HeyJaredFriday Night Beers
A wrap of beer news, features and reviews from Pursuit of Hoppiness.
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Arc Brewing take a slow train to success (opens the original)
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Mobile canning closure leaves breweries in limbo (opens the original)
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Hello and welcome to Friday Night Beers, your weekly wrap of beer news and reviews from around New Zealand.This week a number of South Island breweries are scrambling for options after the sudden closure of Cantab Canning, a mobile canning service.James Furlong had run the business for the past six years but called it quits last week.He told customers there were multiple reasons for finishing up, including falling craft beverage sales, over-ambitious customer forecasting and constant late paymen
First time brewery owners optimistic about their new industry (opens the original)
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Hello and welcome to Friday Night Beers, your weekly wrap of beer news and reviews from around New Zealand.The other week I reported the sale of Auckland brewery Black Sands to the husband & wife team of Matt and Val Fitzherbert — and I caught up with the couple this week to ask why they decided to buy a brewery in the current “beer climate” of falling sales and increasing costs.First, it’s worth noting there were two offers on the table for Black Sands which says something in itself. Also, they
Exclusive: Garage Project buys bStudio (opens the original)
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Welcome to Friday Night Beers, your wrap of beer news and reviews from around New Zealand.There’s pretty big news tonight out of Garage Project in Wellington — they have taken ownership of bStudio in Napier.It is a massive investment as bStudio — housed in the landmark National Tobacco Company building in Ahuriri — is one of the largest breweries in the country. It features a five-vessel Krones brew house and can produce batches of up to 25,000 litres. It has all the bells and whistles, includin
What the craft? Waikato Draught in New World Top 25 (opens the original)
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