BEER BEER
EVERYWHERE
Beervana – a Wellington
beer festival with humble
38 OCTOBER 2018
Those attending tasted wares from more than 50
brewers, who brewed more than 350 different
beers for the two-day event. Meikle says it’s a far
cry from 2002, when the festival began as Brew
NZ - run by the Brewers Guild of New Zealand in the
Wellington Town Hall – with an attendance of 200. Since then,
it has moved to the bigger capacity Westpac Stadium, and now
draws punters from across the ditch, with 506 Australian beer
fans in attendance. “Australia has its own selection of good
beer festivals, which shows how much pulling power Beervana
has.” Queensland’s Rockstar Brewer Academy founder Steve
Henderson says he attended because he’s a brewer and beer
geek. “The biggest decision of the festival was whether to
say ‘yeah nah’ and head clockwise or say ‘nah yeah’ and head
anti-clockwise. The beers were pretty grouse! Beervana is a
beer festival that’s choc-a-block full of amazing froths for the
discerning beer geek. Well worth going!” Wellington mayor
Justin Lester says he’s particularly proud of the festival’s
success - being a homegrown event that celebrates two of
Wellington’s greatest strengths…its food scene and creativity.
“Beervana’s growing popularity means it is now one of the
bigger events on Wellington’s calendar. The people behind it
have found the right ingredients and have worked really hard to
turn it into a shining example of the capital’s creativity.”
origins – is one of the
crown jewels in the annual
Visa Wellington on a Plate
festival, with more than
16,000 tickets sold for this
year’s event…50.1% to
people outside Wellington
City, festival director Sarah
Meikle says.
FONTERRA
ANIMAL
HEALTH
A new scientifically formulated
animal health supplement
developed by NZAgbiz in
conjunction with leading veterinary
scientists has been launched
onto the market. Novolyte -
formulated to replace fluids lost
due to scouring, treat dehydration
and exhaustion – will help calves
recover from stressors such
as transportation. NZAgbiz is
a Fonterra business unit that
manufactures livestock nutrition
products using primarily Fonterra
ingredients, and general manager
Greg Cate says it is the logical
next step in the company’s range
of scientifically formulated animal
health supplements. “All NZAgbiz
products are based on solid
scientific evidence and we saw the
need for a high-quality electrolyte
replacement to help farmers raise
calves that thrive,” Cate says. With
a million dairy heifers reared on
farms in New Zealand each year,
raising healthy and productive
animals is a process that begins
the minute a calf is born, he says.
However, afflictions such as scours
are common in newborn animals,
has a variety of causes and effects
such as dehydration and metabolic
acidosis, and can kill. Novolyte
contains key alkalinising agents to
address severe metabolic acidosis,
as well as essential ingredients to
aid the rehydration of calves with
neonatal diarrhoea while providing
energy to help restore the function
of damaged gut cells. Novolyte has
the right concentrations of sodium
required to correct dehydration and
includes the recommended plasma
volume of glucose-to-sodium
levels. Practical considerations have
been carefully thought-through
as well and Novolyte is readily
dissolvable, comes with an easyto
use scoop and a re-usable zip
tie to keep the product in optimum
condition once opened. It contains
high-grade ingredients in a dry
powder with good mixability. Like
all NZAgbiz products, Novolyte
contains high-grade ingredients and
its formulation is based on solid
scientific evidence and expert input.
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