Whisky Porter
7.9% ABV
500ml

Happy Birthday, Richard Emerson. Our founder, the godfather of craft brewing in New Zealand, has turned 60. To honour the great man, we brewed him Richard LX. Our classic London Porter, aged in whisky barrels for four months. 

Desperate Glory is a sour brown ale inspired by Flanders Fields. The base beer is Three On A Match, a rich and complex Belgian Amber Ale with notes of dates, brown sugar and sweet spice. This spent a year resting in bourbon barrels to bring out rich oak and vanilla notes alongside a complex, funky tartness. We then carefully blended this with Chinese Keemun tea to add a light floral character with hints of tobacco and unsweetened cocoa.

8.0%ABV.

We brewed a light lager to barrel back in 2020. In rejecting stylistic norms we refermented this crispy boy warm on beautiful ripe neighborhood apricots in the summer of 2021. This beer is crisp and clean with a fruity nose and barrel character. Bottle conditioned, unfined, unfiltered. 

4.7% ABV, 10 ibu,

BARREL AGED QUALITY TIME PORTER

Baltic Porter 10.3% 330ml

If you are looking for something a bit special then look no further. Our deliciously smooth and rich Baltic Porter spent an extra bit of quality time within the warm embrace of an ex bourbon barrel. The result is a delectable combination of chewy toffee and dark chocolate malts blending seamlessly with charred oak vanilla, liquorice and fig. 

BARREL AGED LAST MINUTE STOUT

Stout 8.4% 330ml

Sometimes the best ideas come at the last minute. Our robust Oatmeal coconut and vanilla stout has big bold roasty espresso notes wrapped in the oaky vanilla character that can only come from time relaxing in a bourbon barrel. 

BARREL AGED DOUBLE DANGER RED ALE

Red Ale 7.9% 330ml

We have taken our favourite lady and made her, well more luscious!  

Allow yourself to be seduced by the luxurious malt body, rich complexity and bright hoppiness hidden in this alluring red ale. We have taken a barrel of Lady Danger that we had been ageing for over 12 months and added this to our blend which has resulted in a potent perfume of ripe fruit wrestling in pine needles enchanting the senses.  An abundance of US hops and balanced malt fullness round out the punchy flavours. This beer is perilously good and dangerously palatable, drinker beware.

A pale sour beer, aged for up to 2 years in wine barrels and then another year on fresh, local and organic feijoas from Helen and Peter at Quinta Feijoas (just down the road in Omaha) who have supplied the fruit for the last 6 years.

6.7% ABV

Fly to Bolivia or fly to Morocco, Master Clown Shoes was told. One place shelters an ancient Shaolin relic that will aid in the correction of the imbalances that have plagued him. The other holds nothing but despair. But which is which? Here we see the Master, a choice arrived at, as he guides a recently acquired mythological owl on a momentous flight to South America.

11% ABV

Old Ale is a strong, dark and malty British beer style that, as the name suggests, is aged for long periods of time. Like historic versions, Not Too Heys was aged in oak barrels with Brettanomyces. Mahogany in colour with nutty, plum, caramel, wood and leather notes. Nicely balanced between the moderate sweetness, substantial bitterness and light acidity.

9.5% ABV

Bear Hug is an Oud Bruin style sour, otherwise known as a Flanders Brown. It was aged for 16 months in oak barrels, before being can conditioned for a further 5 months. This long aging period allows the Pediococcus bacteria to develop the desired sourness and also results in the malt profile  acquiring some sweet sherry like flavors. A complex blend of dark malts and fruity esters, with balanced sweetness and sourness.

6.5% ABV