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Liberty Diversify Into Burgers & Gin

Friday 1 December 2023

Liberty Brewing are diversifying at speed, today launching their gin range under the banner Liberty Distilling. And last month they opened an American-style burger joint next to their taproom in…

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Cover Story

Powerhouse Collab Launches Swifty

Tuesday 28 November 2023

A new beer is not usually enough to justify a story but when you’re talking powerhouse brand names Nadia Lim and Garage Project, a beer called Swifty might be in…

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Brothers Beer Back In Business

Tuesday 28 November 2023

Brothers Beer are back in business and aim to pay off all their creditors by the end of 2024 says new general manager Frans Bos. They’ve had a management restructure,…

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Police Defend Dunedin Festival

Friday 17 November 2023

Police are happy with behaviour at the Dunedin Craft Beer & Food Festival earlier this month despite the event generating international headlines after two assaults — one inside the venue,…

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News

Free Glass Flagon Scheme Launches Nationwide

Thursday 9 November 2023

Dozens of high-profile breweries around the country, including Garage Project, Parrotdog and Emerson’s, are today launching a scheme that provides customers with free, returnable, 1-litre glass flagons for takeaway beer…

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Features

Features

Froth Tech Brewing Up Something Wild

Friday 20 October 2023

The “taste of New Zealand” is about to turn up in a beer, thanks to the amazing work of the team at Froth Tech who’ve isolated a wild brewing yeast…

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Features

Oat Cream Dream Team: Hazzy Hunter X Black Sands

Tuesday 17 October 2023

It was an unassuming Saturday afternoon in Auckland, I was enjoying a few cold beverages down at the Urbanaut taproom in Kingsland whilst in the thick of a friend’s bachelor…

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Features

Raw Beer Revolution

Thursday 12 October 2023

There’s a raw ale resurgence happening in beer right now, and visitors to the Funk On The Water festival in Wellington on Sunday, October, 22, can taste two unique examples…

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Features

New Zealand’s VIP IPAs

Friday 6 October 2023

With the near-demise of Epic there was a risk that one of New Zealand’s greatest IPAs — Armageddon — could have been lost forever. Tim Newman and Michael Donaldson reflect…

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Features

Raglan’s Workshop Brewery Making Waves

Tuesday 3 October 2023

Raglan, famous for its idyllic surf breaks is now making waves in the beer world after Workshop Brewing was named champion microbrewery at the New Zealand Beer Awards in August.…

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Hop Federation Hold The Line NZIPA

Wednesday 8 November 2023

It was already shaping up to be a pretty good year for New Zealand IPAs — and Hop Federation have nudged it a little closer to a great one with…

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Panhead Supercharger X Double APA

Monday 30 October 2023

Creating a great new beer is a fraught and illusive enterprise, requiring inspiration, experimentation and restraint in equal measure.  But what if there was another way?  What if one could…

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Recommended

Brew Moon Hophead IPA XL

Monday 16 October 2023

Brew Moon Hophead IPA is a beer with a very long history, one I myself found myself documenting last year on the brewery’s 20th anniversary.  But, as change comes to…

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News

News

Free Glass Flagon Scheme Launches Nationwide

Thursday 9 November 2023

Dozens of high-profile breweries around the country, including Garage Project, Parrotdog and Emerson’s, are today launching a scheme that provides customers with free, returnable, 1-litre glass flagons for takeaway beer…

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News

UPDATED: Deep Creek Owes More Than $4m

Wednesday 8 November 2023

Deep Creek Brewing went into liquidation last week owing more than $4 million. The first report from liquidator Rodgers Reidy noted that Deep Creek Brewing Operations Ltd owed unsecured creditors…

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News

Wanaka Beer Fest Puts the Focus on Local

Monday 6 November 2023

The Wanaka Beer Fest, set for the first weekend in December, is a real showcase for local beer and bites. The beer fest is always a great day out –…

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Friday Night Beers 

Opinion

Opinion

Fears Over Health Warnings On Beer

Friday 27 October 2023

The Australian federal government has taken the first, small, step towards putting cigarette-like health warnings on alcohol. The Australian federal government is seeking advice on options to raise public awareness…

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Opinion

What Tuatara’s new skin says about the beer game

Wednesday 25 October 2023

Tuatara’s move to cans for all their packaged beer, along with a rationalisation of their core six-pack offering, is a good indicator of where the craft beer market is headed.…

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Opinion

The Beer Drinker’s Quandary

Monday 18 September 2023

A shudder went through the brewing world recently, with seemingly established brands buckling, stuttering and faltering in various degrees. Locally, that’s Epic and Brothers Brewing, but not so long ago…

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Travel

Travel

Reckless By Name, Not By Nature

Monday 25 September 2023

For a small regional city, Bathurst has a big name. Located some three hours west of Sydney, it’s Australia’s oldest inland settlement and like a lot of parts of regional…

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Travel

Shining Peak Shining a Light on Local History

Friday 9 June 2023

Putting excellent beer into cans is one thing, but for Shining Peak founder Jesse Sigurdsson the real enjoyment comes from digging into Taranaki history for the entertaining stories that grace…

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Travel

Botany’s Beer Bounty

Wednesday 7 June 2023

There’s something uniquely appealing about Botany and its breweries. It isn’t home to Sydney’s highest concentration of beer makers; that honour goes to Marrickville and the surrounding inner west, with…

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