I looked at the calendar the other day and was shocked to see that it's almost St Patrick's Day.

There's a lot more choice when it comes to quenching your beer thirst these days.

It never ceases to amaze me how much better beer is becoming in New Zealand.

Tavern owner tells MPs change is needed to stop price-cutting

The more breweries I visit the more I realise just how good New Zealand beers have become over the years.

Don is the editor of Thirst magazine.

There is a school of thought that says that low-alcohol and light beer isn't really beer at all and, in all honesty, I would tend to subscribe to that view, more often than not.

When alcohol industry reps unleash their charm offensives on the corridors of power there is one office they dodge, that of Jim Anderton.

Many years ago I was sitting with a friend at a pub in Ireland when an American tourist came in and began studying the menu. He approached the bar and asked the barmaid for "a quicky".

As you may have noticed, the daylight hours are lengthening and there are rumours spring is upon us.

It's a bitter blow as Cantabrians toiling to clean up after Saturday's quake now face a potential shortage of Canterbury Draught beer.

I had a wonderful experience recently when I attended a tasting of Hallertau's beers at a rather salubrious Mt Eden hostelry.

DB Breweries has cautioned a small Tauranga church over a sign it says is similar to its Tui "Yeah Right" billboards.

It's a magic brew, says Joelle Thomson.

A new German beer, which incorporates the potentially derogatory name of an Austrian town, has just been given full European Union approval.