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.…
Soap may seem like an unusual subject for a column called Taste of Nelson and soap certainly isn’t something I would recommend eating but at Global Soap in Nile Street East they use local food products in their soaps so…
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…
The McCashin brewing story started way back in about 1980, a time beer making and selling was totally dominated by two corporate brewers, Lion and DB, and the concept of boutique craft beers hadn’t even begun to ferment. When we…