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!
CoConspirators Brewing The Neighbour
Tapped December 3rd, 2019
At the start of October, CoConspirators Brewing asked beer fans to come up with a name for their forthcoming New Zealand IPA, a move we’ve been assured doesn’t mean they’re anywhere near running out of characters to cover their releases. Hundreds of people put their thoughts forward, with The Neighbour winning out as the top choice. Thus, rather than taking the shape of the underworld figures often found on a CoConspirators release, The Neighbour is instead the friendly rugby player down the… Read more
Golden
- Style
- NZ IPA
- ABV
- 7.0%
- Stockists
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More stockists...
Mrs Parmas - Little Bourke Street
Harry Brown Liquor
Fizz and Hop
The Fat Goat
Brighton Bay Cellars
Cellarbrations Somerville
Marquis of Lorne
Bottle-O Northcote
Seddon Wine Store
Regent Cellars
Malt and Vine Bottle Shop
Pin Oak Beer & Wine
Hippo Bottle & Bar
Decanters By The Bay
Bar SK
Mayerling Cellars
Beer 360
Cellarbrations Carnegie
Heartbreaker
Wines on Poath
Swords Wines
Bottle-O Romsey
The Alehouse Project
The Foragers Drop
Sauce Brewing Mosalaxy IPA & Sunrise In Berlin
Tapped December 2nd, 2019
Those who enjoyed Sauce’s second birthday beer Mosarillo - that is, surely, everyone who tasted it - are in luck. The Marrickville hop specialists have just introduced Mosalaxy, a juicy IPA showcasing an abundance of Mosaic and Galaxy hops. Aromatics leap from the glass, hitting your nose with tingly citrus - think mandarin sherbet - and smooth tropical notes of ripe mango, pawpaw, and light passionfruit. These characters are joined by deeper flavours of mandarin peel and a warm liqueur sweetness,… Read more
Golden Yellow
- Style
- Juicy IPA & Fruit Sour
- ABV
- 7.5% & 4.1%
Lord Nelson Mac Nelson Scotch Ale
Tapped December 2nd, 2019
The Lord Nelson Hotel is the kind of place your grandad used to go get a pint and a pie with his buddies in the 30s… and where you can still go for a pint and a pie with your buddies today. It captures the quaint feel of a pub in the UK, and yet somehow that’s not a problem even on a sunny Sydney day. And when you step inside and take in the stone walls, the dark timber, the crackling fireplace… you already get an idea what the Mac Nelson tastes like. Mac Nelson isn’t the first beer at the… Read more
Red
- Style
- Scotch Ale
- ABV
- 5.3%
- Bitterness
- 32 IBU
Black Brewing Summer Sour
Tapped December 2nd, 2019
Margaret River’s Black Brewing have debuted a seasonally-adjusted sour range with this raspberry and rhubarb crusher which aims for maximum fun and refreshment. As such, the fruit and vegetable additions – yep, that would be rhubarb, which was hand squeezed for the keg stock – radiate a hot ruby colour while the sour side of things provides a gentle acidity rather than jowl sucking. This, and the drying light spritz, balances the fruity raspberry characters that evoke Zooper Doopers as it… Read more
Red
- Style
- Raspberry & Rhubarb Sour
- ABV
- 5.2%
- Stockists
-
Summer Sour is available in limited release from the brewery and Black stockists throughout WA.
Future Mountain Let The Day Begin & Blinking Lights
Tapped November 29th, 2019
Future Mountain only launched earlier this year but already they've shown themselves to be an essential local for anyone in Reservoir with even a passing interest in beer and a brewery to watch for fans of delicate but complex barrel-aged beers. These two releases from the brewery might have different occasions in mind but both show the team’s ability to meld detail and drinkability together in one bottle. Let The Day Begin is something of a weekend brunch beer: a golden sour infused with coffee… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Golden Sour & Amber Sour
- ABV
- 5.5% & 6.0%
- Stockists
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Both beers are launching at the brewery on the weekend of Nov 29 to Dec 1. On Sunday, Future Mountain and Everyday Coffee will be pouring the beer at their respective homes, along with bacon and egg rolls at the Collingwood café and pastries at the Reservoir taproom.
