The Third Pint Theory
Episodes
Winter Wonderland — Inside the Winter Ales Festival
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Michael & Martin are joined by Denise Garland and Dave Wood, who own Wellington's Winter Ales Festival. They talk to us about what's involved in runni...
Sweet 16 — Inside Auckland's 16Tun freehouse
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The annual Rare Beer Challenge, designed to raise money for Rare Disorders NZ, is on this year at Auckland's 16Tun, which takes over from the defunct ...
Bay Watch Part 2 — Mount Brewing's Pawel Lewandowski
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mount Brewing are celebrating 30 years in business — quite an achievement for the small Bay of Plenty operation. Michael and Martin look back at Mou...
Bay Watch Part 1 — Neck Of The Woods opens in Tauranga
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Martin visits the just-opened Neck Of The Woods brew pub in Tauriko, just outside Tauranga, and talks to owner Scott Taylor about his journey home to ...
Smooth Operator — Three Sisters go from strength to strength
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
New Plymouth brewery Three Sisters are expanding in to Wellington and raising new capital to further grow their production. It's on the back of strong...
Brighter Days — The Year in Beer Reviewed
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael & Martin look back on the year in beer, looking at the highlights (of which there were plenty) and the lowlights (fortunately, they were few)....
The Beervana Sessions No 5 — Haze Here To Stay
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hazy IPA has been part of the New Zealand beer market for just on a decade. Michael and Martin discuss the impact of the haze craze before crossing ov...
The Beervana Sessions No 4 — The State of the NZ Beer Nation
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael and Martin discuss the big news stories of the past week — the saving of Hop Federation after Blenheim's DNA stepped in to buy the brand —...
Cutting Edge — The Sawmill Story
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sawmill Brewing in Matakana, north of Auckland, are renowned for their sustainability programme. As New Zealand's only B Corp certified craft brewery ...
The Beervana Sessions 3 — That's Not Beer!
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George Duncan of Duncan's Brewing in Paraparaumu and Joe Emans of Three Sisters in New Plymouth are two of the best when it comes to the innovative de...
Hop heroes — Epic & Hallertau
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Epic and Hallertau are two of the most influential breweries in New Zealand when it comes to hop-driven, American-style IPAs. Both breweries turn 20 t...
The Beervana Sessions No 2 — Lager Clouts
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Live from Beervana we bring you a session on the wide and wonderful world of lager. Martin & Michael are joined by special guests — Emma Elmslie of ...
The Beervana Sessions — Brave & Garage Project
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael & Martin bring you the first of the live Beervana Sessions, a live Q&A recording at the Beervana Festival in Wellington on August 22-23. In th...
Knocking on (Ben) Heaven's Door
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael and Martin are joined by Ben Heaven who was catapulted into national prominence when his Judas Sheep Dark Lager won a place in the New World B...
Celebrating Isthmus 3D — Definitely Delicious Drop!
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Martin and Michael are joined this week by Hamish Ward and Caroline Muller-Ward, the husband-and-wife team behind Isthmus Brewing. They're here to tal...
Weird & Winderful — Beervana Wrap, New World Beer & Cider Awards
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael and Martin give you a run-down of Beervana, including their picks of the annual festival, held in Wellington last weekend ... which may, or ma...
Burn Brothers — Jason Bathgate & Andrew Childs
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years brewers Jason Bathgate and Andrew Childs were severely burned in a workplace accident when boiling wort exploded from a brew kettle as they ...
NZ Beer Awards Analysis and Wrap
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael and Martin delve deep into the New Zealand Beer Awards announced last weekend in Christchurch. We run through all the trophy categories, picki...
Craftwork — A Slice of Belgium in Oamaru
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Martin catches up with Lee-Ann Scotti and Michael O'Brien, the couple behind Oamaru's cult Belgian-inspired brewery, Craftwork. Michae...
Beer Wonderland — An Inside Look at Beervana
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Michael and Martin talk to Ryan McArthur, festival director for Beervana, New Zealand's biggest beer festival, which is on in Wellingt...
Eye of the Tiger — Brave Brewing
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We head off to Hastings to visit Brave Brewing and a chat with owners Matt and Gemma Smith. We learn why they are still exclusively in bottles and dis...
Money For Jam — Urbanaut's Bruce Turner
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Urbanaut founder Bruce Turner came back to New Zealand from England where he worked at an establishment brewery, Fuller's, and a new-wave craft brewer...
Three Boys — Keeping It Local
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 2 of the Third Pint Theory we talk to Three Boys founder Ralph Bungard about their status as New Zealand's reigning champion brewery from l...
Third Pint Theory Introduction
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Third Pint Theory is a podcast dedicated New Zealand craft beer — focusing on the people who brew it and the places you drink it. Hosted by Mich...