>>I see that Barney Flats Stout is available in New Zealand (maybe JR has tried it?)
JR is sold on Pinot Noir and Gimblett Gravels red varietals from NZ and unbelievable sunshine Syrah from Australia, so no longer drinks beer despite the tempting array of boutique and micro-brewery options these days.
Have you seen beer advertisements from down under, though? Most of the good ones are older, but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3GH7Pn_eAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn7u5XvupSU
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
