The annual New World Beer & Cider Awards were decided recently, with a new twist: the awarding of a supreme
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Don’t be afraid of the dark
We’re heading into winter and that’s the traditional time to pull out stouts and porters If you’ve not wrapped your
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Are Partners that go way back into Human History. Before humans settled into agriculture life, with the specific purpose of
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After a pandemic-forced hiatus in 2020, the New Zealand Beer Awards returned at the end of 2021 and I’m calling
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Once upon a time there used to be a clear division of beer – lager and ale. Within each camp
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IPA. It’s the one beer descriptor that causes the most misunderstanding. If I had a dollar for every time someone
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With so many new breweries and beers coming on to the market it’s often hard to know what to buy
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Beer: A Bit More than Speights these Days Gidday. I’m Michael Donaldson and I’m living the dream … I write
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