Junction Beer Hall

Venue

Name
Junction Beer Hall
Address

15 Hall Street
Newport
VIC 3015

Phone
(03) 9391 8188
Open Hours

Tues: 4pm to 11pm
Wed: 4pm to 11pm
Thurs: 4pm to 11pm
Fri: 4pm to 1am
Sat: 12pm to 1am
Sun: 12pm to 11pm

Melbourne may well have been leading the craft beer charge in Australia - certainly when it comes to the number and quality of venues offering a wide range of local and imported goodies. Yet you only had to toddle over to the west to find your options severely restricted. So thanks are in order to the guys at Saboroso, the Seddon restaurant that dabbled in the craft beer world, and dabbled successfully enough to decide to open their own dedicated beer hall.

Taking over the Junction Hotel in Newport, one of those venues with a chequered past best described as colourful, they undertook a complete overhaul, turning one side into a beer hall, the other into a wine room. And, while the latter is rather lovely, complete with a curated list of boutique wines, tasty morsels and impressive murals, it's the former you want to know about. Put it this way, if you live in Melbourne's inner west, love craft beer and were feeling hard done by, suffer no more - the Junction was the answer to your prayers long before the area's scene began to flourish.

Reinvented as a bright and breezy venue with art lining the walls, tall wooden benches built by one of the owners' dads, it now boasts 20-strong all-craft tap lineup and an impressive bottle list. Taken together, the beer offering is good enough to have been awarded by Time Out Melbourne. Add in beer food done with simple panache and a good-sized beer garden at the rear and it's enough to warrant a trip by those to whom the west is foreign, uncharted territory. What's more, they've got one mother of a pizza oven they imported from Italy that rises like a diplodocus' hump on one side of the kitchen.

You can embark on your own impromptu sampling sessions by ordering a tasting paddle of any of the beers on tap. The paddles are also made by the owner's dad, this time from leftover bits of the furniture, a nice touch in keeping with the attention to detail that should stand the Junction in good stead in the battle for Melbourne's western front.

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