Moon Dog

Back when Moon Dog first appeared on the Australian beer scene, we were moved to open this description with the iconic words of Monty Python: "And now for something completely different."

It's testament to the evolution of the beer world – and the impact Moon Dog have had upon it locally – that their approach isn't quite as "completely different" these days. In the years since they took up residence in the Abbotsford warehouse in the shadow of CUB's main site, more brewing companies have launched with a similar approach to creating beers, or put out limited releases that share common ground with the more outré ideas with which Moon Dog's founders first gained notoriety.

Travel back to their earliest days and you'll find the likes of a Cognac barrel-aged double IPA, an imperial gingerbread stout and a whopping pale ale that counted rose and chrysanthemum water among its ingredients. They came bearing names such as the The Artisan Poser, Perverse Sexual Amalgam and the George Freeth Memorial Brown Ale - and featuring suitably outlandish packaging - and were produced on a brewery put together from parts that include those used for seaweed-based cosmetics and an open fermentation tank from the former Wagga Wagga brewery that hadn't been operational in around 80 years.

They were unlike pretty much anything else seen in the local beer world to that point. But the trio made up of two violin-playing brothers and their mate could see where things were headed.

Just as the Australian beer landscape has evolved and grown since then, so has the business launched by Josh and Jake Uljans and Karl van Buuren. In the case of Moon Dog, the penchant for often daft experimentation has continued, usually in small batches using the original brewhouse and its much-expanded collection of fermenters, but the operation has grown well beyond that. There's a core range of sensible beers – Old Mate pale ale, Mack Daddy dark ale, Beer Can, Lager – driving volume sales and a large team working across Australia and exploring overseas markets.

In May 2014, they opened their brewery bar, shortly after taking over an adjacent warehouse where they could install a bottling line, storage and table tennis table (accessed through a bookshelf). That has since become an extension of the venue and is regular hired out for functions, with a much bigger production facility built down the street (and a separate space filling with barrels across the road).

That expansion has merely proved to be an appetiser. Late in 2019, they opened the doors to what promised to be the most outrageous brewery venue in Australia: Moon Dog World. They took over the former Nylex production plant in Preston, a truly vast space, where the venue features a waterfall, lagoon, tiki bar, fountain, retractable roof, 100 hectolitre brewery and rather more.

Even after all this time, it looks like Monty Python's words will be just as appropriate as they were in the early days. And there are plans for more Moon Dog Worlds to come too.

Name
Moon Dog
Address

17 Duke Street
Abbotsford
VIC 3067

Open Hours

Brewery bar open
Tues to Fri: 4pm to 11pm
Saturday: Midday to 11pm
Sunday: Midday to 8pm

Tours

Upon request


This is a directory listing. To find out more, head here

The Specials

Moon Dog Almighty Cannolo & Keep It Strange, Santo
Moon Dog Orange zZap! & 6 Months On A Leaky Oak
Moon Dog The Artist FKA Black Lung XII
Moon Dog Dip-Hop-Opotamus Cold IPA
Moon Dog Rescue All-Stars, Kiwi-Hopped XPA & Crème de la crème de la crème brûlée
Moon Dog & Lervig Mooseroo
Moon Dog Stacks On, Mosaicy Breaky Heart & Timothy Tamothy Slamothy
Moon Dog Bjorn To Boogie & Stop, Hammock Time!
Moon Dog Sharon Stone Fruit Sour Ale
Moon Dog Fresh Quince Of Bel-Air & Lemon Haze
Moon Dog Jumping The Shark 2013 / 2021
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Moon Dog Regulars

Moon Dog Ginger Beer

Published January 17, 2023
Moon Dog first released an alcoholic ginger beer in late 2021; a year or so later a new version appeared with a new look and a tweaked recipe. Of v1 we said it "looks like one of those sports drinks made by dolloping powder into your drink bottle. It doesn't drink like one, however, instead serving up sweet, lemon-tinged ginger on the nose which is joined by something more savoury to taste. Spritzy, a little sweet, a little prickly." So, how's v2? Well, clearly I'd forgotten what I'd written… Read more
Style
Ginger Beer
ABV
4.0%

