5 Jul 2024

Controversy over brewery naming beer "Kupe"

From Morning Report, 8:43 am on 5 July 2024

A Maori cultural advisor is gobsmacked an Upper Hutt brewery has called one of its beers, Kupe, saying it's highly offensive. Te Aro Brewing Company has just released a New Zealand IPA named after the Polynesian navigator, as part of a limited-release of what it's calling the 'Age of Discovery' series. RNZ's Denise Garland spoke Ingrid Hipkiss.