Stone & Wood Ale Pack

The story behind the arrival on bottleshop shelves of a new mixed, large bottle six-pack from Stone & Wood for summer starts with the Cloud Catcher. The beer originally released to mark the opening of a second brewery at Murrwillumbah – a delightful fruit salad explosion – proved so popular that the brewers were inundated with requests to bring it back. We can well understand this as when we were lucky enough to be given a pre-release sample at the brewery earlier this year we got about as far as two sips before asking: "Will you be making it a permanent release?"

So bring it back they have, with a new label design to boot. And, realising they had plenty to go around, they decided to mix things up a little too, packaging one Cloud Catcher alongside two bottles each of their ubiquitous Pacific Ale and red ale Jasper as well as a single bottle of Garden Ale, the British pub garden style quaffer that's available year round in their Northern NSW haunts but only seasonally for the rest of us.

Published November 14, 2014 2014-11-14 00:00:00