Moon Dog Rosé Sour Power

Published April 16, 2022
There seems to be plenty about sour beers that can capture the attention of wine drinkers, whether it’s their fruit-forward nature or the acidity and funkier flavours shared between many sours and natural wines. Moon Dog meanwhile, are making an unabashed play for part of the wine market with their core range Rosé Sour Power, a beer that would quite fittingly come served in a carafe and is sold in slim, 330ml cans. Pouring with a pink to orange hue, Rosé Sour as much resembles certain natural… Read more
Style
Sour Ale
ABV
4.0%

Moon Dog Hazy IPA

Published April 2, 2022
They brew a steady stream of IPAs at Moon Dog but there’s something a little different about Hazy IPA. As the lack of pop culture references or puns might make clear (although that’s not necessarily a guarantee when it comes to Moon Dog), this beer is a new core range member, joining the pack in 2022. The label design brings to mind the brewery’s earlier Groundhog Haze, as too does its ABV, but sadly, this beer features fewer chances to make Bill Murray references. It uses different hops and… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA
ABV
6.2%

Moon Dog Goin' Steady & Alcoholic Ginger Beer

Published November 7, 2021
While they became known for their outrageous approach to beer, names and labels, Moon Dog got themselves where they are today in terms of volume with rather more sessionable options. And that's where Goin' Steady fits, a mid-strength beer tagged XPA that's been added to their core range in spring 2021 and which is as restrained as anything they've released: bright golden with some light, red berry-meets-candy-meets-sweet-biscuit malts. Also making its way into a core range that, with the addition… Read more
Style
Mid-Strength XPA & Ginger Beer
ABV
3.5% & 4.0%

Moon Dog Fizzer: Piney Limey, Tropical Punch, Coco Mango & Strawbs & Cream

Published October 25, 2020
We're still in the early days of hard seltzer's invasion from the other side of the Pacific, where the alcoholic flavoured water craze has gone, well, utterly crazy in the past few years. While I've not tasted every Aussie variant to arrive to date – forgive me – those that have come my way have typically shared common traits: pastel or jaunty, approachable colours, typically on a white background; names that look to conjure joy in the manner of a yoga session on the beach as the sun peeks over… Read more
Style
Hard Seltzers
ABV
All 4.0%

Moon Dog Lagoona Matata

Published September 4, 2020
Despite being confined to Crafty Towers for weeks on end now, I've still heard a couple of people praise the name of Moon Dog's latest core range beer as a real gem. Clearly, they're not people with a child who spent three months from the first lockdown going to sleep with the Lion King soundtrack playing... Even the Moon Dog staffer that dropped in samples of the session sour said the Disney hookworm had been lodged in his head for weeks after shooting promo material for its release. There's precious… Read more
Style
Hoppy Sour
ABV
4.2%

Moon Dog Lager

Published May 10, 2019
Gather 'round, people, I'll tell you a story. A seven-year story of lager and hops... It starts in 2012, when Moon Dog went against their grain and released a lager. Except they didn't really as Love Tap was a very Moon Dog lager: 7.1 percent ABV and coming on like what we described at the time as "hop goo". Over time, said beer was revised again and again, typically towards something approximating a "normal" lager – at least in terms of alcohol content, as the hops remained… Read more
Style
Lager

Moon Dog Beer Can

Published November 29, 2016
As their senor brewer said with typical self awareness when posting a photo online to reveal Moon Dog's first canned beer: "Bravely going where most other Australian craft breweries have gone before." But, if everyone's doing it and summer festival season is upon us... For the Abbotsford brewery's venture into the land of aluminium, they've created a new beer and are sending it out into the world in ten-packs (very well priced ten-packs if some of the activity we've seen online is any guide),… Read more
Style
Fruity Lager
ABV
4.2%

Moon Dog Mack Daddy

Published February 6, 2016
Over the course of 2015, visitors to Moon Dog's ever-evolving and increasingly popular brewery bar may have noticed rather more beers at sensible ABV levels appearing on the blackboard; quite something for a brewery where one brewer once told us they didn't really like their weekly one-off kegs to come in less than 8 percent ABV. Among them were various pale and dark ale variants: clearly, a plan was being hatched. And that plan was to give the brewery a broader core range of beers. Thus, having… Read more
Style
Dark Ale
ABV
5.0%
Bitterness
14 IBU
Stockists

