American Amber Ale style, a bright copper colour, Pale Ale, it is 5.75%alc/vol. We have used a generous amount of US Cascade and US Centennial, so that the hops scream out of the glass and linger on your palate for a good half hour ;-)

Aroma - rose water, turkish delight
Flavour - juicy malt with a big hop kick that delivers an exciting punch to the palate that linger to let you know you have had a real beer.
Colour - bright copper
BU's - 42
Alc/vol - 5.75%

Also being delivered, which is exclusive to Regional Wines & Spirits, is a carbonated version of Fuggles Best Bitter. We are trialling this to see how sales go. Since we had to lightly carbonate some samples of Fuggles for the New Zealand International Beer Awards in Nelson (awards announced 15th April) and the Australian International Beer Awards in Melbourne (awards announced 5th May) we made sure we had a few extra for Regional to put on the FYO riggers.

Re-Stocked Regional W&S

Monday saw a new delivery of Cock & Bull beers shipped to Regional Wines & Spirits.

They had delayed ordering more due to the end of financial year, and wanted stock as low as possible.

All beer will now be back in stock.