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 […]

Let It Rain Beer

Last night I sat down and drank a glass of my very own home-brewed IPA (India Pale Ale). It was­n’t my finest work (I’d rate it alongside/just under Tui in palata­bil­i­ty) but it was mine, I made it and I enjoyed mak­ing it. I’ve made bet­ter beer. In fact I’ve even made one that I thought […]

To be Pacific, it’s Beer Expo time again!

Get­ting to try lots of beer in a nice warm space that’s not a con­crete tun­nel sounds like a bloody good idea, which is why I’m look­ing for­ward to the Pacif­ic Beer Expo which will be on Sun­day Octo­ber 27 at the St James The­atre. In typ­i­cal fash­ion for organ­is­er Dom from Hashigo Zake, he […]

TAWA5 Best Event

There’s always some­thing to do in this town we love, but these are the pick of the crop, and are cir­cled in red on our cal­en­dars. We’re count­ing the sleeps until next year’s events!