The Beers
Wild, funky, sour and barrel-aged farmhouse beers and ciders from New Zealand’s best producers.
8 Wired x Small Gods Desperate Glory
B.A. Oud Bruin / 8.0% / Matakana
Producer’s Description:
“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 Wired Wireless Black IPA
B.A. Black IPA with Brett / 6.2% / Matakana
Producer’s Description:
“What happens if you ferment a black punchy IPA with a strain of yeast that, until very recently, has been considered a horrible spoilage organism by almost every single beer in the world?
Brettanomyces ferment elevates the fruitiness of the hops, leaves a dry and refreshing mouth feel and just a touch of funk.”
Ninebarnyardowls NV Blend #5
Gueuze Style Blend / 6.0% / Gladstone
Producer’s Description:
"A blend of spontaneously-fermented ales from Gladstone, Wairarapa. Strongly inspired by the Belgian style, Gueuze. Perfumed white stone fruit, subtle barnyard/hay."
Cell Dvision Mélange
Mixed Fermentation Sour / 8.7% / Dunedin & Nelson / 100ml Only
Producer’s Description:
"Mixed fermentation sour aged on Moorpark apricots and dried apricots soaked in Peckham’s Pommeau"
Boneface Rest My Chemistry
100% Brett Ferment Pale Ale / 4.0% / Wellington
Fermented with SafBrew™ BR-8, the world’s first Brettanomyces Bruxellensis yeast available to brewers in a dry microgranular format.
Producer’s Description:
"100% Brett-fermented Lime & Hibiscus Pale Ale"
Brood x Kindeli
Feijoa & Rye
Beer & Cider Blend / 7.4% / Nelson
Producer’s Description:
"In collaboration with our friends at Kindeli we brewed a deeply crunchy rustic Rye Saison on top of a mid-ferment Organic Feijoa Cider. Fermented using a mixed culture including our house wild yeast that we grew from Manuka branches and aged in large format oak over the sunny Spring and Summer months. This beer is incredibly unique and quenching bringing the best fruity acidity of Feijoa balance matched with the body and creaminess of a classic Brood Fermentation Saison."
Craftwork Boysenberry O’ambic
Fruited Lambic-style / 6.5% / Oamaru
Producer’s Description:
"A fruited lambic-style, one year old spon, sitting on South Canterbury Boysenberries for 4 months"
Deep Creek Framboise Noir
B.A. Dark Fruit Sour / 7% / Auckland
Producer’s Description:
“Chocolate and Raspberries always go well together. We decided to take the traditional Framboise Lambic style and add a twist and depth to it by using darker malts. 12-28 Months in NZ red wine barrels and second use Kentucky bourbon barrels, then 3 months on raspberries.”
Emporium Feijoflower
BA Fruited Golden Sour / 5.2% / Kaikoura
Producer’s Description:
“A Golden sour aged with feijoas, elderflowers and elderberries. Unmistakable feijoa pungency with subtly sweet elderflower, pierced by a sharp acidity.
Initially fruit forward, with concentrated feijoa and lilting blossom, those flavours are gradually overtaken by the bracing sourness which takes firm control of the finish.”
Emporium Garden City
Wild Ale / 7.0% / Kaikoura
Fermented with wild culture initially captured in Christchurch
Producer’s Description:
“Pungent nose of passionfruit and lychee over floral nasturtium and funky brett.
Palate starts juicy and tropical before finishing firm and dry with a lingering oak tannin.”
Garage Project Wild Workshop Wildflower: Hopbine
Spontaneous Sour Ale / 7.5% / Wellington
Producer’s Description:
2020 Vintage “For this brew, freshly harvested whole bines were plunged into a light golden base wort creating a spontaneous fermentation using only the wild yeast present hops. The beer was then allowed to age and develop for two Years in oak barrels before being infused with another dose of wet hops. The result of this brewery outing is a complex yet clean citrus like sour, bursting with a delightful hop aroma.”
Garage Project Wild Workshop Four Legs Good
Table Saison / 2.5% / Wellington
Producer’s Description:
“What is a table beer? Brewed to be lighter in alcohol, this sparkling farmhouse style ale has been aged in oak and lightly dry hopped with Wai-iti and Pacifica creating a beer that is dry, crisp and ever so slightly tart. It just might be the most refreshing thing you've put in your mouth. Great with food or for any time you feel like a thirst quenching beer without the heavy alcohol. Table, table here we come.”
