On Friday night, sixteen Kiwi craft breweries presented their unique interpretations of a hoppy American ale in the 7th Annual Malthouse West Coast IPA Challenge.

It is now just mere days until the 7th Annual Malthouse West Coast IPA Challenge. An event which began with two brewers boasting about their American beers over a few pints has grown and evolved to become the biggest feature on the Malthouse beer calendar.

With less than a week until what Colin the Handsome yet Softly Spoken Scottish Proprietor calls the “Battle of the Hops”, what I call “The Onslaught at the Oasthouse” and what normal people call

In recent months, this blog has developed a bit of a horror movie theme with posts filled with terrifying monsters such as vampires, beer giraffes and brown ales. All right, maybe there were a couple of rants about vampires and Twilight. [1] This week however we turn to zombies – the forgotten middle child of monsters, forever stuck between the cool, sporty older vampire and the fuzzy, cute little werewolf.

I was inordinately proud of describing 8 Wired Big Smoke as like “pashing a heavenly ashtray” in last week’s blog.

Depending on who you believe, Planet Earth was created 4.54 billion years ago (according to Scientists), 4 quadrillion years ago (according to Scientologists) or in 4004 BC, probably on a