It’s fair to say there’s not another brewery in Australia like Bacchus. Whether it’s the number of new beers they release in a calendar year – more than 120 last time around – or the way in which they do it – carrying out concurrent brews on multiple small systems – they’re unique. As are many of the beers they brew too, from rum cask-aged Baltic porters to ales with macadamia and honey and the rather idiosyncratic Cock Ale (containing chicken, in case you’re getting nervous).

If it sounds like something a particularly active and creative home brewer might get up to, then it is, kind of, as Bacchus is based in a giant home brew supplies store and its multiple brewhouses were originally used for a “brew your own beer” business. It was taken over in July 2010 by Ross Kenrick, himself a successful home brewer who was looking for a premises for his Craftbrewer business, who promptly set about putting together a team to create the huge array of beers that flows through their 27 in-house taps, fills their wort kits for home brewers, and finds its way onto a growing number of taps around Queensland and, on occasion, further afield. They brew beers for a handful of contract brewers and venues too, including 4 Hearts Brewing, and will even brew them for you if you’ve got a recipe in mind and would like to turn it into 50 litres of beer.

Alternatively, you can buy a selection of Bacchus beers in five litre mini-kegs from their Capalaba home, where there’s much else to buy too, whether you’re a home brewer of any standard or someone looking to deck out a bar with goods from The Pub Shop. There’s a vast collection of pretty much every piece of kit you could wish to get your hands on and a staggering amount of ingredients too. When The Crafty Pint called in, there were more than 100 grains, 140 different hop products and 110 yeast strains in stock; little wonder the brewers there are able to knock out so many new beers in a year…

Please note: the beers listed as regulars below are those regularly pouring from the 27 tap at the brewery.