At the heart of Bach Brewing is our passion for craft beer and our love for the Kiwi Bach…escape, freedom, simplicity and time together with family and friends.
Bach Brewing is a family owned gypsy brewing company located between the shores of Auckland’s harbours. Our passion is brewing fresh aromatic beer that compliments our coastal way of living.
Over at Bach, we’ve been on the hops again, waxing lyrical about the wickedly satisfying mouthfeel of the Brut IPA style. Not known to shun self-indulgence, we brewed one – a golden pale, dry and effervescent IPA.
We’ve been on the berries… reminiscing about the raspberry milkshakes my Dad, Frank loved. We figured we could thread the beautiful juicy raspberry fruit into a refreshing pale ale hopped with Mosaic and Motueka.
We’ve been on the hops again … pontificating the opportunity to couple the clean crisp refreshment of a lager style beer, with the big bold hops of an IPA.
We’ve really been on the hops again…marvelling at our locally grown Nelson hops, recognized as one of the top hop growing regions in the World. In 2021, the Brewers Association justifiably recognized NZ pale ale as an official beer style.
Here’s our champion award winning Red IPA in a new look 440ml can. Brewed on a cushion of select pale & coloured malts and layered with NZ & American hops. Unflitered for extra flavour.
Originating from East Coast USA, the New England or Hazy IPA style de-emphasizes hop bitterness and showcases hop flavour and aroma reminiscent of tropical fruit juice.
We’ve brewed our first hazy IPA with a juicy combination of Maris Otter & wheat malts, oats, and a truck load of tropical fruit driven hops from NZ, Australia and USA.
Over at Bach, we’ve been on the hops again, pondering the perils or sheer joy of falling in a tank of beer. “Chur brew, get the emergency scuba gear” (Self Contained Underbeer Breathing Apparatus)
Brewed in the New England Hazy style, Hop Snorkler is loaded up with a eye watering combination of NZ and US hops on our super juicy malt base.
We’ve been on the hops again…..pondering how Nelson region could almost be another planet, with aromatic humulus lupulus thriving like weeds or triffids – some of the best hops in the world or perhaps universe! Brewed for the 2021 NZIPA challenge at Smith’s craft beer house in Queenstown, a Hazy NZIPA out of this world!
Inspired by especially high tides which occur when a full moon is also closest to the earth. They’re big and so is Kingtide. Our Kingtide is brewed using the magnificent Gladfield malts from Dunsandel, Cantebury. Loaded with a caravan full of hops from both ends of the Pacific rim; Yakima in Washington State, USA and Nelson, NZ.
New West Coast USA style IPA – bright, not hazy! Inspired by iconic IPA’s from the West Coast of the USA, think Big Daddy, Sculpin and Ruination.
Over at Bach we’ve been on the hops again..dreaming about a land of giant hop vines, swinging the juice axe to harvest us some juicy hope cones for our next Bach brew
The Haze Craze is upon us and here to stay. Started with Hazy IPA’s, we’re now moving into the easier drinking Hazy Pale Ales. On the nose blend of tropical fruits including passionfruit, tangerine, papaya, lychee, mango and grapefruit. Easier drinking at 5.2% and with a supremely balanced bitterness. It’s juicy as f**k!
Chocker full of ANZUS hops from NZ, Australia and USA riding on a juicy malt base. It’s hardly surprising Billfish won Champion pale ale on both sides of the Tasman in one year.
Although slightly lower in alcohol than a IPA, this beer has good weight and great flavour, with juicy stonefruit and tropical notes and extremely refreshing.
We’ve been on the hops again… beavering away to create a 100% crafted non-alcoholic IPA, that tastes like a delicious refreshing beer.
Tasting Notes:
A tropical juice bullet of all NZ malts and hops.
Available in 440ml cans
Tasting Notes:
Brewed in the New England Hazy style, Hop Snorkler is loaded up with a eye watering combination of NZ and US hops on our super juicy malt base.
Available in 440ml cans.
