beer…

in case casual readers are under the misapprehension that this holiday is all fun and frivolity, let me assure you that it has also involved serious scientific evaluation in the interests of cross tasman research into the heady subject of hop, yeast, malt and water optimisation – otherwise commonly known as beer brewing.

i have forced myself to try as many of the boutique beers across NZ as possible, this has been dirty and difficult work, but someone has to do it. I shall save my formal summary of research until the end of the project, but as an interim finding I present a slideshow of labels of beers tasted to date.