In an era where brewers feel compelled to double down on the DDH with a new hazy IPA every month, Auckland’s Liberty Brewing is happily bucking the trend. New Zealand’s champion medium-sized bre...
One of New Zealand’s leading brewers forecasts the “destruction” of bitter beers in the wake of the influential Malthouse West Coast IPA Challenge. The annual contest to find New Zealand’s best West C...
Behemoth Brewing‘s crowdfunded brewpub-restaurant has finally opened after a four month COVID-19 delay. The brewpub, named Churly’s for the Behemoth mascot, is located at the top of Auckland’s Dominio...
With a bold sideways step, NZ Hops has launched the highly-anticipated Nectaron, a hop they believe will take the brewing world by storm. The hop, previously known as Hort 4337, is described as “oozin...
Shaken by the emergence of independent farms, New Zealand’s largest hop supplier is rebranding and reasserting its market dominance. The co-operative, known as NZ Hops Ltd since 1993, will be known si...
The popular Hop Federation brewery has been sold to the Māori-owned food and drinks company Kono. The brewery, based in the hop-growing district of Riwaka, outside Nelson, was started in 2013 by brewe...
New Zealand’s fledgling Ale Trail is getting high profile exposure in the country’s biggest city thanks to a “whole of industry” support initiative. The New Zealand Brewers Guild launched the Ale Trai...
New Zealand’s Double Vision Brewing took a daring dive into politics with Juice Cinda, a Jacinda Ardern-themed beer and now, despite online haters and lost customers, the brewery is taking a double di...
Popular New Zealand brewery Funk Estate will live on after distributor Brandhouse rescued the brand as part of the liquidation process. The brewery went into liquidation in March. Brandhouse re...
Urbanaut Brewing’s “novelty” blender series of paired 250ml cans is fast becoming serious business with Australian supermarket Coles taking a large export order. The upstart Auckland brewery in the re...
A huge push to buy local in post-lockdown New Zealand is paying dividends for small breweries, but only if they’ve done the hard yards with customers first. The interest in local producers is exemplif...
Nimble thinking driven by the Covid-19 pandemic will remain vital for breweries as New Zealand comes out of lockdown and consider what they have learned from the experience. The Covid-19 lockdown mean...