8 Wired Brewing
Microbrewery
in
Warkworth,
Auckland,
New Zealand 🇳🇿
Associated Venue: 8 Wired Brewing - Barrelworks
Established in 2009
Contact
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.
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.
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at Pigs Ear '21, day two, 01/12/21. Black with a decent tan head. Nose is big on roast malts, dark fruit rinds, charr, spice, bitter chocolate. Taste comprises dried fruit rinds, charr, vanilla splash, dark chocolate, coffee, trace of spice. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a light boost offered. Decent.
Tried
on 03 Dec 2021
at 17:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at the pigs ear beer festival 2021.a thick black brown coloured pour with a lasting dark tan head. Aroma is big hot alcohol, apple cake, spicy Jamaica cake, coconut. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, thick, chewy, boozy fruit cake, coconut, spicy cola cubes, ginger, nutmeg. Palate is semi sweet, thick, highish carbonation. Boozy.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2021
at 16:14
3.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 2.5
Flavor 2.5
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
Pours unclear yellow, no real head. Scent is intense, burnt rubber, sweat, pretty bad . Taste is sharp, bit acidic, plastic (burnt plastic) , vinegar. Very, very off to me.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2021
at 00:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Pastry stout by New Zealand’s best known craft brewer in collaboration with Poland’s Pinta, at Billie’s Craft Beer Fest. Medium thick, moussy, stable, yellowish beige head on an ink black beer. Intense nose: cocoa, orange peel, ripe watermelon, hot chocolate sauce, white rum, cappuccino. Sweet, even sticky onset, fig compote and date jam notes, softish carb, very full, syrupy body; deeply chocolatey middle, chocolate sauce with hazelnutty, almondy and toffeeish edges, mild but important roasty coffee bitterness towards the end, spiced up with aspects of orange peel and rum-like, warming alcohol, with that unusual watermelon aroma returning retronasally. Spicy and pungent, but well-structured and enjoyable as a slow sipper.
Tried
on 24 Nov 2021
at 14:59
4.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
--Sample, thanks oh6gdx! -- Black, beige head. Aroma of chocolate brownie. Very sweet with full body and rounded mouthfeel. Milk chocolate and saccharine, notes of coffee and vanilla. Finishes with aching chemical sweetness. Another stout for kids. I guess lactose and vanilla will destroy any beer.
Tried
on 23 Nov 2021
at 21:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Draft @ Billie's 2021, shared with Brewver BE crew.
Noire foncée, col blanc-cassé/café au lait.
Arôme est malté, cacao, petite touche orange, raisin secs rétro - petite note de lactose. Pas vraiment noté l'effet des grains de pavot.
Palais est malté assez marqué, petite note sèche - chocolaté avec un effet orangette-fruité assez dominant, lactose se fait plus en retrait, épaisseur des raisins secs. Un peu classique avec ce côté gros stout américain, fini sec. Idem ici, pas de note de pavot.
Noire foncée, col blanc-cassé/café au lait.
Arôme est malté, cacao, petite touche orange, raisin secs rétro - petite note de lactose. Pas vraiment noté l'effet des grains de pavot.
Palais est malté assez marqué, petite note sèche - chocolaté avec un effet orangette-fruité assez dominant, lactose se fait plus en retrait, épaisseur des raisins secs. Un peu classique avec ce côté gros stout américain, fini sec. Idem ici, pas de note de pavot.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Nov 2021
at 12:44
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Draft @ Billie's 2021, shared with Brewver BE crew.
Couleur acajou oscillant sur un léger rosé, col épais crémeux rosé.
Arôme sur un bouquet fleuri-fruité entre cassis, arbuste avec un nez âpre de baies qui arrivent en rétro-nasal.
Palais présente une fine touche 'sourness' mûre et cassis - fruité bien là avec un léger fini râpeux avec une petite note de citronné et pointe d'acidité de baies.
Couleur acajou oscillant sur un léger rosé, col épais crémeux rosé.
Arôme sur un bouquet fleuri-fruité entre cassis, arbuste avec un nez âpre de baies qui arrivent en rétro-nasal.
Palais présente une fine touche 'sourness' mûre et cassis - fruité bien là avec un léger fini râpeux avec une petite note de citronné et pointe d'acidité de baies.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Nov 2021
at 10:12
7/10
Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2021. A clear purple red beer. Aroma of red berries. Taste of juicy red fruits, mild tartness.
Tried
on 17 Nov 2021
at 19:23
8.5/10
billie's craft beer fest 2021
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Nov 2021
at 13:19
8/10
billie's craft beer fest 2021
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Nov 2021
at 13:02