Beery Had A Lotta Lamb

On Thursday, after dancing, we decided we were in need of a quick bite, so I searched the WOAP website for a burger in the Cuba Quarter. One of the first on the list was the Heyday Beer Co. Heyday are a newcomer on the Wellington Brewbar scene – what might reasonably be termed a microbrewery – so we thought we’d give it a try.

Their burger is Beery Had A Lotta Lamb, and is described as Heyday beer-braised Wairarapa lamb shoulder, with rocket, berry compote and minted aioli in an Arobake milk bun, with roast potatoes and Heyday gravy. Again, without paying attention to the small print, there’s no mention of the word “patty” here. The Garage Project beer match was again Red Eye Gravy, and I again ignored it to try the brewery’s own beer match, Space Jam Milkshake, which is a fruity, jammy IPA.

It looks like this:

What we have here is once again a meat sandwich. Not only that, but the sliced lamb was well done, but not falling-apart slow-roasted well done. About the best thing insode the bun was the berry compote, as this had an actual flavour. The gravy was an insipid grey gunge and, after trying a bit on one of the cuboid roast potatoes, I ignored it for the rest of the meal. The bun was bland, but at least held together for the whole time.

Not a burger to recommend. I gave it 4. Should've gone to Logan Brown.