Beer Cowaramup Lightsign

The current holder of the Champion Lager trophy from the Australian International Beer Awards (awarded for his excellent pilsner) doesn't release new beers very often. Jeremy Good, the co-founder and brewer at Cowaramup in WA's Margaret River region, prefers instead to work on perfecting his range of traditional English and German styles. Yet, in a rare break from cover, he has knocked up a batch of a beer for summer that takes its name from an idea his daughter Bethany had years ago when they were in the process of setting up the brewery. The result is a summer ale made with Aussie Stella hops that give it a lightly floral and lemony aroma; in the mouth those citrusy hop characters return against a light malt backbone in a beer that's rather too quaffable and, as is typical with Jeremy's beers, clean as a whistle.