In 1994, award-winning beer writer Peter Haydon penned a book called “The English Pub: A History.” 

It is the Wellington Sevens * weekend – a surreal time of the year which serves to over-excite the party people, utterly petrify the uptight and positively delight the hospitality, taxi and costume hire industries. 

Death, taxes and chicken wings

On 20 January 2010, the Invercargill Brewery tipped one thousand two hundred litres of beer straight down the drain. 

Welcome to the first Malthouse blog of 2011.

December and January are traditionally the slowest news months of the year.  Journalists tend to join the rest of the country lounging at the beach or crowded around the barbeque. 

The recent announcement that Croucher Pale Ale is the Champion Beer in the 2010 Capital Times Beer Essentials Survey caps off a top year for the likeable chaps at Rotorua’s Croucher Brewing Company. 

The single most Epic Event this year

Christmas is fast approaching but the soundtrack is different this year.  Sure, supermarkets are still cranking up “Snoopy’s Christmas", Scott is still thrashing “The Best of Nashville 1956” playlist at Malthouse but there is another, even more sinister noise in the background.  It is the sound of a thousand air guitars, and it is getting louder every day.