I’m Telling You For The Last Time
Since I started writing about beer in 2013, I’ve completed several projects: I started with a six-month-thing called The Beer Money Blog, which was all about how to survive as […]
Since I started writing about beer in 2013, I’ve completed several projects: I started with a six-month-thing called The Beer Money Blog, which was all about how to survive as […]
I’m a serial goal-setter. Most of my goals are professional – write x number of academic journal articles, apply for y dollars-worth of research grants – but I also set […]
I love our wee corner of the beer scene: I love the people, I love the brewers, I love their process, and I obviously love their produce. But time-and-time-again, the […]
We’re blessed to have some powerhouse women propping-up our industry. Women like Sprig and Fern’s Tracy Banner, who was given a standing-ovation at this year’s Brewer’s Guild of New Zealand […]
There’s a weird behavioural phenomenon that poker players often talk about. It’s called tilt; and it happens when a player takes a bad beating during one hand, and then slips […]
I spent the majority of my years in Wellington in a wobbly office block on Riddiford Street in Newtown. Amid the constant threat of collapse in the event of a […]
One of the many fun things about our wee industry is that no-one really takes themselves too seriously. Sure, there are plenty of tall egos – some taller than others […]
In my day-job in public health, I’m continually challenged to consider things from perspectives that are outside my own; to think about how different people approach the health system, and […]
When I was living in Wellington a few years back, every school holidays my wife would brave a plane-ride north with our two wee sprockets to go and visit her […]
A couple of weeks ago, I took a break from being a boring-arse serious fulla – and posted a pointless-but-fun piece about my desert-island beer styles: the six styles that […]