You could call Mac's Gold the original New Zealand craft beer. After all it was the beer that the late Terry McCashin first brewed in 1981 when he launched Mac's, the first in a wave of independent microbreweries that started to pop up in the 1980s and 1990s. Four decades later, and with the brand now owned by Lion, Mac's Gold remains a steadfast part of our beer culture and one of the best lagers produced in this country. Highly-polished, flavoursome and most importantly in a lager, "clean and refreshing", said the judges who praised the beer as a "solid lager" with great balance and easy drinkability.

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