Just What Is a Standard Drink, Anyway?
Earlier this year in Pursuit of Hoppiness, I said that moderation was going to be the theme of my beer writing in 2018. I (safely) assumed that most who were […]
Brew Hui Podcast, Episode 8: The Flatmates
Episode 8 may have been a long time coming – sorry, there – but it sure-as-shit was worth the wait. The birth of this episode actually began with a rumour: […]
A More Moderate Me
My first foray into beer writing was for a little blog-project-thing called The Beer Money Blog. It was back in 2013, and I was a budding beer nerd who had […]
A Love Letter For My Local
When I was a kid, one of the few grown-up TV shows that my Mum and Dad let me watch was Cheers. The piano trill that signified the start of […]
Broad Swords and Beer Awards
It’s nearly two weeks since the biggest night in New Zealand’s beer calendar: the Brewers Guild of New Zealand Awards. It was a huge night for indy darlings Garage Project, […]
A Horribly Long (and Probably Wrong) Article About Beer Quality
Last week, New Zealand’s doyen of beer journalism Geoff Griggs penned a piece on the state of beer quality in New Zealand. With the deliciously-bloody title ‘There’s too much faulted […]
Wrong Thing, Wrong Reasons
The greatest beer writer that ever lived – Michael Jackson (Not That One) – was nearly-always positive in his writing. In 1987, he penned a piece defending the art of […]
