Beer List for GABS Auckland 2019

A SELECTION OF GABS FESTIVAL BEERS COMING TO AUCKLAND’S ASB SHOWGROUNDS ON 29 JUNE

ACID SUPERHIGHWAY
8 WIRED BREWING (AUK)
Sour IPA 8%

For five years 8 Wired have bought hoppy sours to GABS. Doing it before almost anyone else in the game. If your mind has recovered from last year, why not take another trip?

DOUBLE GIN & JUICE
BASSLINE BREWING (WGN)
Imperial IPA 8%

Rollin’ down the street, packin grapefruit, sippin double Gin and Juice. This is a Double IPA packed with grapefruit, and a hit of laid back, gin-soaked juniper berries.

THE FIX (CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER IMPERIAL STOUT)
BEHEMOTH BREWING CO (AUK) with FIX & FOGG PEANUT BUTTER
Imperial Stout 8.5%

A collaboration with Fix and Fogg Peanut Butter, it’s like eating its chocolate peanut butter right out of the jar.

TIM TAM SLAM
BIG SHED BREWING CONCERN (SA)
Sweet Stout 6%

You know what this is. Coffee, Tim Tam… you’ve done it before and moaned a little as the bikkie melted in your mouth. Give this one an extra kick by sucking it through a Tim Tam...

MADE BY MACHINES
BREWAUCRACY (WKO)
Wheatwine 8%

Wheatwine is a complex, warming and fruity style that has a light acidity from the massive amount of wheat used. This one is all about the glory of the grain, and not the hops-du-jour.

PAPILLON
CANYON FOOD & BREW CO (OTA)
Specialty Beer 5%

This is a melange of French yeast, Australian wheat, New Zealand and German hops, New Zealand barley, New Zealand peel and butterfly pea flowers from Thailand. It will sweep you across the seas.

BEERBOOCHA
COLAB BREWING (AUK)
Specialty Beer 5%

If you love a healthy kombucha then you’ll love the flavours of this beer. Fermented with a kombucha SCOBY it also has acai berry and raspberry. It’s tart, with subtle hop flavours.

CHIPOTLE LIME SALSA GOSE
DEEP CREEK BREWING CO (AUK)
Gose 4.5%

Crushed dehydrated lime, smoked malts and dried chilli, this sour has it all. It’s warming, and with the melding of lime and smoke, you’ll be looking for the nearest taco.

COLLOIDAL HAZE
EMERSON'S BREWERY (OTA)
New England IPA 7%

A colloid is a mixture in which one substance of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance. Or in this case “a hazy hop bomb”.

BABY HAZE IPA
EPIC BEER / HALLERTAU (AUK)
New England IPA 5.5%

Two Aucklanders team up to make a yummy hazy treat for the Australian market. Expect juicy hops, citrus flavours and a delightful mouthfeel.

IMPERIAL BIGGIE
FERAL BREWING CO (WA)
Double New England IPA 8%

They tell us the King of Dank has arrived with this Imperial NEIPA. It packs a massive hop punch, reminiscent of your tropical fantasies. Feral’s juiciest beer yet.

THE RANGER OAKED IPA
FORTUNE FAVOURS (WGN)
New Zealand IPA 6.8%

Aged on oak, this tropical IPA is all about the New Zealand hops. Punchy fruit and a hint of vanilla.

B-BOY
FUNK ESTATE (BOP) with WEBSTER'S TEA
Kettle Sour 5%

A collab with the Estate’s mate at Webster’s Tea. The latter is allegedly a “B-boy from way back” so we’ve given this one the moves with his popular Rooibos and Mango tea, and some kettle souring.

AUNT SALLY’S SLICE OF SUNSHINE
GARAGE PROJECT (WGN)
Specialty Beer 4.5%

Inspired by Florida’s State Pie, the Key Lime. It’s super hazy, sweet, sour, and creamy. Served on nitro, think of this as a “best of” compilation from Garage Project. Every trick in the book.

BRUTUS
HEYDAY BEER CO (WGN)
Brut IPA 7%

Inspired by the wine world, HeyDay have set out to create the Champagne of beers. It uses Chardonnay grapes, champagne yeast and hopped to give a white grape, gooseberry aroma. Finishes bone dry.

GINGER BIRD
KERERU BREWING CO (WGN)
Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer 7%

A cool weather celebration beer with ginger, grains of paradise, candi sugar and citrus peel. Evocative of a delicious cookie.

BLACK FOREST
LAUGHING BONES BREWING CO (AUK)
Milkshake IPA 6%

Black Forest Milkshake IPA takes the hazy IPA trend and blends it with a black forest cake. Laced with cacao, cherries, lactose and vanilla beans, it has the essence of a milkshake and the finish of a beer.

