North Brewing Co. X Parrotdog NZ DIPA
North Brewing Co. X Parrotdog NZ DIPA
Last year we brewed a NZIPA with our friends from New Zealand, Parrotdog Brewery. They brought with them in their suitcases 20kg of a new experimental hop from called HORT 4337. We all felt a little like the Pablo Escobars of the brewing world. We threw the hops into the tank and ended up making a beer that gained a lot of love at the brewery. Fast forward a year later and HORT 4337 has been legalised, named 'Nectaron' and is widely available to the masses! We've managed to pick some up this year and reached out to Parrotdog to see if they would be up for revisiting the recipe and making some changes.
We've doubled down on the original brew to bring you an NZDIPA. 8% in abv and featuring a big big dose of Nectaron bringing rich and intense passionfruit and peach flavour. Citra and El Dorado back the beer up with smooth fleshy pear, succulent pineapple and juicy nectarine.
ABV: 8.0%
Size: 440ml
Style: New England DIPA
Country: United Kingdom
ABOUT THIS BREWERY
In 2014, a man named Rich Poole walked into Small Bar, Bristol, and handed some beer over to Bruce Gray and Jack Granger. This began a brewing journey that started on a 200L kit through the back of that same bar, before developing into a cuckoo brewery operation known as Left Handed Giant.
Our own physical brewery operation began in 2017, before raising more than £1m from the local community via Crowdcube to build the beating heart of our business, a brewpub overlooking the floating harbour in the centre of Bristol, which opened in 2019. We now operate over 2 brewery sites, selling over 70% of our 4000HL per year production through our own venues at the Finzels Reach Brewpub, our St Philips Tap Room and still, from where it all began at Small Bar.
We are community owned, and aim to execute an employee buy-out within the next 3 years, making us one of the only UK employee-owned breweries. Independence and the freedom to express our creativity is central to our business, and we believe that giving our team ownership and leadership of our company is crucial to ensuring this remains the case throughout our breweries’ long lifetime.
