New Beers
Barely a day goes by without another seasonal or one-off special flying out of an Australian brewery (if not ten). Here and in our weekly newsletter, we'll bring you news and, if we've sampled them, our take on as many of them as possible. Happy hunting!
Deeds Brewing Fortune & Glory & The Traveller
Tapped Today
They might both hazy double IPAs that sit at 8 percent IPA, but the latest two releases from Deeds Brewing show how even murky beers do well at shining a light on different hop profiles. Fortune & Glory was originally brewed a few months ago to mark the launch of the Deeds’ Glen Iris brewery. Even though it was a small keg run the beer’s popularity made soon made it clear to the brew team that it would have to enjoy a wider release in cans. What likely drove that popularity was the beer’s… Read more
Pale Yellow
- Style
- Hazy IPAs
- ABV
- 8% & 8%
Batch Brewing Co The Huge Kahuna
Tapped Yesterday
There’s the Big Kahuna, Batch’s coconut infused brown ale and then - when the tides are right - there’s the Huge Kahuna, a coconut and cacao infused imperial brown ale. Although this is brown in name, it’s entirely opaque when you hold it up to the light. It’s full and fragrant; the coconut was delivered to the brewery immediately after being toasted at The Bread And Butter Project, a social enterprise bakery just down the road. If you’ll forgive the slightly unoriginal line; this beer… Read more
Dark Brown
- Style
- Imperial Brown Ale
- ABV
- 8.4%
Batch Brewing Co Addison Rye Ale
Tapped Yesterday
Complexity and simplicity come together in this beer to deliver an easy drinker that can be explored in depth, or enjoyed without a second thought. If you like rye beers, you can appreciate the peppery aroma, the subtle spice, the savoury cracker character. A mix of seven Voyager and Gladfield malts bring layers of light zest and a savoury, earthy edge to the body. If you pair it with spicy food, the sweeter characters are drawn out, and sit parallel on the palate with any salt or grease. The whole… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Rye Ale
- ABV
- 4.8%
Wheaty Brewing Corps & The Bruery Quandong Saison
Tapped July 20th, 2019
It is no secret the Wheaty Brewing Corps team love a collaboration, especially around the time of Good Beer Wheaty. As part of the 2019 mini-fest, the crew from The Bruery in the US jumped into the Thebarton brewery and straight into the hazmat suits, as house culture "The Menace" was once again wheeled out to make something wild and full of unidentifiable bugs. The malt bill was kept simple, with some heavy late Amarillo and Citra hop additions to bring a little something extra. But they… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Quandong Saison
- ABV
- 5.8%
- Bitterness
- 25 IBU
- Stockists
Wheaty Brewing Corps & Small World Bakery Kvass
Tapped July 20th, 2019
The Wheaty Brewing Corps don't just collaborate with other brewers; here, they turned to a business that specialises in a very different type of fermentation: sourdough bread. Along with the Wheaty’s mixed culture yeast, 60kg of Small World Bakery’s rye sourdough was sliced, toasted and thrown into the top of the mash to create a Kvass. It's a style best known in Russia, where old stale bread was wild fermented with sugar to create a sour, very low ABV ale. The Wheaty’s clocks in at 4.8 percent… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Kvass
- ABV
- 4.8%
- Bitterness
- pH 3.5
- Stockists
Moon Dog Black Lung IX
Tapped July 19th, 2019
Moon Dog’s Black Lung has been busting out of barrels since 2011, with the smoky stout spending its time ageing with a different kind of vessel each year. You can read more about the beer’s story here with past barrels including bourbon, whisky, Cognac, and red wine; this time around, tequila got the guernsey. The barrels were sourced from Tequila Tromba, which is about as Australian as a tequila company can get, having been founded by two Australians and a Canadian. Both the Reposado and Añejo… Read more
Black
- Style
- Barrel-Aged Smoky Stout
- ABV
- 9.1%
Moon Dog In The Crumble The Mighty Crumble & Olida Bit Of Haze, Eh?
