Tui Blond Continental Lager 330ml $18 per 12pk.
Clearly winning ‘Best New Zealand Premium Lager’ at the 2010 BrewNZ Awards then Gold at the Monde Selection awards in Belgium this year wasn’t enough because the Tui folk felt it needed some appearance medicine. Initially sceptical of the new ‘vortex’ longneck, I had to admit that after a couple of glugs the beer didn’t have that thin metallic taste that the original version had. In fact the Vortex version is lifted, aromatic and bitter with crisp, clean length of flavour. Not bad at all.
