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Two very different styles of beer from local breweries have made it into the annual New World Beer & Cider Awards Top 30 winning brews.
8 Wired Brewing’s dark beer Baltic Smoke Porter and McLeod’s Paradise Pale Ale both made the grade at the competition, where they were up against 700 contenders from around New Zealand and the rest of the world.
Warkworth-based 8 Wired were also highly commended for their Cucumber Hippy and Wild Feijoa sour beers.
The Top 30 was decided by an independent panel of 29 expert judges, who tasted all the entries ‘blind’ – without knowing which brew was which – over two days. Beers and ciders ranged from boutique small-batch craft examples to global brands, with more than a dozen different categories, including the burgeoning non-alcoholic sector.
