The Parrot Dog BloodHound Red Ale and Croucher's Low Rider I.P.A, both available at the Hopscotch Beer Company.
Sustainable business: Hopscotch Beer Company, the business run by beer aficionado Hugh Grierson, will be selling their fine craft beers at the Sustainable City Showcase from October 17-19.
The company, which is nearly two years old, is the only specialist tap beer shop in Auckland.
Grierson operates a tight ship,
adhering to strong sustainability principles by mainly New Zealand-made beers from small, niche breweries and adopting a zero waste ethos.
Situated off Mt Eden Road, Hopscotch offers tap and kegs of beer from brewers in Rotorua, Westport and Hastings as well as some of the bigger, independent beer-makers like Tuatara.
Grierson says that supporting local is more sustainable than spending offshore (as well as cutting down on carbon emissions from transporting overseas products), but also earns his eco-credentials by offering reusable, one litre, German glass bottles for customers to fill up with beer, and refusing to stock plastic bottles. "Every time someone buys a litre of beer in a glass bottle, you don't make three stubbies worth of waste," he says proudly.
