Brewery Corp Officer's Mess Hall

The Garage Project, official suppliers of beer to the Burger Wellington competition, have opened up their pop-up pub based on Dr. Grordbort's universe, a creation of Glen Broadmore of Weta Workshops. Garage Project have previously created beers based on Dr. Grordbort. The theme behind this event is the officer's mess of the Brewery Corps.

We went along after work on a Friday night, meeting up with former colleague Hayden, who (happily) lives just down the road from Garage Project's Aro Valley headquarters. Beers were available on tap, in bottles and in cans. We started off with a variety of beers including Angry Peaches, Death From Above and Extraordinary Ordinary, before converging on Death from Above as the beer of choice for the evening.

At some point in the evening, a decision was made to try the absolute acme of ales, Lord Cockswain's Courage ("Tastes like war!"), an award-winning dark porter. This is only made available on special occasions. It's rumoured that it will taste even better if you lay it down for a few years, but frankly, who's got the patience for that?

After that there was no going back, so I staggered out onto the street and made my way to Courtenay Place to catch a cab home.