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GABS has just announced the Hottest 100 Kiwi Craft Beers, as voted by New Zealanders, announcing the top craft beers from over 650 brews

Annual beer, cider and food fest – GABS – has announced the Hottest 100 Kiwi Craft Beers, as voted by New Zealanders.

Taking the top spot – Upper Hutt brewery Panhead Custom Ales' Supercharger APA (American Pale Ale), followed by Wellington’s Garage Project? in second and third place, subsequently Death From Above, a South-East Asian inspired American IPA (India Pale Ale) in second place, and in third, Garage Project's Pernicious Weed, a double IPA.

In fact, Garage Project dominated the list with an impressive 19 of their beers featured in the GABS Hottest 100 line-up.

The rest of the top 10 list looks like this (we suggest getting your own tasting paddle together now!):

  1. Epic Hop Zombie Double IPA
  2. Garage Project Party & Bullshit New England IPA
  3. Epic Armageddon American IPA
  4. Liberty Brewing Co. The Kush American IPA 
  5. Liberty Brewing Co. Citra Double IPA
  6. 8 Wired Cucumber Hippy Berliner Berliner Weisse
  7. Garage Project Hapi Daze New Zealand Pale Ale 
     

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