We're beyond excited! As Soren said at the NZ Beer Awards ceremony, it's a team effort, and we've got some of the best, despite the fact that it's impossible to get everyone in a photo at short notice (a special nod to our Sales and Barrelworks teams here). To be recognized as the Overall Champion is a testament to the passion, dedication, and innovation that our team puts into each and every brew.

The Overall Champion Brewery title showcases the consistent excellence of 8 Wired's brews, through securing two golds for our latest Wild Feijoa ‘22 vintage (barrel aged sour pale ale) and Oude Imperial (spontaneously fermented sour ale), two silver medals for Baltic Smoke (smoked baltic porter) and iStout (imperial stout), and a bronze for Brave Old World - Scotch Ale.

This marks the second time 8 Wired has earned the Champion Brewery title, the first being in 2011 when we were based in Blenheim, and the landscape of the industry has changed greatly in that time, so we really are humbled to be able to bring these trophies back to our Warkworth brewery as another chapter to the 8 Wired story.

Congrats to all of the other breweries, we love this industry and the sense of camaraderie it brings.

See the full catalogue of results