Kiwi Kollektion

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!

Light body, low bitterness and a balanced, fruity New Zealand hop profile makes up our core range pale ale. Designed to be anyone's go-to beer with its lower alcohol and easy drinking qualities. Gold medal NZ Brewers Guild Awards 2017

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.

Brewed for the Smiths IPA Challenge in Queenstown, Roxbury Hazy NZIPA uses a single hop blend called THE BRUCE. Freestyle Hops NZ combined the freshest Nelson Sauvin, Motueka, Pacifica and Pacific Jade cones at harvest and pumped them into hop pellets. The aroma has fresh gooseberry, citrus peel, ripe tropical fruit and orange blossom. An awesome light orange glow and is hazy AF. A tasty hop bomb, with low bitterness and a smooth mouthfeel. 

Oak Aged Barley Wine

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!

This American Pale Ale uses US hops and all kiwi malt. A sturdy ale with shed-loads of dry-hopping. It pours a gorgeous auburn colour, with hop aromas of tropical fruit and sweet orange, then on tasting has flavours of grapefruit and pine. Rounded out with a taste of toffee and a mellow bitterness.

The clean fruity aroma of this well-balanced pale ale makes it the ideal beverage to enjoy all afternoon. The bright auburn appearance is showcased through a mix of pale malts, and a subtle bitterness comes forward with citrus and spicy undertones.

As a tribute to the home of pale ale, we use English hops and brewing techniques, but with a modern New Zealand take on this British staple. This ensures every sip brings you back to the Brixton pubs in which it was first enjoyed, stopping over at our Kingsland brewery on your way.

A big, sticky beast of a stout. Brewed with a good amount of date syrup, aged in Merlot barrels for 12 months and then further rounded off with a touch of vanilla

Groovy yuzu, black lime, tart and addictive nectar. Enjoy!

Our interpretation of a New Zealand hopped pale ale can best be described as Tropidelic. With plenty of exotic fruit flavours from the hops it's an island orchard of fresh fruit salad but with the characteristic 8 Wired touch of balance, as you would imagine.

Farmhouse Saison

Malbec Barrel Aged Baltic Porter

A refreshing, light, hoppy, sour beer inspired by traditional Berliner Weisse ales then remixed with fresh NZ grown cucumbers. Naturally soured by live cultures and hopped with American and New Zealand hops. Cool as a cucumber, dude.

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 !!

Saison refermented in barrel with spontaneous microbes.

It's a rendition of an age old monastery beer, but we do it in the 8 Wired way. Brewed and dry hopped with NZ grown Styrian Golding Hops, fermented with a Belgian yeast and refermented with Brettanomyces.  

Solera is our yearly release of a tank aged Lambic style beer, untouched by wood. Named Solera for the process for aging alcohol by fractional blending. We pitch new wort on top of the mother culture, allowing it to grow in complexity and flavour.

This 2019 vintage is a golden sour ale, aged for 15 months in tank, never actually touching wood. First vintage. Medal winner NZ Beer Awards.