Green Gully Brewing isn't just one of the tiniest breweries in the country, but as a genuine farm brewery – brewing farmhouse style beers on farmland on Phillip Island – Luke Smith's operation is a rarity too. While his fondness is for creating saisons and similar with his funky house culture, he does look to combine such things with more mainstream styles at times. Case in point, his stab at an "Australian Draught".
He's added the prefix "Local" to the beer's name too, but while the golden hue and dry bitterness are in keeping with the beers still consumed by most of the Aussie population, the blend of yeast strains take things elsewhere. Floral honey notes and some light, peppery spices bring to mind the sort of golden ale you're more like to knock back in a bar in Belgium than an Aussie local, acting as a reminder of just how diverse our local beer scene is these days.
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