New Zealand’s beer history is dominated by Lion and DB who were essentially the only beer producers in New Zealand until the 1970’s. NZ draught was the prominent beer style brewed in New Zealand up until the later 1950’s when the finance minister at the time threatened to cut international …
Milk stout, also known as sweet stout, can be traced back to the practice of blending milk and beer in the United Kingdom in the late 1800s. Milk stouts today don’t use milk but they are brewed with lactose (milk sugar) added to the boil instead. Lactose is an unfermentable sugar and gives …
Correct storage of your brewing ingredients is something very easy to do that can greatly improve the flavour and quality of your home brewed beer. Malt The golden rule for malt storage: the cooler and drier the better. It doesn’t matter if your grain is crushed or uncrushed, the cooler …
Tauranga has two water treatment plants – one on Oropi Road and one on Joyce Road. The information below is directly from the Tauranga City Council listing where different suburbs get their water from. If yours isn’t listed, you can have a pretty good guess judging by which suburbs listed are close …