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Supreme Champion named at New World Awards
For the first time the New World Beer & Cider Awards has named a Supreme Champion: and it’s a classic
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New World Awards Top 30 tasting notes
Tasting notes for the winners in the Top-30, plus judges comments from the 2022 New World Beer & Cider Awards.
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Light beers that punch above their weight
What are the best tasting beers under 2.5 per cent? The Pursuit of Hoppiness team put light beers to the taste test.
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Diary of a Hop Farmer
In the first of a new series, hop farmer Josh Lewis takes us through the life cycle on a hop farm, starting with the aftermath of the harvest.
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Altitude Brewing Fresh Tracks
Altitude Brewing are using the same base but hopping their beer with Nelson Sauvin hops grown in two different parts of the South Island.
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Baltic Porter: a beer born of a blockade
Did you know Baltic Porter is actually a lager not an ale. And that it was born of Napoleon’s British blockade?
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New non-alcohol craft brand launched
State of Play is the first New Zealand brewery brand to be totally focused producing on non-alcoholic beer.
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Shining Peak Gung Ho! IPA
Shining Peak Gung Ho! Fresh Hop IPA sits firmly at the top of ‘Crafty’ Mark Gower’s fresh hop ratings for 2022.
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Low Carb Lowdown
It’s one of the fastest growing segments in the beer market so we review the best low carb craft beers on the market.
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Brewer’s personal drive for low carb beer
Scott Sharp-Heward, quality manager and technical brewer at Sawmill in Matakana, wants to make a low carb beer after learning he had developed Type 1 diabetes, possibly as a result of Covid-19.
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Canyon Brewing harvest their own grain
Canyon Brewing are also experimenting with growing their own grain as a part of a push to become carbon neutral. Vera Alves reports.
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Baylands Waifly 8 Fresh Hop IPA
Now in its eighth iteration, Baylands Waifly is a proven fresh hop classic and this year’s is one of the best
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Cold IPA a refreshing alternative
Much of what we enjoy about beer today stems from innovative brewers’ hard work: creating...
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Alex Peckham A Cider Artist
Alex Peckham, who died on April 12, 2022, was a cider artist who changed the nature of the industry in New Zealand. Dylan Jauslin looks back on his legacy.
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Brew it: Hallertau NZ IPA Recipe
The runner-up at the Smith’s NZ IPA Challenge last year from Hallertau was pilsner-clear and had a...
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Parrotdog Bruce Hazy IPA
Parrotdog Bruce is everything you can hope for — nice upfront peach and tropical fruit flavours with a neat, dry finish.
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Hopstock celebrates 10th year
This week, Wellington’s annual fresh hop festival, Hopstock, is marking its 10th anniversary. Denise Garland looks back on decade of fresh hop beers.
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Excise tax hike opposed
The Brewers Guild and Brewers Association are together lobbying government to offer some excise...
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The spirit of spontaneity
Spontaneously-fermented beers, or wild ales, are making a comeback. Luke Owen Smith visits some of the Kiwi brewers working with mother nature.
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Good George Cold IPA
For lager drinkers it could be way too hoppy, for IPA lovers it might be too light-bodied. But I’m starting to get Cold IPA.
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Beer Haikus Vol 3
Clown Shoes Pineapple Space Cake It’s bitter and bold I dreamt of flying through space With some...
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Alasdair Cassels: farewell to a force of nature
Alasdair Cassels, who died last week of prostate cancer, was quite the force of nature. ...
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Brothers Beer Modern Love West Coast IPA
Brothers Beer Modern Love IPA is one of the best showcases of focused citrus purity we’ve encountered this year.
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Hop Federation Green Limousine Fresh Hop IPA
Each fresh hop season you cannot go wrong with Hop Federation Green Limousine IPA, says Tim Newman.
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Froth yeast turns Bookbinder into trophy winner
One of the highlights of the Brewers Guild Awards last year was Emerson’s Bookbinder taking out...
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A Mixed Six with Jesse Sigurdsson of Shining Peak
In this series we ask brewers to talk about three of their own beers and three beers they love...
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Bach Brewing Freebird Hazy IPA
“Crafty” Mark Gower says Bach Brewing Freebird is the one of the best examples of a East Coast Hazy IPA he’s tasted.
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Brave Brewing make foray into fresh hops
Matt Smith of Brave Brewing is usually way too busy to make a fresh hop beer but thanks to the Omicron outbreak, he found time to source some fresh Nectaron
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Boneface Lithium American Pilsner
Boneface Lithium American Pilsner is intriguing and satisfyingly full-on evolution of the NZ pilsner style.
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No Can Do: How’s the quality of your beer?
Karl Hayes asks if the quality of craft beer dropped since the proliferation of canned beer on our supermarket and off-license shelves.
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Features
Baltic Porter: a beer born of a blockade
Did you know Baltic Porter is actually a lager not an ale. And that it was born of Napoleon's British blockade?
News
Supreme Champion named at New World Awards
For the first time the New World Beer & Cider Awards has named a Supreme Champion: and it's a classic
Travel
A cat, a caravan and classic beer at Emporium
The new Emporium bar is somewhere between festival taproom and shearing shed, constructed with recycled materials including the wide doors that open the building right up onto the nearby farmland.
Opinion
Light beers that punch above their weight
What are the best tasting beers under 2.5 per cent? The Pursuit of Hoppiness team put light beers to the taste test.
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Shortjaw: beer for Westport first
Luke Robertson explains why he went from writing about beer in Melbourne to buying a brewery in his old home town of Westport.
Capital dairy November 2021 – The Return of Beerhunting
Given the challenges of in-house drinking at alert level 2, much of my November was spent tracking...
Capital Diary December — Festive Bevvies
December beer drinking kicked off with the Summerstock festival where 31 Wellington venues each...
