Drink Better Beer

In a calculated move to assist the craft beer movement amongst my mates, I hosted a beer tasting last weekend. Growing up with these boys and girls, they’ve always been a pretty hardy lot when it comes to alcohol retention and big beer consumers (though I refuse to divulge what beer in particular is...

Fill your boots… or maybe just your bottles

The twitter network works! Last Thursday I found out on twitter that the latest addition to Auckland’s craft beer scene had finally opened. The place I’m talking about is Hopscotch Beer Company. Hopscotch has recently obtained their license to sell alcohol and are now selling a great range of beer on fill-your-own taps. I...

On the first day of Xmas…

… one of my favourite brewers gave to me an absolutely fantastic bottle of beer. That brewer being Epic and the beer being the new Epicurean Coffee & Fig Imperial Oatmeal Stout. I had been following this beer rather closely from the moment I heard about it. Coffee, figs and then coconut; all these...