Ginger beer is a fabulous drink isn't it? It's a soft-drink with attitude. Something with a personality and some kick.

As much as I love Auckland, there is something great about heading off to Wellington.

I find myself in the strange position, at the moment, of feeling vaguely homesick for a place that isn't really my home.

It had been a while since I'd tried any Renaissance beers, until I was prompted to do so by the results of a recent brewing competition in Australia.

Tracie Cone visits Mexico's tequila heartland and finds some historic distilling techniques still in play.

Many successful brewers started off making a few gallons in their back yards, writes Don Kavanagh.

The Christchurch earthquake is the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to small tragedies.

Whenever I walk into this pub I'm reminded that all the great bars I've ever drunk in didn't rest their reputations on looking flashy.

Fads and fashions have affected many different drinks over the years, but few have been as hard-hit by changing tastes as brandy.

It's always good to drink in a place with a little bit of history around it.

Most of the tall tales told over a chilled glass are no more than romantic fancies. By Don Kavanagh.

We're not worthy I'd better get Galbraith's out of the way early.

Mandatory closing times is not necessarily the answer to society's drinking problems, says Don Kavanagh.

I had an interesting morning recently, one of those days you think is going to be dishwater-dull, but turns into something much more exciting.

This meticulously renovated 1876 pub attracts the crowds - some arriving by boat to tie up at the jetty.

There is something simultaneously endearing and depressing about the Speights Southern Man schtick.

The World Cup is more about the after-match function says Don Kavanagh.

I have a friend, you'll be surprised to hear, who likes a drink.

Now that the weather has packed in, it's time to think of indoor pursuits rather than simply lazing the day away in the garden or at the beach.

Liqueurs are the sort of thing that tend to hang about in the back of the cupboard forever.