15 years ago today, Monk’s Habit won Supreme Champion Beer of New Zealand at the inaugural (first) New Zealand International Beer Awards.
It wasn’t long from returning from a year in California in 1996 as an obsessed homebrewer, to starting as assistant brewer at the Cock & Bull brewpub in January 1997, then head brewer in September 1997, a bunch of awards at the Australian International Beer Awards in 1998 to this in March 1999. (more about awards)
My first appearance on national TV.
The awards ceremony was held at the Rutherford Hotel in Nelson.
A younger me receiving the award from Tom Inglis, who was the head of NZ Hops at the time
Newspaper article about the Beer Awards and the winners. This is still one of the longest articles ever printed in a newspaper in New Zealand relating to any Beer Awards.
How come the Pie Awards or Sausage Awards get bigger write ups?
