Author(s): Michael Donaldson

Food & Drink

Beer Writer of the Year, Brewers Guild of New Zealand, 2013 and 2016 Shortlisted for the Best Beer Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2012       Pull up a bar stool and listen to the life story of beer in New Zealand as award-winning raconteur Michael Donaldson spins a yarn about our favourite beverage…   Meticulously researched and warmly told, Beer Nation recounts the foundations of beer, details the often fraught growth of a fledgling industry, exposes the modern age of commerce and big business, and plots the rise and rise of upstart craft breweries — through numerous interviews and first-hand stories from the very personalities behind beer and brewing in New Zealand.    

Pull up a bar stool and listen to the life story of beer in New Zealand as award-winning raconteur Michael Donaldson spins a yarn about our favourite beverage…

Meticulously researched and warmly told, Beer Nation recounts the foundations of beer, details the often fraught growth of a fledgling industry, exposes the modern age of commerce and big business, and plots the rise and rise of upstart craft breweries — through numerous interviews and first-hand stories from the very personalities behind beer and brewing in New Zealand.

Beer Writer of the Year, Brewers Guild of New Zealand, 2013 and 2016

Shortlisted for the Best Beer Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2012