8 Wired Brewing

Microbrewery in Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Associated Venue: 8 Wired Brewing - Barrelworks

Established in 2009

Contact
26 Glenmore Drive, Warkworth, New Zealand
Description
8 Wired is a micro brewing company based in Warkworth, New Zealand.

Our mission is to produce mind blowing beers that will wow craft beer lovers, excite fellow beer geeks and educate the mis-guided who still believe that "beer is just beer". If you want to come on this journey with us, please get in touch.

8 Wired Brewing is inspired by the legendary Kiwi can-do mentality and fellow craft brewers who have dared to challenge the masses and show us all that beer is no longer “just beer”! Known for producing “New world interpretations of old world styles” 8 Wired have multiple shades of very hoppy IPAs, Saisons, Porters and Stouts in their permanent line up and have the biggest barrel aged and sour program in the southern hemisphere.

After 5 years of contract brewing, eventually at 4 different breweries across New Zealand we now finally have our very own brewery (In Warkworth, North of Auckland) where we brew and package everything.

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6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
2016 vintage. 500mL bottle, pours black with a large tan head. Aroma is all brett, with vinous notes, intense funk, and some roast. Flavour is over the too brett, to the point of being rather unpleasant — very funky, somewhat farty, with lots of roast, and almost no vinous character left. The brett has dominated this and rather destroyed this. Alright.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Aug 2022 at 05:33

7/10
Good beach beer
Tried from Can on 30 Jul 2022 at 15:08

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Pours red/purple/mauve with a pink head.Nose shows blackcurrant/ribena, little else.Flavours include more heavy ribena flavour but with a pretty full on acidity.
Tried on 22 Jul 2022 at 11:59

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Can. Cloudy orangish amber with a white head that settles to a fat coat. Aroma of a mixture of citrus - orange, kumquat, grapefruit, blossoms - hints of tropical fruit, peach and pine. Slightly biscuity underneath. Clean. Rich enough sweet pale malt supports the fruit before resin creeps up before a finish that in the return to WCIPA way is pretty modest (a little more would have been good for me). Good.
Tried from Can on 18 Jul 2022 at 14:14

7.4/10
Does exactly what it should. Dry rich imperial stout.
Tried from Can on 15 Jul 2022 at 23:39

7/10
Tried from Can on 08 Jul 2022 at 18:57

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Deep dark brown coloured body with a thick four to five centimetre tall deep tan and even light brown coloured head that stays afloat for while, but fades after a few seconds and still looks nice. Aroma of deep roasted malts, tons of vanilla and especially caramelised sugars and a lot of a molasses and more rich syrupy notes along with a slight dose of bittered chocolate or coffee at the end of the nose. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong and rich malts dominate up front with a lot of roast and pungency and a bitterness that seems much more from chocolate notes than any coffee here, but the sweetness dominates at the end with molasses, caramel, toffee and some honey here too. Aftertaste shows a light kick of oatmeal and some grainy rustic flavours, but the roasted malt and deep sugars persist here and with a nice layer of cream and vanilla, the end is much more soft and polished than a typical beer of this calibre, along with the pungent sweetness, this makes this much easier drinking than I expected and nice for the style. Overall, a nice and flavourful, fairly easy-drinking stout that is creamy, rich and super flavorful while being sweet and slightly bitter too, hitting almost all the categories here! I sampled this 50cL can, purchased from BeerTopia in Omaha, Nebraska on 13-February-2019 for US$5,99 and sampled a bit more than 3 years later at my house here in Washington on 28-June-2022, a few minutes before leaving this country for the first time in more than 2 years to the ho-hum country of Canada and the beautiful city of Vancouver, British Columbia with my wife and three kids.
Tried from Can on 08 Jul 2022 at 05:32

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Can from Brewcraft at home. Clear golden almost green pour with soft white head. Aroma is earthy spicy crisp biscuit. Taste follows. Lots of flavor, grounded in a classic pils but pulls in several other directions too - white grape, grass, lemon, biscuit. Yum.
Tried from Can on 03 Jul 2022 at 10:38

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
330mL can, pours jet black with a medium brown head. Aroma is full of deep roasted malt, wood, a little wood varnish, and black liquorice. Flavour is rich and roasty, with deep roasted malt, black liquorice, wood, and a bit of dark fruits. The ABV is well-hidden considering the beer. Deeply roasted, with plenty of liquorice and molasses on the finish. Big, bold and brutal. It's too harsh and not all that well integrated. Tasty enough but a but tough to drink.
Tried from Can on 19 Jun 2022 at 03:01

5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
Pours gold, large lasting head.Nose shows heavy funk, super pungent and also somewhat enteric.Flavours include more funk and enteric notes, gentle acidity. A bit if mouthful.
Tried on 18 Jun 2022 at 12:18