I sometimes get asked why I am involved in a brewery venture at Waikanae. At a certain level I would think it pretty self evident why I would like to build a business in this corner of the world. Waikanae...

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...

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...

Hoppy Wheat , the very words cut an oxymoronic path through how we expect wheat beers to be. Usually fruity, spicy and tart, wheat beers seldom require much in the way of balancing hop bitterness instead relying on the inherent...

We currently are in the calm before the storm. Summer in Waikanae is busy, really busy. The population swells with a chunk of Wellington’s population migrating up the coast to holiday. This will be the first summer high season that...

It started as a simple idea. Two restaurateurs and a beer specialist sat down over a beer and decided that Waikanae would be the perfect place to open a new brewery. Several years later and we are now a brewing...