Only in New Zealand can a humble beer journalist email politicians and aspiring politicians, ask them to name their favourite beers and get a 99% reply rate. 

Only in New Zealand can a humble beer journalist email politicians and aspiring politicians, ask them to name their favourite beers and get a 99% reply rate.

Stephen Plowman, “a self admitted beer guru”, may be the first brewer in New Zealand to use the word “epicurean” correctly in context to describe his hospitality philosophy. 

It has been called “Aberdeenshire’s mega micro-brewery” and “a beacon of non-conformity in an increasingly monotone corporate desert.”  It is BrewDog – one of Scotland’s largest independent breweries and certainly one of the most irreverent. 

July 18 2008 – a day that will live forever in the opposite of infamy. 

That date was the first International Brewers Day and was marked around the world by small groups of beer aficionados in various cerevisaphilic ways.

Whatcha gonna do, brother, when the hoppiest beers in the country run wild on you?

The Second Annual West Coast IPA Challenge: Battle of Champions has rightly been likened to a huge title bout