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...
We have a very limited release beer about to hit a couple of taps around the place. O.S.B. is an English best bitter recipe I have been formulating and tweaking for the last decade. Originally the initials stood for O-Street...
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...
This weekend The Brewers Guild of New Zealand will be running the judging for the BGNZ New Zealand Beer Awards. Last year we entered our ESB and earned a Bronze Medal. This year we have entered 4 beers and I...
There is a lot going on behind the scenes at North End at the moment. There are many many things to let you all know but for now let’s start with cans. We have just confirmed, in the form of...
