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My Life In 5 Beers — Jason BathgateMonday 21 September 2026

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Winter (Ales) Is Coming …

Thursday 24 April 2025

After a three-year hiatus, Wellington’s favourite little beer festival is back! Winter Ales Festival began in…

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Distributor Hop And Vine Explains Liquidation

Friday 11 April 2025

Prominent Christchurch-based distributor Hop And Vine says the loss of three potential new customers combined with…

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Eddyline Hoptimus Prime Fresh Hop WCIPA

Monday 7 April 2025

Fresh hop season is well and truly upon us now, with a deluge of fresh releases…

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Features

Hazzy Hunter vs Andrew Ranum

Monday 7 April 2025

Andrew Ranum joined Deep Creek in 2016 as their General Manager. When the brewery sold the…

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Features

Mac Hops Celebrates 125 Years Growing Hops

Friday 4 April 2025

Mac Hops in Motueka celebrated 125 years of growing hops with a bumper harvest, but it…

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Features

The Beer Project — Mount Brewing

Wednesday 2 April 2025

Paweł Lewandowski, head brewer at Mount Brewing, isn’t supposed to be here. He was travelling around…

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Coromandel — One Door Closes, Another Opens

Monday 31 March 2025

When we began brewing at the Coromandel Brewing Company, “craft beer” was barely on anyone’s radar.…

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Mr Good Bar — Liberty Beers & Burgers

Monday 31 March 2025

What sweeter thing to do on a sunny Auckland Saturday, I thought, than hit the road…

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Features

A photographer, a bass player and a businessman walk into a bar… 

Monday 31 March 2025

… And the rest is history for the quaint Arrowtown Brewing Co. The brewery was founded…

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Opinion

Fresh Hops — A Cheeky Guide

Friday 21 March 2025

Having written about fresh hops for around 15 years I sometimes wonder if there’s anything new…

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Features

Aussie Pirate Washes Ashore in NZ

Friday 14 March 2025

Former Aussie “pirate” Jared Proudfoot is now a Kiwi landlubber. Proudfoot, known as Red, co-founded the…

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First-Timers Win 2025 Rare Beer Challenge

Friday 14 March 2025

New Plymouth’s Shining Peak Brewery were crowned — or capped, as it were — the winners…

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