Posts Tagged: New Zealand
Not Beer: Swapping NZ Kids For Kiwi Soda Pop
Posted by on Saturday, October 20, 2012 in - leave a comment
Being a strawberry blond with a lapsed red beard as well as young Santa Claus tendencies, by nature I am not inclined to find this ad from a New Zealand ginger beer manufacturer's marketing campaign. Here is a bit of the initial press release: • ...children are a blessing, but it’s fair to say … read more »
Totally Different To Drinking In The Garage At Your Home
Posted by on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 in - leave a comment
I don't think I have ever seen the basic economics of running a bar actually hit a newspaper as a story. But here it is in New Zealand: • Wages, insurance, rent, rates, taxes, repairs and maintenance, cleaners, fixtures and fittings, heat, light and power, telephone, entertainment and security …
Must I Ask A Kiwi What A "Rigger" Is?
Posted by on Thursday, June 16, 2011 in - 8 comments
I enjoy the language of beer. Wort. Bung. Mash Tun. But I really like the local words for quantities or container sizes of beer. Like "rigger" which I saw for the first time today in this oddly detailed article: • It took a little adjusting for us to appreciate the plastic soda bottle-type …
What Price Principle When Talking Beer Styles?
Posted by on Sunday, September 5, 2010 in - 3 comments
This is almost the opposite side of the coin compared to the minor Black Bitter dispute in the US. In the case of Black IPA or whatever it will end up being called, people have plenty of pet names and hope they might even have a style to match them up with. Conversely, beer fans in New Zealand are …
