Featuring beers from New Zealand's top breweries

The Best of NZ Craft Beer

New Zealand brews some of the best beers in the world, but getting into the hobby can be intimidating. With some many beers to choose from, who knows what is good and what is bad? We do. Each month our qualified BJCP beer judges select beers from independent NZ breweries and curate a selection with the best of the best. Taste wonderful medal-standard beers at home every month, including new releases, seasonal ranges, and experimental batches. 

A Beer Festival in Every Box

Are you tired of “pub staples” and seeing the same styles everywhere? Beer-drinkers are an adventurous bunch and need variety! This is why we bring together some of the best independent breweries into our curation of craft beers. Our boxes feature breweries from across New Zealand, and cans you wouldn’t be able to find in stores. And if you’re sick of repetition, don’t worry. We always make sure to include a variety of styles to broaden your horizons.

Fresh, Direct, Uncomplicated

Our monthly subscription boxes are sent around the 20th of every month. We always strive to get you the freshest possible product, because we understand craft beer is serious business. The beers come fresh to us straight from the breweries, before being packed overnight and sent directly to your doorstep. We have streamlined the process to make everything as straightforward and convenient as possible, so all you need to do is sit back and enjoy!

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Eder Bezerra
Eder Bezerra

September 2025 NZ Judges' Box

All good and yummy as always. Thanks guys.

Valerie Robertson
Valerie Robertson

Excellent Beer

What a delightful box of excellent German beers with the super glass. we are really enjoying the 2 boxes we ordered, will be sad when they are all gone.

Scott Albert
Scott Albert

Nice box

Great selection of beers, nice to have some nibbles too.

Laura Lambie
Laura Lambie

July 2025 NZ Judges' Box

Christopher Fox
Christopher Fox

Enjoyed the selection

Quick and easy ordering and delivery. A good variety of beers.

Sharon Weir
Sharon Weir

Hoppy Beers 20 box

Great value and hubby loves them

Andrew Jack
Andrew Jack

Andrew’s Review

Did not like the chocolate beer.

Anne Maree Monteith
Anne Maree Monteith

Great beer

Cheers present for my sons birthday he loved the selection of different beers👍🍺🍺

Brian king
Brian king

Great

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Prunella Tebbs
Prunella Tebbs

Very good service

Extremely pleased with this order

Marcus R.
Marcus R.

Juicy and Hoppy Balanced Selection

Freshness and boldness, with a hoppy ending! Sawmill – Apricot Hazy IPA & DNA Brewing – White Sands White IPA were the crown jewels. Great customer service and speedy deliver. Highly recommended!

Karen Ao
Karen Ao

Amazing surprise craft beer box

The Surprise Craft Beer Box is a game-changer for me as a beer lover. It feels like I'm getting a gift every time! High-quality beers from different breweries. Each box has new flavors to try. Love it!

Josh Brookes
Josh Brookes

Great variety

Loved the fact that these were all delicious beers but also covered a wide range of styles - great taste and value

Maria Ramirez
Maria Ramirez

Amazing!!

I recently purchased this box and was genuinely impressed. The selection of beers was exceptional. It felt thoughtfully curated, with something for every taste. Customer service was excellent, quick to respond and super helpful, and delivery was right on time with everything well packed and intact. Highly recommend for any beer lover looking to try something new!

Haydn Randall
Haydn Randall

The worst beers of Marchfest.

I was at Marchfest & the beers were excellent this year. Except these 3 in the box. I know buying it was a risk but at $75 for 8 awful beers, I’m disappointed.

Brian McMillan
Brian McMillan

Disappointing

I was quite disappointed with this box. Whilst I was aware that there would be double ups, to get only 3 different beers included made it feel like this was a bit of a token effort. The beers included in the box were also disappointing, they were far from the strongest beers at Marchfest 2025 in my opinion. I wouldn't purchase this box again next year.

Sharon Weir
Sharon Weir

Summer clearance bundle

Excellent and fantastic service from the team 👌🏻👌🏻

Gabrielle Nowak
Gabrielle Nowak

Great gift

Got 3 month subscription for my husband for his birthday. Best gift ever! He'd enjoyed trying different beers beyond a Hazy ipa.

