Turn up the heat at your pickle party. Pickle Beer, the Spicy edition! Naturally kettle soured, infused with cucumber, dill and pickle spice, fired up with a generous addition of red hot chilli peppers. Spicy, refreshing and disarmingly delicious. It's getting hot in here!

Beer and ballet - an unusual Pas de Deux. Brewed by Garage Project for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Hops on Pointe teases the boundaries between high and low culture. Brewed with premium German malts, Nelson Sauvin hops and finished with a champagne yeast, the result is a pale gold lager with a crisp, clean palate, rich tropical fruit aromas and tight champagne bubbles. Available at all good barres.

What is the perfect burger beer? Juicy malts to compliment chargrilled character, hop bitterness to cut through fat and maybe a touch of umami to elevate the whole experience? Say hi to Red Dog - Red IPA brewed with four malts, red rice, Kohatu, Mosaic and Nelson Sauvin hops and red miso. Chewy malt and balanced bitterness, juicy tropical fruit aromatics with a delicate umami twist. It's your burger's best friend!

Juicebox - the Junior edition! Hazy goodness and big tropical hops in this sessionable IPA.

Welcome to Area 51! The rumours are true - this beer is delicious. A tart and juicy sour ale loaded with a mysterious purple element of unknown origin (or maybe it's just blackcurrants.) Lip-smackingly tangy with a balanced candy sweetness and pouring an otherworldly shade of violet, this purple drank is worth storming the gates.

Beyond the Pale, a Garage tradition celebrating New Zealand's own fantastic Fringe Festival with a very special avant garde offering. This year they bring you Lavender Scare, a beguiling blend of lavender flowers, citrus and monk fruit (AKA swingle fruit), which create a disarmingly delicious 'lavender lemonade' sour with a whimsical purple blush and just a hint of your Nan's potpourri. Get 'out there'.

Wash down your huhu grubs, pickled worms, and mountain oysters with a refreshing can of Crickets. This hazy pale ale was created especially for the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival, using cricket flour, made by crushing the insects. The wild, high protein supplement helps increase the haze and body of the brew. But you will be relieved to know it just tastes like beer with delicious peach, passionfruit, and lemon notes. You won't like Crickets, you will love it.

Back in black. Iron Pig, New Zealand stout. Brewed using only the finest Canterbury malt and specially roasted barley, balanced with a shot of old school Green Bullet hops. Rich, satisfying, full flavoured stout with underlying notes of chocolate, coffee and toasted nuts. An instant classic.

Here comes the sun. Sungold, Apricot Wit. Hazy, refreshing witbier, brewed with plump white wheat, infused with juicy apricot and fermented with a classic Belgian yeast strain. Deliciously crisp, dry, lightly spicy wheat, balanced with sweet sun ripened apricots. Let the sunshine in.

The ultimate in fizzy yellow refreshment. Yello, citrus lemon lager. Brewed with pilsner malt, Wai-iti hops and 100% natural distilled lemon zest. Bright, crisp and clean with just a hint of malt sweetness balanced with delicate hop and juicy citrus zing. Just add sunshine. Oh yeah!

Garage Project - DFA is dead, long live DFA. Demus Favorem Amori - 'we choose to stand for love'. DFA, a surprising blend of flavours marrying mango, Vietnamese mint, lime and chilli with the high citrus hit of centennial, amarillo and citra hops. The result is a deliciously intense tryst of bittersweet heat. Tropical fruit and citrus hop character, coming together to create a beer of rich, satisfying balance. Life is all about choices. Choose love.

The arrival of hops to the brewing scene in England in the 1500s led to a moral panic, hops were described as 'a Wicked, & Pernicious Weed', feared to bring the downfall of civilized society. Thankfully, they were right.