Started 20 years ago by two brewing mates, Founders has become one of the bigger craft brewers in the USA. They produce big flavoured beers that create cult followings. Their hoppy beers are good, but their dark malty stuff is unrivalled. They are my favourite brewer. Full stop. Bottle. Close to black with an ever [...]
Wolf of the Willows - what a great name. A Roman naturalist, after observing the aggressive growth of hops, attacking Willow trees like wolves, named them Lupus Salictarius, Latin for Wolf of the Willows. The Melbourne husband and wife outfit have created this delicious ‘India Saison’. This may not be an actual style in the [...]
Almanac Beer Company is a San Francisco, California contract brewery that makes farm-to-table beers in small batches using fruit, grains and herbs purchased from local family farms. This is their take on a sour, like really really sour. Packed with lemon it's brewed with Buddha's Hand Citron, blood orange and yep lemon, meyer lemons to [...]
Aloha NEIPA with pog juice from Six Strings Brewing Co. I had to go all the way to Canberra to get this beer (well I was there for work technically) and found it at Plonk! Wow what a bottleshop, almost worth the 3 plus hours drive to Canberra.... I digress, mate of mine got a [...]
Flower Power sour from Shenanigans with infused flower petals. Huge fan of Shenanigans, ever since I had their degustation at the empire hotel back in the day, best one I've ever been to. Anyways I digress, this sour is a very potable 3.5% and was originally crafted for GABS. I loved it at GABS and [...]
Stockade Brew Co hail from Sydney with a number of seasonal beers on offering. This is a 'Hoppy Brown Ale' that tips the scales at 6.8%ABV. Driven by malt, the first sip pulls your lips to your tongue to cleanse the pallet. It's almost off-putting at first until you adjust. There are burnt grain flavours [...]
Set in a beautiful part of northern NSW, the New England Brewing Company is making some fantastic beer. It can be a little hard to find in Sydney, but I was lucky to have a friend buy this for me from the brewery to celebrate the birth of my daughter. A seasonal brew, the ‘Frederick [...]
Yullis Mum's Mango Pale Ale is on tap at the Robin Hood Hotel bottlo at the moment by way of their canimals/growlers. I'm yet to have a bad beer from Yullis and this is no exception! Are you guys still gypsy brewing? Pours a delightfully murky light orange which is highly unusual for a pale [...]
The lads at 3Ravens in Thornbury are no strangers to great beer. Producing a wide variety of show winning beers, they have a formula and it works. Today I cracked a can of their Extra Juicy Double Hopped NEIPA. The artwork throws some hints that it going to be fruity. There's a juice-box straw [...]
Ah NEIPAs, my god I love them so much! The Jiffy Squid from Mornington Peninsula Breweries has some of the best can art I've seen in a while, looks awesome! Can says, "Fat, Juicy, Cloudy and Very Hoppy." Let's see. Can poured a typically impenetrable cloudy yellow with that full oaty look and feel. Strong [...]
A bit of a curious one ‘Sydney Brewery’. Their beer is brewed in the Hunter Valley, two hours north of Sydney in the famous wine region, whilst each of the brews carries the name of an inner Sydney suburb. Pyrmont is home to a big ugly casino, a smelly fish market in urgent need of [...]
Boatrocker shouldn't need any introduction since they have two beers in the top 10 for all Australian beers on ratebeer.com, including the first placed Ramjet Whisky Barrel Aged Imperial Stout. Their beers often look towards Europe and involve time consuming methods such as barrel ageing. This makes for small batches and amazing beers. They seem [...]
