Archive: February 18, 2017

Because of your love, we are amongst the top rated breweries in New Zealand

February 18, 2017
Top Rated Breweries New Zealand Outlier Cartel

Top Rated Breweries in New Zealand

Thank you so much for your support, it truly humbles us that we got our little brewery listed in Untappd’s top rate breweries of New Zealand. There are some truly amazing breweries listed in that group, and we feel like we are lilliputians amongst giants. After a little over a year and different 16 beers, one wine and a cider, our gypsy brewing operation has been recognised by the most important people of all – those that drink our products.

We can’t say that every creation is going to be a 4 or 5 star beer, the nature of our experimentation means that we’ll have a few that miss the mark. What we can say is that we are not going to rest on our laurels (if you can call them laurels at all) and we are going to keep whittling a way at what we love doing. We figure that if we pour our passion into our products, you taste that passion in every sip.

So once again, a heartfelt thanks to all our friends, fans, and brewers who believe in what we are doing.

The Team at Outlier Cartel

 

 

heaps of strawberries

Blushing our way across the universe: Introducing Interstellar Blush

February 5, 2017

interstellar blushHi Friends & Family

We have ALOT of exciting things planned for 2017 – some of it is under wraps at the moment, but we are excited to take part in the Brother’s Session Challenge the 2nd year in the row – this Saturday, February 11 at 12 PM – 10 PM at Brothers Beer 90 Wellesley St, West, CBD, Auckland, New Zealand 1010.

What do we have up our sleeves for the Challenge? We are doing a strawberry milkshake session beer with our friends at Hallertau – we are calling it Interstellar Blush. Its very different from anything that we’ve done before and heaps of strawberrieswe are really excited at how it’s turning out!

During the brewday at Hallertau we had about 100 kg that needed to get prepped by cutting off the green stalks – it was a bit more actually, the local West Auckland grower gave us more than we asked for!

The beer itself had to convey the Riverhead terroir from West Auckland, with a good and fruity strawberry aroma on the nose and a rather full palate, with a bit of lactose added to giveyou the unmistakable impression it is a strawberry milkshake – yet it has to be recognizable as a beer, keeping it’s thirst quenching characteristics with a slight crisp tartness behind the sweetness upfront, just like a ripe strawberry!