DOMINION BEERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1937, Page 9

DOMINION BEERS.

PROBLEM FOR JUDGES. NEW ZEALAND LEADS IN LIGHT LAGER. (■Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON", October 16. The judges whose task it was to choose the best beer (though, of couree, all beer is best.) at the Brewers' Competition in London this week, spent four times as long with the Dominion beers as they did with the Home entries. The quality was so good. No fewer than 7000 bottles of beer were adjudicated upon by some of the foremost authorities in England. For the first time Empire beers were entered in the competition, and entries were received from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Kenya. The judges found themselves unable to arrive at an adequate comparison between Home and overseas brews, as the Dominion beers were entirely of the lager type and Home entries in this class were very few. The Dtinedin (New Zealand) Brewery was first in the light lager class.

Mr. H. ('. Vickerv, the organiser, said that mankind owes the blessing of bottled l»eer to the Crusader*. He said that a certain knight was fishing in England when the call to arms snatched him untimely from his jar of beer. On returning from the East a year or so later, he remembered the unfinished jar. and was amazed at the improvement in the condition of the contents. He beea- le & pioneer -of bottled-beer.