Hottest 100 Kiwi Craft Beers revealed

For the first time in New Zealand, the GABS Hottest 100 Kiwi Craft Beers has been announced. Created by the team behind the hugely popular GABS Beer, Cider & Food Fest, and supported by Liquorland and craftypint.com, the poll started life nine years ago in Australia as a way for craft beer fans to celebrate their favourite Aussie beers on Australia Day.

After staging the first GABS Auckland to much acclaim in June last year, the team then announced the launch of an entirely New Zealand focussed edition of the Hottest 100 Craft Beers poll. Excitingly, the Kiwi craft beer community responded with gusto, with breweries registering more than 550 individual beers to vote for. The fans have also embraced the opportunity to nominate their five favourite beers of the year, with more votes received in the first Kiwi poll than the organisers received in the first four years of the Aussie edition.

With so much interest, beer fans all over the country went online to follow the live countdown from #100 to #1 on Waitangi Day. Co-founder Steve Jeffares remarked: “It’s been incredible to see the response the Hottest 100 Craft Beer poll has had in its first year in New Zealand, and really demonstrates the vibrancy and diversity of craft beer in the Kiwi industry […]”.

GABS Auckland is regarded as the premier beer festival in New Zealand and takes place at the ASB Showgrounds on Saturday June 17.

Visit GABS2017 for more info.