beer education Crafty Folks: Brewing With Brendan

Crafty Pint / 31.01.12

Once a year, Fremantle’s iconic Sail & Anchor pub holds a competition in which it challenges home brewers to try and replicate as best they can one of the beers formerly brewed at the venue. This year, the beer in question was the Seven Seas Ale, a traditional British pub ale. The prize was to spend at day at Feral in the Swan Valley brewing the beer alongside head brewer Brenda Varis, the man behind modern day Aussie classics such as the Hop Hog.

This year’s winning brewer was Tim Fenner (left above), who The Crafty Pint had the pleasure to meet while in Perth recently. He offered to tell u...