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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...

- Despatch from 12th December 2023- 3 x Saison De Terroir 750ml Bottle (Blended Farmhouse Ale)- 2 x Baby Grand 500ml Bottle (Flemish Red Ale)- 1 x Cuvee De Moor 500ml Bottle (Barrel Aged Belgian Quadruple)- 1 x La Mure Extra 500ml Bottle (Double Blackberry Farmhouse Ale)- 1 x Rivage Brux 500ml Bottl...

Extra Special Bitter 4.7% Short Dated (18/1/2024) Special Can 4 PackInspired by our ancestors who travelled across the seas to forge a new life in this land we set about brewing a full bodied strong London style bitter. We combined New Zealand Ale Malt, two different crystal malts , a little wheat ,...

 This Russian imperial stout harks back over 200 years to a time before coffee and chocolate were added to beer, to a time when dark soot stained brewhouses in London produced chest thumpingly strong black beers to be exported to Czar ruled Russia to be sipped by imperialist devils. We brewed Merch...

Sometimes if it is worth doing, it is worth over doing. At least that is what a wise brewer once told us. The contents of this bottle is a case in point, we took La Mûre, our Sour Blackberry Farmhouse Ale and barrel aged it with a cocktail of wild yeasts and a massive extra serving of Te Horo blackberries. The result is tangy and fruity with a subtle hint of the wild.