Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular hunt for volunteers The Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular (GABS) is back for 2013 and is looking for 500 volunteers available for sessions on Friday 24, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May. GABS particularly needs volunteers with Responsible Service of Alcohol certificates to serve beer. In return for volunteering, each GABS volunteer [...]
The Brewers Guild of New Zealand is pleased to announce the theme for this year’s 2013 Festive Brew: Let’s go…. 3 Outta 4…. (ain’t bad) With a gentle nod to the Reinheitsgebot, the aim of this year’s Festive Brew is to raise the consumers’ awareness to the individual, specific ingredients in beer. Brewers are [...]
Time for another update on the goings on with the SOBA committee! – The entire committee met last week in Wellington for an intensive strategic planning weekend. We’re very happy with what came out of it, and you can expect an email going into more detail on what was discussed and decided over the two [...]
What has the SOBA Committee been up to? Here we will post monthly updates about the goings on in the SOBA Committee so you know what we’re up to. We’re back in action after a holiday break in December. The committee has been busy during the month of January with policy develpment, some changing roles and [...]
Bin 44 are celebrating the 7s with Wellington craft beers.
The Costanzo Brewing School are holding two courses in brewing later this year in Wellington and Auckland – a comprehensive four day Masterbrew Brewing Course in grain brewing and a one day Essentials Brewing Course for those that find it challenging to make time for their brewing pursuits. Both courses concentrate on what it takes [...]
What has the SOBA Committee been up to? We will endeavour to post monthly updates about the goings on in the SOBA Committee so you know what we’re doing. Here’s a brief summary of the meeting: 12th November 2012 The Committee has written and distributed a press release expressing SOBA’s view on the recent Emersons sale. [...]
SOBA member Andrew Cherry has taken the leap into the growing ranks of contract brewers. His new label, <geek>, starts off with his 2009 SOBA National Homebrew Competition Champion Beer winning Coconut Porter – with the promise of more to come. Look out for <geek>Coconut Porter at your local craft beer stockists soon, with kegs available from [...]
A bit of info from our BRO Glen Armstrong about an upcoming tour he’s running to check out the blooming US craft beer scene: “Craft Beer Tours – Experience craft beer where its created: US Pacific Northwest Imagine meeting the brewer, getting a feel for what it is that drives their passion, and tasting their [...]
“It is business as usual for Emerson’s – the taste, integrity to style, quality and consistency of our beers will remain the same,” brewery founder Richard Emerson said in a statement.
Lightning Labs start-up company My Buy are interested in finding out how you get new beer information. They would appreciate 5 minutes of your time to complete a short survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RFWHFVG.
Fresh wort is available in ready to ferment 23L packs from Mangrove Jacks. Currently available is an American IPA style brewed at Deep Creek Brewing.
Walking the urban jungle that is Wellington’s Terrace, I slip in to Gather Café & Bar. It seems fitting that the owner of this comfortable tree I’ve decided to spend my evening in, is named Balu.
In May this year, during the long twilight of a sunny spring evening at the edge of Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Horticultural Society Garden, a few dozen of the world’s luckiest diners assembled outside the restaurant known as Mielcke & Hurtigkarl.
Kevin Buckley writes from Melbourne – Was drinking, and eating, over in a trendy part of Melbourne (yes, there are some) last night and, in one of the obviously “trendier” bars found that, as well as a massive range of beer, many of which were recognisable from Hashigo Zake, (eg Baird) and/or were NZ craft [...]