Tapped July 19th, 2019
The inventive name well at Moon Dog shows no sign of slowing down as the brewery releases two very different (but aptly named) cans. There’s In The Crumble, The Mighty Crumble – an apple crumble sour with lactose, vanilla and cinnamon. Making its way into the world at the same time as the Lion King remake looks rather well planned and it's hard to question how well the beer captures the dessert in a can. The tart apple catches you first, then leads into the sweeter flavours, the vanilla and the… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Various
- ABV
- 5.8% & 6.5%
Hargreaves Hill Brew 1000
Tapped July 19th, 2019
The recent vintages of Hargreaves Hill’s R.I.S. (Russian Imperial Stout) have been a favourite in these quarters, serving up a raft of sumptuous complex flavours in a beer that’s spent no time in oak. So, when we were told the brewery had decided to produce a barrel-aged version of that beer, you can imagine our excitement. Apparently we’re not the only fans of the beer either, with others having called for barrel-aged versions in years gone by. So, when the Yarra Valley brewery realised they… Read more
Black
- Style
- Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
- ABV
- 10.0%
Stomping Ground & Blackhearts & Sparrows Bramble On
Tapped July 19th, 2019
With eleven stores and another set to open before the end of the year, Blackhearts & Sparrows are getting craft beer (not to mention fine wine and spirits) into a lot of hands. As the business has grown, they’ve also looked to collaborate with more of the producers they stock, offering their staff a chance to understand what goes into the bottles and cans on their shelves. The latest of those collaborations is with Stomping Ground, giving the bottleshop’s Gore Street head office the chance… Read more
Red
- Style
- Dark Berry Sour
- ABV
- 4.1%
Edge Brewing Project Hannibal & Pimped Up Pomme
Tapped July 18th, 2019
Edge are no strangers to brewing sours or lagers (in fact, aside from the odd imperial stout, you could call it their raison d’etre) and they’ve used both styles as colourful canvases upon which to explore flavour. For winter 2019, they've let both an imperial lager and an imperial sour out into the world, both with the same ABV of 7.2. The aptly named Hannibal is the third in a trilogy of ever boozier red lagers, following Cereal Killer and Psycho Killer. There’s a mix of rich, biscuit and… Read more
Red
- Style
- Imperial Lager & Imperial Fruit Sour
- ABV
- 7.2%
Young Henrys & Collective Arts Rye IPA
Tapped July 16th, 2019
For this year’s Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival, Canadian brewery Collective Arts brewed collaboration beers with six breweries, and this Rye IPA brewed with Young Henry is Sydney’s contribution. In a sea of juicy IPAs, this beer is a drop of resin; the syrupy body brings West Coast flavours, along with layers of cocoa and spice coming in at the finish, and a surprising bite for only 37 IBUs. Collective Arts are known for using cans as canvases, so you could say the design commissioned for each… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Rye IPA
- ABV
- 6.5%
- Bitterness
- 37 IBU
Tumut River Brewing Co Deliverance Red IPA & Coffee Milk Stout
Tapped July 16th, 2019
Tumut River's winter 2019 releases pit sweet malts, dark malts, tropical hops and coffee against one another. In one corner is the Deliverance Red IPA, a name that hopefully isn’t suggesting a boat trip down the Tumut River is akin to taking a canoe down the Cahulawassee (although they do have Squealing Pig in their lineup so make of that what you will...). What is clear, however, is the heady mix of tropical fruit, papaya, melon and mango the beer provides against its sweet malt body. Sitting… Read more
Red
- Style
- Red IPA & Coffee Milk Stout
- ABV
- 8% & 4.4%
- Bitterness
- 100 IBU & 30 IBU
Otherside Brewshed Debut Releases
Tapped July 15th, 2019
Typically, we cover new beer releases from a brewery as they come to hand. This used to be a straightforward affair but, if the late twenty-teens have taught us – and most drinkers – anything, it’s that more breweries means more beer. In the case of some, the now weekly new release schedule manifests its own destiny, to be devoured and replenished with something fresh, every Friday, indefinitely, which is most certainly the case for Otherside’s Brewshed at Freo.Social. While their main Myaree… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Various styles
- Stockists
-
Otherside’s Brewshed releases continue at 4pm, every Friday, forever, at Freo.Social
