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Cerveja é boa

by Hadyn April 29, 2013

The educated palates of Craft Beer College professors Steph and Jonny, will be hosting a tasting of New Zealand craft beers at Newtown’s Brazilian bar, Bebemos, this Saturday. The tasting will take participant through some of the best beers New Zealand breweries have to offer.  They will learn about the history of the beer style, and [...]

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Another craft beer bar for Wellington

by Joanna April 14, 2013

Opening this Friday is another craft beer bar called Golding’s Free Dive, at 14 Leeds Street. That’s right by Pizza Pomodoro, for those of you playing along at home, and they’ll be making full use of their location. Golding’s Free Dive conveniently shares the courtyard with Pomodoro Pizza, which is just as well as Pomodoro will [...]

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La nouvelle bière houblon verte est arrivé!

by Alan April 10, 2013

Today is the first day of Hopstock, a celebration of the Nelson Hop harvest. In what seems just a little bit like some craft beer version of the Beaujolais Nouveau madness, for a very short time twelve bars around town will be showcasing eight new beers brewed with fresh (rather than the usual dried) hops. This [...]

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Official Wellingtonista Unofficial Webstock Wednesday Warmup time again!

by Joanna January 23, 2013

It’s that special time again! For the fourth year in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Webstock conference. Once again,  we’ll be at the Fork and Brewer, upstairs in Bond Street, from 5.30pm on Wednesday February 13. Spot us by our Webstock satchels,  Instagramming [...]

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The city chocolate fix

by Joanna November 1, 2012

Hurray, another guest post from Heather at Foodie Gems of Wellie Where to go in the city for a quality chocolate fix between usual excuses – chocolate festivals, Valentines, Easter, Xmas, national chocolate day, your birthday, your best friend’s birthday, White Day in Japan, Chocolate Dipped Fruit and Fondue day in the US (hmmm, any [...]

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Five will enter, none shall leave

by Hadyn October 29, 2012

Beer is the new coffee in Wellington. Not really, but as generalisations go it’s a fairly good one. What this means is endless discussions about styles, flavours and which beer is the best (all requiring a lot of sampling). So it was no surprise when an argument on twitter started over which New Zealand brewery [...]

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Putting them away with John Key: We attend an Event at Tuatara’s new brewery

by Mr Goulter October 11, 2012

It’s 9:50am and the glitterati of Paraparaumu are itching to get they drank on. Outside the brand-new Tuatara Brrry (or Brewery, as it’s known on paper), they huddle under the awning to escape a rain that never falls, hugging the outer wall of the benighted edifice — hoping, perhaps, to osmose their way to double-vision. [...]

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Beer what you want to beer

by Herbertimo August 17, 2012

It’s Choice Beer Week here in Wellington and last night The Sutton Group Brewers Guild of New Zealand Awards took place at the Michael Fowler Centre. Harrington’s Breweries of Christchurch took out the top honours and were named Champion Brewery in New Zealand for 2012. Wellington, being the self-claimed and now generally accepted Craft Beer [...]

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Beer pong is a course requirement

by Hadyn July 10, 2012

It can take an educated palate these day to make your way around beer in these parts. The proliferation of craft beer bars means that at some point you’re probably going to be taken to one and then asked: What do you want to drink? At this point it will pay to know your ales [...]

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Wellington in a Pint (or four)

by The Masked Barfly March 16, 2012

“Would you like to come and drink free beer?” the message asked. What does a self-respecting barfly say to that? ‘No’? And so the Fly found itself buzzing around the advertising types at the Fork & Brewer last night for the launch of Clemenger’s new Wellington in a Pint campaign. Advertising types are not the [...]

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