Shorelinesbi-Monthly MAGAZINE June/July 2019
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NOW 21 500 East Coast Bays Printed ShoreLinesbi-monthly MAGAZINE June/July 2019 It’s a Shore thing! In this issue... The local brewery that's taking on the world 50 years of family business in Browns Bay Electoral Commission - helping you to make your voice heard Why does HM The Queen have two birthdays? Dining review: a hearty meal for a chilly winter's evening ...and much more • Browns Bay • Northcross • Pinehill • Rothesay Bay • Sherwood • Torbay • Albany • • Waiake • Mairangi Bay • Murrays Bay • Long Bay • Coatesville • Dairy Flat & Okura • Cover Photo: Stephanie Danieli Supported by: BUSINESS ASSOCIATION 1 ShoreLines of the Most Trusted Brand award again and 6 of Cooper & Co’s top 20 agents 2018/2019 1st 5th 9th 12th 14th 15th Wanly Tsang Phil Mitchell River Lamb Mark Robinson & Anna Swift Sue Jiang Ann Emerson Browns Bay 15 Anzac Road, Browns Bay, Auckland 09 477 0848 • [email protected] • www.harcourtsbrownsbay.co.nz 2 Cooper & Co Real Estate LtdShore LicensedLines REAA 2008 their family’s been doing business in Browns Bay for half a century. These are the anecdotes we love to hear From the Editor.... and the photos we love to see - so please get in touch Dear neighbour with yours. Cake. It’s great, isn’t it?! The Look forward to catching up with you again soon. team and I have been tucking in to some celebratory cake recently because ShoreLines is a whole year old. Our gorgeous publisher, Kim, has shared a 21 500 few thoughts on this subject on Printed page 24 – and the underlying bi-monthly message is a sincere THANK YOU. We couldn’t do this without you, our readers, advertisers, and brilliant people allowing us to tell their amazing stories. So: nga mihi, dankie, 谢谢, grazie, merci, and ευχαριστώ. We’re not the only ones expressing our gratitude. Gerhard and Gerry from Augenstein’s have a special message for our community on page 17. Nor are we the only ones celebrating. If you flick to page six you can read all about how one of your favourite local pubs is taking on – and triumphing over – some of the best breweries in the world. If you needed an excuse to enjoy a pint of craft beer and try out their new winter menu, this could be it! What else...? Our dining review is a hearty meal for these crisper winter evenings. We’ve also an update on how the repairs for our local coastal walkways are Stephanie Danieli progressing, and Corinne and Adrianne Lawrence have Photographer & Graphic Designer taken a trip down Memory Lane as they recall how +64 (0)27 346 5429 [email protected] East Coast Bays www.danieliphotography.com COVER PHOTO: Stormy skies over the 'Tor, Waiake ShoreLines Contents June/July 2019 Why does HM The Queen have two birthdays? ................................4 Published six times yearly Deep Creek: the local brewery that’s taking on the world ............6 Next issue: August/September 2019 50 years of family business in Browns Bay ....................................... 10 Advertising material deadline: 19th July 2019 Delivered from: 1st August 2019 Update on Lotus and Crows Nest Rise coastal walkways ........... 14 Designed & printed through: Pages Design & Print Services Browns Bay How to report emergencies and non-emergencies to NZ Police .. 16 www.pagesprint.co.nz Augenstein’s: a word of thanks to the community ....................... 17 Contact Information: For advertising, sales, editorial & news, contact: Kim Taylor: [email protected] or 021 141 2717, Top tips for preparing your property for winter ............................. 18 or Lizzie Brandon: [email protected] Bays Community Centre newsletter ................................................... 19 Circulation: 21 500 copies ShoreLines’ first anniversary ................................................................. 24 Delivered free to homes and businesses in the East Coast Bays area. Available An introduction to Rotary (part 1) ....................................................... 25 in selected libraries, cafés, street boxes and visitor accommodation. Landlord or tenant - who’s responsible if something Disclaimer: The East Coast Bays ShoreLines is a magazine for the East Coast Bays community. gets damaged? ........................................................................................... 27 The editorial staff and publishers have taken all reasonable care to ensure that the information Erica Stanford MP ...................................................................................... 28 contained in this magazine is accurate at the time of going to press. It is possible that information may subsequently be, or become, obsolete, incomplete or no longer the opinion of the author. Electoral Commission: helping you to make your voice heard ...... 30 You agree to verify any information contained herein before relying upon it and to use any Dining review: Lone Star Albany.......................................................... 