Following the appearance of Mainland cheese in a Suwon E-mart, imagine my surprise when I found New Zealand beer on the shelves of a different supermarket. Not just any NZ beer, but a beer that I actually like. Monteith’s, was a boutique brewery that had started on the West coast of New Zealand. But in it’s rising popularity it was bought out by the Brewing giant, Dominion Breweries in Auckland. This seemed to be part of a consolidation of the brewing industry. Smaller breweries were bought out by the giants corporations. The underlying thought seemed to me was “we don’t need any creativity anymore, we just buy new ideas.”
There were only four bottles on the shelf, so that’s how many I got.
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