The craft beer movement, initially fuelled by a resurgent interest in home brewing, has overturned traditional and mainstream ideas about beer and brewing all around the world. Nowhere is this more evident than in New Zealand’s capital city of Wellington, where more than a dozen craft and boutique breweries, nano-breweries (brewing just one batch at a time) and brewpubs (pubs that brew onsite) are based.
At least as many others are located just beyond the city limits, among the hillsides and valleys of the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa.