Underdogs, outsiders and plenty of surprises at NZ beer awards
It was a watershed edition of the Brewers Guild Awards in 2021, with small players like Alibi and Burkes Brewing coming up golden, while Garage Project, McLeod’s, Altitude and Three Sisters also triumphed.
Label design award entries open
After a successful launch last year the GABS Label Design Awards are back and bigger, with cash prizes for winning designers. Here at Pursuit of Hoppiness, we are rapt to support this event and help with the judging, and also publish the award-winning labels. Last...
Eddyline’s new cubes offer 4 by 440 solution
In a world where packaging formats change as rapidly as hop combos in a hazy IPA, Nelson’s Eddyline have come to the market with a potentially game-changing 4x440ml “cube”. As craft beer moves ever faster away from the one-time benchmark 500ml bottles, we’ve seen huge...
Sprig + Fern rebrand to keep up with pace of change
Sprig + Fern’s latest rebrand is the second in four years but as owner Tracy Banner explains it’s needed to keep pace with industry change
Show stopper hop
New Zealand Hops Ltd is celebrating a successful first appearance at the biggest craft beer gathering in North America. NZ Hops took a stand at the annual Craft Brewers Conference, held this year in Denver, with the focus on their still-new Nectaron release for which...
Festivals get flexible as they adjust to Covid
The current Covid-19 response is forcing beer festivals to be flexible as they pray that the country will return to alert level 1 and events can go ahead. This week the Otago University Students Association (OUSA) pushed back the hugely popular Dunedin Craft Beer and...
Cassels APA wins World Beer Awards trophy
Christchurch brewery Cassels has continued its success at the annual World Beer Awards, taking out the trophy for the best America-style pale with their APA. The success with the APA comes after they won the best Milk Stout two years running, with the Milk Stout also...
Beer Engine: Brewing for the future
Beer Engine is one of New Zealand’s latest start-up breweries, setting up in Titahi Bay where Stephen Gallagher visits them.
Urbanaut Moon Hopper IPA celebrates Rocket Lab IPO
Urbanaut Brewing is celebrating Rocket Lab's upcoming launch on the US stock market next week by brewing a beer in conjunction with digital brokerage Stake. Moon Hopper, is dubbed an IPO IPA, is a hazy IPA made with peaches to reflect the fact that golden peaches were...
A Crystal Clear Idea of IPA
Urbanaut Brewing have created what they believe is a world-first a perfectly clear IPA. They’ve called it Crystal IPA and it’s part of their Beervana IPA mixed-six pack.
