Emerson’s Week at Regional Wines & Spirits, Wellington
Wellington is a city where craft beer is much appreciated. This week our distributor in Wellington, Regional Wines & Spirits are hosting the inaugural “Emerson’s Week”.There are trade and public events and more details are on their website;
http://www.regionalwines.co.nz/beer-content.aspx/beer-tastings
Call in to Regional Wines & Spirits, 15 Ellice St, Basin Reserve and have a chat to Richard Emerson and the Regional staff about our range of beers.
New guest artwork at the brewery - Sam Foley
Lovelock III Oil on canvas
$4,500.00
Born in Wellington but raised in Dunedin, Sam Foley graduated from the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in 1998 and has been working full time as an artist since. He has held exhibitions throughout Australasia and won numerous awards, including most recently The Peoples Choice Award at the 17th Annual Wallace Art Awards. His works are held in many public and private collections. He also is co-owner of the NZ design store, Whiteroom, found in Moray Place, Dunedin.
When asked how he came to be an artist he has this to say, “Basically it stemmed from an interest I pursued at High School which I followed right through on to Art School. I just kept on going with it really. I didn’t want to do anything else so it was purely natural progression”.
In response to where Foley draws his inspiration. “I find I am drawn to painting forest/native landscapes and to the random patterns in nature and the freedom with which one can take when depicting rhythm within the chaos. I have also been looking at the urban landscape as subject now for a number of years and experimenting with a mixed media approach, combining painting and projection”.
Sam Foley manages, works and lives in an artist run studio complex, the Dowling St Studios, in Dunedin Central. He is currently planning a 6 month move to Berlin in 2012 where he will continue to develop his practice as an artist.
The Great Emerson’s Degustation Charity Dinner Auctions Are Live!
The Auctions are live for tickets to the Great Emerson’s Degustation Charity Dinner follow the links below to place your bid!The Emersons Degustation Charity Dinner will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to sample some of New Zealand’s finest cuisine matched with some of the countries best beers.
Join pioneering brewer and gastronome Richard Emerson, Restaurateur Steve Logan and Regional Beer Specialist Kieran Haslett-Moore in the private upstairs dining room for a six course Degustation menu. Logan Brown Chef Shaun Clouston and Richard have devised six contemporary courses matched to six Emersons beers.
Tickets to this event are extremely limited due to the size of the dining room so a Charity Auction with proceeds going to the environmental organisation The Last Ocean will be held to purchase tickets.
The Last Ocean is a charity that campaigns to raise awareness of the Ross Sea and promote the establishment of a marine reserve to protect the last pristine open-ocean marine ecosystem on earth. Check out http://www.lastocean.com/ for more details.
When: Tuesday 20th July 2010 6pm
Where: 192 Cuba Street Wellington
Trade Me links:
Single Tickets
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=301271775
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=301271196
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=301269400
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=301272446
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=301274575
Double Tickets
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=301275927
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=301275452
New Brewer's Reserve
HOPPIEST INDIAN June 2010 ReleaseHoppiest Indian is the first in a series of beers that we have themed Red IPA’s – a NZ first maybe? NZ Pale malt, along with Munich, CaraRed and CaraMunich form the malt base. A high alpha NZ hop and US Centennial flip flop their way through the boil with both hops used in large quantity in a series of warm and cold dry hopping. We’ve gone out on a limb – we maxed the hops out to really explore how two high alpha acid hops from two hemispheres work together. Some may say it’s out of balance – we say its ‘well hopped’ and get a life. It follows no style guideline and why should it – it’s an Emerson’s Brewer’s Reserve, made for the brewers by the brewers – you’re just lucky to have it on a tap near you.
The malt hangs in there – just, but it’s the big alpha hops that dominate, on the nose from the dry hopping and again on the finish.
Tune in for the Hoppiest Indian part deux ….. a little more alcohol, a little more malt… or maybe not …
Cheers
The Brew Crew
Original gravity: 1053
Alcohol : 5% vol
Malts : NZ Ale malt, Munich, CaraRed and CaraMunich
Hops : High Alpha NZ and US Centennial
Yeast: House yeast
Available at the brewery shop and selected bars
AIBA Australian International Beer Awards 2010
Melbourne. 20 May 2010Emerson’s are thrilled to have won six awards at the 2010 Australian International Beer Awards.
There were 1170 beers entered from 34 countries.
Trophy for Champion Wheat Beer: Weizenbock
Gold Medal: Weizenbock
Silver Medal: Bookbinder
Silver Medal: Weissbier
Bronze Medal: Organic Pilsner
Bronze Medal: 1812 India Pale Ale
Australian International Beer Awards
This week is going to be a busy one for brewers and beer enthusiasts in Melbourne. New Zealand craft brewers will have a high profile this year.The Brewer’s Guild and NZTE have organised many trade events and seminars during the week and of course there is the awards night on Thursday.
Good news for the public too, with the Beer Expo open to the public during the weekend. Emerson’s product will be showcased at the Better Beer Imports stand and Richard will be in attendance on Friday. If you are in Melbourne do go and meet the brewers and distributors and sample a range of outstanding beers from New Zealand.
For further info:
AIBA
http://www.beerawards.com
Beer Expo
http://www.beerandbrewerexpo.com
New guest artist
Geoffrey Williams trained as a photo engraver and sign writer and worked in that industry for years before taking the leap in to being a full time artist. His artworks are in collections in New Zealand and overseas. He works in the mediums of acrylic and pencil with subjects ranging from landscape to still life to figure studies.
Acrylic on board
“Hand on the Wheel” $12,000
www.geoffwilliams.co.nz
Brewer’s Reserve April 2010 Release
EMERSON’S HARVEST Fresh Hop AleAvailable from the brewery shop and selected bars only.
It’s a brewer’s favourite time of year – the annual hop harvest! Each year we drop in on the innocent Nelson hop farmer and crawl around their hop vines and deliriously grovel around their drying kilns selecting hops for this beer (yes it’s probably an embarrassing sight to behold). It’s fantastic to be able to talk directly with the hop grower and sample and learn about the large number of New Zealand hop varieties.
Doug Donelan, NZ Hops Ltd, was instrumental in giving us the best possible visit we could ask for. We not only got to select the varieties but to choose from the actual farm and individual hop bale. The significance of this selection is amazing, there can be a huge variation amongst a single hop from one hop farm, it’s the blending process that smoothes these differences out. This was a real privilege for Emerson’s, thank you to all the hop growers and Doug for putting up with us in what is a very busy time.
Richard chose two stunning fresh hops – Pacifica and NZ Hallertau which were placed into the boil in huge quantities at the end of the boil.
Hoo boy…a subtle orangey hop aroma, reminiscence of Jaffa’s, appears on the nose. As the beer warms up, the maltiness becomes prominent with a lovely long lingering orangey bitter finish to balance. The hoppy flavour and bitterness grows on you. Perhaps you might become addicted to hops?
Cheers,
The Emerson Brewing Team
Original gravity:1056
Alcohol : 5.3% abv
Malts : Gladfields Pale, Pilsner, Carapils, Crystal
Hops : Super Alpha, NZ Hallertau and Pacifica