The Australian International Beer Awards results for 2012 have begun to trickle in: Congratulations to Croucher Brewing for winning Best Pilsner with Croucher Pilsner, and to Garage Project for winning Best Specialty with Summer Sommer. Full results, including medals, will … Continue reading
Cigar City Brewing in Tampa Florida is making a special beer for a community radio station fund raiser/festival on May 12. It is an American Wheat, and features New Zealand’s own Kohatu hops, a new variety with limited supplies. Here … Continue reading
Joseph Wood is mad about beer. He brews it, he sells the ingredients online, he tweets about it, he chats about it on realbeer.co.nz, and he drinks it as though he were collecting the experiences. Continue reading
Luke Nicholas of Epic Brewing can’t get enough hops. Literally. American aroma hops are all the rage in the craft brewing scene, and key varieties tend to be scarce. The good news is that Hop Union, the US hop collective, … Continue reading
Our natural bias is to think of Marchfest as a beer festival. To be fair to ourselves, it has called itself a “hip harvest hop festival.” One would be forgiven this year, however, for missing the beer connection altogether. The … Continue reading