Future Mountain bottles are heading to some bottleshops but your best bet is the brewery or their online store
Wayward Brewing Passionista & Fusami Victory (Cans)
Tapped November 29th, 2019
The idea of sour beers being crowd pleasers would have seemed laughable just a few years ago, but no longer. A number of breweries - including Wayward Brewing - now have a sour beer in their core lineup, and more still bring out session-friendly sours with the onset of summer and see the masses go wild. Now Wayward has embraced that further by coining the hashtag #summerofsour for 2019/20. First brewed in 2017 under a different name - Passion of the Puss, referencing Wayward’s raspberry Berliner… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Fruit Sour & IPL
- ABV
- 3.8% & 6.1%
Nowhereman & Ronnie Nights & Strange Company Party Sour
Tapped November 29th, 2019
When the decal art direction to Studio Papa is: “fruit, a disco ball and Madonna’s Holiday” you get the idea before even taking a sip. This collab, the first of a planned year-long Party Sour range, captures the vibe of one of WA’s great party joints, Ronnie Nights. It’s fun, fruity and should be consumed with glee while dancing with friends and generally talking too loud. That said, it’s also very likely to work well in Strange Company’s more considered environs and the West Leederville… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Fruit Sour
- ABV
- 4.1%
- Stockists
-
Party Sour is available exclusively from Nowhereman, Ronnie Nights and Strange Company over the next 12 months, with regular fruit changes
Dainton Brewing Sir Spritzalot, Mimosa & Stratasphere
Tapped November 29th, 2019
Quite how they're going to maintain their new can every week mission in the long term is one of the more intriguing sub-plots in the Australian beer world right now, but a fondness for cocktail-inspired beers and IPAs of all shapes and sizes seems to be helping keep the well of inspiration topped up. Here, Sir Spritzalot – a "Snaperol Sour" – takes Aperol Spritz as its starting point, as many will over summer, to create a beer with a distinctly cocktail like perfume accompanying its… Read more
Golden Yellow
- Style
- Cocktail Beer / Brut IPA / Single Hop NEIPA
- ABV
- 5.6% / 5.5% / 6.0%
One Drop Brewing Strawberry Honeydew Sour & Guava White Grape Gose & New World IPA
Tapped November 28th, 2019
One Drop and their fruit sours. Wowsers. It turns out when you put in almost 200g of fruit per litre of beer, it has a serious impact... In terms of colour, the Strawberry Honeydew Sour presents a light copper orange, just a shade darker than apple juice, but with a hint of pink to set it apart; while that may sound like an unrealistically complicated colour, the metallic strip on the can captures it perfectly. But it’s the aroma that’ll really blow you away - sweet and potent, like strawberry… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Fruit Sours & IPA
- ABV
- 6.2% / 5.7% / 6.5%
- Stockists
-
One Drop Brewery
Steve’s Cool Booze
No. 5 Restaurant and Bar Alexandria
Bourke St Wine Shop
Liquor Emporium Alexandria
Liquor Emporium St Peters
More stockists...Bar Luca
Quiet Deeds Double Juice Train
Tapped November 28th, 2019
Juice Train was one of the first local New England IPAs to gain a foothold in Australia, predating the current hazy floodgates that have left us drenched in tropical hops. It was also the beer that switched a lot of beer nerds onto Quiet Deeds, showing they were willing to experiment with up-and-coming styles even before their brewery fired up. Since then, that brewery has opened and Deeds have launched hazy after hazy and seem to have no qualms about how big they make them or how many hops they… Read more
Pale Yellow
- Style
- Double NEIPA
- ABV
- 9.0%
Indian Ocean Fruitulus Lupulus NEIPA (2019)
Tapped November 28th, 2019
Fruitulus Lupulus arrived in March 2018 amid a flurry of interest from locals in Perth’s northern corridor. This soon spread further afield, going on to record the quickest keg draining at Mane Liquor then featuring in this publication's Best New WA Beers list for that year. Clearly, its deft execution and broad appeal had found many friends. As 2019 draws to a close, the beer has made the leap to core range under the stewardship of incoming head brewer Thomas Fleay, formerly of Beerlands' Whitfords… Read more
Golden Yellow
- Style
- NEIPA
- ABV
- 5.9%
Australian Brewery & Messina Gelato Ale
Tapped November 27th, 2019
On a hot summer’s day, some people say gelato is the way to keep cool. Others say beer’s the way to go. Australian Brewery and Gelato Messina say: “¿Porque no los dos?” The two businesses have collaborated to create a beer called Gelato Ale using Messina’s in-house dulce de leche, a sweet caramel-like sauce that’s hugely popular in South America. Dulce de leche is the base of one of Messina’s most popular gelato flavours; they take it so seriously that, when Australia banned the import… Read more
Red
- Style
- Dulce de Leche Beer
- ABV
- 5.5%
- Stockists
-
Australian Brewery
You can find other stockists and watch a video of the making of the beer here
