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Twisted Adventure
Next week we will travel down to Christchurch to brew a special collaboration brew with The Twisted Hop. We are going to brew a special version of our Amber to honour the outgoing, beer loving British High Commissioner Vicki Treadell...
New Frontiers
This brewing lark is getting busy. There doesn’t seem to be a week that goes by without me brewing a batch of beer or running a North End event. This Monday will see me in the brewery again brewing batch...
From the pages of History
The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. “I perceive this to be Old Burton,” he remarked approvingly. “Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things...
Fortieth Parallel
Next week we will be brewing a beer to celebrate the 2014 hop harvest. While lots of brewers have produced green hopped beers with green unkilned hops we have opted to celebrate the harvest by using freshly kilned new season...
Roll out the Barrel
I love cask conditioned ale. The traditional ales of the United Kingdom are best served lightly carbonated and at cellar temperature, not flat and room temperature as Todd will tell you as he serves you our ESB ! Traditionally beer...
Cane Sugar, Purity and Bar Room Myths
There are those in the realm of brewing who would have you believe that the use of cane sugar equates to cheap substandard beer. This idea stems for several sources. Firstly German brewing culture is dominated by an ancient resource...
A Place at the Bar
I make beer for drinking. At face value that seems like a ridiculous statement, surely all brewers make beer to be drunk. And of course they do. But what I mean is that for our core range I have tried...
Summer of Saison
This year the Greater Wellington Brewday Festival in Martinborough has come up with the festive brew theme of Summer of Saison. If the wine world can have Summer of Riesling then we can have Summer of Saison. So the Wellington...
“Drink beer, eat, make love, and celebrate the good days”
The above is a paraphrasing of an ancient Egyptian creed. Beer and food have gone together for a very long time. It’s only in relatively recent history that beer has been separated from the wider world of food. Beer’s roots...
Confessions of a Control Freak
Contract brewing is an interesting phenomenon. In New Zealand contract brewing, where brewers use other peoples breweries to produce their beers, has become an important part of the craft beer section of the market. From an industry point of view...