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Distributor Hop And Vine Explains Liquidation
Friday 11 April 2025Prominent Christchurch-based distributor Hop And Vine says the loss of three potential new customers combined with changing drinking habits and tough economic conditions led to their liquidation. Hop And Vine…
Read MoreEddyline Hoptimus Prime Fresh Hop WCIPA
Monday 7 April 2025Fresh hop season is well and truly upon us now, with a deluge of fresh releases landing day by day. It’s been less a case of hunting them out and…
Read MoreHazzy Hunter vs Browns Bay Brewing Co
Monday 7 April 2025Andrew Ranum joined Deep Creek in 2016 as their General Manager. When the brewery sold the brewpub in Browns Bay, Andrew left his GM role and became a part-owner and…
Read MoreMac Hops Celebrates 125 Years Growing Hops
Friday 4 April 2025Mac Hops in Motueka celebrated 125 years of growing hops with a bumper harvest, but it was also a harvest that summed up the tough nature of hop-growing — both…
Read MoreThe Beer Project — Mount Brewing
Wednesday 2 April 2025Paweł Lewandowski, head brewer at Mount Brewing, isn’t supposed to be here. He was travelling around the world with a plan to spend a little bit of time brewing in…
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Features
Mac Hops Celebrates 125 Years Growing Hops
Friday 4 April 2025Mac Hops in Motueka celebrated 125 years of growing hops with a bumper harvest, but it was also a harvest that summed up the tough nature of hop-growing — both…
Read MoreAussie 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 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…
Read MoreHomebrewing — 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 MoreRecommended
Eddyline Hoptimus Prime Fresh Hop WCIPA
Monday 7 April 2025Fresh hop season is well and truly upon us now, with a deluge of fresh releases landing day by day. It’s been less a case of hunting them out and…
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 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 MoreNews
First-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 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 MoreSalt 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…
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Opinion
Fresh Hops — A Cheeky Guide
Friday 21 March 2025Having written about fresh hops for around 15 years I sometimes wonder if there’s anything new to say — but after talking to American hop professor Tom Shellhammer recently, I…
Read MoreInstagratification: 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 MoreTravel
Coromandel — One Door Closes, Another Opens
Monday 31 March 2025When we began brewing at the Coromandel Brewing Company, “craft beer” was barely on anyone’s radar. The most common response when offering new customers a craft beer was, “craft what?”. Fast…
Read MoreMr Good Bar — Liberty Beers & Burgers
Monday 31 March 2025What sweeter thing to do on a sunny Auckland Saturday, I thought, than hit the road northwest for a bite and a beer in a town called Helen. Just 50…
Read MoreMr 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…
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