We are pleased to announce that our Honey Chestnut was recognised by the Brewers Guild of New Zealand Awards for its packaging. We at Outlier are really stoked about this result, as we are not yet a year old! It feels honored to be named in such company as Moa, Bach Brewing, Good George, Tuatara and […]
As the first of an ongoing series of posts, I am going to include snippets and drafts of our creative processes working with designers to get our product out to our, market – starting with our very first design job – our Outlier Cartel logo. Coming up with our logo was a big deal, and […]
The Beer Industrial Complex of New Zealand has been losing a lot of money in recent years, they may have found the perfect solution for their ailing (pun sorta intended) profits: turn beer into bio fuel! While most in the independent brewers do not have many kind words about the two largest companies which hold 90% of […]
As we are getting ready to launch our first bottled beer, the Honey Chestnut, we actually got hit by a setback: there are no craft beer bottles available in New Zealand until the end of May. We are currently scrambling to to find a solution so we can launch our new beer. Craig Cooper, one […]
… which we hope you find when you empty Outlier Cartel’s first bottled beer! Let us proudly introduce the first Outlier to come in bottle form – Honey Chestnut. Why not a more creative name? Well the label says it all – we’ve lovingly crafted this gem from wild urban honey (thanks Rob!) and chestnuts sourced […]
We are both and humbled to be named People’s Choice winner at Brothers Session Beer Challenge out of a field of 26 beers! We have been in business for just over 2 months, so we were just stoked to rub shoulders with some of the best brewers in Aotearoa. For all those who came out […]
Having a look at google trends, it looks as if there is a growing interest in gluten free beer around NZ shores – and it’s not slowing down any time soon. It doesn’t look like it’s just a trend. More about it on this google trends chart. A month ago or so we posted on […]
The beer can – this humble vessel has been around for over 80 years. It has been the symbol of working class drinkers and often snubbed by the more high brow drinkers of alcohol. Those who hit the bottle say that the canned stuffed tastes metallic and ruins the taste. Is this a fair assessment? The history […]
At WCB OC we have been asked to brew a gluten free beer numerous times. Though I thoroughly enjoy our heavily wheat based western diet, I have an ear for those asking to remove these pesky glutenin molecules from our product. So here I go trying to understand more about this disease with the aim […]
Early this June Carlos, myself and our friend Sylvain went to Whatipu beach; all the background pictures you see on this website came about from the resulting photo shoot. I had brought 2 analogue cameras: my trusty Canon AV-1 35mm and my Holga. 6 months later, I looked into my fridge and I found a few rolls that […]