Weird & Wonderful brews of Beervana 2024

Step inside our delicious beery wonderland this weekend as we take your tastebuds on a magical tour of the country's best breweries. With the 2024 Beervana beer list now out, we're highlighting a few out-of-the-ordinary and “non-beery beers” that will have even the biggest beer lovers questioning…what is beer!?

Top of the Pops

• Double Vision Brewing - Colar Raspberry - Raspberry Cola Sour - 4.5% A Kiwi kid’s favourite. Made with loads of real raspberries and cola nut. 
• Double Vision Brewing - FANTAil - Orange Soda Sour Beer - 4.5% 
• Liberty Brewing - Dr Pepper - Beer-based Cocktail - 5% - Larger with cherry and almond syrup
• Hallertau - Haterade - Soured IPA 8.5% - Don't expect to make friends sharing this beer. Grapefruit notes that are slightly salty and bitter from hater's tears. 

Icecream, You Scream

• Garage Project - Mango and/or Raspberry seltzer soft serve swirl - This year the soft serve maching is serving Mango or Raspberry seltzer soft serve. 
• Duncan’s Brewing - Real Fruit Ice Cream Cake - Ice Cream Sour - 6% Duncan’s turns 10, let’s party and drink Ice Cream Cake! A glorious trifecta of raspberry, blueberry and strawberry, with a swirl of vanilla for that real fruit ice cream hit. 

Get Your Just Desserts

• Alchemist - Duchess Brownie - Beer-based Cocktail - 7.6% Duchess Chocolate & Hazelnut gin liqueur mixed with raspberry puree and finished off with Emerson’s London Porter.
• Altitude Brewing - Extra Dose - Cinnamon Roll Golden Pastry Stout - 10.5% Made with mountains of caramel and biscuit malts, imported vanilla beans and gently toasted cinnamon sticks, then conditioned with marshmallows and hints of cold-brewed coffee. Tastes like a liquid freshly baked cinnamon roll.
• Duncan’s Brewing - Maple Bacon Pancake - Imperial Pastry Stout - 10%  Duncan's have brewed brunch in a glass with this winter warming Imperial Pastry Stout. Sweet, sticky, smoky and a little salty with a fluffy pancake inspired malt bill.  No actual pigs were harmed.
• Duncan’s Brewing - Lemon Meringue Float - Ice Cream Sour Float 4.7% Just like Grandma used to make: crumbly crust, tangy lemon curd, pillowy peaks of meringue... all topped with a scoop of The Enormous Croc Co. Lemon Meringue Ice.
• Eddyline Brewing - American-as Pumpkin Pie - Pumpkin Ale - 5% This award-winning spiced ale is made with real pumpkin and a secret blend of spices. 
• Garage Project - Bake Sale - Pastry Stout - 12.4% Banana Bread, Coconut Rum Cake and Chocolate Fudge Brownie
• Morningcider - Peace O’Pie - Blueberry Pie Cider - 4.5% Blending crunchy cinnamon topping with blueberries and Granny Smith apples, this desserty sip is about to become the apple of your pie!
• One Drop Brewing - Full Up - Pastry Stout - 10.5% A new pastry-laden Imperial Stout made with our pals at Altitude Brewing in Queenstown. Rob flew over with a pack of our favorite bikkies and we conjured up a deliciously lactose-heavy foundation of over nine types of specialty malts, juxtaposed by light and fluffy chocolate-coated marshmallows sitting on a shortcake biscuit base. 
• Three Sisters Brewery - Chocolate Nutella Banana Cream Pancake Sour - 6.5%

It’s Always Sunny

This year, it looks like we’re all looking for a little summer sunshine in a glass with a very clear theme coming through of either summer berries or tropical flavours.

