Summer Beer Fest

IAN ALLEN - The Marlborough Express

"People enjoying beer from a glass and not attacking each other; the shock," joked Renaissance head brewer Andy Deuchars yesterday at the Summer Beer Fest.

Forget champagne; what a beer!

GEOFF GRIGGS - The Marlborough Express

I guess my mother-in-law must have finally forgiven me for marrying her daughter, because for my birthday last July she bought me a $50 bottle of beer. I was mightily impressed I can tell you. And very grateful.

Wanaka Beerworks' surprising seasonals

GEOFF GRIGGS - The Marlborough Express

It wasn't so long ago that Wanaka Beerworks was in a bit of a backwater. I don't mean geographically – although the attractive Central Otago lakeside town isn't exactly on the main road to anywhere – but more in terms of its beers and where the business was heading.

DAB golden lager great quencher

GEOFF GRIGGS - The Marlborough Express

Now that the warmer weather seems to have finally arrived, it's a good time for me to write about one of my favourite thirst-quenching golden lagers.