Last night our samples of Epic Pale Ale flew out on Air New Zealand to Melbourne for the Australian International Beer Awards. Judging starts Monday 19th March. Awards will be announced at the Beer Awards Presentation Dinner,Thursday 19th April Sofitel Melbourne, 25 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia. [UPDATE: San Fran six pack to DIGGNation. It was picked up from the pilot at the Hilton SF, and is now waiting for delivery to the Digg HQ]

[photo: Waikato Beer Drinker of the Year - Greig McGill] On Wednesday 28th February at the Cock & Bull in Hamilton there was the inaugural Waikato Beer Drinker of the Year, which Epic sponsored. I was one of the judges along with Bruce Holloway who is the beer writer for the Waikato Times. Bruce has a recent articlewhich covered this event as well as the New Zealand Beer Festvial This is a fantastic couple of lines from his article: But sole female entrant Denise had the best line of the night when asked to nominate her favourite beer. "If I've...

18 February 2007 - Sunday Star Times Magazine SUNDAY. Epic features in the "going up, going down" list. EPIC is "going up"..."Mmmmmm, hoppy!"

National Business Review ran an article about the New Zealand Beer Festival on 9th February 2007. "Amber liquid gets festival of its own". Epic gets a quote. See copy of the article here

Tonight Epic Pale Ale has the privilege of flying from Auckland, New Zealand to San Francisco with one of the Air New Zealand pilots of flight NZ008 (track the flight here). He has a six pack as part of his carry on. This is a special mission to get Epic Pale Ale to Kevin & Alex of theDiggnation podcast - digg.com. As a bit of a tech geek as well as a total beer geek, and brewer of the Epic Pale Ale, I have finally now found a way to get a six pack of Epic Pale Ale (current Supreme...