pacifc beer expo posterGet­ting to try lots of beer in a nice warm space that’s not a con­crete tun­nel sounds like a bloody good idea, which is why I’m look­ing for­ward to the Pacific Beer Expo which will be on Sunday Octo­ber 27 at the St James Theatre.

In typ­ic­al fash­ion for organ­iser Dom from Hashigo Zake, he does­n’t hold back in the press release:

“Octo­ber 27 the high­light of 2013 for New Zealand’s most demand­ing con­sumers of beer.

With less than two weeks to go until the annu­al Labour Week­end event, the lineup is close to being final­ised. Organ­isers can con­fid­ently pre­dict that the care­fully selec­ted menu will rep­res­ent the most geo­graph­ic­ally and styl­ist­ic­ally diverse range of beers ever offered at a single event in New Zea­l­and. From exper­i­ment­al spiced beers from Singa­pore to Cali­for­ni­an hop-bombs, the fest­iv­al will once again present the state of the art of brew­ing by small, inde­pend­ent brew­er­ies in the
Pacific Rim.

In addi­tion the event will rep­res­ent excep­tion­al value for money com­pared with oth­er recent beer-themed fest­ivals in Wel­ling­ton. Every tick­et-hold­er will receive a gen­er­ous alloc­a­tion of tokens for the pur­chase of food and drinks even though the event has nev­er sought nor been giv­en a sub­sidy from Wel­ling­ton rate­pay­ers.”

Emphas­is mine, because that’s the reas­on I’ve nev­er gone to Beer­vana. Tick­ets from Tick­etek (watch out for hid­den costs) or Hashigoza­ke over the bar are $50, and that includes  souven­ir glass, a pro­gramme and plenty of tokens for food and drink to get you star­ted.