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All sweetness and light
Liqueurs are the sort of thing that tend to hang about in the back of the cupboard forever.
Drinking out: Raise your glass
A good watering hole is never far away in Sydney. Here we pick some of our favourites.
<i>Nick Smith</i>: Beware the Puritans at the gate
Watch out: Once the killjoys have nailed all the smokers, drinkers will be next.
Banishing the ghosts of yesteryear
We've all got one. In each of our psyches there lies an awful memory indelibly associated with a drink. This memory has prevented us from ever going near that drink again and even the smell of it is enough to send us fleeing from the room.
A woman's work is never done
Brewing. It's a typically blokey thing: it involves a combination of light engineering and biochemistry, involves using tools and the end product is beer, so it's understandable it tends to be associated with men.
Large measures of small tragedies
Of all the small tragedies that followed the big one in Christchurch, perhaps one of the most keenly felt losses for the hospitality trade was the cancellation of Dramfest.
The great lost grape
I was at a tasting recently when someone stood to ask me a question. In fact, she wanted to ask me three questions, but being the economical type of guy I am, I managed to give her just one answer.
Aussie scientists develop beer for space tourists
When you've paid $200,000 for a seat on a galactic flight, the last thing you want is to be served a dud beer.
Black is black - or is it?
There's a perception that beer is colour-coded for easy reference, and to a certain extent it is.
Royal wedding will be tying the knot with NZ hops
A New Zealand brewery is toasting its success after its hops were chosen for a beer being brewed in honour of the royal wedding.
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor
They say there are two constants in life, but really there are three: death, taxes and the fact that everyone has had a bad experience with tequila at some stage.
The Americans are coming
There was a time when American beer was a byword for tasteless, watery, bland rubbish. How things have changed.
Beer hops off buyers' lists
Kiwis appear to be calling time on their love affair with beer, partly because of spiralling living costs.
$4m brewery makeover for West Coast brewery
Greymouth finally has something to smile about after news its 143-year-old Monteith's brewery will get a multi-million dollar makeover.
Four of the best: Irish pubs
The "Bollix" has built its reputation on featuring the best in homegrown and international rock, pop, celtic, folk and blues talent.
It's the luck of the Irish to create fine whiskey
I looked at the calendar the other day and was shocked to see that it's almost St Patrick's Day.
Craft a thirst
There's a lot more choice when it comes to quenching your beer thirst these days.
So much beer, so little time
It never ceases to amaze me how much better beer is becoming in New Zealand.
Cheap supermarket beer 'doing harm'
Tavern owner tells MPs change is needed to stop price-cutting
Sweet taste of success and the bitter truth
Liqueurs - even the name sounds thick, rich and sweet. But are they glutinous, fruit-based sugar syrups, or is there something a bit more to them? Well, of course there is.
Bearing fruit
It used to be deeply naff, drunk only by teens and maybe your nana; so how did cider get its fizz back to be the drink of the summer, asks Nicky Pellegrino.