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Martin @mandab.com · 25/09/2026

If you're out and about in Tāmaki Makaurau tomorrow and you like beer, you're spoilt for choice. I would recommend a triangle of Churly's, Saint Leonards and Garage Project. Between those you will find happiness.

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Martin @mandab.com · 25/09/2026

If anyone has any German visitors to Auckland, send them to Saint Leonards brewery in Kingsland - the best German style beers I've had outside Germany. The festbier is transcendent.

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Martin @mandab.com · 23/09/2026

We had a great discussion with the guys from One Drop, the Sydney-based brewery that makes crazy ice-cream smoothie sours, as well as some great lagers and hoppy IPAs. Their Auntie's Pudding beer turned out to be the top-voted beer of the whole Beervana festival.

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Martin @mandab.com · 18/09/2026

Renewed my Warriors season tickets for 2027. If this isn't our year, maybe that will be.

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The Third Pint Theory @thirdpinttheory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New podcast episode is live. It's the first of our panel interviews recorded live at Beervana, featuring a chat with Scott Taylor from Neck of the Woods Brewing and Jared 'Red' Proudfoot from Bonnie Day Brewing. open.spotify.com/episode/5AZb... podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/t... youtu.be/RV7fiVfYN5o

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The Beervana Sessions 1 — Bonnie Day & Neck Of The Woods

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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lovely article from @mandab.com about one of my favourite breweries anywhere in the world. Great photos from Jed Soane too!

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Martin @mandab.com · 16/09/2026

I am super-chuffed that this piece is out in the world. It's the biggest thing I've written and it is published by one of my favourite sites.

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Martin @mandab.com · 16/09/2026

The NZ Blood Service is in urgent need of more plasma donors: www.nzblood.co.nz/plasma-appea... It's a double whammy: the flu season has clobbered their number of donors, and their manufacturing partner has a scheduled 3-month shutdown.

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Martin @mandab.com · 13/09/2026

If any political party had sense they'd announce Auckland Light Rail as a policy ASAP. Quick, while people are enthusiastic about PT!

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Martin @mandab.com · 12/09/2026

It's so weird being on a train leaving Waitematā the "wrong" way!

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Martin @mandab.com · 12/09/2026

I'm on a packed NX1 bus from Albany into the city in order to ride the City Rail Link. Yay for public transport

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Martin @mandab.com · 11/09/2026

Memories of 9/11,since others are sharing. I was working in London, recently arrived back from Sydney. Someone said a plane had hit the WTC. Assumed it was a terrible accident. Then the second hit. One of my team went pale. His brother worked there. We got him into a meeting room and on a phone.

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Martin @mandab.com · 07/09/2026

Well, that ticketing process for the Warriors home final was chaos. Tickets secured, but could only get the South stand.

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Martin @mandab.com · 28/08/2026

In tribute to both Sam Neill and Tim Curry we watched Hunt for Red October tonight. Great film.

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Martin @mandab.com · 28/08/2026

In honour of Tim Curry

A beer can, standing next to a glass containing a pale amber beer with a white head of foam. The beer is Time Warp, a West Coast IPA from Urbanaut Brewing in Auckland. It was their entry in the annual West Coast IPA Challenge at the Malthouse pub in Wellington. This year the theme was musicals, hence a beer named after a song from the Rocky Horror Show.

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Martin @mandab.com · 25/08/2026

Ah bugger, not Dolly. She was supposed to outlast the Orange One.

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Martin @mandab.com · 23/08/2026

Wests Tigers you absolute beauties. Warriors still top of the table.

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Martin @mandab.com · 22/08/2026

The simple things done well can be transcendent. Garage Project's 90-day aged version of their BEER - a simple Czech style lager. Minimal ingredients, maximum skill.

Dimpled handled beer glass filled with pale gold beer. Dense white head. The glass is sat on a wooden table with a blurred background.

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Martin @mandab.com · 20/08/2026

Sigh. I find it frustrating when AirNZ does the "20 minute delay, 30 minute delay, 40 minute delay" dance when the inbound aircraft hasn't stopped even left its previous airport. Just be realistic.

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The Third Pint Theory @thirdpinttheory.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We're on our way to Wellington for Beervana. Will we see you at our Brewer Q&A panels during sessions 1, 2 or 3? We'll have some great chats and some interesting beers to try.

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Martin @mandab.com · 19/08/2026

Catching PT to Auckland airport from the North Shore (Torbay). Two buses, a train and another bus. About 2 hours. $8. As opposed to about 50 minutes drive and $200-$300 parking for 4 days. The extra time and hassle is worth it, I think.

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The Third Pint Theory @thirdpinttheory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Are you going to Beervana this weekend? We'll be there, running Brewer Q&A panels with One Drop, Double Vision, Mount Brewing and many others. Come along and say hi!

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Martin @mandab.com · 13/08/2026

One of my favourite interviews so far - I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did recording it.

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Martin @mandab.com · 13/08/2026

Tonight's workout incorporated a segment entitled Death By Calories. Sadly it involved a bike rather than chocolate cake, and I am now ded.

