Not only did the Americans invent hot-rodding, they invented hop-rodding too. In the late 1960s a Tauranga teenager called John Reid threw a kiwi hat in that ring with the famed 'Vandal', a dazzling green flake 1919 Dodge bucket. In his spirit we're rising to the other challenge with a beer named in its honour - a big, bitter APA groaning with whole cone Nelson Sauvin, Motueka and Riwaka hops. Like any good hotrod, it's built to attract as much attention as possible.