Sassy Red

Deaf to the pleas of the Mac's Brewery finance department, we pour bucket loads of pricey Saaz hops into Sassy Red at strategic points in the brewing process, giving an aroma that our head brewer claims is "like sticking your head in a hop sack". The nutty, biscuity flavours you detect on your first sip of this 4.5% aromatic ale can be laid at the door of the combination of 5 different malts used. Sassy Red has won the amber ale category at the BrewNZ every year from 2003 to 2007. Not that we like to boast about that sort of thing.