Industry News

Farra Stainless: Proud Sponsor of BrewNZ for 5 Years.

Shaken but not stirred seems to sum up the Christchurch brewing community after Saturdays 7.1 scale earth quake.
 

Tired of suffering (and I do mean suffering) pint after pint of non-descript, cold, sweet, fizzy beer I decided to do something about it.

Massey University, in conjunction with the University of Ballarat, will be hosting a brewing short course to be held in New Zealand.  The dates for 2010 have been set for August the 26^th<

This was New Zealand's first international collaborative brew.

It's such an awesome feeling sitting in the audience as so many of my favourite Kiwi breweries are nominated and awarded medals at an international event.  Talk about feeling patriotic. 

Foster's Group has announced formal plans to pursue a demerger of its beer and wine divisions.

Ron Trigg doesn't need to be told the demand for "craft beers" is on the rise - he already knows.

"It is definitely starting to take off," the Zimbabwean-born brewer says.

Award-winning Dunedin brewery Emerson's has installed two new fermentation tanks worth about $100,000 which will increase weekly capacity by up to 60%.

On Friday we had a late lunch in the Barrowboy and Banker in Borough, a Fuller's pub that has done a very good conversion of an old bank building, similar to one we visited in Birmingham last year.