Making fruit more useful since 1947, Old Mout (rhymes with fruit) makes cider for cider lovers.

Making fruit more useful since 1947, Old Mout (rhymes with fruit) makes cider for cider lovers.

Orchard Thieves is best enjoyed when the sun's out; there's nothing better than that magical moment, opening up a cool, crisp Orchard Thieves cider, while soaking up some rays, telling yarns and recounting the stories that have gone before, and plotting the next adventure. But don't think Orchard Thieves just embraces the daytime! They love the cover of darkness.

There's an elemental darkness at the heart of this massive Black Barley and Rye Wine. You can feel it wafting rich, dark fruit up from the glass with powerful overtones of tobacco and bourbon. Like its stable mate The Vandal, Black Sabbath is inspired by a famous John Reid-built kiwi hot rod, but at the same time Panhead think its strength and uncompromising character also pay considerable tribute to the rock and roll originators of the name.

As self-confessed bogans we have an attraction to black. The key to creating a silky death metal monster like Blacktop is the caramelised Golden naked Oats we've built it around. Sophisticates will detect the chocolate and coffee notes of creamy tiramisu. The rest of us will note that it matches our jeans.

Six brews deep and still tinkering. Bounty Hunter is back as a tribute to May the Fourth, a dark beer stacked with chocolate, coconut, and caramel, backed by a hit of roast character. Rich, smooth, and full of flavour. No costume required.

So dank and so green with stonefruit and citrus deliciousness, this NZIPA gets the best out of the mythical NZH-109, with Nectaron, Rakau and Mot hops also making noise straight from the bine. Sitting pretty on Astro Supremes with diamond frenched antennas, Cholo chain wheel and chrome organs amplifying that Cali Life Style, this is a 78' Camaro lowrider like no other. Built by Kenny, brought to Ohope, now rolling deep with Sulphur City, E.D. is a flaked, candied, laced, velvet, scaled and striped clash fantasy. Serving 80s excess AND 90s gangsta. Regulators, mount up!

A mountainous IPA. Demands to be ridden without restraint. No buffers. No dampers. Just the full feel of its melon, stone fruit and citrus vibrations with a bobbing bitter undertone.

This pickup is loaded with notes of papaya, nectarines, citrus and melon, with some bitterness in the backend for a full and balanced ride.

This pickup is loaded with notes of papaya, nectarines, citrus and melon, with some bitterness in the backend for a full and balanced ride.

Pilsner is famously Czech in origin, but here we've gone for a South Pacific hop profile in keeping with the people who brew it and drink it. Passionfruit, grapefruit and sauvignon blanc characters abound, stacked up on a robust malt base that's partly German, partly Kiwi.

In hot rodding a Rat Rod is a chopped, low slung, rough and rusty special, designed for go more than show. A little like a classic hazy IPA in other words. There's a monster American hopping regime inside this unfiltered diamond, throwing the juicy orange and fruit salad characters forward without too much bitterness or malty sophistication.