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Hop Flakes — Kiwi Invention Set To Revolutionise Hops

Friday 9 May 2025

Hop flakes — a revolutionary breakthrough in hops processing — is being driven out of hop…

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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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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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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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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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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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Green, Fruity, Dank … Tom Shellhammer On Hops

Tuesday 4 March 2025

For a hop scientist, a months-long summer holiday coinciding with the annual hop harvest in New…

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Homebrewing — Dry Vs Liquid Yeast

Monday 3 March 2025

One of the great things about home brewing is the new avenues of exploration and opportunities…

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Fresh Alibi — Meet The New Brewer

Monday 20 January 2025

Jody Thomas has a beer CV that could fill this website from back to front but…

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Zero Cider Helps Peckham’s Go From Strength to Strength

Wednesday 8 January 2025

One of the best new drinks to enter the market this year is a) not a…

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Sawmill — A Cut Above

Thursday 5 December 2024

To use a golf analogy, Sawmill Brewing are “sneaky long”. It’s a term used for golfers,…

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Organic Hops Poised For A Bright Future

Wednesday 13 November 2024

As the European Union sets ambitious targets for organic production, two New Zealand hop farms are…

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