The carnage in the New Zealand craft beer industry continues, with Deep Creek going into liquidation....
Epic Brewing, one of the most influential brands in the craft beer boom of the 21st century, is in liquidation....
New Zealand’s largest hop grower is investing millions of dollars in a new hop processing plant that will dwarf existing facilities. Clayton Hops, which has four farms in the Tasman region, is buildin...
How do you create a new beer style? Brew something different, give it a catchy name, hope it catches on… oh, and make sure it’s an IPA. Like most re-imaginations of IPA this century, it should also be...
When Great Kiwi Beer Festival (GKBF) director Callam Mitchell abandoned the Hamilton event in May, citing “unrealistic conditions” placed on its liquor licence, the reaction from beer fans was shock a...
Yeastie Boys are selling a 12.5 per cent stake in the business to UK drinks distributor KBE Drinks. KBE Drinks is a sales, marketing and distribution company that was set up 15 years ago primarily to ...
The brewery at the centre of a storm over racism, Eagle Brewing and Port & Eagle Brewpub, is now Five Peaks Brew Co. The brewery and pub, based in Kaiapoi, north of Christchurch, was forced to reb...
Deep Creek Brewing have handed back the trophy they won for Champion Large International Brewery at last week’s Australian International Beer Awards after discovering they accidentally entered the wro...
Liberty Brewing has landed three hoppy beers in Top-30 at this year’s New World Beer & Cider Awards. The result couldn’t have come at a better time after the brewery suffered a setback when ...
Major New Zealand craft brands Liberty and 8 Wired have been hit by the shock news their distributor Quench Collective has gone into liquidation. Owned by Hawke’s Bay winery Sacred Hill, Quench owes u...
New Moa brewery owner Stephen Smith says “only time will tell” if the $1.9 million he paid for one of New Zealand’s biggest craft brands was foolhardy or genius. Smith’s family-owned company Mallbeca ...
Garage Project has entered the seltzer market with a gluten-free, sorghum-based product that co-founder Pete Gillespie describes as a coming together of various trends in craft brewing. They are first...