8Wired Brewing

Imagine, if you will, a theoretical macro-brewed lager. Crisp, straw-coloured, unchallenging lager. Now, try to imagine what its opposite would be. You could be imagining the 8 Wired Feijoa Sour. Different in almost every regard: a sour lambic beer brewed

American style IPA, brewed with the Dankest super hops we can find. Very aromatic - pungent, sweaty, grassy, and sticky. Massive grapefruit and zesty orange peel bitterness flavours cut through the hysteria to save the day.

Style: IPA
ABV: 6.2%
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This is the last barrel aged beer we brewed in Blenheim, before uprooting and setting up a new brewery in the North. A 100% spontaneous fermented and barrel aged lambic inspired beer, co-fermented with the equally spontaneous fermented Marlborough Sauvign

A sour ale brewed the traditional way. Aged in Pinot Noir barrels for two years with Blackcurrants and a cocktail of microbes, creating a complex melange of funk, fruit and tartness.

Style: Sour Ale
ABV: 7.7%
Vol: 500 ml

Aroma is spicy sour, cherry, woody, fruit pips, vanilla, woody. Flavour is composed of semi swet, cherry, marzipan, wood, tart raspberries, light smoke. Palate is semi sweet, highish carboantion, dry finish. Nice complexy . Raspberry shurbert.

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This version of the iconic 8 Wired iStout Imperial Stout has has been barrel aged in wine barrels for 3 years. The barrel aging has added an entirely new level of flavour complexity and aromatics. There's layer upon layer of delicious maltyness and richne

This is an ale that is not afraid of standing tall among other great beers. The intense, sharp and fruity hoppiness is backed by its complex, caramel-like malty structure. Big, yet refreshing. Bold but balanced. This beer has been designed to have it all,

Hippy Berliner Cucumber Edition. A very pale wheat beer low in alcohol with light bread and clean lactic sour flavours.

Style: Berliner Weissbier
ABV: 4.5%
Vol: 440ml

Saisons have been around for ages. Traditionally brewed by Belgian and French farmers to provide refreshment during harvest. I'm guessing that flavour wasn't a main concern back then; the priority was to provide a beverage that was safe to drink, because

American style barley wine, brewed with New Zealand malt, Australian hops, English yeast and aged on French oak. A true globetrotter, a mighty Lord of the Atlas.

Style: Barley Wine
ABV: 12%
Vol: 500ml

Beware, this is a BIG beer. Brimming with luscious roasted coffee and chocolate malt flavours which are balanced by a brisk bitterness and bold freshness from the hops.

If you’re feeling politically incorrect try it with your favourite cigar, or a dra

We're pretty sure HopWired is the first bottled new world India Pale Ale made with NZ grown pale ale malt and 100% unique NZ hops. We bet you'll find nothing else like it on the shelves.

Although there's plenty of malty sweetness, this beer is all abo

Sometimes - OK, rather often, actually - I find myself asking, "How far can we take it?" Keeping in mind that flavour should be the main objective at all time, the conception of Bumaye was one of those moments. To make it we started out with the baddest i

Now what is this? A smoked beer?? It really isn't as crazy as it sounds. 250 years ago virtually all beers were smoked (it's true, Google it!), but with the dawning of the industrial revolution most of the smoke lifted. However, in the German town of Bamb

Imperial stout brewed with dates, jaggery and vanilla beans. Fermented in open oak-foudres and further oak aged.

Style: Imperial Stout
Vol: 500ml
ABV: 11%