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Modus Operandi Beached Az Brew Trans Tasman Ale
Tapped November 26th, 2019
Cult cartoon Beached Az made a return recently in the shape of a new ten-part series to mark the decade of whale and seagull's first adventures on the ABC. The shows – and accompanying documentary series Teached Az – focus on issues such as climate change, overfishing, the impact of plastic on beach and ocean life and so on. As whale and seagull tell Josh Pikefish in one episode, if you want to get a message across to someone it's best to do it in a positive manner. And what could be more positive… Read more
Pale Yellow
- Style
- Pale Ale
- ABV
- 4.5%
Bodriggy Brewing Utropia Pale Ale
Tapped November 22nd, 2019
For Thomas More, Utopia was a land without lawyers, private ownership and where any religious person could live free and well. Unfortunately for Thomas More, he didn’t live in his imagined state and, less than two decades after publishing his political manifest, Henry VIII came for his head when More the Catholic wouldn’t get on board with the Protestant Reformation. For Bodriggy, Utopia looks a little more like a world plastered in tropical hops and good times. It’s a sensation the brewery… Read more
Pale Yellow
- Style
- Hazy Pale Ale
- ABV
- 4.8%
- Stockists
-
Check Bodriggy's Froff Finder here
Boston Brewing Squeeze New England IPA
Tapped November 21st, 2019
Boston’s Squeeze returns in cans, well timed for the transition into warmer weather. The Denmark brewer’s New England IPA has been appearing in limited release for more than a year and this release shows the strength of Squeeze's appeal, not the Great Southern team need convincing, as head brewer Tyson Addy notes: “It’s what the brewers drink most days after work.” While not as visually dense as some, Amarillo, Azacca, Citra, Mosaic and El Dorado deliver bright tropical hop aromas which… Read more
Golden Yellow
- Style
- New England IPA
- ABV
- 6.5%
- Stockists
-
Squeeze is available from the brewery and select WA retailers in limited release.
Gage Roads Small Batch Lager
Tapped November 21st, 2019
West Coast brewers Gage Roads celebrate their crystal brewing anniversary with a throwback to their debut beer from 2004. They've released many lagers over the years; however, this return offers a window into Australia’s early Y2K beer landscape, one in which Euro-inspired lagers dominated consumption and which might be something of a curiosity for many recent converts to craftier drinking: wait, there’s no lactose in this? No DDH? No fruit? Nope, but that might be a nice change … and it does… Read more
Golden
- Style
- Vienna Lager
- ABV
- 4.7%
Molly Rose Brewing Shoulders Of Giants
Tapped November 19th, 2019
Having spent several months travelling through various global beer cultures while refining his plans for Molly Rose, there was little doubt Nic Sandery would be someone eager to doff his cap to those who inspired him. Or, in this case, those who inspired a generation of brewers and drinkers. Shoulders Of Giants is his homage to the big IPAs from the West Coast of the US that helped kickstart the style's eminence within the craft beer revolution. As such, it's brewed with the classic "three Cs"… Read more
Golden
- Style
- West Coast IPA
- ABV
- 7.4%
- Bitterness
- 85 IBU
Molly Rose Brewing When Life Gives You Lemons
Tapped November 19th, 2019
Many beers can give a drinker lemons, whether it's the citric tang of some kettle sours or hop-derived. Not too many come loaded with actual lemons, however. Or, to be more accurate in the case of this Molly Rose beer, "dry-lemoned". But that's one of the steps Nic Sandery took with this farmhouse ale, one that features a colourful hop combo (Loral, Cascade, Amarillo, Centennial and Ahtanum) plus some specialty malts, with the aim of creating a lemon slice like character. You'll not be… Read more
Pale Yellow
- Style
- Farmhouse Ale with Lemons
- ABV
- 5.2%
Molly Rose Brewing Beaming
Tapped November 19th, 2019
Why Beaming? Because, according to the man behind the beer, this is an IPA designed to be drunk from an esky in the sunshine in a park or at the beach. Smaller, paler and leaner than the Shoulders Of Giants IPA released at the same time, it features local hop Ella alongside a quintet of popular (and, for the most part, fruity and citrusy) American varieties. It reminds me of IPAs of the Thornbridge Jaipur / 3 Ravens New World IPA ilk: light and lean, with plenty of bitey, pithy, and champagne like… Read more
Pale Yellow
- Style
- IPA
- ABV
- 5.7%
Grifter Brewing Co Pilsner
Tapped November 19th, 2019
The Grifter crew love brewing all kinds of beers with all kinds of flavours. But you know what else they love? Pilsners. They can’t get enough of them. So late 2019 has seen them finally get around to adding a yellow-tinned pilsner to their core lineup. Nope, I’m not talking about Serpent’s Kiss, their watermelon pilsner that’s got fruit for days. Nope, I’m not talking about a renewal of the 6.2 percent pilsner they brewed when they first moved into their own brewery in 2013. Nope, I’m… Read more
Golden Yellow
- Style
- Pilsner
- ABV
- 4.4%
