Nelson craft brewery Townshend Brewery was named New Zealand’s best brewery at the 2014 Brewers’ Guild of New Zealand Beer Awards. The one-man craft beer operation beat out 670 other beers from 84 different breweries around New Zealand. Founder and brewer Martin Townshend commented: “Being named New Zealand’s Champion Brewery is a massive accolade. It […]
“Great beer just got better with new Beer Days beer boxes!” So says the press release put out by Beer Days, a new craft beer delivery service in Australia that promises to deliver the best craft beers directly to your front door. Beer boxes from Beer Days feature the very best, hard-to-find and limited release […]
Is this the best invitation to a beer festival ever? American craft beer brewery Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is sending out invitations to its Beer Camp Across America festival, attached to 24-ounce bottles of its latest release – West Coast Double IPA. Beer Camp Across America is billed by the Californian brewery as an “unprecedented […]
What’s going on, Australia? The country that gave the world Foster’s (thanks a lot for that, by the way) is drinking less beer than at any time in the last 69 years. Australians drank on average 4.04 litres of beer per person during the 2013-14 financial year – the lowest rate since the end of […]
Russian River Brewing Company’s Pliny the Elder is the best commercial beer in America, according to American Homebrewers Association (AHA) journal Zymurgy. For the sixth year in a row, Pliny the Elder came out on top of the magazine’s poll, which asks the AHA’s more than 43,000 hombrewers to vote for up to 20 of […]