New Zealand Craft Beer

Some people say they don't like hazy pale ales. They reckon they look weird, or that the massive fruit flavours are too intense. Some other people say there's no accounting for taste.

Both of these groups of people are wrong. Hazy 'New England style' pale ales are awesome, there IS accounting for taste, and we are watching you. You have been warned.

5.7% ABV

Armageddon is the pinnacle of impish brewer Luke Nicholas's obsession with American hops! This 6.66% abv beer hits you in the face with massive aromas of lychee, gooseberry, and grapefruit before filling your mouth with resinous citrusy hop flavours and a firm malt profile. 

A long awaited release! Supplies won't last long.

6.66% ABV.

The "I" might be in lower case, but beware - this is a capital beer. 

Brimming with luscious roasted coffee and chocolate malt flavours, iStout is balanced by a brisk bitterness and bold hoppy freshness. 

As with all our beers, this beer is a very modern interpretation of this classic style. 

10% ABV

A super refreshing Pilsner using the much overlooked Green Bullet hop. A perfect thirst quencher on a hot day.

5.0% ABV.

Designed to be light and aromatic with a minimal malt base packed with NZ hops. Wai?iti (low alpha hop - more hop and less bitterness). NZ grown Chinook hops (Punchy flavoursome hop)

6% ABV.

This gorgeous NEIPA is Eddyline's classic CrankYanker recipe but modified by boosting the tropical El Dorado Hops, and adding a touch of Citra hops along with the standard Centennial and Mosaic.

 It comes across as a dank juiciness bursting with tropical aromas.

6.5% ABV.

Our Amigo Mexican Amber is based on one of our favourite Mexican beers, Negra Modelo and technically is considered a Munich Dunkel.  Made with German lager yeast, all New Zealand Gladfield malts and malted maize corn, and NZ hops it is an authentic representation. This easy drinking beer is great for any occasion and goes well with any meal and enjoyed by all generations.

5.5% ABV.

This is our medal winning Roaring 40's Robust Porter.  We love a good porter for its richness but don't like a harsh roast bitterness; we avoid this by building the malt profile with nearly a dozen malts to create a rich roastiness with minimal bite.  Carbonated and Nitrogenated for a rich smoothness.

6.3% ABV.

Two words sum up this  Hazy Extra Pale Ale for our brewer Manaia - ?dank pineapples?. This unfiltered, juice bomb is packed exclusively with delicious tropical U.S Mosaic hops. So we?d have to agree. Dank pineapples with lashings of mango and a dash of guava makes it thirst quenching beyond belief. That sounds like something to dance about.

4.5% ABV.

HOME & AWAY SERIES: Trillium Brewery

Sunrise Valley

Home & Away: A series of re-brews bringing some of our funnest overseas collaborations back to the Garage. 
For this release we bring you Sunrise Valley: originally brewed in Canton, Massachusetts with East Coast brewing legends Trillium, using a radical hop-free boil, and a massive dry hop addition of New Zealand Nelson Sauvin and Rakau hops. Brinigng home the goodness.

Double Dry Hopped Hazy DIPA
8.0% ABV

Lovingly known at the brewery as '802's little brother'. This is the first batch we've canned, so we made it extra special with party faves Mosaic & Citra hops. Along with a massive citrus blast & fruit salad on the nose, there's enough malt holding it together & a soft mouthfeel over balanced bitterness. Enjoy it with friends or by yourself. It's a little slice of our place at yours!

4.8% ABV.

A golden, gluten-free ale made with sorghum, rice, and New Zealand Goldings hops, Auro Gluten-Free Ale is clean, very clear, light and refreshing, with full malty flavour and body.

5% ABV.

Brewer's Notes

We really care about our beer and making the best quality beer possible. Auro Gluten-Free Ale is no exception and is made under HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points). It has 4 stages where we check for the absence of gluten in the beer - in the kettle, in the fermenter, post filtration, and in package. We use an industry accepted method for testing for the presence of gluten (gliadin and hordein proteins) which has an incredibly low threshold of detection of 1PPM (which is well below the accepted minimum detection level of 3PPM). Food Standards Austalia New Zealand specifies that a product may only be called Gluten-Free if there is no gluten detected and considers a result of less than 3PPM as suitable for calling "Gluten-Free". We test ourselves at a far more stringent level of testing than is applied in the US, EU, UK, Australia or New Zealand. We are confident that we are achieving this result and would not release the beer if it tested otherwise. We produce other products which do contain gluten and have a very rigorous cleaning schedule which we follow prior to making our gluten-free beer. Breweries are typically kept to a very high standard of cleanliness, but there are problem points which we have identified on our brewhouse where proteins can build up as staining or deposits. To address this we perform a second level of cleaning beyond our usual caustic-based standard cleaning procedures with an intensive renovation cleaning procedure prior to making Auro. To do this we strip off key fittings from the brewhouse and manually clean the problem areas and visually inspect all surfaces to make sure they are not stained with deposits, and then use a hot-acid detergent wash of all the food contact surfaces in our kettle, heat exchanger, and transfer hose.

BIRDSEYE

Our feathered friends see the world differently. Through birds? eyes, things might look almost psychedelic to us, with heightened colours and fresh hues forming a surprising new spectrum. This hazy, citrus and stonefruit accented IPA with a mellow, soft and silky texture gives a similarly refreshing change of perspective.

5.8% ABV.

The taste of Kiwi hay paddocks and sunshine, bright fresh fruity New Zealand hop aromas (passionfruit, mango, citrus) layered over a firm biscuity malt backbone.

Refreshing and complex. As far as we are concerned the crucial element for a perfect summer. 

Drink with: Barbequed fish, shellfish , salads.

4.2% ABV.