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Clean and green - New Zealand malt
01/03/2008
Despite being a country in one of the far flung regions of the globe, New Zealand’s clean green environment image is well known to many people around the world. The region’s brewers, acutely aware of consumer trends and increasing demand for premium beers, also recognise this fact and source a proportion of their malt requirements from the only malting company in the country - ADM Malting New Zealand
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Beer judging down under - The Australian International Beer Awards
By: Roger Putman
01/04/2008
Spare a thought for 42 judges who gurgled their way through 1078 entries in 51 categories at this year’s Australian International Beer Awards. Judging took place at the University of Ballarat and later at the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria’s Melbourne Showground.
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Countless international awards ... and a unique fermentation system at DB Breweries
By: Margaret Coe, Hayley Bloore
01/04/2008
The Waitemata Brewery Co, founded by W Joseph Coutts and his three sons, began production in 1929. A crowd of one hundred prohibitionists and members of the Women’s Temperance Union knelt outside and prayed that the building be turned into a flour mill, a woollen mill, a dairy factory or a church. Fortunately, their prayers were not answered.
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Celebrating 50 years in Fiji - A look at Foster’s Group Pacific
01/04/2008
2007 was a very important year for Foster’s Group Pacific Ltd as the company celebrated the 50th year of operations in Fiji. The company was registered on 23 August 1957 by Carpenters (Fiji) Limited and soon after Carlton and United Breweries was invited to join as a partner (30%) to form Carlton Brewery Fiji Ltd. Brewing operations commenced at Walu Bay in Suva where the brewery continues to operate today.
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My kinda beer…
By: Roger Putman
01/04/2008
After the MBAA conference last year I called into Chicago twice on my journey to see the IBD President at Miller in Milwaukee. On the way there I visited the Goose Island Brewpub to see the Siebel Institute and on the way back it was the turn of the full-scale Goose Island plant on Fulton Street. Chicago is a city of three million souls, America’s third largest, yet Goose Island is its oldest brewery being founded in 1988 and its biggest at just over 100,000hl. I guess we should not be surprised at this for after Fullers, the Meantime micro is probably London’s No. 2!
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Making whisky in Albany
By: Tony Browne
01/04/2008
If somebody had said to me in the mid-1990s that I would be out in South Western Australia, about as far away as you can get from Northern Scotland (without bumping into a Southern penguin) distilling malt and grape spirit, I would have referred them to a good ‘shrink’. But here it is – 2008, and by a riotous, sometimes not always pleasant, set of circumstances, I am doing just that.
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Thar she blows! We visit Harpoon, New England’s largest brewer
By: Roger Putman
01/04/2008
Boston’s waterfront is regenerating. Old fish processing plants are giving way to business parks and restaurants but meanwhile fish gutters and truck drivers continue to rub shoulders, perhaps uneasily, with city suits. On Northern Avenue just a stone’s throw from Boston Beer’s brand new corporate HQ is Harpoon, a brewery which correctly badges itself the largest in New England as Boston only brews a tiny proportion of its beers in town these days.
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Hosts to the nation - A brief history of Lion Breweries
01/04/2008
There is a long and proud history of brewing in the Newmarket area of Auckland where Lion Breweries operates today. A publican and selftaught brewer by the name of Thomas Hancock started brewing in sheds behind the Captain Cook Inn on Khyber Pass Road in 1859.
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New World ‘Hops with a Difference’ - The story of New Zealand Hops
By: Doug Donelan
01/04/2008
The term ‘new world’ is often given to products such as wine as an explanatory note as to why it might taste totally different when produced outside its usual domicile. The reference is generally not used to suggest better or worse, only different and the term has become accepted with a fair degree of unilateral marketing savvy! However at the time when the new world was the new world, the growers used to old world crops were at a loss to explain the differences.
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Microbrewing in New Zealand and Australia: A historical appraisal
By: Brett Stubbs
01/04/2008
At the beginning of the 1980s, the brewing industry in New Zealand was dominated by two firms, operating eleven breweries. They were Dominion Breweries Ltd (established in 1930) and Lion Breweries (formerly New Zealand Breweries, created by merger in 1923).