Online since September 2010 and originally serving simply as a backup incarnation of my actual physical Beer Diary this has been my home on the internet and has endured through several rounds of boom and bust of various social networks; current places you’ll find me are listed in the sidebar.
It was originally put together with a lot of technical help from Peter Moran, who was then my bartending comrade at The Malthouse in Wellington. It’s built on good old WordPress, with a few useful plugins at work — most notably Easy Footnotes and TablePress, without which my fondness for asides and for squeezing meaning out of messy datasets would both be frustrated.
For better or worse, this is pretty much all me. The words and pictures are mine — unless they’re quoted for illustration or criticism, in which case I’ll make that obvious — and I’ll always give credit to others whose work or input I’ve relied upon. And since I’m updating this page in 2026 and it now feels necessary to say: no machine-generated text or imagery is used at any point in the process.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License.
It feels quaint to spell these things out in this stage of the life of the internet, but I’m putting all of my own content here under a relatively-open Creative Commons licence — this includes any text and photos I’ve created. The podcast went out under a very-similar license, just with an extra “share-alike” clause.
This license basically means that you (whoever you are) are free to use my work for any non-commercial purpose, so long as you give me proper attribution — for which I’d count my name and a link back here, for example. I also have a pretty relaxed definition of ‘non-commercial’ and for example wouldn’t care that you had ads on your blog / webpage, so long as the operation wasn’t your main source of income.
I’m also entirely open to commercial uses of my work, so anyone interested should feel free to contact me; rates would be ludicrously reasonable, I’m sure, I just chose this particular license so as to disable such use ‘by default’. If needed for printed work, the original much-higher resolution versions of my photos are also available on request.
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