At Beer Hug we love shining a light on new breweries, beers, people and stories that inspire us. It’s been a few tough few years for the industry, but the tough are battling it out and bubbles always rise to the top. We are stoked to announce that the next stop on the NZ Brewery Tour™ is Brothers Beer!

🙌 We are great mates with our brothers from Brothers Beer. These guys have had a tough ride but are back and stronger than ever. If you’ve tried a Brothers Beer over the past 12 months, you would have noticed a sharp upturn in their quality. Their beers rival the best in NZ right now! Due to the hard work of the team, and new ownership that places high priority on quality, they have transformed their brand into one to watch. For that very reason, we wanted to showcase what they have been up to with a fantastic line-up of their latest and greatest 12 beers 🙌 

“Led by Brewery Manager Dylan Adams, he and his duo of passionate Italian brewers Alessio and Lorenzo (aka the Italian Brothers) have worked hard to refine recipes, improve processes, acquire better equipment, and throw more hops at everything!”  

The results speak for themselves, as a series of impressive and creative seasonal releases like Nirvana and Back in Black (both contained in this exclusive release), gain high ratings on Untappd and with reviewers, and feature regularly on Michael Donaldson's Friday Night Beers as Beers of the Week.

In the spirit of "Good Beer for Good People", we are stoked to showcase the following 6x 440ml plus 6x 330ml brews. You’ll get;

• 🍺Nirvana Hazy Triple IPA 440ml (10.0%): Our memories of Nirvana are a bit hazy. Like this Triple IPA. Which is also hazy, but has another perfect three-part harmony - Superdelic, Mosaic Cryo, and Nectaron hops giving you intense tropical fruits, citrus, even a little bit of that bubble-gum.
• 🍺Back In Black Schwarzbier 440ml (5.2%): The combination of dehusked roasted malts and the crisp, dry finish of a German lager yeast gives you one of the easiest drinking dark beers out there. Well balanced, with bread and coffee notes and a moderate bitterness.
• 🍺Houble Dazy Double Hazy IPA 440ml (8.1%): The biggest, juiciest, haziest, hoppiest beer that we brew. Using our favourite American and New Zealand hops; Simcoe, Citra, Southern Cross & Rakau this beer has a ridiculous amount of fruit flavour. It’s a tropical and stone fruit flavour bomb, with notes of peach, grapefruit, guava and fig.
• 🍺Fear & Loathing West Coast IPA 440ml (7.1%): Once you get locked into a serious hop collection of Mosaic, Simcoe, Citra and Southern Cross, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. Hoppy, with a lingering bitterness, notes of grapefruit, pine and caramel, and a resinous finish.
• 🍺Wax On Wax Off Hazy IPA 440ml (6.5%): With a big, juicy crane kick to the face of tropical and stone fruits, this well-rounded, liberally hopped fruit bomb would even make your local ruthless school bully stop and think twice. “Wax On, Wax Off.” A tribute to a fallen legend.
• 🍺Italian Brothers Hazy IPA 440ml (6.7%): Brewed by our Italian ‘brothers’ Alessio aka Jake, and Lorenzo aka Elwood, this Hazy IPA exhibits zesty citrus and stonefruit flavours from NZ hops Riwaka, Motueka and Southern Cross. The perfect accompaniment to toasted white bread or four whole fried chickens!  
• 🍻Brothers 105 Low Carb Hazy IPA 330ml (4.5%): A full flavoured hazy IPA packed with aromatic Motueka and Simcoe hops, but with only half the carbohydrates of our regular craft brews. Brothers 105 is the perfect beer for active lifestyles: low carb, maximum flavour, no compromise!
• 🍻Park Life Hazy IPA 330ml (5.3%): Showcasing beautiful notes of pink grapefruit, citrus, dank resin and tropical fruits. The perfect accompaniment for all your park adventures.
• 🍻Howzat XPA 330ml (4.6%): Is capable of bowling a maiden over and is not afraid to get into it with a bouncer. Tastes great when listening to chin music and is the perfect accompaniment to a golden duck. When you’re thirsty just yell HOWZAT! and hopefully you’ll be given!
• 🍻Akiraho Pale Ale 330ml (5.2%): We use American ale and toffee malt then dose generously with New Zealand hops Riwaka, Pacific Jade & Southern Cross. The result is the perfect balance of flavours to enjoy any time you fancy a proper full-flavoured beer.
• 🍻Notorious WCIPA 330ml (5.8%): Starting with a mash-tun full of pilsner and malts, we then generously dose with a dope blend of New Zealand and American hops: Pacifica, Centennial, Columbus and Simcoe, unleashing BIG flavours of lush fruits, citrus, and sticky pine, with a clean, lingering bitterness and a resinous finish.
• 🍻Peacenik Pilsner 330ml (5.0%): A New Zealand style Pilsner, defined by NZ hops, and by late hopping and dry hopping techniques. Clean, crisp and full of notes of citrus, lime and grapefruit, our aromatic pilsner is the ultimate thirst quencher, pairing perfectly with foods that are rich, sweet or spicy.