A brand new BrewDay
A new BrewDay is coming to Wellington. BrewDay is a keystone event in the Wellington’s annual beer festival calendar, and for the past two years it was held at Brewtown, the craft beer village in Upper Hutt. Before that it was hosted in Martinborough and Trentham....
Liberty’s Triple Treat in New World Awards
Liberty Brewing scored a triple treat of three hoppy beers in Top-30 at this year’s New World Beer & Cider Awards, with Oh Brother Pale Ale, Knife Party IPA and Citra Double IPA. It's an impressive performance for the Helensville brewery, which still retains the...
Huge year for fresh hop
New Zealand Hops Ltd has gone full noise on green hops this season, getting more of the precious bullet-shaped goodies to more brewers than ever before.
The Miracle of Southland’s Holy Hops
Growing hops in Southland might sound like a wee miracle but Michael Donaldson discovers the region is perfect for them.
A Dunner Stunner in the 09
Auckland, finally, you did it – you made a downtown beer festival that rocked. Actually, that should read Dunedin, you did it … That’s because the brains behind Dunedin’s superb annual beer festival brought some southern smarts, and a few cheese rolls, to the big...
A taster or a waster time?
Tasters at your local bar are a good way to decide if you want to invest your hard-earned cash on a new beer, but one publican has stopped offering them. Here’s why.
Hop Aboard The Nectaron train
New Zealand Hops Ltd are making a concerted push into North America on the back of the in-demand Nectaron. Last year the co-operative hired Meagen Anderson as business development manager in North America, her appointment coinciding with the release of Nectaron and a...
Lockdown love for Craft beer
Preface: A slightly different version of this article appeared in the print version of Pursuit of Hoppiness (out now), using the previous round of data from Stats NZ with the 12-month period from Oct 2019-Sept 2020. As your humble correspondent learned the hard way,...
Epic Brings LA Experience To Taproom
Luke Nicholas will celebrate his 50th birthday in style with the opening of the long-awaited Epic taproom in their Onehunga, Auckland, warehouse tonight. Reaching his half-century means Nicholas has spent half his life working in beer … and it probably felt like it...
End of An Era At Fork & Brewer
After six years at Fork & Brewer, multi award-winning brewer Kelly Ryan is leaving to join Boneface Brewing in Upper Hutt