Moon Dog Brewery Bar

Heading nationwide to good beer venues in draught and bottles from February 2016

Moon Dog Old Mate

More than four years after launching with beers such as a Cognac barrel-aged double IPA and a cherried, barrel-aged sour black ale, Moon Dog entered the fray in the most densely populated part of the Aussie craft beer world: the hoppy, pale, around 5 percent ABV ale arena. And they did so with a beer that was very hoppy, not as pale as some, but very much 5 percent ABV. At launch, Old Mate became part of the Abbotsford brewery's trio of core beers, alongside Love Tap and Mack Daddy, bringing some… Read more
Style
American Pale Ale
ABV
4.5.%
Stockists

Available nationwide

Moon Dog Specials

Moon Dog Almighty Cannolo & Keep It Strange, Santo

Published September 7, 2022
Moon Dog have been practising the fine art of collaboration, with two quite different partnerships released in quick succession. Almighty Cannolo is a pastry sour that replicates the classic Sicilian dessert and was made with Cannoleria (which is an offshoot of Melbourne’s excellent cheesemaker, That’s Amore). The beer was brewed with some 1,500 kilograms of whey from Amore’s ricotta and its creamy mouthfeel certainly evokes that soft cheese. Sure ‘cheesiness’ probably isn’t a word that… Read more
Style
Cannoli Pastry Sour & Juicy Pale Ale
ABV
7.5%
Bitterness
4.5%

Moon Dog Orange zZap! & 6 Months On A Leaky Oak

Published September 2, 2022
There aren’t really rules when it comes to Moon Dog beers but even by their standards, these two feel like they're on opposite ends of the beery spectrum. Orange zZap is an orange sherbet ale that contains an extract from the Electric Daisy flower to recreate the tingly effect sherbet has on the tongue*. It certainly works too, with that fizz dancing across the palate as the juicy orange flavours take you to a lolly aisle in the supermarket. But while this beer might take its inspiration from Sherbet… Read more
Style
Orange Sherbet Ale & Barrel-Aged Strong Belgian
ABV
5.8% & 8.4%

Moon Dog The Artist FKA Black Lung XII

Published July 15, 2022
There aren't many beers that have been around for a dozen vintages. To achieve such longevity, the liquid and the concept behind it needs to be pretty special – take Bridge Road's B2 Bomber, which turned 12 in 2022 too – and that's the case with Moon Dog's Black Lung, even if it's no longer called Black Lung. From here on in, the smokey stout is to be known just by its suffix, but if the name has become smaller, the beer has only become larger; the first release back in 2011 weighed in at a paltry… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Smokey Stout
ABV
13.0%
Stockists

They're hosting a vertical tasting of three vintages at Moon Dog OG from 6pm on July 15

Moon Dog Dip-Hop-Opotamus Cold IPA

Published July 14, 2022
That Moon Dog's Dip-Hop-Opotamus is the first commercial release in Australia to utilise new experimental hop variety NZ101, from NZ Hops' Bract Programme, should be eye-catching enough for beer chasers around the country. But there's more to the backstory than that: the beer is the first conception-to-can project for the brewery's new signing Miro Bellini, a man who's been involved in all manner of great things in beer, not least being a founder of Good Beer Week. Having been granted the opportunity… Read more
Style
Single Hop Cold IPA
ABV
6.5%

Moon Dog Rescue All-Stars, Kiwi-Hopped XPA & Crème de la crème de la crème brûlée

Published June 14, 2022
This trio of new releases from Moon Dog, dropped at Crafty Towers ahead of the Queen's Birthday long weekend (in parts of the country), could almost be viewed as a snapshot of the craft beer industry today. There's a beer for a good cause, an exclusive for one of the country's major retail chains, and something a little silly and envelope-pushing. The good cause comes in the shape of their Rescue All-Stars series: the cans feature one of eight rescue pets from Second Chance Animal Rescue. It's a… Read more
Style
Juicy Pale & XPA & Dessert Imperial Stout
ABV
5.0% & 5.0% & 13.6%

Moon Dog & Lervig Mooseroo

Published April 19, 2022
Maybe something has been going on in the world over the past two years but collaborations between breweries from different countries seem to have been a little bit less frequent compared with what was going on in the lead up to 2020. But with borders now back open and travel on the cards we can only assume the gentle stream of international collaborations may again start to better resemble a fast-flowing river. Moon Dog are certainly back making beer with mates, partnering with Norway's Lervig to… Read more
Style
Kveik Hazy IPA
ABV
7.5%

