Tag / New Zealand

  • 22 July 2014 - Best Beer HQ

    Beer and breweries in New Zealand

    In spite of its reputation as a world-class purveyor of wine, New Zealand is in actual fact largely a nation of beer lovers. Beer accounts for more than 60% of total alcohol sales and, at around 75.5 litres of beer consumed per person per year, New Zealand ranks 21st in the world in terms of […]

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  • New Zealand craft brewers Yeastie Boys have announced the release of a series of “wine beers” made in collaboration with Australian wine makers Some Young Punks. In what’s described by the Wellington-based brewery as a world first, the new “Spoonbender” series of craft beers use botrytis viognier in an innovative brewing process that sees wine […]

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  • 12 June 2014 - Best Beer HQ

    Dunedin Craft Beer Expo 2014

    Tickets are now available for the Dunedin Craft Beer Expo at the Dunedin Train Station on 20 September 2014. The Dunedin Craft Beer Expo – not to be confused with the Dunedin Craft Beer and Food Festival, which is set to take place in October – celebrates the best beer from Otago and the rest of […]

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  • The Dunedin Craft Beer and Food Festival is currently taking applications of interest from breweries and food vendors for 2014. Featuring fine food as well as the best beer from around New Zealand, the craft beer and food festival is set to take place at Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium on 4 October 2014. More than […]

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  • New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has officially reopened the Speight’s Brewery in Dunedin following a $40m upgrade project. The country’s second largest brewery has been refurbished to cope with demand in the wake of the deadly Christchurch earthquakes of 2011 which, along with untold damage and loss of life, caused the city’s Canterbury Brewery […]

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