North End Brewing ♡

The Red Ales of Flanders are the balsamic emperors of Belgian beer. Tart, complex and deeply fruity they are the product of long slow ageing in wooden barrels. Baby Grand takes inspiration from Flanders and from the Bordeaux style wines of the Hawkes Bay resulting in a tart deeply fruity complex beer aged for 18th months in French oak cabernet sauvignon barrels.

Twice a year when the sun sets over Kapiti Island at just the right angle the island takes on the appearance of a dragon breathing fire. A small band of locals throw a party when this happens to celebrate the day of the Dragon’s Nose. Oude Draak, Flemish for Old Dragon, is a Flanders Brown Ale ...

A single barrel release from our spontaneous beer program. Each year we select one barrel of roughly one year old beer to be released without any fruit additions or blending. This beer is inspired by the lambic beers of Belgium and is fermented with the wild microbes of the Waikanae air. Tart ,funky...