Media Release Home Brewing celebrated at Beervana 2012 Entries open for Black Rock Home Brew Competition Beervana and Black Rock announced today the inaugural Black Rock Home Brew Competition to be held at Beervana 2012. The Competition is a chance for aspiring brewers to have their brews judged by Black Rock Master Brewer Kirsten Taylor,… Read more →
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Beervana 2012 on sale 1 June
Tickets for Beervana 2012 will go on sale on 1 June with a range of exciting new ticket options for beer and food lovers. Now in its 11th year, Beervana will take place at Westpac Stadium on 17 and 18 August (two sessions daily) as part of Visa Wellington on a Plate. The event will… Read more →
Moa: Back from extinction
Nick O takes a look at a well-resourced brewery that has created a name for its controversy-inspiring marketing and asks whether that’s a good or bad thing for the growing craft beer industry…
Wellington in a Pint
We’re a pretty sceptical bunch here at Australian Brews News and when I saw that NZ advertising agency Clemenger was behind a project top create the beer that best describes Wellington, I could see cynical marketing ploy written all over it. But as with most good conspiracy theories, our scepticism didn’t bear up to much… Read more →
Nano Nogne O Collab launched tomorrow
I’m not sure at what point an enthusiastic homebrewer becomes a pico-brewer or a nano-brewer – or whatever you want to call ultra small brewers – but if you have Kjetil Jikiun turning up to brew with you, I guess you can call it whatever you want. We’d normally not share news about ultra-exclusive one-bar… Read more →
Hashigo names NZ's best beers
Without a national day in January to announce its selections on, Wellington’s Hashigo Zake has announced its customer’s choices for best beers of 2011. To have your say on Australia’s best beers, make sure you vote in the Local Taphouse Hottest 100. Media Release Hashigo Zake Reveals 2011’s Best Beers and Brewers New Plymouth’s Liberty… Read more →
Beervana 2012 dates announced
Beervana is one of the best major beer festivals that I have been to, nicely balancing all of the competing elements of a good beer festival in one enjoyable, beer-centric package. After running it as his own baby for the first time last year, David Cryer has even more planned for this year and it… Read more →
Brewing legend to visit New Zealand
This month Wellington’s Hashigo Zake has the pleasure of hosting a legend of the worldwide explosion in craft beer on a whirlwind tour of New Zealand. Kjetil Jikiun is the founder and head brewer of the Nøgne Ø brewery in Grimstad, Norway. In its short history Nøgne Ø has become celebrated in the world of… Read more →
Red tape cut to release Red Zone Enigma
Press Release: Twisted Hop Christchurch craft beer institution The Twisted Hop are pleased to announce the limited release of their seasonal Enigma Barley Wine for 2011. This release is all the more remarkable given that the Twisted Hop remains behind a military guarded cordon, in Christchurch’s Red Zone seven months on from the February 22nd… Read more →
Logan Brown points to a happy, but distant, future
Few things demonstrate to me how of much of a red-headed stepchild beer is in the gastronomic world than the miserable level of knowledge about, and appreciation for, it within the hospitality trade. Before we can truthfully start to use the description ‘revolution’ to describe the better beer movement, the time must come when restaurateurs… Read more →