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Citizen Collective

Auckland, New Zealand

Not bad beer so much as unremarkable beer.

Score

3.45/ 5

Popularity

Barely rated

Beers tracked

10

Citizen Collective is a brewery in Auckland, New Zealand. We grade it Poor, with a score of 3.45 out of 5 on the beer it brews — #141 in New Zealand. Of the 10 beers we track, 35% are Pale Lager and 29% Pale Ale.

Ranked

New Zealand
#141
Worldwide
#12,811

About Citizen Collective

Citizen Collective was founded in 2020, with an ambition to help reduce food waste in Aotearoa New Zealand, by diverting surplus foods from waste or low-value streams. Our first product is craft beer made using surplus bread. We collect unsold bread from supermarkets and use it to replace a quarter of the malt barley in each brew. Every can of Citizen uses the fermentable starches from one rescued slice of bread - helping to reduce food waste, and also reducing the amount of virgin barley required in each brew. We brew in Matakana with our wonderful brew partners, Sawmill Brewery. Sawmill is B-Corp certified, which means they meet the highest environmental and social standards. Once our brew is done, we use our brew mash to create a nutritious spent-grain flour. This flour is a key ingredients in Citizen bread, along with excess pressed malt liquid that would otherwise go to waste. Our baking partners, Wild Wheat, are renowned for their artisan sourdough loaves, and the Citizen Malty Sourdough (available at Farro Fresh and Wild Wheat stores in Auckland) is an absolute doozy!

What they brew

  • Pale Lager35%
  • Pale Ale29%
  • IPA15%
  • Cider15%
  • Amber Lager7%

How their beers score

Every beer we track from Citizen Collective, grouped by score.

  • 5.0
  • 4.5
  • 4.01
  • 3.55
  • 3.01
  • 2.5
  • 2.0
  • 1.5
  • 1.0
  • 0.5

Find them

Address
Auckland
Website
citizen.co.nz
Social
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