Geoff Jackson
Geoff Jackson

24 days of beer cheer

I usually order this for my brother each year, but this year I got us one each. 24 Beers for each day in December leading up to Christmas. A good variety with only 2 stouts (I'm not a fan) but I still drank both of them. Great excuse to try a style you normally wouldn't buy. Nice way to enjoy summer in the lead up to Christmas

Mark Leitch
Mark Leitch

January 2025 NZ Brewery Box

Jane Hassall
Jane Hassall

Not as good this year.

I thought the selection this year wasn’t as good. Didn’t enjoy as much as previous years. Too many sours.

Gary Brinsden
Gary Brinsden

Fun Christmas treet

My son in London gave me a voucher in Sept for my birthday so I bought the Advent beer collection before it sold out again for Christmas. Lots of fun and great beers.

Kerry Neas
Kerry Neas

Beer box gift

Quick delivery and great range of beers

Greg Ryan
Greg Ryan

SOLD OUT - Kiwi Craft Beer Advent Calendar 2024

Joel Martin
Joel Martin

Craft beer box review

Overall I enjoyed it, a good excuse to try some beers I normally wouldn't drink. I didn't enjoy a few of the beers - some of them I don't think could be associated with craft beer like a lime sour? Horrible. A few that were pretty plain too like the low carb lagers, may as well have just put an export low carb in the mix. Not bad beer but again not sure I would call them craft beer.

Richard Cattell
Richard Cattell

Great to see non-alcoholic beers

As someone who loves the taste of good beer but now doesn't drink alcohol this was a great selection of some of the best non alcohol beers around.

Michelle Fahey
Michelle Fahey

Great Service

My husband is very happy with his advent calendar. It was held up as it was damaged in transit but once I let them know, the communication was great and they got it sorted quickly. Would definitely purchase from them again.

Andrew HAMILTON
Andrew HAMILTON

SOLD OUT - Kiwi Craft Beer Advent Calendar 2024

Tom Frankish
Tom Frankish

Craft Beer Gift Voucher

Amanda Strong
Amanda Strong

Great Box

Loved the variety of beers and they were all labeled. Great idea of advent calendar for a beer drinker.

Jan Booth
Jan Booth

Kiwi craft beer advent calendar

What a awesome surprise my husband dad, what good idea, thank you

Sophia Scaramuzza
Sophia Scaramuzza

Boyfriend and dad are loving it so far - such a cool idea!

Roy Goddard
Roy Goddard

'-Kiwi Craft Beer Advent Calendar 2024'

Nice selection of beers to sample up to the Christmas break, great idea, and a reasonable price.

Alan Thomson
Alan Thomson

sour

Too many sours and lagers

Gordon Burnside
Gordon Burnside

Love at first night

They even gave me a stubby (can) holder in the box. I've isolated this one beer as the most delightful and memorable from the last assorted box. I'm ordering a box!

Gordon Burnside
Gordon Burnside

Excellent selection

There was a nice pale blue can in there, even came with a stubby (can) holder. I really liked the beer in it and want to order more, I think it was Garage project beer but I can't find it online. That's the problem for me and I guess many other drinkers, the brands and models are so many its just impossible to remember them. I mean I have a whisky collection to remember, rums, Bourbons, wines, how does beer get some room in the memory banks? It doesn't, even though I love it, every day. Not a problem for established brands but might explain why there are so many micro-brewery liquidations. Doesn't help that the graphics constantly change, get some branding knowledge people.

Esther Pinnell
Esther Pinnell

Judges' Club - Monthly NZ Craft Beer Delivery - STARTING SEPT

Tony Clitherow
Tony Clitherow

Great tasting Pils, minus the hangover

A beer you can savour while also not worry about how many you have had after work

Dougal Henderson
Dougal Henderson

Happy mate

My mate, who brews his own, was really happy to have a selection of different beers to chose from.

Josie Soppit
Josie Soppit

Birthday treat

Ordered, delivered on time and enjoyed.

Mick Lockyer
Mick Lockyer

That Martin is a clever wee fker. he makes a fine brew!

Greg Ryan
Greg Ryan

Magnificent - very easy and efficient process ... and great beer!

Leigh Goodall
Leigh Goodall

Excellent

Geoff Copestake
Geoff Copestake

Happy, but not

They very nice, but I was little disappointed to find they were just a repeat of the last 2 months Judge's Selection I had already received. Cheers Geoff C

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