While the title of this blog – Hops: “The key to the present and the future of New Zealand craft beer” – sounds like something I would totally say, it is actually a quote

This week included one of the most significant holidays on my calendar – Super Bowl Monday. 

As I have done for many years, I worked through Labour Day in order to subsequently take Bowl Day off.

This week’s blog will skip the customary Clarksonesque introduction to focus on the multitude of beers from Rogue Ales currently available at Malthouse. That decision is partly because beer blogs – even mine – should at least from time to time talk about actual beers

Fear not. After a surprisingly extended summer break, the Malthouse Blog now returns to its regular weekly schedule.

Christmas trees are popping up all over, tinsel sales are through the roof and every store seems to have Snoopy’s Freaking Christmas on endless loop.

I have written in the past about my “abiding suspicion that Colin the Handsome Yet Softly Spoken Scottish Proprietor makes me do columns about cider every year or so just to mess with me.”