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Local ginger beer company turning failed batch into charitable opportunity

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 20 Jan 2021, 6:12PM
Hakanoa Handmade founder Rebekah Hay in 2014. (Photo / NZ Herald)
Hakanoa Handmade founder Rebekah Hay in 2014. (Photo / NZ Herald)

Local ginger beer company turning failed batch into charitable opportunity

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 20 Jan 2021, 6:12PM

The bottling company for a small ginger beer producer accidentally added too much lemon juice to their drink. and ruined the batch of 15,000 bottles.

The drink is perfectly fine to drink, but it’s not the ginger beer that was ordered.

But for the insurance company to pay for the mishap, the company would have to destroy the batch - but they don't want to do that.

Rebekah Hay, founder of Hakanoa Handmade Drinks, told Heather du Plessis-Allan that they know how much work goes into making their ginger beer. 

Instead, they will donate the drink to the needy - she explained how they will do that. 

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