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Our vision is to produce truly great New Zealand beer. And a goal like this takes time and talent to realise.
For a young fella, our brewer Paul Croucher has spent many years honing and perfecting his beers. With the result being he won a brewing award in the first brewing competition he entered. Our beers reflect his talent and passion for beer, and we’re confident you will enjoy drinking them.
Croucher Brewing currently produces three beers (plus the odd seasonal beer), an extra smooth PALE ALE, THE HEF, and a BOHEMIAN PILSNER. Each of these beers is full of flavour that will challenge your palate, with character that will make you redefine ‘great beer’.
Below are the tasting notes for the PALE ALE, THE HEF, and BOHEMIAN PILSNER: |
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PALE ALE - 5% alc/vol
Tasting Notes: Appearance - A rich rose-gold hue, with good head. Aroma - Massive up front fruit with strong freshly crushed grain. Passionfruit and lychees predominate with a stonefruit undertone - fruit salad on weetbix. Grassiness from three Nelson hop varieties compliment the fruit to give an aroma reminiscent of a Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc but the grunt in the palate leaves you in no doubt that this is a very serious beer. Body & Mouthfeel - Very smooth with a gorgeous lingering finish. Delicious burps. AWARDS: > Included in Top 10 Superbowl Sunday Gourmet Beers by FreindsEAT.com > Neil Millers Annual Top 10 NZ Beers (2008, 2009) > Capital Times Beer Necessities Survey - Top 8 NZ Beers, 2009 > Bronze medal in Pale Ale category, Brew NZ 2006.
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THE HEF - 5% alc/vol
The HEF is a German-styled cloudy wheatbeer.
Tasting Notes: Appearance - a deep golden cloudy beer, with a generous head that laces the glass as it reclines. Aroma - Weihenstephan Weizen yeast delivers the aroma and flavour of this very special beer. Banana and clove leaps out of this classic Bavarian style - underlined with a vanilla and a scrumptious biscuity malt character. Body & Mouthfeel - A medium bodied creamy texture with very low bitterness evokes images of a beer milkshake, but this belies its danger. The HEF is disturbingly refreshing. AWARDS: > Rated #1 Wheat Beer in New Zealand by Consumer Magazine > Rated 5 Stars by Bob Campbell, Master Of Wine.
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BOHEMIAN PILSNER - 5% alc/vol
Our Czech-styled lager was released in January 2007, and is one of Paul’s favoured styles of beer.
Tasting Notes: Appearance - a pale straw coloured beer. 10% wheat malt added to the grist supplies a generous clinging head. Aroma - a true lager yeast fermented at low temperatures provides the characteristic characteristics of a bohemian pilsner. Generous additions on New Zealand Motueka and Riwaka hops provide a new world twist to this ancient classic. This is a very hoppy lager. Particularly Luscious. AWARDS: > Rated 5 Stars by Bob Campbell, Master Of Wine.
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