Summer Berries

• Altitude Brewing - Jam Sessions Vo 13: Strawberry & Sea Buckthorn - Nitro Smoothie Sour - 6.4% The unique and piquant vibrancy of sea buckthorns take centre stage, partnering with sweet juicy strawberries for a carefully choreographed combo of yum. A thick orange pour with a slight pink hue from the strawberry and delivers an aroma of tangy citrus with a sweet strawberry poke. Despite the huge sweet and sour punch, there is a balanced, luscious mouthfeel and clean sour base to finish out the beer.
• Beers by Bacon Bros - Framboise Patisserie - Raspberry Pastry Stout - 6.8% Good presentation with strong off white head. Natural raspberry nose with roast malt. Strong raspberry flavour with sweetness and good dark malt/roast malt characters. Pastry stout with fruit, sweetness but maintains stout credentials
• Brew Moon Brewing Company - Layer Cake - Pastry Stout - 5.5% A pastry sour designed to replicate the American dessert; Strawberry Pretzel Salad. Strawberries, bananas and cream come together for a sweet, fruity, sour delight.
• Double Vision Brewing - Scallywag - Strawberry Milkshake IPA - 6.2%
  Huge amounts of strawberry puree and lactose for a creamy texture to play with the tropical fruit and berry flavours from Mosaic and Ekuanot. All sitting atop and a pillowy malt base of Oats, Pilsner Malt and Wheat.
• Garage Project - Yuzu Sunrise - Yuzu & Raspberry Layered Sour - 5.2% This beer is about letting the yuzu shine and comprises of two beers: a yuzu sour ale and a raspberry sour ale, the red resting gently on top like tangerine clouds on a setting sun. This beer was initially brewed for Firestone Walker Festival in 2017 - we love a bit of theatre, and beer festivals are one of the best places to pull out all the stops and present a beer that bends the mind a bit.
• Morningcider - Strawberry Slushy - Cider Slushy - 6% A blend of ripe strawberries, juicy peaches, and rosé cider, making this slushy an incredibly refreshing treat. 
• Shining Peak Brewing - Thorny Drop Blackberry Sour - Blackberry Dessert Sour - 6%  This Lactose-infused Sour Beer uses truckloads of blackberries and a dash of lemon.
• Brouhaha - Imperial Strawberry Rhubarb Sour - Kettle Sour - 8% Strawberries and Rhubarb tear up the dance floor in this imperial take on our most popular beer.

Let's Get Tropical 

• Alchemist - Tropical IPA - Beer-based cocktail - 6.3% Duchess Summer Escape gin liqueur mixed with passionfruit puree, and fresh lime. Topped off with Emerson’s Orange Roughy Tropical Pale Ale.
• Duncan’s Brewing - Mango Pudding - Smoothie Sour - 6% Our version of a vegan liquid Mango Pudding. It’s sweet, fruity, and silky smooth; complimented perfectly with coconut milk, a touch of passionfruit, salt, and vanilla.
• Sudden Death Brewing - Lush Blossom Punch - Fruited Sour - 5% Lush Blossom Punch is Sudden Death’s Tiki-inspired fruit sour loaded with pineapple, coconut cream, banana, orange, and lime purée and concentrate, finished with a touch of vanilla and sea salt.
• Te Aro Brewery - Get Lucky - Fruited Sour - 4.8% Not everyone likes hops and bitterness, so Te Aro have brought along a Fruited Sour with tart raspberry puree and sweet Mango. 
• One Drop Brewing - Wynwood Hood - Smoothie Sour - 8.2% Inspired by the Florida Weisse, in true OD fashion, they’ve cranked the whole thing right up to 305, with a higher ABV, enhanced mouthfeel, and a base fit to load up on huge doses of mango, pineapple, passionfruit, and coconut water during fermentation. Tropical, tasty, and oh-so vibrant.
• Yeastie Boys - Mangoes into a Bar - Mango Hazy - 5.8% Dive into the sweet embrace of succulent mangoes, seamlessly blended with the perfect amount of hop bitterness, creating a flavor symphony that'll have you singing its praises.
• Garage Project - Maui Wowie - Pineapple, Passionfruit, & Coconut Milkshake 7.2% Pack your bags and take your mouth for an island holiday. Sour, juicy sour with sweet passionfruit and pineapple, balanced with smooth rolling waves of creamy coconut and milk sugar. I

Check out the full beer list here.

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