August 5 and 6 should be dates seared on the retinas of every serious New Zealand beer fan and indeed top of mind for anyone looking to learn more about quality brews.

Starting at 1:30pm on Thursday 14 July 2011, three wise men sat in the Malthouse lounge, carefully swirling and sipping anonymous ales, scribing prodigious yet hard to decipher notes, protecting their professional palates by sipping water or nibbling on white bread. 

The civic leaders of Palmerston North have announced they are officially tired of being the butt of everyone’s jokes

In his new role as a budding beer historian, Luke Nicholas described the early years of the Malthouse West Coast IPA Challenge as “two of New Zealand’s brewing titans battling for supremacy." 

I had drunk several bottles of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in New Zealand over the years but only truly tasted it for the first time at a baseball game.

In the beer world, the term ‘cooper’ can have several meanings.  Most commonly it means a person skilled in making barrels but Pat Lawlor’s 1965 Froth Blowers Manual states it was also a drink which was a mixture of stout and porter.