Grizzly American Brown is a recipe designed for The League of Brewers by Jamie McQuillan of Cell Division Brewery.

This beer was created to push the upper limits of the American Brown Ale style and verges on a Brown IPA. It pours a deep, dark brown colour without any harsh roasted notes and displays a lasting tan head. Soft and rounded toasty chocolate notes give way to a firm balancing bitterness and lingering resinous grapefruit and pine, thanks to generous additions of Centennial and Simcoe hops. At an easy drinking abv of 6.3%, this beer you will leave you with nothing to grizzle about.

ABV: 6.3%

This recipe has been designed to be consistent with the 2021 BJCP Style guide 13A: Dark Mild.

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

Originating in the United Kingdom, Milds have a long history and have changed a great deal with the passing of time. The Dark Milds of today are a style with a wide scope of interpretation, ranging in colour from copper to deep brown in colour.  They are a great low alcohol British-style session ale that pack a flavour punch well above their abv.

Britannia pours a deep copper colour, with soft notes of caramel, chocolate and roasted coffee on the nose and palate. A medium body and smooth mouthfeel are well suited to low to medium levels of carbonation, especially on hand pull as is traditional for this style.  English grown Target hops provide a supporting bitterness and undertones of earthy and floral flavours. Thirst inducing, thirst quenching!

This recipe has been designed to be consistent with the 2021 BJCP Style guide 13B - British Brown Ale.

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

British Brown Ales provide excellent, restorative drinking for any hard-working individual, hobnail boot-wearing or otherwise. The modern British brown ale is usually a little stronger than most average UK beers, and as a style has considerable scope for interpretation. They can range from lighter more hoppy versions through to darker malty versions with caramel notes. However, strongly roasted flavours should not be present, even in a darker iteration such as this one.

An exercise in moderation, this take on the style delivers moderate caramel sweetness balanced out with balanced levels of bittering from English grown target hops. Gentle, fruity British ale yeast notes are rounded out by earthy and floral East Kent Goldings hops. Get your boots on and brew it!

This recipe has been designed to be consistent with the 2021 BJCP Style guide 8A-Munich Dunkel.

Ein-Stein is a Munich Dunkel recipe designed for The League of Brewers by Jamie McQuillan of Cell Division Brewery.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out where this dark European lager originates from. It hails from Munich in Germany way back in the 1830’s, coinciding with the development of Munich malt.  As it turns out, Gladfield malt here in NZ makes some very fine Munich malt of their own. If you haven’t tried it then this a great recipe to give it a whirl as the base malt.

Munich Dunkels are great mid-strength drinking. They present deep coppery brown and malty with toasted bread notes, hints of chocolate and caramel and a notable absence of roasty burnt notes. They are medium in body but with no cloying sweetness and a gentle bittering that makes for a smooth rich and nourishing lager. For the more adventurous brewer, this recipe is an ideal place to try out your skills with decoction mashing. The option of a simple double decoction approach is included in the instructions to get you started, after which you might want to explore the possibility of a more intensive triple decoction to further develop those deep malty flavours. Experiment and have fun, it’s definitely not quantum physics. Prost!

This recipe was not specifically designed to be consistent with the BJCP style guides, but we believe it is similar to 21B - Specialty IPA - NE IPA.

The ultimate battle of hops - Phazers Episode II

4337 has grown up and is now known as the mighty Nectaron.

Nectaron vs Galaxy are at it again - this time they're even more powerful with the use of Verdant - the juiciest yeast since you're glass of freshly squeezed in the morning.

Don't miss this limited release - only available until one of these hop super powers is sold into oblivion!

Target ABV: 6.5%

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.

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This recipe was not specifically designed to be consistent with the BJCP style guides, but we believe it is similar to 21B - Specialty IPA - Rye IPA.

40 Days is another one of our quarantine (ever wonder where that word comes from?) brews, giving us hop heads a little bit of spicy joy this winter.

An all Gladfield malt base with a good amount of three different types of rye malt for that little difference. When did you brew your last rye IPA?
We went with a massive dose of all American on the hops, a mix of citrusy, piney classics (Amarillo, Centennial, Columbus) with an added tropical dimension (Ekuanot). Fermented with a classic West coast ale yeast.

ABV: 6%

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)

Brew your own version of Fork & Brewer's addictively delicious Alpha Geek IPA.

A deliciously well-balanced West Coast IPA, with all (ok not all, but a lot of) the hop varieties in there. Robust notes of citrus and lychee.

ABV: 6.5%

This recipe was not specifically designed to be consistent with the BJCP style guides, but we believe it is similar to 21B - Specialty IPA - NE IPA

This beer was brewed for the NZ Hops release party of the Hort 4337 trial hop, but thanks to Covid19 that didn't happen. Good news for you - instead of going to a group of commercial brewers & hop growers, it's now available for sale - and this is the kit to brew it yoursel! It's loaded with 4337 hops with a little backup of Mosaic hops.

The malt is mainly Pilsner & Vienna by BestMalz from Germany supported by two different types of Oats and some wheat malt.

Target ABV: 6.5%

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)

This recipe was not specifically designed to be consistent with the BJCP style guides, but we believe it is similar to 21A - American IPA.

If you miss a proper IPA with good bitterness in today's flood of hazy - this is it. You get a big punch (it's Rocky after all) of citrus & tropical fruit flavours from Simcoe & Mosaic with a light dry malt base to let the hops shine.

ABV: 6.7%

 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)