Written by Rebekah Hay of Hakanoa Handmade Drinks Ltd 1. INTRODUCTION – What do you need to know set up a food business? 2. SUSTAINABILITY – How do you make a food business sustainable? 3. MAKING A LIVING – How do you measure & ensure success? 4. RUNNING A BUSINESS – Taxes, audits, websites, trademarks…
INTRODUCTION I am going to show you how to make the ginger beer that started Hakanoa Handmade Drinks. It was our signature drink for our first 5 years, and I can tell you categorically making it this way is not a viable money-making proposition! It is delicious, fun to make, and you do not need…
THE HAKANOA BLIND TASTE TEST – YOU TELL US WHAT MAKES THE PERFECT GINGER BEER! We ran this tasting at the Ferment! Festival March 27th & 28th 2019 and the Better Food Fair April 6th & 7th 2019 in Auckland NZ. A total of 385 people took the tasting and completed 1 ballot each. All…
Written by Rebekah Hay of Hakanoa Handmade Drinks Ltd 1. INTRODUCTION – What do you need to know set up a food business? 2. SUSTAINABILITY – How do you make a food business sustainable? 3. MAKING A LIVING – How do you measure & ensure success? 4. RUNNING A BUSINESS – Taxes, audits, websites, trademarks…
You don’t sell a lot of ginger beer when the sun ain’t shining. That fact, and the icy wind blowing off the harbour in downtown Auckland on wet Saturday mornings, made me think I needed a warming gingery drink in the Hakanoa repertoire. When we’re making Hakanoa ginger beer, we cook our fresh ginger root…
Hakanoa’s Dry Ginger Beer and Lime & Chilli Ginger Beer are brewed with a wild culture. Wild fermentation, fresh ginger, organic raw sugar, and fresh citrus are all we use.