17th Sep 2024
The Best Fest!
By Greig McGill It’s that time of year when we all wish we were in Munich, and so it seemed like a good time to talk about the most well-known festival in the world, the beer styles it has spawned,…
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18th Aug 2024
It Tastes So Cold!
By Greig McGill Back in the mists of time, a long-running and fun podcast called Craft Beer Radio (now CBR and a lot more casual) wrote a parody sketch (warning, some humour hasn’t aged well, but…
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24th Jun 2024
The Future? You’re Standing In It!
By Greig McGill Beer and brewing is a funny old world. Everything old is constantly new again, as we rediscover old beer styles, brewing methods, and even semi-forgotten scientific knowledge (hop-cr…
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21st May 2024
A Good Session
By Greig McGill I have always “blamed” the late, great Michael Jackson (the beer writer, not the one with the glove and the predilection for… controversy) for the origin of the term “session beer”.…
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7th May 2024
The New Zealand Pilsner Beer Style
Craft beer and brewing enthusiasts around the world are always looking for unique and refreshing brews, and one style that continues to get a lot of attention is our very own New Zealand Pilsner (N…
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9th Apr 2024
Caught on the Hop
By Greig McGill Americans, eh? They really can drive innovation, can’t they? In the relatively short space of 35ish years, the world has moved from mocking beer from the USA with the famous “making…
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12th Mar 2024
Beer Competitions 101
By Greig McGill As I mentioned in my last article, one of the benefits of starting or joining a brewing club is holding beer competitions. These are about so much more than just winning. They are an…
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29th Feb 2024
Home brewing advice your mates should have shared with you sooner
Check You Are Pitching Enough Yeast Use an online tool to check how much yeast you need to use. You’ll be surprised, it’s probably more than you think. Under-pitching yeast will create yeast stress…
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11th Feb 2024
Join The Club
By Greig McGill I was listening to a podcast while cleaning in the brewery the other day, and a question from a New Zealand listener came in asking about, or rather bemoaning the lack of, homebrew…
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16th Jan 2024
State of the Home Brew Nation 2023 Survey Results
The results from the annual State of the Home Brew Nation Survey 2023 are now out. Download the full report here - State of the Home Brew Nation 2023…
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27th Nov 2023
Dry Hoppery
By Greig McGill Dry hopping. There’s so much talk about it, and it’s practically de rigueur these days for any hoppy style of beer to be at least dry hopped once, with double dry hopping, and even…
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23rd Oct 2023
The Biggest Ingredient - Part Two
By Greig McGill So ya wanna adjust some water, eh kiddo? Well lemme tell you… no seriously, here’s my design process for my brewing liquor - the fancy professional term we almost never use in the br…
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