It’s ten o’clock in the morning and I’m sitting on a horse saddle but that is not even the interesting part of the story. 

Wikipedia, the much maligned website so beloved of students writing last-minute essays and bar staff trying to settle pointless arguments between their customers, has this to say about the humble Tuatara:

The hospitality trade in New Zealand probably began about five seconds after the first settlement was established. 

One side-effect of being a professional beer writer with an on-going commitment to extensive research is that it can be very hard to find new products.

A toast to great beer

There is something about the brewing and hospitality industries which just seems to attract people with big personalities.

Let’s talk about beer

Liquor aficionado Frank Kelly Rich once penned a thoughtful piece on why beer appreciation (or “beer snobbery” as he called it) was superior in virtually every way to wine snobbery.