Our Writers

Dusty

19 posts

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

Ashley Cassin

1 posts

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…

Carla Bragagnini

2 posts

Carla Bragagnini is a Peruvian-Canadian freelance writer and storyteller, whose writing is driven by an appreciation…

Colin Hogg

4 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…

David Barrington

7 posts

David is a journalist who has been making his own beer since 2014 and runs a…

Denise Garland

29 posts

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

Edward Cavanagh

1 posts

Edward Cavanagh is a freelance wine writer and wine industry professional who occasionally calls Margaret River…

Geoff Griggs

1 posts

Hadyn Green

2 posts

James Beeson

1 posts

Jamie O'Hare

4 posts

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

Jed Soane

3 posts

Photographer Jed Soane conceived The Beer Project in July 2009, initially as a two-year project to…

Jessica Allen

4 posts

Originally from Australia, I first completed a Bachelor of Communications at Western Sydney University in 2016.…

JoAnne Carr

3 posts

JoAnne Carr is a fifth generation Wellingtonian by way of San Francisco. With a background in…

Jono Galuszka

4 posts

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

Josh Lewis (Diary of a Hop Farmer)

6 posts

I was born in Auckland, raised in Yorkshire, England and have been back home for since…

Joshua Lee aka Hazzy_Hunter

29 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…

Kieran Haslett-Moore

2 posts

From working as a postie to cheese mongering, beer retailing to running a brewery, Kieran has…

Mark Gower

40 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…

Matthew Curtis

2 posts

Matthew is an award-winning beer writer, podcaster and photographer, and co-founder of Pellicle Magazine. Based in…

Michael M

9 posts

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

Michael Donaldson

275 posts

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

Nathan Turner

1 posts

Neil McInnes

26 posts

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

Neil Vowles

1 posts

Steph Coutts

2 posts

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

Stephen Gallagher

15 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

221 posts

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

Will Ziebell

2 posts

Will Ziebell is an award-winning journalist at Australia's home of craft beer, The Crafty Pint. When…