Moa wins big at Asia Beer Awards
Date: 5 Jul 2011A New Zealand brewery has stolen the show at a prestigious international beer competition, winning a record 12 awards. Marlborough’s Moa Brewery was awarded more medals than any other brewery across its beer and cider range at the Asia Beer Awards held in Singapore this month. Moa won big for its range of beer variants, beating out more than 450 entries from 47 countries to take home six Golds, two Silvers and two Bronze medals. Moa also snaffled Gold in the Cider category ... more
Riddet Institute wins two prestigious awards at NZIFST Conference
Date: 1 Jul 2011Riddet Institute co-director Professor Harjinder Singh was last night presented with the J.C Andrews Award, the New Zealand Institute of Food, Science and Technology ‘s (NZIFST) most prestigious award. The award was presented at the NZIFST annual conference dinner in Rotorua. The award is presented annually in memory of Massey University's first Chancellor, Dr John Clark Andrews, who proposed that a food technology degree course be established at Massey University. The award ... more
Moa’s hunters find New Zealand’s best home brew – and bottle it
Date: 16 Jun 2011New Zealand’s best home-crafted beer has been found – in an Auckland laundry. After three months of sampling dozens of home-brewed beers crafted in sheds and basements across the country, Auckland photographer Niels Schipper has been announced as the inaugural winner of the Moa Beer Home Brew Challenge, held in association with George FM. Niels’ beer – Schipper’s Bitter – beat out 20 competitors, many entering several different varieties, to be judged ... more
Meat exporting and marketing pioneer made a knight in Queen's Birthday honours
Date: 6 Jun 2011Anzco Foods chairman Graeme Thomas Harrison has been made a Knight of the New Zealand Order of Merit, just a year after being recognised by the nation's farmers as the agribusiness person of the year. The Queen's Birthday honour recognised his services to business. The founder and principal of Anzco Foods, Sir Graeme spent 20 years as the company's managing director before taking over the chairmanship from Eddie Tonks in 2004. Anzco was originally a Meat Producers Board subsidiary ... more
The Grove wins Metro Audi Auckland Restaurant of the Year for a second time
Date: 31 May 2011For the second-year running, upmarket CBD restaurant The Grove has won the Metro Audi Restaurant of the Year Award. Announcing the award at a dinner tonight [Monday], Metro editor Simon Wilson said, "The Grove creates a wonderful fusion of sophisticated standards with warmly inviting hospitality. "The room is smart but very comfortable, the service is impeccable and superbly friendly, and the food is exquisite, without being unduly fiddly. "Whether it's a business ... more
Deep South ice-cream licks the competition
Date: 27 May 2011The New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers Association has just found out what Southlanders have known for years - Deep South ice-cream is the best in the country. Christchurch business consultants Mike Killick and Alex Hopkins bought Deep South, established in 1979 by Southland's Simon family, in December last year. Their investment paid off, with the company taking out the Supreme Award for a Large Manufacturer at the association's 15th annual awards ceremony in Queenstown for its ... more
Plain Vanilla - once again, Simply the Best!
Date: 27 May 2011Simply the Best!! As the classic Tina Turner number states - this was the description of one of the Supreme Award winning ice creams in this year’s New Zealand Ice Cream Awards. Deep South Ice Cream's Vanilla has taken out a Supreme Award for the second time, an unprecedented feat, and making it New Zealand's most-decorated "plain" Vanilla. Ice cream experts will tell you that it is Vanilla ice cream that is the true test of ice cream quality, as defects have ... more
Renaissance Brewing brings enlightenment to the darkness by winning trophy at the world’s second largest beer competition
Date: 24 May 2011Marlborough based craft brewers Renaissance Brewing are celebrating a huge win at the Australian International Beer Awards. Their Craftsman Oatmeal Chocolate Stout won the Cleanevent Trophy for Champion Stout at what is now the world’s second largest beer competition and was the only beer from New Zealand to pick up a trophy in the competition. Renaissance also proudly accepted silver medals for their Scotch Ale, Porter and Imperial IPA at the gala awards dinner in Melbourne. ... more
Moa scores seven medals at Australian Beer Awards
Date: 23 May 2011Moa Beer has romped home with seven medals at the Australian International Beer Awards, more than any other New Zealand beer brand. The Marlborough brewery won gold for its Moa Five Hop Ale (pictured) in the British Style Ale (Packaged) category, as well as two silvers for Moa Original (European style lager) and Moa Five Hop (Wood-aged beer). It also took out four bronzes for Moa Methode (European style lager), Moa Pale Ale (American-style pale ale), Moa St Joseph’s (Abbey-style, ... more
NZ Salmon nets Aussie award
Date: 26 Jul 2010New Zealand’s Regal Salmon has hooked another prestigious international award. Hot on the heels of its success at the iTQi awards in Belgium, Regal Smoked Salmon Pastrami has landed the meat and smallgoods award at the 6th annual Food Magazine Challenge Awards in Australia. The Awards recognise and reward industry leaders in their drive for ‘best practice’ food and drink processing in Australia and New Zealand. They also acknowledge those brands that most successfully ... more
