Harrington’s Ngahere Gold is one of those great honest beers. It’s a strong lager, 7.2% and easy to drink while still being packed with flavour. Like all good lagers it is light on the hops, but being strong, it’s heavy on the malt and is packed with floral and honey …

The wonderful people over at Arnotts sent me quite the package yesterday, There has been a ” new and improved” release across all the flavours and a couple new ones added… First thing I did ( as i didn’t know this had even happened till the package turned up) was …

We’ve got 2x Double passes ( Grandstand seated) to give away! Thanks to our awesome mates over at Demon Energy Drinks All you need to do is email comps@theempire.nz with the subject line D1NZ and you’re in the draw! * must be in Nz * must meet events requirements for …

This race was so wet the last race was abandoned Some pretty scary moments here! check out the Richards Team Motorsports video

Samichlaus Classic Doppelbock by Schloss Eggenberg is Austrian for: massive smash you in the face beer. It is also a not so subtle reminder that while we brew some awesome beers here, the Europeans have over a thousand years more experience than we do, and when they do it right, …

8 Wired are an amazing brewery, based in Warkworth, not long ago they celebrated the 18th batch from their new brewery. They did so in the finest way possible, with this Oak Aged Imperial Stout. Aftering being brewed with lots of goodies it was fermented in open oak vats with dates, …

Angel is a deep rich barley wine from the folks at Deep Creek. Not for the weak willed, it’s loaded with flavour and sits at a healthy 9.8%ABV -Moppie

Instagram is here to screw with your feed. Very soon, you won’t see posts in chronological order. Instead, the feed will serve you “top stories” first, in a similar post-ranking style used by the Facebook news feed. This change will be non-optional. Some gems from the sheds of Southwards car …

Hello again Blokes, this week I’m not looking at any particular gadget. Rather, I am looking at a class of gadgets. One that we have been asked time and again to provide more coverage on by you, our readers. It’s incredibly difficult to condense a subject which is so varied …

So I as many other jumped on the band wagon and went to try the Whittakers Jelly Tip chocolate I didn’t go so far as to make a special trip, but I did pop into a store to check if they had it, thankfully they did.. So first things first …