Moon Dog Stacks On, Mosaicy Breaky Heart & Timothy Tamothy Slamothy

Published March 1, 2022
There was a period over summer just gone when the steady flow of limited releases making their way to Crafty Towers from Moon Dog eased up; presumably when you’re selling truck loads of your easy-drinkers and seltzers and it’s peak drinking season something has to give. The lull didn’t last long, however, with no less than three landing as we prepared to skip into autumn. There’s a bit of a seasonal shift across the beers too. When it comes to Stacks On – a strawberry, lime and stone fruit… Read more
Style
Imperial Fruit Cream Sour, Single Hop IPA & Sweet Stout
ABV
7.5% & 7.0% & 6.5%

Moon Dog Bjorn To Boogie & Stop, Hammock Time!

Published February 3, 2022
February’s release of the Moon Doggies Beer Club box has seen the return of a retro classic as Bjorn to To Boogie is reborn. Sure, a beer named after a member of ABBA might feel as retro as you can go but the beer, dubbed a watermelon weizen, was first brewed way back in 2014, back when brewers were less eager to throw fruit at beers - and when they did the focus wasn't so much on sours. Drinking Bjorn is a reminder that there’s a lot about wheat beers that make them feel right for Australia,… Read more
Style
Watermelon Wheat & Hazy XPA
ABV
5.3% & 4.5%
Stockists

Available through the Moon Doggies Beer Club.

Moon Dog Sharon Stone Fruit Sour Ale

Published January 25, 2022
Another year brings another Magnificent Mullet from Moon Dog, with the Melbourne brewery showing they’re yet to run out of puns or celebrities with Sharon Stone Fruit Sour Ale. This time around, it’s not just one of the greats in 1990s cinema who has a chance to shine but nectarine and peach too and while this might be overly anecdotal, there’s been some very good examples of both this season (fruit that is, not 90s movies). The beer seems to capture multiple expressions of stone fruit at… Read more
Style
Fruit Sour Ale
ABV
4.5%

Moon Dog Fresh Quince Of Bel-Air & Lemon Haze

Published December 6, 2021
There are times when you have to wonder whether the brewing team at Moon Dog gets much of a chance to pitch beer ideas or whether it's the marketing department – more specifically, whoever loves puns and pop references within the marketing department – calling the shots. Case in point: The Fresh Quince Of Bel-Air. That said, it's a pun that works on more than one level; there's the obvious – the addition of quince – but also the subtle, as it's fermented with Lallemand's WildBrew Philly Sour… Read more
Style
Philly Sour ft Quince & Lemon XPA
ABV
6.0% & 5.0%

Moon Dog Jumping The Shark 2013 / 2021

Published November 23, 2021
By the time Moon Dog released their first Jumping The Shark beer in 2013, way back before such grandiose ideas as Moon Dog World had come along, they already had a reputation as beer world pranksters for whom nothing was off limits. So giving a beer such a name, against a backdrop of frequently daft beers with even dafter names and labels, demanded they really pushed the boat (towing The Fonz) out a long, long way. They did so by creating a barrel-aged imperial stout with an ABV of more than 15 percent… Read more
Style
Cognac Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout with Truffles
ABV
15.6%

Moon Dog Magic EyePA II & Yuzu Greatest Hits

Published November 7, 2021
There's been a glut of new releases from Moon Dog as summer approaches – and that's not including the rather hefty old-timer whose return we'll be covering elsewhere. Magic EyePA II is another IPA with a peel off label complete with old school magic eye trick for you to gaze into. Should you choose instead to gaze into your glass, you'll find a copper drop untroubled by even a hint of haze that couldn't be much more old school West Coast if it tried. Double dry-hopped with Eclipse, Simcoe and Centennial,… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA & Rice Lager with Yuzu
ABV
7.0% & 5.0%

Moon Dog Black Lung XI

Published October 7, 2021
Moon Dog’s Black Lung series has been around longer than I’ve been writing about beer but there's one thing that has long bothered me about it. Each year they add a cigar to mark another edition and surely at one point they’ve got to run out of space? Well, as Black Lung XI shows, 2021 is not the year they'll run out of room for cigars, with the skeleton on the bottle's second head and cowboy hat providing ample space. For those who haven’t enjoyed past releases (or woken at night in a cold… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Smokey Stout
ABV
12.0%

