Crosby's Kitchen & CocktailBeer

If Goldilocks broke into the brewery we're pretty sure she'd go for the Pale Ale, a perfect balance of well-rounded malt and fresh, citrusy NZ hops. Not too bitter, not too sweet-it's just right.

A murder of crows, a parliament of owls, and a pandemonium of parrots. Our first-ever lager took flight among the ‘new world’ pilsners which put lively modern hop varieties onto the crisp, light and refreshing body of the classics. Easy and approachable but still very satisfying.

Mango and Passionfruit flavors explode from this ale without hiding the fact that it is still beer!

We’ve blended 7 specialty malts to bring luscious caramel, toffee like malty characteristics balanced with a refreshing hop flavour and aroma, medium biterness and a dash of pepper from NZ’s indigenous horopito.

Manuka-smoked malt infused into a salted, dry-hopped Imperial Porter. Unpasteurised and unfiltered to maximise flavour then dispensed with Nitro!

That Tall Tosser is a table beer whose primary ferment was done with Brettanomyces Clausenii. This brew was made from leftover wort from W&W's bitter, Badger Me. Often primary ferment Brett beers have very little of the funky, barnyard-y aromas that come from secondary fermentation with Brett, but there are definite notes of them here, along with some grass and light fruity aromas from the hops and yeast.

A big fat IPA with juicy caramel and biscuit flavours combining with Jammy berry hop characters with a cleansing bitter finish.

It wasn’t too long ago, at least in geological and biological terms, that Tīeke flitted through the trees alongside Tūī and Pīwakawaka (Fantail), its distinctive splashes of chestnut feathers — that would later earn it the name “Saddleback” — and bright red-orange wattles adding a darting dash of colour to the forest. The arrival of humanity to these islands was a near-complete disaster for this charismatic and boisterous little bird. Our longrunning habit of bringing various small mammals with us as we migrate about the planet — both on purpose and unintentionally — clashed fatally with Tīeke’s fondness for foraging, nesting, and resting near the ground. Taranga / Hen Island, off the Whangarei coast, soon became the sole refuge of the North Island Saddleback. Two generations of unbelievably patient and careful work, a project begun during the 1960s and which is ongoing today, is undoing that damage. Catch-and-release transfers have slowly spread steadily growing populations from Taranga to other islands and then eventually also to sanctuaries back on the mainland, starting with Zealandia here in Wellington in 2002. These translocations have proved a model for how to help other birds and the several-thousand Tīeke who now noisily inhabit their new homes around the country are icons of what can be achieved in conservation. The species is now officially listed as “Recovering” — a word which calls for celebration without letting us forget our prior carelessness; they are recovering with our help, but also from us. This dark wheat beer shares something of Tīeke’s distinctive chestnut colouring, and has ‘banoffee’ characters in a tart, lively beer.

Massive flavours and aromas of tropical fruit salad with a huge load of NZ hops dominates this tasty Tumeke! IPA, followed by a decent malty backbone and crisp bitter finish. “Tumeke” meaning “Too much!”.

Hashigo Zake Staffie Series

Yellow Eye is our new IPA combining both English and new world influences to create a tropically fruity malty India Pale Ale. We have used an English style malt bill, a combination of NZ grown English variety hops and fruity NZ variety hops with our fruity English yeast strain.

Brewed with organic pale malt, Jasmine rice, Carafoam malt and Northdown hops.

Stout aged in bourbon barrels with vanilla beans

A mixed fermentation 'sour' ale aged for 12 months in oak, and on Central Otago Apricots for 6 months. Silver medal, NZBGA 2016. Silver AIBA 2018.

Raisin and currant sour.

A hazy, light and mild session ale brewed with hops from both sides of the globe... Ella hops from Australia and Amarillo hops from the U.S.

Fever Dream Double IPA. You are surrounded by demogorgons, you pull out you phaser and yell CEASE ALL MOTOR FUNCTIONS, nothing happens, all hope seems lost, then wait! Two dragons appear in the sky! They fly you safely to the beaches of Dorne. You sigh with relief and smile as Dolores hands you a beer, just as you go to take a sip, you wake and realize you have been sitting in the Jackrabbit taproom this whole time drinking a Fever Dream Double IPA. 8.5% ABV, tropically delicious, cosmically smooth & out of this world juicy.

A citrus fruit hop bomb!

A beer for Cersei- who reminds us that everyone who isn't us is an enemy. An exquisite blend of sour ale and Belgian-style blonde ale.

HAZY IPA is a juicy and balanced mix of citrus hops that bring out the aromatic characteristics of papaya and mango and finishes with a hint of ripe strawberries. At almost 6 pounds of hops per barrel, Hazy IPA is a hop bomb that delivers the bitterness without the bite.

A blonde ale base intensely dry hopped with Citra and conditioned on apricots.

Packed with tropical fruit aromas backed up with a delicious chocolate malt finish. This beer is dedicated to the pioneers of the American Craft Beer revolution.