Garage Project Wild Workshop Engeltjes Pis
Flanders Red / 8.2% / Wellington
Producer’s Description:
“Inspired by the Flanders Red style, this special sour ale is brewed using a generous portion of dark malts, then aged for an extended period in a mixture of wine and whiskey barrels creating a rich red-brown beer with lifted notes of tart fruit, cherry, plum, vanilla and dark chocolate. Alsof er een engeltje over je tong piest.”
Hallertau Funkonnay 2018
Chardonnay Barrel Aged Sour Ale / 6.7% / Riverhead
Producer’s Description:
“The sour side of life. This beer spends a year in Chardonnay barrels partying with the nicest bugs we know. Lean and fruity, peachy and very dry. Delicate, racy and moreish. You’ll know where we are coming from.”
Knaves & STaves Presents:
Maiden astro
Rosemary & Lemon Saison / 5.0% / Wellington
Producer’s Description:
“Astro is a rosemary and lemon juice sour saison. Uses 100% NZ malt, fresh organic rosemary and lemon juice to create a sour, refreshing summery drink reminiscent of a botanical old fashioned lemonade.”
Knaves & STaves Presents:
Maiden Phobos & Deimos
Wild Ferment Fruit Sour / 6.0% / Wellington
Served two ways: beer engine & keg conditioned
Producer’s Description:
“The moons of the red planet. Alluring, hidden, secretive. Are they the same? Are they of one? Do they hide something bigger or are they the reflective children of our aloof neighbour...
Presented two ways, this peach and pear soured & aged ale makes for 2 different aspects. The beer engine highlights the creamy notes of the pear, while the keg conditioned fizz enhances the sharpness of the peach. A clean aspect with a fine, easy going strength. Compare and contrast the two for a new way into the vastness of the cosmos.”
McLeod’s Petite Saison
Saison / 4.7% / Waipu
Producer’s Description:
“We brewed this Saison with a classic Belgian yeast blend in tandem with brettanomyces & lactobacillus for a spicy, tart ale with soft acidity. Malted oats & rye grains lend a soft, bready body that's surprisingly full yet dry.”
North End Oude Draak 2021
Oud Bruin / 6.2% / Kapiti
Producer’s Description:
“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 blended from our barrel cellar to mark the occasion. Dark, rich and tart it will make you dragon Proof. Tangy fruity & Acidic.”
North End x Emerson’s Sphere of the Winds
B.A. Barley Wine / 12.8% / Kapiti / 100ml only
Producer’s Description:
“A southern hemisphere version of the Arctic Ales originally brewed in the Victorian period to sustain polar explorers. Brewed strong and aged for 4 years in oak with a wild yeast originally from Burton upon Trent.”
North End Cuvee De Moor
B.A. Quadrupel / 13.3% / Kapiti / 100ml only
Producer’s Description:
“Behind the walls of several Belgian monasteries there exists a tradition of making strong, dark, rich, fruity beers packed with the flavours and aromas of dark sugar and dried fruit. The strongest of these are often referred to as quadrupels. Our anniversary beer, Cuvée de Moor, takes the dried fruit one stage further and includes a range of Moroccan fruit and dark sugars in the kettle before resting for a year in bretted pinot noir barrels. Raise a glass to our birthday”
Sunshine Grand Cru
Flanders Red/ 6.0% / Gisborne
Producer’s Description:
“Tart, complex and full of bright, red fruit characters from two years spent maturing in ex-chardonnay barrels. Plenty of Brett funk and Lacto bite make this one to remember.”
Tiamana Even Older Fritze
Barrel Aged Doppelbock / 8.5% / Wellington
Aged in bottles with wild yeast for 7 years
Producer’s Description:
“Tiamana's Dopplebock' 'Old Fritze' aged to true grandeur! This beer rested 7 months in a Sauvignon Blanc barrel with wild yeast, getting ever more smooth and complex. Rich notes of oak, molasses, tobacco, port and caramel. The wild yeast adds a hint of sourness and brett. A rare treat that only comes in a small batch.”
Wilderness Bramble
Fruited Lambic-Style / 6.6% / Christchurch
Producer’s Description:
“Spontaneous (Méthode Traditionnelle) barrel aged beer from the 2020 season, aged for 18 months in french oak, finished with foraged wild black berries.”
