NZ-Made Oat Milk Beer Has Hit Our Shelves

Oat milk, with the intention of targeting lactose-intolerant people and closing the gap between plant-based alternatives, was initially birthed in 1994 in Sweden by Oatly’s founder brothers, Rickard and Bjorn Oeste. Since then, oat milk’s popularity has soared even amongst non-lactose-intolerant people, Dish Cult HQ included.

For a growing number of the population, oat milk’s taste, especially in an iced latte, reigns over normal dairy milk all day, every day. There is something complex yet satisfying in its wheaty, slightly “gritty” taste and texture. And perhaps it is their ingenious and genuine marketing on their trustworthy and simple oat milk, because for almost every New Zealand cafe, you are bound to find Boring Oat Milk as the oat milk brand of choice on their shelves.

But have you ever thought of oat milk being in an alcoholic context? No? Well now you can experience it for yourself. Boring Oat Milk and ParrotDog, beer brewery since 2011, has broadened the idea of just oat milk by introducing “Boring Beer”: a hazy, oat-based IPA beer.

It is made from blending the infamous Boring oat milk with barley, wheat, hops, yeast, and water. Picture the haze to have tropical notes—mango, apricot, coconut—like a smoothie bowl, or as described, “a delicious Oat Milk Hazy IPA for breakfast lovers and non-breakfast lovers.” 

With Boring Beer brewed and canned at Parrotdog Brewery in Lyall Bay, New Zealand, Parrotdog’s philosophy focuses on quality and simplicity. So it is undoubtedly that Boring Oat Milk and Parrotdog’s collaboration would be “simple” yet done amazingly well, and deliciously refreshing—perfectly fitting for Boring Beer.

Boring Beer would’ve already hit the shelves at your local supermarket, so go grab yourself some cans. You will soon find Boring Beer to be your alcoholic beverage of choice, just as with oat milk to be your milk of choice, because oat milk superiority is definitely real. Cheers to that!