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Sceptred Warrior is Victor
So Sceptred Warrior is a champ. Sceptred was entered into the Malthouse Old World IPA challenge on a whim. Serendipitously the Malthouse announced that they were going to run an Old World counterpart to their hugely successful West Coast IPA … Continue reading
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Sceptred Warrior Brew Day
Me brewing Sceptred Warrior at Liberty Brewing Co in New Plymouth.
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Sceptred Warrior
In a little over a week I will be travelling up to the Liberty Brewery in New Plymouth to brew my next cuckoo brew. Sceptred Warrior is going to be a New World IPA , that is brewed to be … Continue reading
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The Browns with Kereru
The first Southstar beers occurred as part of a consultation relationship between me and Silverstream based nano brewer Chris Mills. We decided we would brew a Rye Brown Ale for the SOBA Winter Ales Festival. The Festival had formally been … Continue reading
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The Cuckoo Brewer
It all started in the early 2000’s sometime just after the Y2K bug destroyed nothing apart from my wrist watch. No it actually started in 1999 , or was it 2000? I was on the last family holiday before I … Continue reading
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