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 […]

Saint Fabiola fabulousness

Last Fri­day we had a lovely time at the open­ing of St Fabiola on Lom­bard Street (you may have seen us tweet­ing about the pies from Pickle and Pie, because, you know, pri­or­it­ies), so this week, we caught up with the own­er Kirsten for a chat over email. What’s your back­ground before the shop? I’m an […]

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 […]

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 […]

Win a VIP double pass to the Wellington Wine and Food Festival

Wel­ling­ton is a city over­flow­ing with good res­taur­ants and fine drops to drink. It seems ridicu­lous that we haven’t had our own day-of-food-and-wine-and-oh-okay-fine-beer yet. Luck­ily, that’s about to change with the cun­ningly named Wel­ling­ton Food and Wine Fest­iv­al. The Fest­iv­al brings togeth­er the best of loc­al food, wine, bever­ages and res­taur­ants, out­doors on the water­front […]

Just spotted.…

Beer-[and Firetruck, Goose Shack and Tommy Millions]-a-licious… (for those without micro­scopes – food stalls, live music, beer and oth­er nice stuff at the Brew­ery on Vivi­an Street 12noon-8pm on Sat 6 Dec, Sat 31 Jan, Sat 21 Feb)

WOAP: Bitchinheat

When the amaz­ing people behind Wel­ling­ton on a Plate offer you tick­ets at the last minute to the very pop­u­lar and sold out col­lab­or­a­tion between La Boca Loca and Par­rot Dog  Brew­ery, you might be sur­prised at how hard it is to find someone to go along with you, because appar­ently there is a plague […]

Beer Belly Jellies

Anoth­er guest post from Heath­er at Food­ie Gems of Wel­ling­ton. We love guest posts.  For all you crafty beer fans out there, an innov­at­ive new product – Beer Belly Jel­lies. Inspired by a sim­il­ar product in Canada some years ago, Lindy McLen­nan has partnered with the Par­rot­Dog boys to hand craft these delights. So as […]

Another craft beer bar for Wellington

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 […]

La nouvelle bière houblon verte est arrivé!

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 […]