08/10/2026
This week B**R CLUB members are drinking…
BREWERY // Double Vision began in 2013 in the lunchroom of Phil & Teds, the Wellington company, where Mario, Warren, Harry and Evarn spent their working days designing prams and their downtime talking mountain bikes and hops. They all chipped in for a homebrew kit, a friend's Hataitai garage became the first brewery, and more than a hundred recipes followed in eighteen months, policed by one brutal house rule: if a batch was bad, everyone had to drink it. The name came from Evarn's partner Jane, inspired by the double garage doors (and, presumably, by the side effects of the product). Double Vision was incorporated in June 2016, launching with Expatriate APA and Red Rascal Red IPA, and in 2018 the four built a brewery and taproom in the Miramar Industrial Park with help from their tradie mates. Design is still half the business; every can is drawn in-house and their packaging has won at the Brewers Guild Awards. B**r Jerk regulars may also remember Black Narcissus, the 12.5% Mumme they brewed with Small Gods. In 2025 they became the official b**r match for Burger Wellington, and this week's b**r was brewed for the 2026 edition.
B**R // The shandy originated in 1850s England as the 'shandygaff', b**r cut with ginger soda. Over time lemonade replaced the ginger and the name shrank. The Germans and Austrians arrived at the same idea and gave it a better story. Radler means cyclist, and the popular tale credits Franz Kugler, an innkeeper outside Munich, with mixing his l***r half and half with lemon soda in 1922 when a stream of thirsty cyclists threatened to drain his cellar. New Zealand's relationship with the style took a stranger turn. DB launched Monteith's Radler in late 2002 and soon trademarked the word, so when Dunedin's Green Man brewed a radler in 2008 it was told to stop, and ended up sticking "Cyclist" labels over its own bottles. The Society of B**r Advocates fought to have the trademark cancelled and lost, with IPONZ ruling that radler wasn't known here as a style name when the mark was registered. DB has since let the trademark lapse, but for the best part of twenty years only one brewery in the country could legally call a b**r a radler. Double Vision sidestep the whole saga by calling theirs a shandy, then ignore the rulebook anyway. A traditional half-and-half mix lands at roughly half the strength of the b**r underneath it; Schandalous sits at a full-strength 4.4%, built for long afternoons in the sun rather than as a lighter alternative to a proper pint. Brewed as a b**r match for Burger Wellington, it was designed to stand next to grease and salt, and the bright, natural citrus does exactly that, cutting through richness the way a squeeze of lemon lifts a plate of fish and chips. Schandalous is far better than a traditional Shandy in that it is also far less sweet and avoids the cloying stickiness.
BREWERY // Double Vision
B**R // Schandalous
STYLE // Shandy
ABV // 4.4%
ORIGIN // Miramar, Wellington
TEMP // Cold!
FOOD MATCH // Cheeseburger. Obviously
VESSEL // Willi Becher