My own run-in with the New Zealand numbers was five years ago now, and Michael (at hoppiness.co.nz) did a similar exercise a few years after mine. Interesting that Oregon featured so prominently in the "report" I was pushing back against; presumably that number was as shaky as the rest.

A New Zealand brewery headcount

I want to know how many breweries there are in New Zealand. And I honestly think it’s strange that it’s a hard thing to find out. Even the smallest of them is visible from hundreds of m…