Murray's

Brewer

Name
Murray's
Address

3443 Nelson Bay Rd
Bobs Farm
NSW 2316

Phone
(02) 4982 6411
Open Hours

Cellar door
Mon to Fri: 10am to 5.30pm
Weekends from 10am
Restaurant
Lunch: Open 7 days
Dinner: Friday and Saturday nights in January (bookings essential)

Tours

Public tours daily at 2pm. $5 per person. Bookings recommended.
Groups of 20 or more and private tours by appointment.
Extreme Brewery Tours via helicopter. (Murray is not the pilot - but he'd love to be). By appointment.

Starting out as the brewery that gave the Pub With No Beer its beer, the Murray's operation moved to Port Stephens, a short drive up the coast from Newcastle, once word of its high quality brews meant they could no longer be contained by a pub in regional New South Wales.

These days, the ever-expanding brewery is housed in a former wine storage shed next to rows of vines just up the hill from a modern bar, restaurant and function room.

The original brew system was a wonderful copper clad piece of engineering, the likes of which would have filled Heath Robinson's dreams. It had, however, become incapable of meeting demand alone so has been replaced by a rather larger and more contemporary beast, with the old trooper now in operation at Hope Brewhouse in the Hunter.

With a fondness for pushing the bounds of brewing and mixing and matching styles, they've long been known for producing full-flavoured beers at every point in the spectrum, from lower alcohol examples like Punch & Judy and Retro Rocket to the big and bold Wild Thing and Spartacus – beers that were ahead of their time in the context of the Australian beer market. More recently, they've put out IPAs of all shapes and sizes, taken Wild Thing in all manner of directions and continued to fire out the weird and wonderful as well as adding more sessionable beers – a lager and XPA, for example – to the core range.

The ongoing expansion of the brewhouse has been in keeping with Murray's aim of seeing good craft beer all along the East Coast; every nook and cranny of the shed has steadily been filled with beer and the gear with which to make it, including the wooden barrels used for their annual Anniversary Ale releases, which tend be anything from barley wine to a Belgian ale featuring brettanomyces.

Having gotten by in the original buildings for years, in 2017 the cellar door and restaurant underwent a major makeover and it now looks every bit the modern destination, with a huge outdoor deck where you can bask in the Port Stephens sunshine, take in the scenery of the vineyard and the bush beyond and tuck into a pizza cooked in the outdoor oven. That winning combo has made it a hugely popular place for functions and an even more attractive proposition for the myriad of concerts that have been held on the grounds almost every long weekend for years.

During the renovations they also went to the trouble of installing a small still which they use to produce their own spirits under the Gentleman Smith label; there must be few, if any, other places in the country where you can sit down with a beer, wine and spirit made on site – not to mention the myriad of sauces and spreads that get made with the beer.

In recent years Murray’s adopted the tagline of “No boring beer”, and you’d be hard pressed to find anything boring at this place.

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Core Range

Murray's Whale Ale
American Wheat Beer
4.5%
Murray's Angry Man Pale Ale
APA
4.5%
Murray's Fred West Coast IPA
US IPA
6.0%
Murray's Dark Knight Porter
Porter
4.5%
Murray's East Coast XPA
XPA
4.5%
Murray's East Coast Lager
Lager
4.8%

Limited Releases

Murray's Kick! Passionfruit
Passionfruit Wheat Ale
4.2%
Murray's Frother Late Sesh Newcastle India Pale Lager
India Pale Lager
4.5%
Murray's Laguna Brut IPA
Brut IPA
7.0%
Murray's Wild Thing Whisky Imperial Stout
Imperial Stout
10.0%
Murray's Jaffa & Raisin' Hell
Belgian Ale & Wheat Porter
5.5%
Murray's Gardenia IIPA
Double IPA
8.5%
Murray's Ginni Hendrix Pale Ale
Gin Pale Ale
4.6%
Murray's Anniversary Ale 12
English Barleywine
10.0%
Murray's Thunderbolt IPA & Black Bear Black IPA
IPA & Black IPA
7.0% & 5.6%
Murray's Coffee Wild Thing
Coffee Imperial Stout
10.0%
Murray's Hell of the North
Belgian Strong Dark Ale
11.5%
Murray's Brewery Spartacus Imperial IPA
Imperial IPA
10.0%
Murray's Skully Red IPA
Red IPA
5.6%
Murray's & Bloodhound Bar Get Rich Or Die Ryeing
Red Rye IPA
5.8%
Murray's & Brother Burger USEB
American ESB
6.8%
Murray's Wild Thing, Wild Thing Chocolate & Night Demon
Imperial Stout / Belgian Strong Dark Ale
10% / 10.8%
Murray's Brewing Benny Belgian Ale
Belgian Red Ale
6.5%
Murray's Chocolate Easter Egg Beer
Chocolate Beer
4.5%
Murray's Brewing Scratchley's Itch
Pilsner
4.5%
Murray's Ed Session IPA
Session IPA
4.5%
Murray's Brewing Anniversary Ale 9
English Barley Wine
10%
Murray's / Crafty Pint Auld Bulgin' Boysterous Bicep '14
Smoked Imperial Belgio Mollusc Stout
10.0%
Murray's Anniversary Ale 8
Barley Wine
10%
Murray's Moon Boy
Golden Ale
4.5%
Murray's Brewing Hell of the North
Belgian Strong Dark Ale
11.5%
Murray's Angry Man Brown Ale
American Brown Ale
6.5%
Murray's / The Crafty Pint Auld Bulgin' Boysterous Bicep
Smoked Belgio Imperial Mussel & Oyster Stout
10.0%
Murray's Anniversary Ale 7
Smoked, Barrel-Aged Belgian Barleywine
15%
Murray's Smashing Pumpkin Ale (2012)
Pumpkin Ale
5.2%
Murray's Big Wednesday IPA
IPA
6.0%
Murray's Libertine
Belgian farmhouse ale
5.0%
Murray's Anniversary Ale 6
Belgian Barleywine
15%
Murray's Smashing Pumpkin Ale (2011)
Spiced Pumpkin Ale
5.2%
Murray's The Natural
French Farmhouse Ale
5.0%
Murray's Oak-Aged Heart of Darkness
Belgio Imperial Stout
9.6%
Murray's Shawn's Fault
India Black Ale
7.5%
Murray's Vesuvius
Pilsnerq
7.1%
Murray's Spartacus (bottled)
Imperial IPA
10%
Murray's Heart of Darkness
Belgian Imperial Stout
9.4%
Murray's Easter Ale
Spiced Ale
Murray's Retro Rocket
Light IPA(!)
2.8%
Murray's Angry Man Brown Ale
American Brown Ale
6.5%
Murray's Imperious
Imperial Belgian Blond
11%
Murray's Punk Monk
Belgian hybrid
7.5%
Murray's Anniversary Ale 5
Wheat and Barleywine
10%
Murray's Punch & Judy
English Ale
3.9%
Murray's Rudeboy Pilsner
German Pilsner
4.8%
Murray's Icon 2IPA
American Double IPA
7.5%
Murray's Rudeboy Pilsner (Bottled)
Pilsner
4.8%