Bad Shepherd Brew Crew Series 9: Peanut Butter Porter
Tapped July 15th, 2019
For the ninth iteration of their Brew Crew series, Bad Shepherd have given recipe rights to Carl, the brewpub’s head chef. An American football fan, Carl supports the Ohio State Buckeyes and the very American-sounding sweets that share that teams name: Buckeye Candy. According to the internet, Buckeye Candy is peanut butter fudge that’s been dipped in chocolate. So to create a beer in its (and Carl’s) honour the Bad Shepherd team went for a porter base before adding the necessarily level of… Read more
Dark Brown
- Style
- Porter
- ABV
- 6.7%
- Bitterness
- 22 IBU
Old Wives Ales Imperial Choc Walnut Brownie Ale
Tapped July 15th, 2019
Among the two dozen new beers brewed for the most recent Carwyn Cellers Canvent Calendar was Old Wives Ales’ Choc Walnut Brownie brown ale. The sweet, chocolaty beer may have been secretly waiting inside fridges at the height of summer but stifling weather should never really stop anyone indulging in chocolate. To up the ante for winter, the team decided to make an imperial version, bringing the 6.2 percent ABV beer up to 8 percent. The resulting bigger beer shares the same sweet and rich chocolate… Read more
Rich Brown
- Style
- Imperial Brownie Ale
- ABV
- 8.0%
Innate & The Monk The Snow Leopard Imperial Stout 2019
Tapped July 15th, 2019
Fresh from their Perth Royal Beer Show Champion Small Brewery award, Innate strike again with a collaboration that brought their relatively near neighbours, The Monk, into the Spearwood brewery. Together, their label art playfully, and welcomely, bucks the dour clad trend of midwinter big black beers: the can story evokes Cold War themes which might be played out by Clancy, le Carre, or Greene – while trying not to be distracted by the near double digit ABV liquid inside. Dark chocolate aromas… Read more
Black
- Style
- Imperial Stout
- ABV
- 9.1%
- Stockists
-
Available in limited release from Innate's WA stockists
Tallboy & Moose Citrus Got Real & Nectarine Of The Gods & Imposter Importer
Tapped July 15th, 2019
Two fruit-flavoured IPAs and a great pretender of a collab are the latest releases out of Tallboy & Moose’s Preston home. The former include Citrus Got Real (5.9%), an IPA brewed with the citrus-forward mix of Citra, Lemon Drop and Motueka hops and a “backyard tree” worth of lemons. The orange haze is a sign of those flavours lurking within, where juicy orange and lemon sherbet push against a smooth beer with a gentle bitterness. By comparison, Nectarine of the Gods is an IPA focused on… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Various styles
- ABV
- 5.9% & 5.9% & 6.4%
Felons Brewing Co DDH APA
Tapped July 12th, 2019
Tinkering away beneath Brisbane’s Story Bridge, Felons have served up another limited release for local beer fans, particularly fans of hops. The Double Dry Hopped American Pale Ale (DDH APA) makes use of potent Cryo hops (a concentrated form of hops), featuring varieties Mosaic, Idaho 7, Ekuanot, Amarillo and Loral hops from American hopsmiths Yakima Chief added at two stages in the fermentation process. Maintaining the American theme, yeast from White Labs was used to create a hop bomb travelling… Read more
Golden
- Style
- American Pale Ale
- ABV
- 6.0%
- Bitterness
- 60 IBU
- Stockists
-
Only available at Felons
Young Henrys & Brix Distillers Rumming With The Devil
Tapped July 11th, 2019
Do you live life like there’s no tomorrow? All you’ve got, did you have to steal? Or did you need to beg or borrow? Whether or not Van Halen is governing your life choices, you have to appreciate the name of this rum and raisin brown ale. Rumming With The Devil is the newest “Brewers B-Sides” beer from Young Henrys and came to life with the input of Brix, Sydney’s only dedicated rum distillery and bar. According to Brix head distiller Shane Casey: “Brix White-soaked Aussie raisins and… Read more
Rich Brown
- Style
- Rum Brown Ale
- ABV
- 6.4%
- Bitterness
- 30
BentSpoke Brewing Co Big Nut
Tapped July 10th, 2019
The latest beer to make its way into cans as part of BentSpoke’s limited release Drifter series is another popular pour from the Braddon brewpub: Big Nut. The name itself stems from one of the taps at the brewpub, all of which are the work of Peter Rogers. Peter and BentSpoke head brewer Richard Watkins have known each other for years and have their working relationship locked down. Sometimes Richard comes up with a beer and Peter goes away and designs a handle, other times Richard creates a handle… Read more
Dark Brown
- Style
- Black IPA
- ABV
- 6.8%
