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Slow Walk Through Paradise — Visiting Every Brewery in NZ
Friday 10 October 2025There’s something about beer that’s always been part of my story. From the early days of sneaking sips of Lion Brown at my dad’s feet and walking around the house…
Read MoreFermented Culture — The Third Place
Thursday 9 October 2025Earlier this year a battle was fought in the leafy hills to the north of Wellington. A liquor license was being sought for what was once Dick Mead Motors and…
Read MoreThe Mighty Moutere Inn Celebrates 175 Years
Thursday 9 October 2025They started off no different to everyone else. Four blokes used to British and European choices find options in New Zealand limited. In 2008 good beer is being brewed but…
Read MoreKnocking On (Ben) Heaven’s Door
Wednesday 8 October 2025When Heaven’s Brewing burst onto the national stage with a Top 25 at the New World Beer & Cider Awards, it seemed like they’d come from nowhere. But I reckon…
Read More3D Puts Isthmus On The Map
Monday 6 October 2025For the husband-and-wife team behind Isthmus Brewing, winning champion beer at this year’s New World Beer & Cider Awards continues a nice upward trend following some “dark times”. Hamish Ward…
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Features
3D Puts Isthmus On The Map
Monday 6 October 2025For the husband-and-wife team behind Isthmus Brewing, winning champion beer at this year’s New World Beer & Cider Awards continues a nice upward trend following some “dark times”. Hamish Ward…
Read MoreChance Luck & Magic — And Hard Work
Friday 3 October 2025At Beervana, The Third Pint Theory was joined by Garage Project founder Pete Gillespie and Wild Workshop brewer Dave Bell for a Q&A session on Chance Luck & Magic 2021,…
Read MoreFermented Culture — Holy Mountain
Tuesday 23 September 2025Before the Kapiti Expressway opened, a drive north up State Highway One from Wellington would take you under a 14m statue of the Virgin Mother standing high on a foothill…
Read MoreBrave Brewing — The Eye Of The Tiger
Tuesday 5 August 2025Just days before Brave Brewing won the Champion Brewery crown at the New Zealand Beer Awards, founder-brewer Matt Smith was wondering aloud about “imposter syndrome”. Talking to the Third Pint…
Read MoreGuinness 0.0 Set for Wider Distribution in NZ
Friday 1 August 2025Guinness 0.0 — the hard-to-get non-alcoholic version of Guinness — will become more widely available in New Zealand from later this year. Lion is the official brewing and distribution partner…
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Boneface Blood & Bone Oaked Stout
Monday 6 October 2025Since their recent ownership shakeup, Brewtown’s (aka Upper Hutt’s) Boneface Brewery have been rolling out new releases with a relentless energy, such that I’ve had some samples piling up shamefully…
Read MoreLakeman Primate Pilsner
Monday 15 September 2025Awards season rolls on, with the New World Top 25 joining the scrum of medals just last week. On that incredibly hotly tested list (and not for the first time…
Read MoreBrothers Beer Limey B*Stard West Coast Pilsner
Thursday 24 July 2025Much as I may still suspiciously view the West Coast Pilsner style as the former (and I thought far more indicatively named) IPL style re-entering the market with a fake…
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Hop Federation Closing Down
Thursday 11 September 2025Motueka-based Hop Federation will cease brewing next month following a strategic review by owners Kono NZ LP. Kono general manager Marina Hirst Tristram says the decision wasn’t easy and reflects…
Read MoreGarage Project Take Over Fortune Favours
Wednesday 3 September 2025Garage Project are opening two new venues in Wellington, including taking over the Fortune Favours taproom in Leeds Street. Fortune Favours closed its doors for the last time on Sunday…
Read MoreNew World Beer & Cider Awards Winners
Monday 25 August 2025The 2025 New World Beer & Cider Awards have been announced. Here’s the list of the Top 25 winners which will be available in New World stores over the next…
Read MoreFriday Night Beers
Opinion
Fermented Culture — The Third Place
Thursday 9 October 2025Earlier this year a battle was fought in the leafy hills to the north of Wellington. A liquor license was being sought for what was once Dick Mead Motors and…
Read MoreInstagratification: Dusty’s Best Spring Beers
Friday 3 October 2025Photographer, beer-lover and Instagram influencer Dusty, picks his highlights from the latest releases from this winter.
Read MoreInstagratification: Dusty’s Best of the Winter releases 2025
Wednesday 23 July 2025Photographer, beer-lover and Instagram influencer Dusty, picks his highlights from the latest releases from this winter.
Read MoreTravel
The Mighty Moutere Inn Celebrates 175 Years
Thursday 9 October 2025They started off no different to everyone else. Four blokes used to British and European choices find options in New Zealand limited. In 2008 good beer is being brewed but…
Read MoreAles On The Camino Trail
Tuesday 29 July 2025I’ve been a beer guy forever. I love the taste, the industry and the social connection of sharing a beer. In the middle of Covid lockdown in Amsterdam in July…
Read MoreMr Good Bar — Two Thumb
Wednesday 9 July 2025Sniff in the right direction and Christchurch might smell a little more hopped up than it used to be. There’s more beer here than before, so much, in fact, that…
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