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. 

The challenge of American Pale Ales

The world has always loved a great battle - David taking out Goliath, the armies of Rome battling the Vandals, the Royal Air Force defeating the Luftwaffe, Ali versus Frazier, George W Bush against the English language…

You can, technically, put pretty much anything into beer if you really want to.