Moon Dog Piney Minogue & Splice of Heaven Mango

Published September 29, 2021
You might be on this page to read about two beers from Moon Dog but how about a bit of history instead? Way back in 2012, Moon Dog launched the Magnificent Mullet series, crisp and refreshing fruited sour beers named after a bunch of mullets and the celebrities beneath them; they weren’t the most out there releases from the brewery but predated the flood wave of such beers that followed by some years. In 2019, the series returned and, remarkably, here in 2021 they still haven't run out of fruits… Read more
Style
Pineapple Sour Ale & Ice Cream IPA
ABV
4.5% & 6.2%

Moon Dog The Baron of Barrels

Published September 1, 2021
A few months on from the arrival of The Duke of Chifley, Moon Dog have returned to the royal courts for another regal beer in big bottles. This time it's a golden strong ale by the name of The Baron of Barrels, which has been ageing away in multiple barrels since before the novel coronavirus (AKA 2019, but that seems like a fitting way to measure time these days) – three different varieties too: Cognac, white wine and red wine – ready to be launched just in time for spring 2021. The result of… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Golden Stronmng Ale
ABV
11.3%

Moon Dog Conga Lines

Published August 18, 2021
If there’s one dance move you should probably not do anywhere right now - well, at least on the East Coast of Australia, Darwin, or New Zealand - it’s a conga line. It's just not the kind of dance that's conducive to social distancing and, furthermore, is it even something people do outside of weddings on long-finished sitcoms? Fortunately, Moon Dog's Conga Lines can be enjoyed from the comfort and safety of your own home, with the "Passion-Fruit-Pineapple-Imperial-Ice-Cream-Sour-Ale"… Read more
Style
Imperial Sour Ale
ABV
7.5%

Moon Dog Jumping The Shark 2021

Published August 4, 2021
Moon Dog’s Jumping The Shark has taken us to many places over the years. For those unaware, the beer is the Melbourne brewery's exploration of beer at its most extreme edges and started out life in 2013 as an imperial stout with truffles, later included saffron, has been a concentrated IPA, and has spent time with many different spirit barrels too. The 2021 iteration, however, takes a journey to fermentation’s earliest days due to a period spent in an amphora: ancient ceramic storage and fermentation… Read more
Style
Cherry, Chocolate & Coconut Rum Barrel Aged & Amphora Conditioned Imperial Stout
ABV
12.6%

Moon Dog In The Crumble: Blackberry Edition

Published July 30, 2021
Moon Dog have long drawn inspiration for their beers from things that aren't very close to beer at all, so it shouldn't be surprising that when they release dessert-inspired drop they tend to be fairly faithful recreations. As well as being wonderfully named, their In The Crumble, The Might Crumble series has always been impressively close to drinking an apple crumble and, in the case of the Berry Edition of 2020, apple crumble with blackberry and raspberry. For 2021, the last of those has been dropped… Read more
Style
Dessert Sour
ABV
5.8%

Moon Dog Magic EyePA

Published July 23, 2021
Well here’s a very Moon Dog release: an IPA in a can where if you peel the label, you can enjoy a magic eye. Whether or not Magic EyePA does form any image isn’t something I can answer and it's not for lack of trying either. Rather it seems I have the same relationship with them as Mr Pitt does. On the other hand, my relationship with IPAs is a little better (well I know how to spot them anyway), so what I can say is there's a lot of hop notes leaping from the the clear, bitter and lightly golden… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
7.0%

Moon Dog Bless The Haze

Published May 14, 2021
If there's one thing the world needs right now, it's more hazy IPAs. So let's shower praise upon Moon Dog for seeing us in our hour of desperation and delivering the manna we need. Clearly, producing eight hard seltzers at the same time can't distract them from their godlike mission. OK, we don't strictly need more hazy IPAs, but drinkers sure like knocking them back, so what will they discover when they choose to Bless The Haze, aside from a can that looks like army camo reimagined for the DMT wonderland… Read more
Style
Oat Cream IPA
ABV
7.2%

