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Society of Beer Advocates Mid Winter Ale Festival – 20 July
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 3:02 pm | Society Of Beer Advocates
The festival has moved to The Hunter Lounge at Victoria University to cater for increasing demand. Tickets have sold out well in advance each year. “We needed a bigger venue to help stop the emails from people who were disappointed they missed out” said ... More >>
World class beers at national homebrew competition
Friday, 7 December 2012, 9:37 am | Society Of Beer Advocates
Judges at the Society of Beer Advocates National Homebrew Competition were pleased with the high quality of beers entered. More >>
Sale of Emerson’s signals new future for Craft Beer in NZ
Wednesday, 7 November 2012, 2:44 pm | Society Of Beer Advocates
The sale of Emerson’s brewery to Lion yesterday has been given a mixed reception by beer drinkers across New Zealand. Some see it as an end of an era, even going so far as to say that they won’t be drinking Emerson’s any more now that it’s ... More >>
SOBA National Homebrew Competition
Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 9:46 am | Society Of Beer Advocates
The Society of Beer Advocates (SOBA) is holding the National Homebrew Competition, this event takes place in Hamilton the weekend of the 3rd and 4th of November. Top beer judges from across the country will be assessing the beer, mead and cider from ... More >>
A Cock and Bull Story: End of an era for brewpubs
Thursday, 19 July 2012, 1:33 pm | Society Of Beer Advocates
SOBA is disappointed to learn that the recent sale of the Cock & Bull pubs to Nourish Group will lead to the phasing-out of the Cock & Bull's award-winning craft beers. Nourish Group, which owns restaurants such as Euro & Jervois Steak House as well ... More >>
Society of Beer Advocates Annual Winter Ale Festival 14 July
Wednesday, 13 June 2012, 10:53 am | Society Of Beer Advocates
The Society of Beer Advocates’ annual Winter Ale Festival at Matariki looks like being a knockout event this year. Fifteen New Zealand, Norwegian and Danish breweries have agreed to produce one-off, special beers for our festival. More >>
SOBA City of Ales beer festival
Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 7:41 pm | Society Of Beer Advocates
SOBA (the Society Of Beer Advocates) is delighted to announce the inaugural City Of Ales beer festival, to be held in Auckland on Saturday 23rd June 2012. The event will be held at the Q Loft (above the Q Theatre) on Queen Street from 2pm-7pm and ... More >>
Giving homebrewing a bad name:Sexism has no place in brewing
Friday, 13 January 2012, 11:47 am | Society Of Beer Advocates
Recent web and press reports that a homebrew competition at Lake Hayes A&P Show barred a contestant, Rachel Beer, from entry for being a woman have disappointed SOBA enough for many members to complain. More >>
SOBA Disappointed at Radler registration outcome
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 1:08 pm | Society Of Beer Advocates
After deliberating the arguments and counter arguments for the last few weeks the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) has decided to uphold the registration of the term ‘Radler’ by DB Breweries. This is extremely disappointing for SOBA ... More >>
When a pint’s not a pint, say so
Friday, 29 April 2011, 10:08 am | Society Of Beer Advocates
As thirsty rugby fans from the northern hemisphere land in New Zealand later this year one of the first thoughts on their minds will be ‘let’s have a pint’. Except they can’t. More >>
Drink Beer and Raise Money for Christchurch!
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 1:10 pm | Society Of Beer Advocates
This Friday evening, bars around the country will be holding a ‘Sup for the City’ in aid of the victims of the Christchurch earthquake. The concept is simple: drop in to one of the bars listed below and first enjoy a drink with friends,. Some bars ... More >>
SOBA NHBC Champion Beer launched
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 9:41 am | Society Of Beer Advocates
This year’s SOBA National Homebrew Competition was won by Dale Cooper for his Belgian Pale Ale. More >>
SOBA welcomes innovative beer
Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 10:10 am | Society Of Beer Advocates
SOBA, New Zealand’s consumer beer advocacy group, is excited about the April 1st release of Mac’s Brewjolais seasonal beer, and is looking to celebrate the event in style and en masse. More >>
Europeans angry at Kiwi brewery
Friday, 7 August 2009, 11:22 am | Society Of Beer Advocates
Beer consumer groups in two European countries are up in arms over DBs hijacking of European beer style names. In Austria and Belgium members of the European Beer Consumers Union (EBCU), which represents more than 100,000 beer drinkers across Europe, ... More >>
RADLER, the battle lines are drawn
Friday, 17 July 2009, 2:12 pm | Society Of Beer Advocates
In a cynical, but widely predicted move designed to maximise the distance from May’s negative publicity, DB has waited until the very last day possible to defend its trademarking of ‘radler’, the name of a recognised beer style. More >>
Beer lovers to take on DB Breweries over trademark
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 1:42 pm | Society Of Beer Advocates
In response to the frustrations expressed by the Society of Beer Advocates (SOBA) Inc about DB Breweries trade marking and preventing others from using the generic term “radler” in relation to their beer, James & Wells Intellectual Property ... More >>
Bock Beats Best Beers in Homebrew Championships
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 9:41 am | Society Of Beer Advocates
If tasting 145 beers in 2 days sounds like a dream job, think again. This was the arduous task of the judging team at the inaugural SOBA National Homebrew Championships recently held in Wellington. New Zealand beer writer Geoff Griggs, who has been invited ... More >>
Wigram and Mata Beers Strike Gold
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 2:41 pm | Society Of Beer Advocates
The Society of Beer Advocates (SOBA) would like to extend a hearty congratulations to our award winning sponsor breweries, after some excellent results in the recent Australian International Beer Awards, Melbourne (http://www.beerawards.com) and New ... More >>
Petition grows against beer glass ban snobbery
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 2:54 pm | Society Of Beer Advocates
Beer connoisseurs are rallying on-line to protest against a decision to ban glasses at the Blenheim Blues, Brews and Barbecues event while still allowing much flimsier glasses at the Wine Marlborough festival. More >>
