The Ale Files are a collection of the latest beer news, beer reviews as well as our latest email newsletter. Regular updates to all of these are made by the beer writers directly as well as soon as beer press releases come in. Everything is archived for easy searching at a later date.

BEER NEWS

• Local News -- We post the latest beer press releases from the breweries as soon as they are released. Find out about new beer releases, brewery news and anything relating to beer in general.

BEER WRITERS

• Neil Miller -- Neil is one of New Zealand's newest and youngest beer writers. He regularly updates his enthusiastic, informative and humourous commentaries on this site as well as writing a regular newspaper beer column.
  
  
• Geoff Griggs -- Geoff is one of New Zealand's most knowledgeable beer writer and critic. In a twenty-year career as a video journalist for BBC Television News, Geoff visited and worked in most European countries and parts of the U.S. During these travels he seized the opportunity to sample and to learn about many characterful and distinctive beer styles in their local environments.
  
  
• Bruce Holloway -- Bruce is your typical New Zealand beer consumer. He professes to be a beer drinker rather than a beer expert. He says his insistence on writing beer columns despite his lack of specialist knowledge is inspired not only by an astonishing thirst, but also by the amazing number of junkets and perks to be found within the liquor industry. When he is not drinking beer he is a journalist with the Waikato Times in Hamilton.
  
  
• Cameron Williamson -- A decade of enjoying England's best beer inspired Cameron to launch The Ale File to explore New Zealand's best from Auckland. Now living in New Zealand's beer capital, he writes a fortnightly column called The Brew in the Dominion Post newspaper, and works towards homebrewing the perfect Pitt Street Pale Ale.

NEWSLETTERS

• Sparging -- With its origins going back to 1997 as a monthly Brewers newsletter, Sparging ‚ Real Beer News has grown to be the leading source of beer information to the brewers and beer drinkers of New Zealand.

OTHER

• Toasts -- Looking for a cool toast to give at a wedding or special occasion, want a bit of humour to go with it? This is the place to find those famous and infamous toasts, which you will be remembered for long after the occasion is forgotten.
  
  
• Drinking Games -- Drinking games... do we need to say more?
  
  
• Beer Quotes -- A few our our favorite quotes about our favorite topic.