The second beer to come out of last year’s visit to New Zealand by Nøgne Ø’s Kjetil Jikiun is ready for release. It’s a collaboration brewed at Renaissance by Kjetil, Renaissance themselves and their staff-member and “tenant” 8 Wired.

The idea for the beer was to take the Nøgne Ø beer known as #100 and replace most of the ingredients with New Zealand alternatives. For those who haven’t tried it, #100 is a difficult beer to categorise, falling somewhere between an Imperial IPA and a barley wine. The result is to be called Ø For Awesome.

Launching at Hashigo Zake on February 21st.