We are standing on the threshold of a new important phase of our business. As our brewery plant is still delayed we have installed our canning line at Panhead and Mike from Panhead and Pete from Garage Project have got...
Here are a couple of videos we have put together. Filing kegs at Panhead North End at Brewday Festival 2015 KHM talking about our new sour fruit beer Eucharist
In just under a weeks time we will be pouring at the third incarnation of the Brewday Festival. Last year the festival instituted a festive brew theme and brewers were encouraged to brew beers to the theme. Last year the...
Next week we will be heading over to Martinborough to attend one of our favourate beer festivals. Brewday is an awesome chilled out beer fest involving brewers from the greater Wellington region and has a wonderful ‘day in the country’...
Several months ago we received two ex Te Kairanga Sauvignon Blanc barrels . White wine barrels are a lot harder to acquire than red barrels as wineries tend to reuse white barrels more times than they do red barrels meaning...
6 Months ago we started the North End barrel aging program when we took receipt of two Bordeaux barrels that were formerly used to age red wine at the Te Mata Winery in the Hawke’s Bay. One of the barrels...
It seems amazing but in a month’s time we turn 2 years old. We have come a long way in those two years although not nearly as far as our initial plans suggested giving proof to the rule that starting...
The white IPA we brewed for Beervana this year Blanc de Houblon was a huge success, so much so that we decided to brew a big batch of it as our summer seasonal. The beer had to have a few changes...
Things are starting to take form at 11 Ngaio Rd. Our cold room walls have been installed , the first barrel containing Southerly Front has been joined by a second filled with a Flemish red ale. As soon as our...
This week we filled our first former Te Mata Wine barrel with beer. The first barrel was filled with Southerly Front our historic Burton Ale topped up with some ESB and a good dose of the wild yeast brettanomyces. The...
Back at the start of the year we brewed Le Chaleureux Rivage Saison for the Wellington Brewday Festival. Le Chaleureux Rivage balanced the Belgian spice of the special saison yeast with coriander seed and black peppercorns and the exotic fruit...
At Beervana this year we will be pouring the rarest beer we have ever brewed. Blanc de Houblon (or White Hop) is a special White Belgo IPA that blends elements of the NZ IPA, Wit and Saison styles together to...
