Drink beer, support the arts with Garage Project Ghost Light beer

Wel­ling­ton based inde­pend­ent brew­ery Gar­age Pro­ject has released a new beer to sup­port NZ theatres and live per­form­ing arts. Work­ing in con­junc­tion with Wellington’s BATS Theatre, Auckland’s Base­ment Theatre, Christchurch’s Little Andromeda and oth­er inde­pend­ent theatres around the coun­try, the Ghost Light beer has been designed to ref­er­ence a tra­di­tion in the arts, and be […]

Don’t feed dogs chocolate – put it in beer instead

Guest post by Krystle, thanks Krystle! Cof­fee, chocol­ate, and beer…these are a few of Wel­ling­to­ni­ans’ favor­ite things – and thanks to a col­lab, you can now drink a fusion of all three. Loc­al legends Black Dog Brew­ery and Wel­ling­ton Chocol­ate Fact­ory have teamed up to pro­duce the Bean Me Up Mocha Stout. You may be […]

My predictions for Wellington on a Plate 2018

Tomor­row is my favour­ite launch of the year – the Wel­ling­ton on a Plate pro­gramme. In advance, and without hav­ing looked at their web­site, here’s what I think it will include (or not) so we can look tomor­row and see if I was right or wrong. There’s always a trend­ing meat (wow is that a […]

Chasing the Black Dog with beer

Last night we went to the open­ing of the new Black Dog brew­ery on Cuba Street, and, spoil­er alert, it was bloody delight­ful. All pics were sup­plied by the pub­li­cist because if you fol­low us on Twit­ter, you’ll know I can­’t pho­to­graph for shit. A con­fes­sion: I had nev­er been to the old Black Dog […]

WOAP ’16: a burger, a stew and a beer

The mad rush of eat­ing con­tin­ues, so without any fur­ther ado, let’s get into it. The Steak­hold­er at Portlander You know by now how we feel about the Portlander, so of course this was going to be on my wish­list. “Medi­um rare rib eye with Scotty’s Meats double smoked bacon, fried egg, onions, melted Te […]

The Hour/Week of Beer is Upon Us

Beer­vana kicks off on Fri­day with four ses­sions over two days and there’s a LOT of beer related activ­it­ies on before then. The Road to Beer­vana began on Sunday and there are events tak­ing place in bars all over the city and even fur­ther afield in Auck­land and Christ­ch­urch. I’m not going to attempt to tell […]

What to do in Wellington with a motorhome

This post is sponsored by Wil­der­ness Motorhomes We love telling people what to do. Espe­cially telling people what to do in Wel­ling­ton. That’s why we exist. So when we were offered this sponsored post we were happy to take up the chal­lenge of what to do in Wel­ling­ton if you’re an out-of-town­er vis­it­ing in a […]

Their wings have not been clipped…

Last week I encour­aged Wel­ling­to­ni­ans to get out and sup­port the Phoenix as we attempt to #SaveTh­eNix Plenty of people turned up to the sta­di­um to sup­port the team, 13,654 in fact! That’s over double what the Phoenix have had at their last few home games! So: THANK YOU! It was a fant­ast­ic even­ing of foot­ball […]

The Wellington Phoenix are trying to avoid bursting into flames.

In Greek myth­o­logy, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that is cyc­lic­ally regen­er­ated or reborn, by arising from the ashes of its pre­de­cessor. In Wel­ling­ton the Phoenix are the foot­ball team that are cur­rently in a bit of poten­tial trouble. Accord­ing to some sources, a phoenix dies in a show of flames and com­bus­tion… one […]

Music to brew your beer to

Wel­ling­ton on a Plate is well known for its exquis­ite din­ing, incred­ible bur­gers and inter­est­ing events and this year San Fran are put­ting on a fant­ast­ic series. Music2Brew2 brings togeth­er three Wel­ling­ton brew­er­ies who have been brew­ing under the influ­ence. Inspired by three Wel­ling­ton bands Pan­head, Gar­age Pro­ject and Tuatara have all brewed a beer that […]