{"id":131,"date":"2014-01-30T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:12:29","slug":"cook-islands-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Cook Islands (NZ)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CookIslands.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-485\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date Consumed:<\/strong> 22nd January 2014<br><strong>Beer:<\/strong>\u00a0Matutu Mai Lager<br><strong>Brewed:<\/strong>\u00a0Titikaveka, Rarotonga, Cook Islands<br><strong>Size:<\/strong>\u00a0330mL<br><strong>Alcohol Content:<\/strong>\u00a05.0%<br><strong>Sourced:<\/strong>\u00a0Matutu Brewery, Titikaveka, Rarotonga, Cook Islands<br><strong>World Beer Rating:<\/strong>\u00a08\/10<br><br><strong>Notes:<\/strong>\u00a0This bottle of beer was fresh filled from the brewery itself, so fresh it wasn&#8217;t even capped! A lovely beer from a hot and humid island. Slightly citrus, a tiny bit malty. Very drinkable, I would pick a few bottles of this up if exported to Australia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone has-custom-border\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0612.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0612-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-488\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0612-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0612-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0612.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matutu Mai Lager, Cook Islands (NZ)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date Consumed:<\/strong> 21nd January 2014<br><strong>Beer:<\/strong>\u00a0Matutu Kiva Pale Ale<br><strong>Brewed:<\/strong>\u00a0Titikaveka, Rarotonga, Cook Islands<br><strong>Size:<\/strong>\u00a0330mL<br><strong>Alcohol Content:<\/strong>\u00a05.0%<br><strong>Sourced:<\/strong>\u00a0Sunset Resort, Rarotonga, Cook Islands<br><strong>World Beer Rating:<\/strong>\u00a04\/10<br><br><strong>Notes:<\/strong>\u00a0Not particularly good. Very malty, bready, not really a Pale Ale. Only had one of these, that was enough for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone has-custom-border\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0574.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0574-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-487\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0574-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0574-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0574.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matutu Kiva Pale Ale, Cook Islands (NZ)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date Consumed: 22nd January 2014Beer:\u00a0Matutu Mai LagerBrewed:\u00a0Titikaveka, Rarotonga, Cook IslandsSize:\u00a0330mLAlcohol Content:\u00a05.0%Sourced:\u00a0Matutu Brewery, Titikaveka, Rarotonga, Cook IslandsWorld Beer Rating:\u00a08\/10 Notes:\u00a0This bottle of beer was fresh filled from the brewery itself, so fresh it wasn&#8217;t even capped! A lovely beer from a hot and humid island. Slightly citrus, a tiny bit malty. Very drinkable, I would pick &#8230; <a title=\"Cook Islands (NZ)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/?p=131\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cook Islands (NZ)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-beer-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeerchallenge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}