CHATEAU DU TASMAN - INTO THE LIME LIGHT
LIBERTY BREWING CO (AUK) with HAWKERS
Kettle Sour 4.5%

Taking NZ kiwifruit and Australian finger lime, this is a trans-Tasman collaboration that has created a unique Kettle Sour.

CHAIN BAR OIL
LUMBERJACK BREWING CO (BOP)
Imperial Stout 12%

Mulled wine, but in beer form! It’s a barrel aged Imperial Stout that uses red wine barrels, raisins, cranberries, prunes, Christmas spice, and brandy. Beautiful, complex, and warming on a cold day.

LAST LIGHT
MCLEOD'S BREWERY (NTL)
Oatmeal Stout 2.5%

Based near idyllic Bream Bay, the team at McLeod’s enjoy some of New Zealand’s best surf (even in winter). This low-alcohol stout was made for sipping around a cracking bonfire with friends. The perfect pour once the sun sets and the last wave has been surfed.

100% BELGIAN BRETTED SAVVY
MOA BREWING CO (MBH)
Belgian Golden Strong Ale 10.5%

When you are in the heart of wine country, you have things like a 100% brett-savvy just lying round for two years. So Moa did what any brewery would do: blended it with a strong, Belgian style beer. Nom nom nom.

MIDDAY MARGE & RITA
MOUNT BREWING CO (BOP)
Gose 4.7%

With agave and gold kiwi fruit, this is designed to represent the brewery’s duelling personality (Marge and Rita). Sweet, sour, tart, fruity, it’s as close to tequila as they could conjure. Make sure to salt the rim!

DANCING OCEAN
NORTH END BREWERY (WGN)
Gose 5%

In collaboration with Dancing Sands Distillery this is aged in former gin barrels to create the right balance between acidity, salt, gin botanicals and oak.

WHAM BAM THANK YOU NAM
PANHEAD CUSTOM ALES (WGN)
Sweet Stout 8%

A night out in Saigon is something everyone should experience, but if you can’t make it to the streets of Vietnam, then this beer will take you there. Vietnamese coffee is used in the process, and it's served

with a few drops of sweetened condensed milk.

WHAT'S THE TEA?
PINK BOOTS NZ (AUK) with WILDFLOWER BOTANICALS
American Pale Ale 6.2%

A berrylicious hazy Pale Ale featuring the 2019 Pink Boots Hop blend, and in collaboration with Kaikoura based teamaker Wildflower Botanicals.

ESPRESSO BEERTINI
RENAISSANCE BREWING (MBH)
Baltic Porter 8%

In collaboration with Quick Brown Fox Liqueur and Harpoon Coffee this is Renaissance's homage to the Espresso Martini... but with beer. And probably way less basic.

LIZARD'S PICNIC (TYRANT ANT SOUR)
SHIFTY LIZARD BREWING CO (SA)
Kettle Sour 4.5%

Edible ants are appearing more and more in food, so it was only a matter of time before they appeared in beer. This is a kettle soured beer, with a citrus flavour from added Tyrant ants. The true diet of a lizard.

CRÈME BRÛLÉE AMERICAN BROWN ALE
TINKER TAILOR (WGN)
American Brown Ale 6%

Smooth and satisfying, the malty centre is the hero of this beer. Sweet, yet perfectly balanced.

COFFEE AND DONUTS
WAYWARD BREWING CO (NSW) with GRUMPY DONUTS & TOBY’S ESTATE
Sweet Stout 6%

Coffee and donuts are inseparable as Yin is to Yang. In partnership with Grumpy Donuts and Toby’s Estate roasters, this is a Milk Stout, with actual donuts used in the process. All complemented with a special blend of gently roasted beans.

A SELECTION OF GABS FESTIVAL CIDERS

GRANDMA'S APPLE & RHUBARB CRUMBLE
DEVILS BREWERY (TAS)
Cider with Fruit 9%

After nailing it with last year’s ‘Grandma’s Jam Cider’, the Devils team have gone back to the well with this
twist on an Aussie family fave: Grandma’s Rhubarb & Apple Crumble. We’re talking 100% Tasmanian grown rhubarb and apples, freeze distilled to add body, then gassed with Nitrogen for a creamy finish. Delish!

KB1 "PROPER JOB"
LOBO CIDER (SA)
Traditional Cider 6%

LOBO is all about traditional cider made traditionally, using apples, different apples, a blend of traditional cider apples (including the Kingston Black), and just apples that come from their apple trees. Definitely no rare doogle fruit, no exotic spices, no bits of cured pig, no seafood. Just apples.

SMOKED MAPLE CIDER
TWISTED SISTER CIDER (VIC)
COLLABORATING WITH UP IN SMOKE
Specialty Cider 5%

Footscray smokehouse Up In Smoke took a bunch of apples and gave them the full cold smoke treatment, before handing them over to Twisted Sister to press and ferment along with more than a few litres of smoked maple syrup. In cider terms, it’s a game changer.