22 October 2007: A Tasty Reward

A brewery in New Zealand is offering a lifetime supply of free beer in return for a stolen laptop.

The computer, containing designs, creative work, contact details and financial information, was stolen from the Croucher Brewing Company in the central North Island city of Rotorua.

The owners are desperate to get it back because, while the company has back-up copies of its work, they are not as up-to-date as the data on the stolen machine.

The "lifetime supply" - which they say is about 12 beers each month - is offered to whoever turns in the person responsible for the burglary.