Kiwi Kollektion

West Coast style, using all kiwi hops An aromatic pale celebration of modern hop varieties. Fruity hoppy goodness.

Made for the Smiths NZ IPA challenge in Queenstown 2018. Jam packed with Rakau and Sauvin with a few others. Unfiltered, but not hazy. Smooooth bitterness.

Beware, this is a BIG beer. Brimming with luscious roasted coffee and chocolate malt flavours which are balanced by a brisk bitterness and bold freshness from the hops. If you’re feeling politically incorrect try it with your favourite cigar, or a dram of your best single malt whisky. Or, if your tooth is sweeter, why not jump in at the deep end with the most decadent dessert of all; half a bottle in a glass with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream on top (beer geeks like us know it as the Imperial Stout Float). Or simply enjoy it on its own as a decadent dessert or night cap - the perfect winter warmer! If you don’t already know the history of Russian Imperial Stouts please check it out on the internet, it’s a good story. But remember, although based on that century-old classic style, this beer is a very modern interpretation, like all our beers!

Beach Hoist started as a collaboration with Barley Browns from Oregon , taking the Pac North West style of IPA and using NZ Hops. It has now taken on a life of it's own.

The coming together of Braeburn Apples with New Zealand Hops. Bushwack your way through this fresh, crisp and fruity cider and leave civilisation behind.

For this curious and juicy IPA we used hops that we had never tried before, loading the brewhouse with Cashmere, Azacca and the experimental HBC 472.
It’s important to stay curious, even if it did kill the cat...

A rather traditional milk stout, taken up a notch by the additional of Cuban and Brazilian coffee, freshly roasted by our friends at C4 Coffee.

Honourably named after New Zealand's national style of barista coffee. A title that has been wrestled away from freeze dried instant coffee and made our country one of the best coffee nations in the world. In our own humble opinion....

Brewed with coffee, vanilla beans and lactose.

An Oat Rye Stout combining a range of interesting roasted grains including caramelized rye , chocolate wheat, oats and roast barley.

This Baltic porter was brewed in NZ at 8 Wired with Polish brewers Browar PINTA in October 2017. Using Polish hops, we combined the Baltic Sea with the Tasman sea.

Rock Steady baby! It’s what I feel now. Let’s call this beer exactly what it is, an extra pale and hoppy body rocker. It’s toasted bread, tropical fruit and citrus notes will get your hips moving and grooving, shakin’ side to side.

Rock Steady has a light malt base with a touch of wheat, and gladiator give it’s pale colour and body and the US hop Summit along with a couple of kiwi classics provide a spicy citrus and passionfruity tang. Super smashable year round.

A little twist on our APA. Introducing Grapefruit Mothership. It's still the same 5% base recipe with an upfront zingy grapefruit character.

A big IPA finished with an experimental hop oil derived from Citra and Simcoe pellets. The addition of hop oil gives a strong pine and grapefuit flavour, that compliments the solid malt platform and legit bitterness of this burly beer.

Strap on your triangle bikini, book the sun bed, it's our first birthday and we're off to Copacabana! But unlike Barry Manilow, our brewery and this Brut IPA are at the forefront of global beer culture.

Emerging from the Northern California beer scene, the Brut IPA style is brewed and fermented so that no residual sugars remain in the beer, giving a light body and sparkling effervescence. If it weren’t for the intense aromas of fresh fruit salad with melon, mango, stone fruit and lemon tart, you'd swear you were drinking a fine champagne.

Bone-dry and spritzy, this hugely aromatic Brut IPA will make you want to dust off the white tuxedo, bust out the hair spray and hit the dance floor... Its Carnival in a can!

An assertive hop forward IPA with an initial sensory explosion of USA West Coast hops bursting with guava, mango and tropical fruit. This is quickly followed by a rich boozy body and a lingering bitterness.

Farmhouse Saison

A refreshing, light, hoppy, sour and very fruity tasting ale inspired by traditional Berliner Weisse ales. Naturally soured by live cultures and dry hopped with American and New Zealand hops. Probably the closest thing I have tasted to fruit juice, that didn't contain any fruit at all! - It's a trip!

A classic Berliner Weisse style sour with the addition of raspberry and mango pulp. Up front fruity tartness of raspberry balanced by a touch of mango sweetness. Crisp and clean on the palate.

Sour ale with marlborough cherries aged in wine barrels

Sour ale brewed with organic feijoas and aged in wine barrels.

This IPA was not only brewed with a ludicrous amount of hops but also fermented with brettanomyces bruxellensis. The little critter that many brewers love to love turns a relatively normal beer into something vastly different, complex and rewarding. Super dry, hoppy, funky and more than a little bit fancy.

Who doesnt like a fresh raspberry sour? This one is brewed with freeze dried oregano, basil and thyme. Fruity, cmmplex, effervescent and bery refreshing!

Our springtime seasonal release from our Tiki Range of fruit cocktail inspired sours. Zesty grapefruit dominates this refreshing kettle sour, with a subtle Lychee sweetness giving an added depth of flavour. Get up and Hula with Miss Tiki!

Malbec Barrel Aged Baltic Porter

Gypsy Fruits is a grapefruited version of Gypsy Funk, a beer we did a few years ago. It's a sour beer that was aged in barrels for about 2 years before we added a large amount of local organic grapefruits. Then we aged it for another 3 months, blended it and dry hopped it heavily. It's very grapefruity and since we used real grapefruit (not extract) it has the characteristic bittnerss of the fruit as well, not just the flavour. It's pretty full on but we like it, hope you will too !!

With the tropical aroma and flavours of sweet pineapple and a hint of fresh mint overlaying a light zesty citrus base, this is the perfect refresher to transport yourself to an island paradise!