Beer - #46 - when calamity strikes - the Warsteiner 5ltr Keg

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="75"] Warsteiner Beer and Brewery (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

Today watching the Rugby League match - NZ Warriors v Penrith Panthers  was designated the Warsteiner 5Ltd Keg day.

5Litres = 19 standard drinks, someone can work that out. It's about 15 bottles of beer, and so  using finger maths that is about 4 and a shave's worth of % ABV to be 4%?

Highlights: Gave me stomach ache. Saved some pixels in the camera from looking at such nonsense  - didn't take a picture. That is all.

It would be a waste of the pdubyah-o-meter to rate this at 1 from 10. There is no redeeming feature in this, it's difficult to pour, with typical germanic over engineered and over-wrought instructions on the can/mini-keg - all nonsense

Tasted oily, delivered nothing, and wasn't even pretty to look at.

In it's favour poured with a head. In it's prosecution we discarded about a litre of it into the recycle bin. Honestly if you're into bulk over substance this isn't even the beer for you.

Catching up

There is a gap then between that one and this one (posts thats is) for no reason other than I havn't.

Since then - 22nd September - and now seems like a life time.

I've been to Eden Park for the League tests. Apart from a weird decision to close the overbridge at Kingsland which prevented me going to the pub pre-game it worked out well.

The bus from Albany to the Stadium was awesome - and free- the longest part of the journey along the tourturous road past St.Lukes. I'm sure they'll not fix that before the RWC arrives - I'm not holding my breath.

At the stadium however they need to figure out the method of getting in at which gate, and where and why some of the concession places are there. Clearly for an event of 4 hours there was a need for refreshment, but there are ways to try and minimise over consumption.

For a single event though why sell beer? Who can't go 90 minutes without a beer, or wine? The same people who need blaring music everytime the game stops for any reason, just in case we get bored?

And when "we" the crowd get bored what happens - "we" entertain ourselves - with the mexican wave. The throwing things in the air bit is a mystery - but hey they sell beer in plastic bottles that gather around your feet - what else to do with them?

And if beer is such an issue I'd suggest that having staff wandering around selling directly to the crowd from shoulder bags may not be a good idea - host responsibility and all that.

The stadium does look half finished though, 4 stands - all different - I'm sure some of the seats are better than others - but lets put on record that I wouldn't particulaly pay hunreds of dollars for one for any event.