Q&A: Beer Baroness / Ava Nakagawa
With a hot summer under way and the Great Kiwi Beer Festival fast approaching, we’ve got hops on our mind. What is it that makes beer so special? ...
craft beer
A brief history of brewing in Christchurch
A unique combination of geography and generosity shaped Christchurch into the craft beer mecca it is today. Ralph Bungard of Three Boys Brewery ...
#local brews
Christchurch is blessed with an abundance of local beer brewing expertise. Here are few of the most recent drops, and a pint of news, from some ...
How craft brewers can save the (beer) world
Celebrate the three most important ‘inns’ of craft beer in Ōtautahi: Invention, innovation, independence. Ralph Bungard explains. Hospitality and ...
Get ‘em fresh
The hop vine flowers only once a year, meaning brewers have only one chance to use them fresh in a brew before they get dried for storage. Ralph ...
Which craft?
Cityscape puts its beer goggles on and tracks down the best places to sample craft beers both local and from further afield. We’ve come a long ...
Sour the new sweet
Sour beers are the new thing this summer and perfect for a hot day, says Ralph Bungard of Three Boys Brewery. There are five basic flavours that ...
Q&A: Oscar McCauley - Brew Moon Brewing Company
Brew Moon Brewing Company pour 16 of their own beers on tap with fresh and funky seasonal brews that sit alongside delicious classic styles. ...
Q&A: Cameron Burgess - Southpaw Brewing Company
Master brewer Cameron Burgess is clued in on all things beer related and is one of the faces behind Southpaw Brewing Company. These guys know ...
Q&A: Dicky Fyfe - Kaiser Brew Garden
Dicky Fyfe is brewing Capitan of buzzing hospitality hotspot and the only micro-brewery in the inner-city, Kaiser Brew Garden. He fills us in on ...
Q&A: Chris Ruske - Canterbury Brewers Collective
Canterbury Brewers Collective is New Zealand’s smallest tavern and is located in the hip Riverside Market. They serve up some top-notch brews and ...
Beer to be different
Daring to be different is the mantra of the new league of craft brewers delivering us an ever-expanding offering of bodacious micro-breweries, ...
To the Moon
Brand new, and with an emphasis on some seriously good brews, Beckenham’s Moon Under Water takes its name from a 1946 essay by George Orwell on ...
Beer Pioneer
Cityscape caught up with the ‘Mother of New Zealand Brewing’ Tracy Banner, owner and head brewer at Sprig & Fern Brewery, on her 35 years in ...
Good Spirits
Cityscape catches up with Ghost Brewing’s Muz Moeller, the man behind the local badge haunting some of the city’s top brews, and mastermind for ...
