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1. Garage Project
Wellington, New Zealand
What is Garage Project? Garage because it started in a garage, but it’s more than that. It’s also about approaching things with a garage mentality. It’s about playing around, making do and thinking outside the box. The surroundings might be basic but this is no barrier to creativity. This is bière de garage – beer from the garage. And why Project – because it’s ongoing, it’s a work in progress and we plan to keep it that way. For example, we don’t plan to come out with a fixed portfolio of beers – this is about experimenting, pushing boundaries, blurring the boundaries between styles - seeing what works. We love beer styles, but we want to take them somewhere, to reinterpret, not just reproduce them.
2. Parrotdog
Wellington, New Zealand
Parrotdog produce's fine quality beer and is ranked #30 in New Zealand. They are most well known for "Bitterbitch", which is an Other IPA and "Birdseye", which is a New England IPA. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Pale Ales.
3. Heyday Beer Co.
Wellington, New Zealand
Heyday Beer Co. produce's good quality beer and is ranked #42 in New Zealand. They are most well known for "HEYDAY WCIPA", which is an American IPA and "Gryphon Fresh Hop", which is an Imperial New England IPA. Their primary focus is brewing IPAs and Dark Beers.
4. Double Vision Brewing
Wellington, New Zealand
At your Miramar local, we simply aspire to create the kind of damn fine beer that delivers mouth parties and brings a bit of character. We enjoy spending our waking hours taking a second look at what defines a traditional style, and from there, we give the recipe boundaries a bit of a nudge. Yeah sure it might not please the Purity Police… but actually, we’re good with that.
5. Baylands Brewery
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Baylands Brewery produce's decent quality beer and is ranked #48 in New Zealand. They are most well known for "Idaho Haze", which is a New England Pale Ale and "Woodrow's Veto IPA", which is an American IPA. Their primary focus is brewing Pale Ales and IPAs.
6. Mean Doses
Wellington, New Zealand
Dean and Kerry were just regular people until 2018 when they decided to throw caution to the wind. Now they run Mean Doses and make very good beers. Flyin’ away on a wing and a prayer… who could it be? Believe it or not, it’s just Deeean (and Kerry).
7. Fork & Brewer
Wellington, New Zealand
Fork and Brewer were named the 2018 & 2019 Champion Small Brewery of New Zealand by The Brewers Guild of NZ. Premium beer and quality food are literally made for each other, so we created the Fork & Brewer as an ideal venue to showcase both. With up to 42 beers pouring, a top-flight kitchen crew, friendly staff and a 1000 litre brewery on the premises, our mission is to take Wellingtons already awesome beer culture to an entire other level. You can find us upstairs at 20 Bond Street in central Wellington.
8. Waitoa
Wellington, New Zealand
From our home in Hataitai, Wellington we create bold and fresh takes of tried and true classics with an unapologetically Aotearoa flavour. You won’t find anything pretentious or gimmicky in our brews. We believe in keeping it simple and letting the product (and awards) do the talking. It’s even in our name, which can be interpreted as ‘strong water’.
9. Abandoned Brewery
Porirua, New Zealand
It was a dream abandoned in a place joy forgot. Among the cobwebs and grime in an old factory in Epuni, Lower Hutt were the remnants of a brewery left for dead. A hapless experiment, an abandoned jumble of mismatched parts, the broken bones of a brewery lay forgotten. Brought back to life but this time done right. Abandoned Brewery, a true micro-brewery with a neversay- die attitude and a deep belief in the craft, an arsenal of ideas and calm amongst the chaos…this monster lives - Abandoned Brewery 2017.
10. Bassline Brewing
Wellington, New Zealand
Just like that time a homeless man screamed “You’re in the jungle, baby!” at Axl Rose, sometimes a chance encounter can tap you into a new zone of creative inspiration. Such was the case for musos-turned-brewers Abe and Jase from Bassline Brewing, based in Karori, Wellington. For these guys, blowing off some creative steam used to mean picking up an instrument - or at least that was the case until the pair were each gifted a bottle of mindblowing local homebrew. From there, the pair were hooked and quickly took to experimenting with creative brews of their own. Both Abe and Jase started off as solo artists, but quickly found that collaboration made for both better times and better beer. For this brew-duo, crafting a tasty drop didn’t feel so different from a good jam session. When you have the theory down, there’s no limit to the flavours you can start riffing with. From Gorse Flower Lagers to Peruvian Purple Corn Pilsners, Abe and Jase quickly developed a taste for pushing the envelope and pursuing the flavours they weren’t finding in commercial beer. And just like that, Bassline Brewing was born. Whether you’re a sucker for a crowd-pleasing anthem or you prefer your beer with a funkier, more experimental bent, Bassline is all about making beer that is as diverse as the sounds Abe and Jase love. For them, brewing really is like music; as much an art as it is a science.