Beers - The Crafty Pint

Molly Rose Brewing La Forge Saison

Tapped November 26th, 2018

However you approach beer, you'll typically find the deeper you dig, the more avenues you find to follow. Whether that’s exploring beer history or the science of brewing, it appears you can never know too much. Even within seemingly tight style categories, there’s often plenty of wriggle room. So, while this beer from Molly Rose’s second Foundation Series pack is technically a Brett saison like the brewing company’s only regularly brewed beer to date – Matilde – it’s a pretty different… Read more

Style: Brett Saison
ABV: 6.5%

Stockists: Find out how to get your hands on Molly Rose beers via the brewery website

Mountain Goat North Street Gose

Tapped November 26th, 2018

The North Street sub-brand at Mountain Goat started out as the name for a delightful pale ale initially only available at the brewery that evolved into the lower ABV beer now widely available as, simply, Pale Ale. In its wake has come a series of beers that start out on tap at the Richmond HQ and, in some cases, like the IPA and now this Gose, graduate to a wider bottled release. While the name gives little away, there’s more than a straightforward soured and salted wheat beer here. The brewers… Read more

Style: Spiced Gose
ABV: 4.0%
Bitterness: 8 IBU

Stockists: Find North Street Gose here

Old Wives Ales Old Man Yells At Cloud Double NEIPA

Tapped November 26th, 2018

Old Man Yells At Cloud has been a runaway success for Old Wives Ales, with the beer’s big, tropical notes and celeber reference to The Simpsons helping the NEIPA stand out in a field of many. As such beers have taken off, plenty of sub-styles have arisen, with bigger and boozier double NEIPAs appearing with greater regularity through 2018. The brewers at Old Wives Ales are the latest to make a beer that fits into that world and, though there are plenty out there that might still deride the haze… Read more

Style: Double NEIPA
ABV: 9.0%

Boatrocker Kiwi Hop IPA

Tapped November 23rd, 2018

Boatrocker is best known these days for its Belgian style ales, big, malty beasts and fruity blends. Yet it started out with the hop driven, yet still malty, Alpha Queen and has always had the odd pale ale and IPA floating around its core range over the years. And thus it is that the fourth Boatrocker beer to go into cans is a new IPA. If you ignore NEIPAs and Brut IPAs, longer term trends in the world of IPAs have seen a move towards leaner, more tropical fruit salad style IPAs, but, as the brewery… Read more

Style: NZ IPA
ABV: 7.8%

Little Bang Little Banger Super Session Ale

Tapped November 22nd, 2018

As they suggested in our feature on the rise of mid-strengths within the craft beer world, there’s been a gradually dawning realisation at Little Bang that it pays to have something lower in alcohol pouring at your brewery these days. That led to the development of Little Bang, a “super session ale” weighing in a just 3 percent ABV but with the bite of something rather bigger. It’s very pale, with just a little haze, and, for the most part, looks to give the drinker what they’d find in… Read more

Style: Session Ale
ABV: 3.0%

Dainton & Revel Fruity Freeze Tropical NEIPA

Tapped November 22nd, 2018

Given the success of the Blood Orange New England Rye IPA (or BONER for short), it’s perhaps little surprise the brewers at Dainton keeping playing in the NEIPA arena. Here, they plunder Frosty Fruits for inspiration, albeit changing the name enough and avoiding any aping of the ice lolly’s packaging to stay away from prying eyes. The tropical IPA is opaque as you like, as if someone has melted ice cream into the fermenter, and serves up lovely fruit juice aromas, a brekkie juice prickle and… Read more

Style: NEIPA
ABV: 6.2%

Rocky Ridge & Two Birds Elder Sour

Tapped November 22nd, 2018

In a meeting of minds, Jayne Lewis from Two Birds and Hamish Coates from Rocky Ridge wanted to celebrate her pre-beer, West Australian winemaking background with a release timed for WA Beer Week. After settling on a sour beer, seasonal serendipity struck as the mature elderflower tree behind Rocky Ridge’s small bar, Darleen's, was in full bloom, with the resultant onsite hand-picking of the delicate flowers extending the brewery’s normal terroir 15 kilometres beyond the farm gates. Beginning… Read more

Style: Elderflower Sour
ABV: 4.7%

Stockists: Available now from Darleen’s and select WA venues before heading to Two Birds Nest

Ocho Imaginary Ale Blend 2

Tapped November 22nd, 2018

In the early days of his Ocho adventure, Stu Grant spoke of plans to release a series of saisons, something that had the avowed saison freaks at Crafty Towers rather happy. Since then, while some have followed, he’s also diversified, with a seasonal IPA series and many other one-offs occupying much of the release schedule. But, in late spring 2018, a couple of very different saisons have left the Tassie haunt he occupies with Van Dieman. One is the second Imaginary Ale release – and there’s… Read more

Style: Barrel Aged Saison
ABV: 6.7%

Stockists: Order some here

Cheeky Monkey & Chi Cho Gelato & Mane Liquor Bluzu Summer Sour

Tapped November 21st, 2018

Building on the success of last year’s Frosty Fruits, the WA collaborators behind it were keen not to repeat themselves. Loosely starting with the same "Summer Sour" concept, this iteration from Cheeky Monkey, Chi Cho Gelato and Mane Liquor arrived at an untested combination of yuzu and blueberry as a result of the consistently unique offerings from the gelato artisans. From this point, Cheeky Monkey’s sales manager Brendan Day, ignoring requests for more restrained fruit levels requested… Read more

Style: Blueberry & Yuzu Berliner Weisse
ABV: 4.4%

Stockists

Mane Liquor

Also available from the brewery and other WA retailers from late Nov

Bluzu sorbet is also available now

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Grifter Brewing Co & The Henson Neighbourhood NEIPA

Tapped November 20th, 2018

It’s a nice thing to have nice neighbours. The Grifter Brewing Company and The Henson are neighbours and they’re both nice. So they’ve made a beer together and it’s nice too. What they’ve made, specifically, is a very, very hazy New England IPA. It looks filthy, but it tastes the way sunshine feels on a winter day. Not summer sun, because summer sun is intense. This is a little gentler, more subdued. There are hops, of course, in lavish doses, and they serve up their tropical fruit character… Read more

Style: NEIPA
ABV: 6.2%

Endeavour Citrus Pale Ale

Tapped November 20th, 2018

Olfaction carries a unique kind of nostalgic magic. None of our other senses are so quick to flash us back to a specific memory in the long distant past; voyages in grandma’s wardrobe, the torment of a childhood medicine, the school-era aroma of pencil shavings and a new eraser. This was the ensuing train of thought having been poured a can of Endeavour’s new Citrus Pale Ale to be met with an aroma not encountered for nigh on two decades: the smell of Fanta. It’s a rampant flourish of sweet… Read more

Style: Citrus Pale Ale
ABV: 4.5%

Endeavour Dark Wheat

Tapped November 20th, 2018

There’s a Fawlty Towers-esque “Don’t mention the war!” element underpinning this release from the Endeavour Tap Rooms. Specifically: “Don’t mention the Dunkel!”. This beer, according to most style guidelines, would be classed a Dunkelweizen but of course they wouldn’t dare call it that because who actually knows what that is or would buy one unless they were lingering alone and confused in some Bavarian beer hall? “Dark Wheat” seems far less foreign and terrifying so that’s… Read more

Style: Dunkelweizen
ABV: 5.1%