In five days, it will be March – the month which historically signalled the start of the Roman year and which officially marks the start of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. 

One of the many negative effects of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was a noticeable reduction in the number of Belgian beers reaching the shores of New Zealand. 

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.