Moon Dog Bánh Mì, Bánh Mì, Tell Me You Love Me

Published May 4, 2021
It's more than ten years since I had my first experience of cucumber in beer. It was in Mountain Goat's entry for the first ever GABS, back when it was held at The Local Taphouse in St Kilda and featured just 20 new beers from Aussie brewers. Designed by Jayne Lewis, who went on to found Two Birds Brewing, it was a golden ale brewed with cucumber and which, if memory serves correctly, was served with cucumber in it too. Roll forward a decade and what seemed subtly radical then would barely raise… Read more
Style
Cucumber, Chilli & Coriander Gose
ABV
4.2%

Moon Dog Breaker Of Chains & Watcher On The Wall

Published April 16, 2021
Not content with having a lagoon at their brewery venue in Preston, Moon Dog installed the throne from Game of Thrones at Moon Dog World as part of the show's tenth anniversary celebrations. If you're a fan of the show (or at least its first seven series) and can't make it along for a happy snap, you can enjoy the other element of the official partnership at home via two beers – both imperial, of course. Breaker Of Chains, so called presumably because "Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen,… Read more
Style
Chilli & Vanilla Imperial Stout & White Chocolate Imperial White Ale
ABV
7.7% & 9.0%

Moon Dog The Duke Of Chifley

Published March 25, 2021
In typical Moon Dog fashion, when they held a dinner to launch Black Lung X, it wasn't enough for them to pair that double-digit-booziness beer with two of the courses; no, they they offered a sneak peek of an even bigger beer with arguably the star course too. That bigger beer is The Duke Of Chifley, named after the two streets on which you find their breweries – Duke Street in Abbotsford and Chifley Drive in Preston. There's good reason too: the base beer was brewed at the former then brought… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Barleywine
ABV
12.2%

Moon Dog Black Lung X

Published February 26, 2021
When Moon Dog surrounded the lagoon at Moon Dog World with long tables and guests for a degustation dinner on February 23, it was a strangely comforting moment (and not just because of the relaxing effects you feel when three of the five beer pairings weigh in above 12 percent ABV). Coming shortly after Victoria's third lockdown (the last one, admittedly, over in the blink of an eye), it felt like a return to normality; indeed, I can't recall the last time I attended such an event. It was the occasion… Read more
Style
Whisky Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
ABV
12.0%

Moon Dog Drew Berrymore

Published February 25, 2021
It's anniversary week at Moon Dog. On Tuesday evening they lined long tables in the shadow of the brewery at their World in Preston for a dinner marking the tenth release of Black Lung (of which more soon); now here comes the tenth beer in their Magnificent Mullet series. As much as anything, Drew Berrymore is testament to their ability to find enough famous people with mullets (or, in this case, longish hair at the back) and names that can be punned (punneted?) into something fruity. In Drew's case,… Read more
Style
Sour Berry Ale
ABV
4.5%

Moon Dog & Run The Jewels No Save Point IPA

Published January 22, 2021
When it comes to favourite Run The Jewels tracks, I’d have to say mine is Lie, Cheat, Steal. Sure, Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck) is the undeniable banger that still gets dropped late at night for the poor souls still at a party where I've managed to secure an AUX cord, but Lie, Cheat, Steal has the flow, lyrics and bombastic build-up that perfectly captures the essence of what makes El-P and Killer Mike such a wonderful force. You may well wonder why you’re reading about this on a beer… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA
ABV
6.5%
Stockists

Available online here

Then select bottleshops nationwide

Moon Dog Groundhog Haze

Published January 12, 2021
Back in the sad days of VHS there were probably four films – all taped from the TV – that I regularly returned to. The first three were the Back To The Future trilogy I watched so often I can still remember what was happening on Ramsay Street circa 1994, and the fourth was Groundhog Day. It’s a film I enjoyed so often that, looking back, maybe living inside the Punxsutawney purgatory that befouls Bill Murray wouldn’t have bothered me all that much. Just as returning to an old tape over and… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA
ABV
6.2%

Moon Dog & To Øl Dream Cake

Published November 18, 2020
Given both breweries' past outputs, any collaboration between Moon Dog and Scandinavians To Øl could have gone in many a direction. Where this one has headed is straight for the patisserie. And how. Dream Cake is tagged a "coconut cake imperial dark ale" and you're not left wondering how far they were willing to push things into cake territory. It's based on Drømmekage, a caramelised coconut cake from Denmark, and the brewers have gone big on the coconut, big on the metaphorical slice… Read more
Style
Imperial Cake Beers
ABV
8.8%

