Last week we released a new beer. Yellow Eye is our new IPA combining both English and new world influences to create a tropically fruity malty India Pale Ale. We have used an English style malt bill, a combination of...
Shortly before Christmas we ventured into new territory for our spontaneous fermentation program. Up until now our program has used the wild microbes of our brewery environment to inoculate our wort and ferment our spontaneous beers. However, for some time...
The last few months have seen us release a raft of Belgian style beers. We always aimed to be a Belgian and English inspired brewery but it took us a year to bed in the brewery and begin our Belgian...
When we ferment and age our beers in barrels a skin called a pellicle forms across the top of the beer helping to protect the beer below from oxidation. This is an element that we have in common with sherry...
Beervana is just around the corner. This year there is a dedicated sour beer bar and no surprise considering the current trends in beer and the themed bar there are going to be more sours than ever before pouring. This...
Our first seasonal tall boy 440ml cans have hit the market! Now available are Old Island Burton Ale and Iron Sands Oat Rye Stout and our first Salt and Wood range can Oud Bruin. We have a bunch of seasonal...
There are two Belgian traditions of sour beer production that really fascinate us. The first is the mixed fermentation process which is traditionally used to produce the red and brown beers of Flanders. Baby Grand and Oud Bruin both fit...
Earlier this year we released the first of our Salt and Wood range of barrel aged mixed fermentation beer in bottles. The first three releases were: Baby Grand our Hawkes Bay Cab Sav influenced Flanders Red Ale, Rivage Brux our...
It’s been way to long between updates. The business of running a brewery ended up taking over for a bit there. There is a lot to post about but first here is something I have been meaning to write for...
Happy New Year from the team here at North End. We have a whole heap of exciting things planned for 2016. First up on the list is the release of the first beers from our Barrel program which are due...
Craft beer in New Zealand has come along way in the last 10 years. From a focus on lagers and the development of the New Zealand hopped Pilsner, through the rise of hoppy pale ales , into a lupulin arms race...
In the next few weeks we will be launching a new Pilsner and we are very excited about it. When Mike Nielson launched Panhead a couple of years ago he told me that he included a Pilsner in his line...
