Lion Red, the quintessential Kiwi beer, began life as the Pale Ale from the Great Northern Brewery in 1907 - a great year for beer and an even better one for beer drinkers. Over the last century, Lion Red has become a favourite for celebrating great times with good mates.

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.

Winner of the 2013 West Coast Challenge at the malthouse in Wellington - a palate-destroying smackdown you've got to experience to understand - Knife Party is a Swiss Army IPA featuring every US hop variety allowed through customs. If you heedlessly crave the hop, you've found the correct beer.

This opaque, cross-country juggernaut matches an East Coast yeast style to West Coast hops and refuses to filter the results. The malt's deliberately soft so the Mosaic and Amarillo cones get to dictate terms, mostly by saturating your palate in passionfruit and pineapple. Welcome to the jungle and so forth.

Speight's is the beer of choice after a hard day's work. Probably the least sweet of all New Zealand beers, this characteristic allows the full flavour of the malt and hops to shine through. Speight's Gold Medal Ale is a great accompaniment to any meat dish and is superb with Southern game dishes such as venison, duck and rabbit.

NZ Lager is New Zealand's original premium quality beer. Made with NZ ingredients it is a great value New Zealand beer.

If you're looking for a beer with a big creamy flavour you've come to the right place. By carefully selecting, roasting and matching 5 separate malts Speight's have crafted a dark beer that gives rich, creamy, chocolate fudge flavours swiftly followed by coffee overtones. Perfect for warming the cockles on a stormy night.

BRB's Laid Back Lager is a refreshingly simple Lager. The Fruity and floral characteristics are first noticed in the aroma, and then carried through the palate by a perfectly malted body. It is crisp and refreshing.

Speight's don't usually do things in halves, but it seemed like a good idea to give people a good, full flavoured 2.5% beer. Brewed using Crystal, Caramalt and Chocolate malts, Speight's Mid Ale enjoys a smooth caramelised flavour and aroma, which is contrasted by the bitterness of Pacific Jade and Green Bullet hops. The finished product is a perfectly balanced, mid strength beer that's still full of flavour.

Speight's Summit Ultra is a refreshing golden lager with a crisp finish. Brewed for longer, it has 75% less carbs than the average carb content of leading NZ beer brands and only 88 calories per serve.

Speight's Summit Ultra is a refreshing golden lager with a crisp finish. Brewed for longer, it has 75% less carbs than the average carb content of leading NZ beer brands and only 88 calories per serve.

The Czech town of Plzen is known for producing a beer famed for its strong hoppy taste. In BRB's Pilsner they use Pacifica & Cascade hops to produce a citrusy, bitter taste that'll bounce round your mouth like a rabbit on a trampoline.