Rocky here and it's a beer o'clock review on a Tuesday only because we forgot
last friday was Good Friday I thought what I would have missed it so we're
getting to this week and it's a Tuesday it could be a Saturday it could be a Sunday
these days. Who knows y'all just molds into one. Anyhow
beer o'clock review, bit of beer and some
gear and today I found a cracking little beer. This is by Lakeman Breweries in
Taupo and it's called The Hairy Bogan. It kind of suits me in some ways it's
an imperial stout now what I didn't realize I should've seen how strong this
beer was when I picked it up. It's actually 9.1 percent
??? drinks so obviously we're not going anywhere so this is the
beer I'll be drinking (sipping) this afternoon the rest of the afternoon.
it's aged in bourbon it's a pretty solid out and as you can imagine for a start
with nine point one but a very nice beer I've got a couple of sips of it so far
it's a definite go straight to your head type beer actually so if you get a
chance to get a bottle you know it's perfect when your deck is really freezing.
Obviously the side Alta winter is definitely upon us. Good one to go for the Hairy Bogan Imperial Stout.
Anyhow onto the
gear so what we've got just arrived before we went into lockdown were some
new Montane gloves. Now these are the much warmer of Montane gloves and
they're definitely aimed at winter mountaineering maybe ski
touring and anyway you want a good set of gloves we know are gonna
work. Okay so this is the Alpine mission glove first of all so first up it's a
gore-tex glove and it's got that gore-tex plus warm band on it. Now when you're
going round to shops and you'll see all kinds of different gore-tex gloves. If
it's got the plus warm blue band basically it means it's a very warm
glove by whatever manufacturer it just means it's the warmest kind of glove
you'll get with the gore-tex lining so there you go. So these are both in the
very warm section of things. So this is the Alpine Mission glove so first of all
you've got a full gore-tex lining as you'd expect. You've got a goat leather
palm really tough, always got leather all through here.
You've got soft shell there and you've got about a 130
grams of Primaloft in this thing so this is a very warm glove. It's been designed
for winter mountaineering great bit of kit.
It's got pre curved fingers as you can see there. It's a gauntlet style glove so
if you know what that means no it's going to come higher up your
arm like that. It's great with that pre-curved finger through there and you
got to the section through there where you be where you'd know that in ice axe
or something like that really latch it down exceptionally wall reinforced
fingertips as well and also this little thing here. A lot of people ask why is that on my
glove what it basicallyis ??? just hold it down so you might want to
take these off massive inner gloves on and you want to do a bit fine work
hold it that way down there of your harness it stays.
Hold that way snow's gets into it it's like that snow doesn't get onto it
that's what it's for. Gravity. Next up is the Symphony Mitt so
obviously gloves and mitts some people like a mitt coz it's warmer in some ways this
mitt is a beast of a mitt and now I was looking I got a pre-production sample of
these a couple of years ago and I took him to Japan split boarding and this
is a sensational bit of kit but it is very warm indeed okay so it comes in two
parts. So what you've got you got an inner and an outer both of which are
insulated so let's have a look at the inner first. So the inner is a lobster
style Pertex covered Primaloft mitt and when I said Lobster two one two and three so
if you are climbing I've been gotta do a bit of fine work
you can whip your outer off and you can still work with this then put it back
into the inner like so. It's just got the one. Would you say that's
warmer than the glove? This is ridiculously warm I can't stress that
enough. To be fair most people would just get on fine with the mitt by itself
because this is ??? as well with that gore-tex warm lining.
For most in New Zealand that would be absolutely fine and dandy
but if you do suffer from real cold together
that's an amazing combination leather.
Super warm and you still get a fair of ??? there as well with a mitt
so you can hold on to your tools or anything like that.
So that's a combination that's a super warm combination okay what's this red one?
This is a bit ???
This really is designed for keeping you
warm in very cold environments so this is the Alpine Down Mitt means half it's
almost up to the elbow in some ways it's super warm it's waterproof
you'll be using it in an area. Badger's ??? in a bit here
obviously where dry and cold so primaloft ??? down super long super warm
you could use it in this country if you know if you ??? from the cold or you
just want the warmest ??? you'd ever get these are definitely
them. Anyhow so that's three different sets, one set of gloves two sets of mitts
for Montane's new glove range which is available online now or it will be in
the store when we arrange to get back open. Hopefully guys you're all surviving
and having fun and shooting later this week well talk about something else
and drink some more beer. See you!