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Festival check: Dunedin Craft Beer and Food FestivalFriday 14 November 2025

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Haiku Beer Vol 5

Thursday 18 August 2022

A round up of poetry in haiku form dedicated to beer.

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A beer with your best friend

Wednesday 17 August 2022

A beer with your best mate is always great fun. But what if your best friend…

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A Mixed Six with Badass beverages

Tuesday 16 August 2022

We’re going a bit meta on this one. Regular readers will know that Dave Pearce of…

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Yeastie Boys Lazy Slam Hazy Pale Ale

Tuesday 16 August 2022

Yeastie Boys are back and the first beer of their four available that caught my eye…

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Opinion

Style Corner: Grisette The Little Grey One

Tuesday 16 August 2022

Grisette (meaning ‘little grey one’), emerged in the Hainaut province of Belgium during the 18th century,…

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Diary of a Hop Farmer: Surviving winter

Tuesday 16 August 2022

In the second part of his Diary of a Hop Farmer, Josh Lewis details how life…

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News

Monkfish New venture for Hargreaves

Tuesday 16 August 2022

If you’re a craft beer fan in Wellington there's a high chance you’ve been handed a…

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Opinion

What not to say at a beer festival

Monday 15 August 2022

So you're going to a beer festival and are worried about saying the wrong thing. Don't…

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Brothers Beer Welcome to Cryoville IPA

Monday 15 August 2022

The can art of Brothers Beer Welcome to Cryoville, a Cryo Hop Hazy IPA, is giving…

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Features

Instagratification: Dusty’s Picks August 2022

Sunday 14 August 2022

Instagrammer Dusty trains his lens on a selection of different IPAs, from cold, to red, to…

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Trans-Tasman Blind Date Beers

Sunday 14 August 2022

Like any good business idea, the concept of a Tinder-style hook-up of trans-Tasman brewers for a…

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Isthmus Figaro Imperial Stout

Sunday 14 August 2022

Isthmus Brewing’s Figaro, a fig and chocolate imperial stout (9% ABV) is intensely dark in colour,…

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