Garage Project Tiny But Mighty - XPA

Big things sometimes come in little packages. Say hi to Tiny XPA: Brewed with pilsner malt, Simcoe, Strata and Citra hops. Tiny XPA is specially fermented to give you all the juicy hop character and tropical aromatics you’ve come to expect from an XPA, just without the alcohol. Yup that’s right. Big flavour, without the booze so you can enjoy your XPA anytime. Tiny, but mighty.

Art by: Lily Paris West

 
Brewed in Wellington, New Zealand
 

The Garage Project is Pete Gillespie, Jos Ruffell, and Ian Gillespie.

When we started out we were tiny. Garage Project wasn't even micro brewing… it was a truly nano brewery.

After nine years of working in breweries with equipment 100 times bigger it was quite a change to downsize to a fifty litre brew kit. But what we lacked in size we more than made up for in agility and the ability to experiment.

When you’re brewing on such a small scale you can afford to take risks. That suited us. We wanted to try something new.

Five years have passed and we’ve grown, but that same ethos still shapes how we do things at the Garage. Whether we’re brewing 50 litres or 2000, we’re still here to take some risks, to have a bit of fun and to try something new.

Way back in the day, when we were just starting out, we wrote a little blurb about each other to shed some light on who we are, and what lead us down the path of starting a brewery in Wellington, (if you’ve ever written your own bio, you’ll know how hard it can be!).

ORIGIN: New ZealandABV: <0.5%STYLE: Non Alcoholic Pale AleHops: Simcoe, Strata & Citra hops Tiny just got mightier! Say hi to Tiny XPA, our brand new non-alc beer specially fermented to give all the juicy hop character and tropical aromatics you've come to expect from your XPA, just without the booze.  Brewed wi

Hazy non alcoholic beer.
Pete + the brew team have been trying to create a 0% beer for a long time - years. Along the way, they accidentally stumbled onto a way to make hard seltzer, now known as Dirty Water, when they were trialling an osmosis process. Tiny is fermented using a quasi-yeast that produces no alcohol as a by-product, like normal yeast would. In order to be classified as 0%, you need to be under 0.05% abv in reality - it's tight!

Art by: Lily Paris West.

This beer won a bronze medal in the Speciality & Experimental Class at the NZ Brewers Guild Awards 2021.

 
Brewed in Wellington, New Zealand
 

The Garage Project is Pete Gillespie, Jos Ruffell, and Ian Gillespie.

When we started out we were tiny. Garage Project wasn't even micro brewing… it was a truly nano brewery.

After nine years of working in breweries with equipment 100 times bigger it was quite a change to downsize to a fifty litre brew kit. But what we lacked in size we more than made up for in agility and the ability to experiment.

When you’re brewing on such a small scale you can afford to take risks. That suited us. We wanted to try something new.

Five years have passed and we’ve grown, but that same ethos still shapes how we do things at the Garage. Whether we’re brewing 50 litres or 2000, we’re still here to take some risks, to have a bit of fun and to try something new.

Way back in the day, when we were just starting out, we wrote a little blurb about each other to shed some light on who we are, and what lead us down the path of starting a brewery in Wellington, (if you’ve ever written your own bio, you’ll know how hard it can be!).

Non-Alcoholic Extra Pale Ale | 330ml  Tiny just got mightier! Say hi to Tiny XPA, our brand new non-alc beer specially fermented to give all the juicy hop character and tropical aromatics you've come to expect from your XPA, just without the booze. Brewed with pilsner malt, Simcoe, Strata and Citra hops, the result is