Our Writers

Dusty

2 posts

Dusty hails from Taranaki an has been into craft beer close on a decade. He can…

Brett Atkinson

8 posts

During his work for Lonely Planet and other publishers, travel and food writer Brett Atkinson always…

Cameron Burgess

2 posts

Cameron Burgess has been head brewer and co-owner of Southpaw Brewing Company in Christchurch for four…

Colin Hogg

1 posts

Colin Hogg is a legendary figure of New Zealand media who has worked as a journalist…

Dave Pearce

10 posts

Dave Pearce’s day job is Purple Sneakers, a one-man marketing freelancing business. Before that he worked…

Denise Garland

24 posts

Denise Garland is a journalist and winner of the Brewers Guild Beer Media Award 2019. She…

Geoff Griggs

1 posts

Hadyn Green

1 posts

James Beeson

1 posts

Jamie O'Hare

3 posts

Jamie fell in love with the New Zealand craft brewing scene shortly after moving here from…

Jono Galuszka

4 posts

Jono Galuszka’s beer enlightenment involved jugs of Tūī at The Fitz in Palmerston North, bottles of…

Joshua Lee aka Hazzy_Hunter

10 posts

Joshua Lee, aka Hazzy_Hunter, loves a good hazy IPA. He reviews hazy and not so hazy…

Kathleen Kuehn

1 posts

Kathleen is a recovering academic with a PhD in Media and Communications, now working as an…

Mark Gower

36 posts

Mark Gower ‘aka Crafty Mark’ had his passion for beer ignited with selection to the New…

Matt Eats

21 posts

Matt Eats is the curator for online beer store and subscription service Beer Jerk. He's also…

Michael M

9 posts

Born in Germany Michael's two passions are football and beer. After growing up drinking Pils and…

Michael Donaldson

180 posts

Michael Donaldson is the publisher and editor of Pursuit of Hoppiness. He is also the chair…

Nathan Turner

1 posts

Neil McInnes

24 posts

Neil McInnes is one of the oldest of New Zealand’s first wave of craft beer writers.…

Neil Vowles

1 posts

Steph Coutts

1 posts

Steph runs CraftBeer College, a beer tasting and tour company in Wellington, New Zealand. When she…

Stephen Gallagher

11 posts

A Wellingtonian who spends most of his time talking about sport and beer. Enjoys a good…

Dylan Jauslin

6 posts

The Bottleneck is run by Dylan Jauslin. He's the manager of Golding’s Free Dive in Wellington.…

Tim Newman

140 posts

Tim Newman is a A Wine and Spirits Education Trust graduate who has been gradually fermenting…