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Aussie Pirate Washes Ashore in NZ
Friday 14 March 2025Former Aussie “pirate” Jared Proudfoot is now a Kiwi landlubber. Proudfoot, known as Red, co-founded the hugely successful Pirate Life in Australia — a brewery that was sold to global…
Read MoreFirst-Timers Win 2025 Rare Beer Challenge
Friday 14 March 2025New Plymouth’s Shining Peak Brewery were crowned — or capped, as it were — the winners of the fifth annual Rare Beer Challenge on March 7. Hosted by Wellington’s Fortune…
Read MoreMoa Superdelic IPA
Monday 10 March 2025As much as it was exciting to see the recent Superdelic hop step onto the stage of commercial New Zealand varieties, it’s one I’ve been struggling to really love when…
Read MoreSunshine Brewing Wants Sale or Merger
Monday 10 March 2025New Zealand’s oldest craft brewery, Sunshine Brewing in Gisborne, looking for new owners or — more intriguingly — seeking expressions of interest for a merger with an existing brand. The…
Read MoreGreen, fruity, dank … Tom Shellhammer On hops
Tuesday 4 March 2025For a hop scientist, a months-long summer holiday coinciding with the annual hop harvest in New Zealand is a dream sabbatical. Tom Shellhammer is a Professor of Fermentation Science at…
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Features
Homebrewing — Dry Vs Liquid Yeast
Monday 3 March 2025One of the great things about home brewing is the new avenues of exploration and opportunities to improve that open up to the inquisitive mind. There is always something new…
Read MoreFresh Alibi — Meet The New Brewer
Monday 20 January 2025Jody Thomas has a beer CV that could fill this website from back to front but her new job as the one and only brewer at Alibi on Waiheke Island…
Read MoreZero Cider Helps Peckham’s Go From Strength to Strength
Wednesday 8 January 2025One of the best new drinks to enter the market this year is a) not a beer and b) contains zero alcohol. Step up Peckham’s Apple Zero. This 0% cider…
Read MoreSawmill — A Cut Above
Thursday 5 December 2024To use a golf analogy, Sawmill Brewing are “sneaky long”. It’s a term used for golfers, who, without apparent effort, hit the ball a long way. And so it is…
Read MoreOrganic Hops Poised For A Bright Future
Wednesday 13 November 2024As the European Union sets ambitious targets for organic production, two New Zealand hop farms are hoping to hop on for the ride. The EU wants 25 percent of food…
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Moa Superdelic IPA
Monday 10 March 2025As much as it was exciting to see the recent Superdelic hop step onto the stage of commercial New Zealand varieties, it’s one I’ve been struggling to really love when…
Read MoreHop Federation Concrete Jungle
Monday 3 March 2025Fresh off the line this week Hop Federation Concrete Jungle is this bright version of the (also rather good) Inflation hazy IPA that dropped a little earlier in the year. …
Read MoreChinchiller Yeti Fuel Cold IPA
Tuesday 18 February 2025Once Canterbury brewers have picked it up, then a style has officially hit the mainstream… that might be a slightly facetious take in these modern times, but as a Canterbury…
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Salt District Brewing Closing Down
Monday 17 February 2025A bright newcomer to the beer scene is closing up after less than three years — and not because they weren’t successful. Liam Blunden started Salt District Brewing in Whangamata…
Read MoreMcLeod’s Brewer Jason Bathgate Moving to Nelson
Friday 14 February 2025Martin Townshend will keep brewing his “ales of the unexpected”, Jason Bathgate will return to his spiritual home, and a yet-to-be-known brewer will get the chance of a lifetime at…
Read MoreShining Peak Expand Into Christchurch
Thursday 16 January 2025New Plymouth’s Shining Peak have opened a branch office in Christchurch — setting up a bar and restaurant in the refurbished Sumner Post Office. Shining Peak have been looking for…
Read MoreFriday Night Beers
Opinion
Instagratification: Dusty’s Best of the Summer releases 2025
Monday 3 March 2025Photographer, beer-lover and Instagram influencer Dusty, picks his highlights from the latest releases heading into summer.
Read MoreIs It End Days For Craft Beer?
Friday 3 January 2025The day after I was born a human error was made on a US national security computer the size of a car. A training tape was fed into the machine…
Read MoreThe Hoppiness 100 — Jessica Allen
Friday 3 January 2025We’ve asked the Pursuit of Hoppiness writers to come up with their top picks for the beers of the year. Between us the aim is to have exactly 100 beers.…
Read MoreTravel
Mr Good Bar — Twofold & St Leonards
Wednesday 15 January 2025The good news is that, despite the occasional bad news, there are great new brew bars are still bubbling up all over the place. In central Auckland, for instance, I…
Read MoreThe Beer Project — Sunshine Brewing
Monday 6 January 2025I visit Sunshine on a hot Thursday afternoon in January. The bar is starting to hum with locals enjoying beers on the deck. There was a time when Wellington was…
Read MoreMr Goodbar — Crafty Dunedin Roadie
Monday 28 October 2024Dunedin called me south. It wasn’t the beer that took me there, but it is a beery sort of city and the beer could have kept me there for more.…
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