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Martin @mandab.com · 12/08/2026

It's a misty morning in Tāmaki Makaurau

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Martin @mandab.com · 12/08/2026

Plasma donation done. It was my 25th plasma or blood donation since the Mad Cow exclusion was lifted, so I've got a nice new umbrella. I encourage you to donate plasma if you can. It takes a little longer but you get more snacks!

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Martin @mandab.com · 11/08/2026

Can we just make this a no-Chris election? #nzpol

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Martin @mandab.com · 08/08/2026

Absolutely spine-tingling haka from the Warriors before the game last night as part of Indigenous Round in the NRL. youtu.be/gOYC2ssXwc4?...

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Ngā Tamatoa | The Warriors Haka | Indigenous Round | NRL 2026

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Martin @mandab.com · 07/08/2026

Nice early birthday present from the Warriors. Up the Wahs!

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Martin @mandab.com · 05/08/2026

The push to get NZ government departments using AI is very real. In an agency I'm working with, pretty much every conversation involves Copilot. Staff are being pushed to use it more. It's slightly unnerving.

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Martin @mandab.com · 05/08/2026

Oops, but YAY!! We have a City Rail Link opening date. Billboard gaffe accidentally reveals City Rail Link opening date as 13 September www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...

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Billboard gaffe accidentally reveals City Rail Link opening date as 13 September

Billboards announcing the City Rail Link's opening date have been put up in error.

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Martin @mandab.com · 04/08/2026

Went for a beer after a hectic day. Had awesome chat with beer friends old and new. I love @aucklandbeerweek.bsky.social

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Martin @mandab.com · 01/08/2026

'Appen it's Yorkshire Day as well

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Martin @mandab.com · 31/07/2026

Happy @aucklandbeerweek.bsky.social to those who celebrate. I'll be starting my celebrations at The Lumsden as is traditional.

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Martin @mandab.com · 29/07/2026

This year's BGONZAs generated some interesting stories for Michael and I to chew over.

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Martin @mandab.com · 27/07/2026

Unfortunately, due to low ticket sales, I've cancelled this event.

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Greater Auckland @greaterauckland.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Woohoo! Auckland Transport will be running free public "first looks" at the CRL stations in August 🎉 👀 🚇 - Maungawhau Station, Saturday 8 August - Karanga-a-Hape Station, Saturday 15 August - Te Waihorotiu Station, Saturday 22 August Pre-register/ more info here 👉 pages.iticket.co.nz/crlfirstlooks

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CRL Station First Looks

Be among the first to step inside Auckland’s City Rail Link stations before they open to passengers.<br><br>Across three weekends in August, free CRL First Look Events will give the public a rare oppo...

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Martin @mandab.com · 26/07/2026

Two Bays Brewing from Australia won the Champion International Brewery at the NZ Beer Awards over the weekend. We'll be featuring their gluten-free beers paired with ice-cream in this event as part of @aucklandbeerweek.bsky.social next week: events.humanitix.com/we-all-screa...

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We all scream for ice-cream! And beer! But not gluten!

A unique guided tasting, pairing four iconic ice-cream creations with four gluten-free beers.

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Martin @mandab.com · 25/07/2026

Auckland weather is being very Auckland today. Random mix of sun, wind and torrential rain.

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Martin @mandab.com · 24/07/2026

I was rudely awoken by a Google alert breaking through my Do Not Disturb, telling me that I "might feel shaking".

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Martin @mandab.com · 22/07/2026

I'm running a tasting as part of @aucklandbeerweek.bsky.social - ice-cream and beer matching at Giapo on Tuesday 4th August. Tickets available here: events.humanitix.com/we-all-screa...

events.humanitix.com

We all scream for ice-cream! And beer! But not gluten!

A unique guided tasting, pairing four iconic ice-cream creations with four gluten-free beers.

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The Third Pint Theory @thirdpinttheory.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New podcast episode is live, featuring an interview with @aucklandbeerweek.bsky.social supremo Maree Shaw. open.spotify.com/episode/4jWV... podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/w... pca.st/434rb6qk youtu.be/DuzpxXY6HMc

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Wonder Woman — How one person's drive created Auckland Beer Week

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Martin @mandab.com · 15/07/2026

Which clever muthafucka fixed his wife's EV the night before she gets back from the UK? This muthafucka, that's who! It's amazing what "turn it off, turn it back on again" can do. OK, this involved recharging then disconnecting and reconnecting the 12V battery, but still.

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Martin @mandab.com · 14/07/2026

WTF was that in Wordle today??

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Martin @mandab.com · 13/07/2026

I might have to watch The Hunt For Red October tonight. #RIPSamNeill

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Martin @mandab.com · 13/07/2026

I think we need a period of national mourning. RIP Sam Neill.

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Martin @mandab.com · 08/07/2026

This song popped up on a Tidal mix and it reminded me of the awesome video. One of my favourites of all time. youtu.be/o5mZsDLFyv4?...

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Feeder - Just A Day - Official Video

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