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Wigram Mustang Pale Ale
Wednesday 12 November 2025Christchurch’s Wigram Brewery recently hosted an event to pay tribute to the late Paul Cooper, one…
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Wednesday 12 November 2025From Christchurch City’s Two Thumb Brewing Company, S.M.A.S.H (single malt and single hop) is the first…
Read MoreFarewell To A Brewing Legend — Paul ‘Coops’ Cooper
Thursday 30 October 2025Before the internet, before Google, YouTube and AI, and before craft beer became a global movement,…
Read MoreBrothers Beer Mad Science #2 IPA
Wednesday 29 October 2025Mt Eden’s Brothers Beer invites us to taste the future with Mad Science #2 — a…
Read MoreCompetition Watchdog Blocks Kegstar’s Acquisition of Konvoy
Friday 24 October 2025The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has blocked MicroStar’s proposed acquisition of keg lending rival…
Read MoreBoneface Brewing Deadlift Double IPA
Wednesday 22 October 2025I’ve said it before, but if you want to precision test a brewery then ask for…
Read MoreThief Brewing Frog Wallop IPA
Wednesday 22 October 2025Thief Brewing continues to prove that there’s IPA in them thar hills of Banks Peninsula, adding…
Read MoreDouble Vision x Baan Bangkok Thunder Struck Triple IPA
Wednesday 22 October 2025The method by which I pick a beer to feature here every week is extremely loose,…
Read MoreBehemoth Chur-Toberfest 2025
Wednesday 22 October 2025Every year more of our local craft brewers don the lederhosen and kick out a kiwi…
Read MoreNew Zealand’s Most Awarded Beers
Tuesday 14 October 2025It was Stay Gold that started this … the Brave Brewing XPA that won a trophy…
Read MoreSlow Walk Through Paradise — Visiting Every Brewery in NZ
Friday 10 October 2025There’s something about beer that’s always been part of my story. From the early days of…
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