Wild & Woolly Megacherryum
Imperial Chocolate Saison / 11.5% / Wellington / 100ml only
Producer’s Description:
“Megacherryum was brewed with cacao husks in the mash, then aged on 130g/L of sour cherries for two months. The malt and fruit flavours are so intense in this beer that the usually dominant saison yeast character becomes an earthy, spicy accent to a great big dessert in a glass. Named after the (sadly) extinct giant South American ground sloth, Megatherium, that almost certainly ate cacao pods, and would probably have loved cherries if it ever found any.”
Wild & Woolly Goat Coaster
Brettanomyces Finished WCIPA / 6.3% / Wellington
Producer’s Description:
“Goat Coaster began life as a West Coast IPA, was secondary fermented with multiple strains of Brettanomyces for 9 months. And then finally dry hopped with a second huge dose of Simcoe and Amarillo hops a few weeks before release. Dry and aggressively bitter, with a huge aromatic hit of fruit, earth, barnyard funk, pine resin and dank. It's difficult to be sure which aromas are yeast derived and which come from the hops, but they play together beautifully.”
Cell Division x Peckham’s Singular Vision
Wild Ferment Single Varietal Cider / 7.4% / Upper Moutere
Producer’s Description:
“Singular Vision is a collaborative cider with Peckham's Cidery. It's a wild-fermented, single varietal cider made with Harry Masters’ Jersey apples. Aged in oak for 16 months, with the added twist of Cell Division’s house culture, this cider captures our shared vision of experimentation with the aim of making something unique and delicious. Expect a big, fruity, autumnal orchard nose, spiced apple, oak and undertones of funk with a super dry, tannic finish.”
Elemental Cider 2019 Dry
Dry Cider / 6.5% / Otaki
Producer’s Description:
“The OG of Elemental Ciders! Made in 2019, with a blend of 15 different cider apples, this tart crisp little number will tantalise your tastebuds. It is bright with fresh flavours of apple blossom and white florals, revealing exotic ginger spice notes. This cider is dry, dr, dry with a fresh, zingy finish. Cider as it should be!”
Peckham’s Kingston Sour
Single Varietal Cider / 8.0% / Upper Moutere
2020 vintage
Producer’s Description:
“The mysterious creatures that spend months beavering away in these barrels of pure Kingston Black juice are so difficult to tame that they are banished to their own space almost 500m from the main cidery. These yeasts (Brettanomyces strains amongst them) deliver a very special character to the cider that invades their home each autumn.
Sour notes reminiscent of a Spanish Sidra Natural. Unfiltered, enjoyably acetic, this is a proper dry cider, but is far from being austere.”
West Cider Windfall
Foraged Cider / 6.0% / New Plymouth
Producer’s Description:
“Foraged windfall apple cider aged on Chardonnay skins for 1 month. 6% lots of funk on the nose but pretty clean on the pallet.”
Non-Funky Beverages
Wild funky sour beers and ciders can get a bit overwhelming…
So we’ve sourced a few interesting non-funky drinks to cleanse your palate:
Rhyme x Reason Go To
Kölsch / 4.3% / Wanaka
Producer’s Description:
“Kölsch, a hybrid style, that we have hit spot on! This crisp golden ale is fermented like a lager with pilsner malt, cold conditioned, and the ultimate go to for your hand.”
Shining Peak Octopus Clamp
Schwarzbier / 5.0% / New Plymouth
Producer’s Description:
“Novelist and Hawera luminary Ronald Hugh Morrieson was a big wrestling fan. His idol was Lofty Blomfield, a lion of the ring whose sickest move was the Octopus Clamp. He and his mates used to drink a brew from the Hawera Brewery called “O.C.” which Ron promptly dubbed Octopus Clamp.
We’re going the rest of the way and making it for real as a chocolatey Schwarzbier with stone fruit and caramel flavours.”
Southward Mountain Gin & Tonic
Gin & Tonic / 5% / Wellington
There’s nothing better than a G&T to cleanse the palate and Southward Mountain is one of the best in NZ! We’ve worked with Southward to have a blend of Mountain gin and tonic on tap at Funk on the water - a beer festival first?
Your G&T will come poured over ice with lemon - crisp and refreshing.
