Ask any lover of beer and, once you’ve got past the furtive grin, he or she (OK he, if there was a grin) will tell you a growler is a large bottle for filling and refilling with beer, usually at the local bottle shop. Very soon, if our friends at IPONZ have anything to do [...]

Radlermass (translated: “cyclist’s litre”;”mass” is an old Bavarian word for “litre”) is a mixed beer-based drink with a long history in German-speaking regions.

Ben Cain discusses the use of descriptive or generic terms as trade marks in New Zealand in light of the recent “radler” decision from IPONZ