Best Beers Of New Zealand

The following are the highest rated beers brewed in New Zealand as they appear in the ranks at RateBeer.com. Beer scores are weighted means so that more ratings for a beer increase the score's tendency to the beer's actual mean.

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	Name	Avg	#	Style
1	Garage Project Mutiny on the Bounty	4.03	16	Stout - Imperial Flavored / Pastry
2	Garage Project / Other Half Hāpi Sessions Vol. 3: No Dreams Til Brooklyn	4.00	17	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double Hazy (NEIPA)
3	8 Wired iStout Double Imperial	3.98	21	Stout - Imperial
4	8 Wired iStout	3.98	742	Stout - Imperial
5	Kererū Night Spirit	3.97	20	Stout - Imperial
6	Liberty Prohibition Porter	3.97	15	Porter - Imperial
7	Garage Project / Trillium Hāpi Sessions Vol. 1: Aro Street	3.96	31	IPA - Hazy (NEIPA)
8	Liberty Citra Double IPA	3.92	102	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double IPA
9	8 Wired iStout Affogato	3.90	100	Stout - Imperial Flavored / Pastry
10	Epic Hop Zombie	3.89	352	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double IPA
11	8 Wired iStout Unchained	3.88	31	Stout - Imperial
12	Tuatara XV 15th Anniversary Russian Imperial Stout	3.88	27	Stout - Imperial
13	Garage Project Party and Bullshit	3.85	48	IPA - Hazy (NEIPA)
14	8 Wired HopWired IPA	3.84	728	IPA
15	Tuatara Double Trouble	3.84	161	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double IPA
16	Garage Project Carillon	3.84	12	Sour Flemish Ale - Flanders Red / Oud Bruin
17	Garage Project Cabbages and Kings	3.84	71	Stout - Imperial Flavored / Pastry
18	8 Wired Wild Feijoa Sour Ale (2016+)	3.84	38	Sour / Wild Beer - Flavored
19	Garage Project / Trillium Galaxy Valley	3.84	11	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double Hazy (NEIPA)
20	Garage Project Demus Favorem Amori (DFA)	3.84	256	IPA - Flavored
21	Garage Project Boss Level	3.83	29	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double IPA
22	Kererū Paloma	3.83	14	Barley Wine / Wheat Wine / Rye Wine
23	Garage Project Lupus the Wolf Man	3.83	20	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double IPA
24	Garage Project Triple Day of the Dead	3.82	38	Flavored - Other
25	Epic Magic Dust	3.82	24	IPA
26	8 Wired Superconductor	3.82	400	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double IPA
27	Cassels & Sons Double Cream Milk Stout	3.81	46	Stout - Imperial
28	8 Wired Bumaye	3.81	190	Stout - Imperial
29	Garage Project Excessive Machine	3.80	7	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double Hazy (NEIPA)
30	Behemoth (Chur) Music City Hazy Mosaic IPA	3.80	13	IPA - Hazy (NEIPA)
31	Kererū Imperial Nibs	3.80	72	Porter - Imperial Flavored
32	Emerson's Bird Dog IPA	3.80	47	IPA
33	Canhead Hardtail Henry Oaked Stout	3.79	37	Stout - Imperial
34	Garage Project Pernicious Weed	3.79	293	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double IPA
35	Behemoth (Chur) Snow Mexican Maple Syrup Imperial Stout	3.79	11	Stout - Imperial Flavored / Pastry
36	Garage Project Los Lobos	3.78	43	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double IPA
37	Garage Project / Monkish Hāpi Sessions Vol. 9: Escape From LA	3.78	7	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double Hazy (NEIPA)
38	8 Wired Snakecharmer	3.77	21	Sour / Wild Beer - Flavored
39	8 Wired Gorky Park	3.77	11	Stout - Imperial
40	8 Wired / Pinta Opium Cake	3.77	83	Stout - Imperial Flavored / Pastry
41	Liberty Yakima Monster	3.77	82	Pale Ale - American (APA)
42	Garage Project Hellbender	3.76	50	Barley Wine / Wheat Wine / Rye Wine
43	8 Wired Dynamo Merlot	3.76	15	Stout - Imperial Flavored / Pastry
44	Garage Project Dark Arts	3.76	12	Bock - Doppelbock
45	Kererū Black Ruby Imperial Stout	3.76	17	Stout - Imperial Flavored / Pastry
46	Liberty Yakima Scarlet	3.76	56	IPA - Red
47	Behemoth (Chur) Chocolate Fish Milk Stout Beer	3.76	12	Stout - Flavored / Pastry
48	Garage Project The End of the Golden Weather	3.76	7	Sour / Wild Beer - Flavored
49	Garage Project Turbo Fuzz	3.76	7	IIPA DIPA - Imperial / Double Hazy (NEIPA)
50	Liberty Sauvin Bomb - Hop Atomic Pale Ale	3.76	71	Pale Ale - Australian / New Zealand

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