This recipe uses some ingredients that are not included and must be sourced locally - demerara sugar. See the recipe for details.

This recipe has been designed to be consistent with the 2015 BJCP Style guide 25C - Belgian Golden Strong Ale

Devilicious is a Belgian Golden Strong Ale recipe designed for The League of Brewers by Jamie McQuillan of Cell Division Brewery. The Trappist monks might well have been naughty devils coming up with such a spectacularly easy drinking beer for the abv, but we’re not complaining. Typical of the style, this recipe is built upon Pilsner malt, but also includes a touch of chit malt to encourage head formation, with the added bonus of improving your mash efficiency. But don’t blame us if the latter part works extra well!

Pieter Pieter is a Belgian Pale Ale recipe designed for The League of Brewers by Jamie McQuillan of Cell Division Brewery. This beer is intended to be an easy drinking soft and fruity Belgian ale. It sits firmly on the paler end of the style spectrum, with bready notes, restrained caramel, balanced bittering and a respectable abv of 5.5%. Lovely East Kent Goldings hops play a supporting role with earthy, spicy and floral notes while the Belgian abbey ale yeast lends soft approachable fruity esters and low phenolics along with excellent clarity in the finished beer.

ABV: 5.5%

Haymaker Saison is a recipe designed for The League of Brewers by Jamie McQuillan of Cell Division Brewery. Saisons are hugely variable as a style. This one is pale, bright and designed to be particularly thirst quenching with a deceptively low 5.7% abv. The recipe is built on a classic and simple farmhouse grain bill of pilsner malt, wheat malt and just enough crystal malt for colour without cloying sweetness. East Kent Goldings and Saaz hops bring earthy, spicy, herbal and floral notes with just a touch of honey. The Belle Saison yeast produces a very approachable saison with gentle notes of pear and spice. High levels of carbonation will help enhance the classic, rocky white head.

ABV: 5.7%

Brew your own version of Abandoned Brewery's XXPA.

Big, dank and dirty. This 8.9% beer drinks like a 5%er. After every sip, you'll exhale a cloud of resin.

This is the official recipe from Richard Deeble, head brewer at Abandoned Brewery. Brew the kit, buy the beer and compare!

ABV 8.9%

This recipe was designed to broadly fit within the 2021 BJCP Style guide 25B: Saison.

Wild One was created for The League of Brewers by Jamie McQuillan of Cell Division Brewery to showcase a cool new wild yeast called Wilding. Isolated by Froth Technologies and hailing from the Rangitīkei District, Wilding throws fruity notes of banana, pear and apple esters, with spicy phenolic notes and a crisp, bone dry finish.

Saisons/farmhouse ales are hugely variable as a style and this one is designed specifically with the brewing properties of the Wilding yeast in mind. It is built on a base of pilsner malt with some Vienna added for a touch of biscuity character, along with some spicy rye malt for an improved mouth feel/length of finish. Motueka and East Kent Goldings hops bring fruity citrus and earthy and spicy, herbal and floral notes, with just a touch of honey.

Wild One could be considered the big sister to Jamie’s previous saison recipe, Haymaker Saison. It is equally pale, bright and refreshing but with a little more malt character and an extra flavour punch at ~6.5 % abv helped along by some lovely fermentation character from the Wilding yeast. To find out more about brewing saisons, you might like to read Jamie’s article, For the Love of Saisons, which you can find on The League’s blog. Cheers.

Brew your own version of Fork & Brewer's award winning NZ Pale Ale "Hyperlocal". Dominated by industry favourites, Riwaka and Nelson Sauvin, with a little something extra thrown in to bring the hops together. Classic Sauvignon gooseberry and a little ribe-like blackcurrant. Sweet malt that hints at fragrant bush-honey, a solid minerality and a light citrus zing on the back palate.

This beer is insanely delicous and a must try if you love hoppy New Zealand Pale Ales.

This is the official recipe from "Brew Jesus" Kelly Ryan, head brewer at Fork & Brewer. 

ABV: 5.8%

This recipe was not specifically designed to be consistent with the BJCP style guides, but we believe it is similar to 04A - Munich Helles.

A not quite traditional German Helles lager brewed using Best Malz. This malt is newly available in New Zealand after centuries of production in Germany. Light and highly sessionable, perfect for a hot day.

We used some Hallertau Blanc to give it a subtle fruity twist - don't tell the Germans!

ABV: 5.0%

Our kits are fresh! We assemble the ingredients after you place your order. The grain bill will be milled, unless you tell us in your order comments that you prefer it not to be.

This recipe has been designed to use acid malt to reach the target mash pH. If you wish to use the recommended mineral additions to achieve the intended flavour profile, these are to be added to the boil only. This kit does not include the minerals, but these can be purchased separately.

Recipe pdf

BeerXML File (import into any brewing software i.e. Grainfather App, Beersmith or Brewfather)

This recipe is designed to be consistent with the BJCP style guide 5A – German Leichtbier.

Leichtbier is a recipe created for The League of Brewers by Jamie McQuillan of Cell Division Brewery.

German Leichtbier is a modern style, literally meaning ‘light beer’. It was originally marketed to the diet conscious as having lower carbohydrates, alcohol and calories. This might sound unappealing but think again because this German take on a light American lager brings more flavour and drinkability than you would expect. With on obvious and refreshing level of bitterness, despite the relatively low IBUs, and carrying noticeable malt and hop flavours, this bright, clean, pale straw-coloured lager will be perfect for a long afternoon’s drinking over the summer holiday season. Even better, enjoy it with a pretzel or some bratwurst fresh off the BBQ. Prost.

This recipe was not specifically designed to be consistent with the BJCP style guides, but we believe it is similar to 05D - German Pils.

Now here's a style not many have heard of before. No, this is not Peroni clone, this beer actually has flavour! This beer is inspired by Tipopils - a beer made by one Italian craftbrewery - and like other obscure beer styles has become a darling of some major US craft breweries.

So what makes it different? Simply put, it's similar to a German pilsner - but with a big difference: it's dry hopped with noble hops. This makes this beer very unique, instead of the tropical fruit bombs you get mostly these days, this is crisp like a pilsner should be - but also floral and a little background spicy. The perfect summer beer!

Target ABV: 5%

Our kits are fresh! We assemble the ingredients after you place your order. The grain bill will be milled, unless you tell us in your order comments that you prefer it not to be.

This recipe has been designed to use acid malt to reach the target mash pH. If you wish to use the recommended mineral additions to achieve the intended flavour profile, these are to be added to the boil only. This kit does not include the minerals, but these can be purchased separately.

Click here to download the recipe.

Click here to download the BeerXML file (to directly import into your favorite brewing software)