Brave Brewing — The Eye Of The Tiger | Pursuit of Hoppiness
Just days before Brave Brewing won the Champion Brewery crown at the New Zealand Beer Awards, founder-brewer Matt Smith was wondering aloud about “imposter| Pursuit of Hoppiness
Garage Project are opening two new venues in Wellington, including taking over the Fortune Favours taproom in Leeds Street. Fortune Favours closed its doors for the last time on Sunday but the venue will continue as a craft beer destination, with Garage Project moving quickly to take over the space. A day after announcing they […]| Pursuit of Hoppiness
The 2025 New World Beer & Cider Awards have been announced. Here’s the list of the Top 25 winners which will be available in New World stores over the next month. Champion Beer Isthmus 3D IPA Isthmus Brewing is the Auckland creation of husband and wife team Hamish Ward and Caroline Muller-Ward. Hamish was the […]| Pursuit of Hoppiness
Isthmus Brewing in Auckland have taken top spot at the annual New World Beer & Cider Awards with their 3D IPA. The awards, in their 10th year, feature some major changes with the Top 30 reduced to a Top 25, making it an ultra-competitive event. And this year, there’s a new category known as Weird […]| Pursuit of Hoppiness
The congoing conflict in the Red Sea is driving an unusual beer hook-up, with Garage Project brewing and distributing beer into Asia on behalf of Danish craft giant Mikkeller. Yemen’s Houthi organisation, in reprisal for Israel’s attacks on Gaza, are firing missiles at Israel-linked merchant and commercial vessels in the Gulf of Aden and southern […]| Pursuit of Hoppiness
Just days before Brave Brewing won the Champion Brewery crown at the New Zealand Beer Awards, founder-brewer Matt Smith was wondering aloud about “imposter| Pursuit of Hoppiness
Brave Brewing and their cult IPA, Tigermilk, roared the loudest at last night’s New Zealand Beer Awards in Christchurch. Brave Brewing, from Hastings, won a swag of trophies — with the most important being the title of overall Champion New Zealand Brewery. Moments earlier they claimed the Champion Small Brewery title as well as three […]| Pursuit of Hoppiness
Guinness 0.0 — the hard-to-get non-alcoholic version of Guinness — will become more widely available in New Zealand from later this year. Lion is the official brewing and distribution partner of Guinness in New Zealand but has not been able to get its hands on a reliably consistent amount of the popular beer, leaving it […]| Pursuit of Hoppiness
Tiny Wellington brewery Mean Doses captured the 18th annual Malthouse West Coast IPA Challenge with their “no gimmicks” entry, The Scale of Mean. Mean Doses took out the coveted Golden Gumboots (gold spray paint, barely dried, as per tradition) last week — a big first for the little 600L inner city Wellington brewery — and […]| Pursuit of Hoppiness
In May 2024, I booked a one-way ticket to Spain for the following March. The challenge was to spend 34 days walking 800km along a 1000-year-old| Pursuit of Hoppiness
Concerns about a shortage of kegs in New Zealand have been averted after Kegstar concluded negotiations to purchase their financially-stricken rival Konvoy Kegs. The two companies controlled the keg rental market in New Zealand and Australia until Konvoy went into receivership earlier this year. Kegstar, which is owned by global business Microstar, still needs to […]| Pursuit of Hoppiness
What follows is an updated version of the list of how many brewing brands (Updated July 11, 2025).| Pursuit of Hoppiness
Over the past year I’ve learned that there are still lots of these curious beer drinkers out there looking for the wild, weird, and wonderful side of| Pursuit of Hoppiness
Bringing you news, features and updates on the craft beer culture of New Zealand. Read the only craft beer magazine in NZ from Hoppiness.| Pursuit of Hoppiness
Epic Brewing, one of the most influential brands in the craft beer boom of the 21st century, is in liquidation.| Pursuit of Hoppiness
For a few days in June, Dylan Adams thought he was cursed.| Pursuit of Hoppiness
How do you feel about ordering shapes or adjectives? What am I talking about? Ordering a tap beer. In New Zealand, there is little to no transparency on| Pursuit of Hoppiness
