Hop Federation Brewery – Nelson Mail 31.01.18
I have been known to enjoy a beer or two in my time and craft beers have become firm favourites, you will always find a few in our fridge and I will almost guarantee a bottle or two from Hop…
I have been known to enjoy a beer or two in my time and craft beers have become firm favourites, you will always find a few in our fridge and I will almost guarantee a bottle or two from Hop…
Christmas means different things to different people but I think we can all agree on one thing – Christmas is a time to celebrate and reflect with friends and family; it is also a time for giving and receiving, be…
I first crossed paths with Martin Townshend long before he started brewing beer, we shared column space in the Nelson Mail some 16 years ago, he wrote a beer column one week and I wrote a wine column the other.…
After 50 plus years of spinning spanners, owning a retail shop and brewing beer Dick Tout has decided it is time to make a last brew and retire; and that means only one thing – it is party time at…
SOBA is a delightful acronym for an organisation that worships great beer – the Society Of Beer Advocates is an organisation that promotes not only great beer but outstanding hospitality venues and moderate beer consumption. Local Co-organiser for SOBA in…
We are now into the middle of Nelson Beer Week with the exciting flavours of MarchFest just a few days away and the men responsible for MarchFest are starting to get a little nervous as the biggest day on the…
A little building that was formerly a church in Collingwood Street became a pub in 2009 and has very quickly gained a reputation as one of the very best in the country. It had its genesis in quarterly beer fetes…
March is beer month, well Nelson has got a beer week, Marchfest and the New Zealand Beer Awards coming up, so I will spend some time this month finding out about, and writing about, some of the businesses and people…