33 information contained within at your own risk. The editorial staff and publishers accept no liability or responsibility for the consequence of error or for any loss or damage suffered by readers of any PawLines ....................................................................................................... 36 of the information and material contained herein. All content is subject to copyright and other proprietary rights, and reproduction without written permission is strictly prohibited. Bits ’n Bobs, sponsored by Lone Star Albany ................................... 38 3 Proudly designed in Browns Bay by Pages Design & Print (www.pagesprint.co.nz) ShoreLines Did you know…? Queen Elizabeth's full name is Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Happy Birthday Windsor. Her family nickname – coined by her younger sister, (again), Ma'am! Margaret – was Lilibet. Officially, she owns all the swans and dolphins in UK waters. HM Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 93rd birthday with her family on 21st April. So how come NZ has a Queen's She first met Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark in 1934, Birthday public holiday on the first Monday of June? when she was just eight years old and he was 14. They're third cousins, as they both share the same great-great- It all goes back to 1748 when grandparents, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. King George II was on the throne. He was born in November, when Elizabeth joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in the UK weather is pretty cold 1945, and trained to be a mechanic, making her the and unpredictable – making it first female member of the Royal Family to join the difficult for the public to organise armed services as a full-time active member. 1945 festivities in his honour. He was also the year she learned to drive. therefore decided to combine his birthday celebration with She married Prince Philip on 20th November 1947 an annual military parade that and, due to strict post-war rationing, saved up happened every summer. Ever clothing coupons to pay for her wedding dress. The since then, the second Saturday government helped out with a gift of 200 coupons, of June has been the British and the British public sent in donations too – but monarch's "official birthday". these all had to be returned, as it would've been illegal to use them. Interestingly, it's not a public holiday in the UK. However, She celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in 2012, and is it's marked in several now Britain's longest-reigning monarch. This title Commonwealth countries albeit was previously held by Queen Victoria (who reigned on slightly different dates to fit in for 63 years, seven months and two days). Elizabeth with other national holidays. passed this milestone on 9th September 2015. 4 ShoreLines 5 ShoreLines The brewery in our backyard that's taking on the world It began in 2011 During the last with a couple of 10 years, the craft local lads who beer landscape enjoyed making has blossomed. beer in their garage Scott reckons there – and now Deep were probably 60 Creek Brewing has brands when Deep flourished into an Creek began. A award-winning, 2019 survey of the world-class craft industry by the NZ brewery. Brewers Association now counts 218 "Paul and Jarred Scott, Paul and Jarred breweries in NZ. were the main These aren't all guys behind the business," says Deep Creek's marketing independent breweries, however; some have contracts with director, Scott Taylor. "They'd won a few home brew bigger players, such as DB or Lion. "One of the biggest awards, loved this area, loved beer, and decided to open challenges smaller breweries face is access to pub taps: their own brew pub." Scott was invited to join the team probably 90 per cent are controlled by the main breweries, soon after this. He'd been working in hospitality for nearly which means you've got more than 200 brands competing 20 years, running bars in Auckland and overseas. Funnily for the remaining 10 per cent." enough, he too was thinking of opening his own small home brew bar. "I was just sick of the usual beer choice," he This was one of the reasons that, when Deep Creek's pub explains. "In the majority of pubs, it was mostly the same in Browns Bay was renovated in 2016, it was decided types of lager – Heineken or Stella, Corona or Sol, Macs or to allocate permanent space to guest beers and ciders. Monteiths – and there was a scarcity of ales." "Previously our 20 taps were mirrored – the same 10 on the side as at the front – and we only poured our own So, the team got busy! One of the first beers they brewed beers, but we wanted to offer real support to other craft has become one of their flagship brands: an Indian Brown producers." Ale called Dusty Gringo. Since then, they've explored all manner of flavours and styles from pale ales to IPAs, sours to Scott enthusiastically remarks that the north and west of stouts, putting their collective heads together to find exciting Auckland is something of a treasure trove for craft beers, possibilities and try out, as Scott says, some "pretty crazy" with McLeods in Waipu, Sawmill in Matakana, 8 Wired ideas.