Last Sunday night, I hosted Wellington Hombrew Tasting in the cozy lounge of Hashigo Zake. It’s been over 1 year since the first one. We had about 10 people confirmed on internet, but as the weather was pretty bad we had 6 people came along. However, it was a quiet, but interesting and little bit [...]
Check out the Interactive Bar Guide under News. This is a interesting way to see what it’s like inside some of your favourite bars. Currently it’s only set up for a few Wellington bars but we hope to add more as bar owners start to pick it up. If you’re interested in adding your bar to [...]
Before Christmas I decided to go on a bit of a pub crawl with the excuse of testing out rewardjunkie! a mobile application that keeps rewards programs on the smartphone. I know the rewardjunkie founders Matt and Brady from my association with CreativeHQ and it seemed like there were possibilities for using rewardjunkie to provide [...]
Welcome to the new SOBA website. We’ve moved to a WordPress website with a strong visual theme to highlight some of the fantastic images captured by SOBA members. We also wanted to move away from the previous content management style website to a blog based website that makes it easier for our members to contribute content. We’ve [...]
The latest edition of SOBA’s free quarterly newsletter “The Pursuit of Hoppiness” is available for download. This edition is the first edited by new SOBA committee member Kate Jordan. Kate has done a great job keeping the same look that Nick Page had established over the last few years and adding a fresh feel to [...]
Radlermass (translated: “cyclist’s litre”;”mass” is an old Bavarian word for “litre”) is a mixed beer-based drink with a long history in German-speaking regions.
I LOOK BACK on the growth of SOBA over last few years and feel proud of the contribution that the organisation has made in assisting with the exciting expansion the craft beer Industry within New Zealand. The last few months in particular have resulted in a high level of media exposure, most notably from John [...]
In May this year, during the long twilight of a sunny spring evening at the edge of Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Horticultural Society Garden, a few dozen of the world’s luckiest diners assembled outside the restaurant known as Mielcke & Hurtigkarl.
Kevin Buckley writes from Melbourne – Was drinking, and eating, over in a trendy part of Melbourne (yes, there are some) last night and, in one of the obviously “trendier” bars found that, as well as a massive range of beer, many of which were recognisable from Hashigo Zake, (eg Baird) and/or were NZ craft [...]
