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Local beers went down well at the 2018 Brewers Guild of New Zealand Awards, with three breweries scoring a swag of medals for a wide range of styles at last month’s ceremony.
Warkworth’s 8 Wired Brewing, the Sawmill Brewery at Matakana and McLeod’s Brewery of Waipu were awarded a total of 30 medals, including eight golds, across nine different beer categories.
8 Wired Brewing, based in Glenmore Drive at Warkworth, was awarded three gold medals in the same category – Speciality, Experimental, Aged, Barrel & Wood-Aged – for its God Save Lager, Wild Feijoa 2017 and Lokomotiv Merlot, which is aged in red wine barrels.
McLeod’s also scored three golds – in the European Ale category for its Turadh, in Pale Ale for Paradise, and in Speciality, Experimental, Aged, Barrel & Wood-Aged for its Black Rye Sour.
Meanwhile, Sawmill Brewery took gold for its Pilsner in the New Zealand Lager class and for Passionfruit Hibiscus Gose in European Ale.
Judging took place over three days last month in Christchurch and the awards night was held in Nelson on September 15. A total of 903 beers were judged by a team of 25 judges and 13 trainees, who awarded 68 gold, 182 silver and 256 bronze medals altogether.
Silver medals: 8 Wired – Cucumber Hippy, Semiconductor, Superconductor, Flat White, iStout Unchained; Sawmill – Baltic Porter, The Doctor, Session IPA; McLeod’s – Northland Chili Pils, Heathen, Bourbon Barrel Porter, Broubin Barrel Aged Scotch Ale, Oyster Gose.
Bronze medals: 8 Wired – Brewing Stone Free; Sawmill – Red IPA, Extra Pale Ale, Weizenbock, Roggenbier; McLeod’s – Pioneer, Bonnie, Farmhouse Sour, Red Sour Ale.
