Our Beers

Champion Malky Summer 2011/12 - Golden Ale
This Golden Ale combines the best of New Zealand hops, English Malt and American Yeast with tropical fruit notes perfectly integrated with a delicious biscuit malt. Balanced for everyday drinking this beer channels Olympian spirit with Scottish enthusiasm. This beer is produced in limited quantities so this might be the only bottle you get to try. Enjoy
4.7%
Malts: Bairds Pearl. Hops; Nelson Sauvin, Rakau
Yeast: Wyeast 1450
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Emperor Strikes Black - Winter 2011 Imperial Black Pilsner
Brewed for the 2011 Brew NZ Awards Festival category (“Let’s go… black”), this style defining Imperial Black Pilsner takes the second Black Emperor recipe, tweaks the malt bill, fiddles with the hops and unleashes a brand new death star of Pilsnery goodness wrapped in a black cloak
6.8%
Malts: Pils, Munich, Carafa Special II, Black. Hops, Southern Cross, NZ Cascade
Yeast: Wyeast 2565.
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Black Emperor - Summer 2010/11 - Black Pilsner
How best to describe the Black Emperor? Black Pilsner? American Black Lager? Pseudo Schwarz? Whatever it is, its brewed with malt from New Zealand, Germany and England, hops from America and yeast from Germany. Dark, bitter and thirst quenching
4.1%
Malts: Pils, Munich, Carafa Special II, Black. Hops;Centienniel
Yeast: Wyeast 2565.
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Black Emperor NZ - Autumn 2011 - Black Pilsner
Return of the Black Emperor, this time with all NZ hops. Same malt and yeast, but with Southern Cross and NZ Cascade. Drier, a little stronger, but still black and delicious
4.6%
Malts: Pils, Munich, Carafa Special II, Black. Hops, Southern Cross, NZ Cascade
Yeast: Wyeast 2565.
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Summer babe - Summer 2009/10 - Cream Ale
Inspired by an American Pre-Prohibition Cream Ale (that we tasted using a time machine) the Summer Babe is tropical fruit on the nose and a subtle malt body with a stunningly clean bitterness that belies its paleness
4.6%
Malts: Pils, Carapils, Flaked Maize, Wheat. Hops; Simcoe, Amarillo
Yeast: Wyeast 2112
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Exchange Student - Winter 2009 - NZ Pale Ale
Mysterious, exciting, and gone before you got to know it properly... Get in quick to sample The Exchange Student, Golden Ticket Brewing’s debut beer. The Exchange Student is a late hopped pale ale with a hoppy aroma, moderate bitterness and nice malt balance. Generously hopped with NZ and American varieties for a full on flavour hit, it’s just the ticket to prepare you for summer. Check it out on RateBeer: Check it out on RateBeer