Gold Medal Winner:
2020 NW Beer & Cider Awards – Top 30
Tasting Notes:
On the nose blend of tropical fruits including passionfruit, tangerine, papaya, lychee, mango and grapefruit. Easier drinking at 5.2% and with a supremely balanced bitterness.
It’s juicy as f**k!
Available in 330ml 6 packs.
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Brewed with a bottom fermented yeast and loaded with juicy hops; Mosaic, Citra, Nectaron, Motueka, Idaho 7, and with an extended conditioning. It’s an India Pale Lager.
Available in 440ml cans.
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Brewed on our super juicy malt base and loaded with NZ’s iconic Riwaka hops, and perfectly blended with some big names from the USA: Amarillo, Mosaic, Simcoe and Zythos.
Available in 440ml cans
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We’ve brewed our first hazy IPA with a juicy combination of Maris Otter & wheat malts, oats, and a truck load of tropical fruit driven hops from NZ, Australia and USA.
Available in 440ml cans
Gold Medal Winner:
2018 New Zealand Beer Awards
2015 Australian International Beer Awards
2015 Brewers Guild of NZ Awards
2014 NW Beer & Cider Awards
Silver Medal Winner:
2016 Australian International Beer Awards
2016 NW Beer & Cider Awards
2015 Dublin Craft Beer Cup
2014 Brewers Guild of NZ Awards
Tasting Notes:
True to its pacific genre, Kingtide weaves a balance between the tropical fruit of the NZ hops and the citrus-pine of the US hops. At 7 percent, its sweet, mellow, with a broad pillowly mouthfeel. It delivers a multi-layered experience of floral, fruity and charmingly rugged bitterness.
Available in 440ml cans
Trophy Medal Winner:
2018 New Zealand Beer Awards
Gold Medal Winner:
2018 New Zealand Beer Awards
2017 Australian International Beer Awards
Tasting Notes:
Although slightly lower in alcohol than an IPA, this beer has good weight and great flavour, with juicy stonefruit and tropical notes and extremely refreshing.
Available in 330ml 6 packs.
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Tropical and citrus aroma from the Citra, Mosaic and Nectaron hops with a lingering and unmistakably beer finish. ALL DAY.
Contains no more than 0.5% Alc/Vol.
Available in 330ml can 6 packs.
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Brewed with juicy Maris Otter malts and loaded with the bag name hops; Centennial, US Cascade and Amarillo, with a touch of relatively new Idaho 7.
Bursting with floral, citrus, fruit and pine aromas that flow through on the palate.
Available in 440ml cans.
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Generously hopped with tropical fruit and citrus character coming from super juicy hops; Nelson Sauvin, Motueka, Nectaron, Mosaic, Citra and Galaxy.
Available in 440ml cans.
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Our NZPA is brewed with Nectaron, Riwaka, Motueka and Rakau hops, showcased on Gladfield malts.
Available in 440ml cans
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Duskrider has a ruby-red hue and throws a bouncy aroma of pine and orange peel. The smooth and creamy body has notes of caramel and even a touch of sherbet before a moderately bitter finish
Available in 440ml cans.
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Berried Alive is a refreshing pale ale hopped with Mosaic and Motueka hops, brewed with pure Raspberry fruit.
Available in 440ml cans.
Bach Brewing picked up the inaugural Champion New Zealand Exhibitor trophy at the Brewers Guild of New Zealand Beer awards 2018. Bach recorded an outstanding medal haul with 6 of our beers receiving recognition for excellence. TROPHY Billfish APA (Pale Ale) GOLD Billfish APA (Pale Ale) Kingtide Pacific IPA (Strong Pale Ale) SILVER Shaka Lager…
Just last weekend in Dublin 469 beers from 24 countries were judged; Bach Brewing picked up 3 medals; Driftwood Session Pale Ale – Silver medal Kingtide Pacific IPA – Silver medal Duskrider Red IPA – Bronze medal Don’t mean to skite but like a proud Dad, in less than 12 months this brings the medal…