Moon Dog Pat Pash

Published October 31, 2020
So, which one are they going to run out of first: fruit or celebrity puns? The Magnificent Mullets series from Moon Dog has debuted another new fruit-faced, mulleted star ahead of summer 2020 in the shape of Pat Pash, a sour ale featuring, you guessed it, passionfruit. There's a fair bit of passionfruit in there too – 4.2 metric tonnes or approximately 150,000 fruits, which, if anything, gives you an idea of the size of Moon Dog's main brewery in Preston. That said, they present rather like passionfruit… Read more
Style
Passionfruit Sour Ale
ABV
4.5%

Moon Dog Jimmy & Lawson's IPA

Published September 28, 2020
It's the week for long-running IPA series to hit the button marked "DDH" in Victoria, it seems. Just days after Hargreaves Hill dropped No.6 and No.7 in their Pursuit Of Hoppiness series, Moon Dog's Doggo IPA series also hits number seven. And it's a double-header too, at least in the sense of the doggos to which they're paying tribute: brewery rep Jared Fita's blue heelers Jimmy and Lawson. Double doggo means double dry hop. And Aussie dogs means Aussie hops, with Galaxy and Vic Secret… Read more
Style
DDH NEIPA
ABV
7.2%

Moon Dog Ogden Nash's Pash Rash (2020)

Published August 26, 2020
Moon Dog have done many things the vast majority of brewers wouldn't – or would consider too daft – over the years. Among them was creating Ogden Nash's Pash Rash, a flavoured imperial stout that first time around required the then far smaller team to unwrap 5,800 of the lollies formerly known as Redskins so they could be added to a big stout. Things have changed since. For one, the name of the confectionary is to change. Secondly, there's an entire subset of the industry on a frantic hunt for… Read more
Style
Raspberry Imperial Stout
ABV
8.2%
Stockists

On sale in VIC from Aug 26

Around Aus from Aug 31

Or via Moon Dog online

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Moon Dog In The Crumble, The Mighty Crumble: Apple Edition

Published July 29, 2020
The berry edition of Moon Dog's occasional In The Crumble series of dessert-inspired sours took me by surprise earlier in the year, tastily delivering on its promise despite making its way from can to glass like slurry from a sewage pipe into a canal. It was the second such beer, with the series debuting with 2019's "Apple Crumble Dessert Sour Ale", which now returns for a wider release in 330ml cans. It pours with a similarly murky quality to its berry counterpart albeit with more of a… Read more
Style
Dessert Sour
ABV
5.8%

Moon Dog Sir Plum McCartney

Published July 23, 2020
As with countless millions across the planet, Paul McCartney has played an important role throughout my life, even if I've never got that into Wings, the band The Beatles could have been. Along with The Big O, the latter are one of the few areas of musical common ground between me and my dad, who loves to reminisce about how he was telling his family and friends in the US about them before they'd had their first hit there, while Mrs Pint (then my girlfriend of a few months) and I like to claim at… Read more
Style
Plum Sour
ABV
4.5%

Moon Dog Ember's IPA

Published June 26, 2020
Moon Dog's Doggo IPA series has been hitting its four-legged stride in recent times, with Tiger's and Leon's both tasting good on my first post-COVID shutdown visit to Moon Dog World. It's a series that's up to a half dozen beers celebrating the team's canine buddies too, with Ember honoured in the only way a dog with such a name can be: a red IPA. It's one that pours with a chestnut hue and a froth with a tan sheen, and in which the combo of specialty malts takes the hops into berry territory, as… Read more
Style
Red IPA
ABV
7.0%

Moon Dog The Pav Is Ours

Published May 22, 2020
They started the week with a beer recreating berry crumble in a can and are ending it with a pavlova pale ale. What has the world come to, eh? Let's start with the name. Not so much The Pav Is Our, but the pale ale bit. Now, it is on the paler side, possibly with a hint of blush from the strawberries (added with passionfruit, kiwifruit and vanilla). But if you know your pale ales as hop forward and bitter, this isn't that. Rather than a blast of fruity hops hitting you first, it's vanilla forward;… Read more
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This is a Dan's / BSW exclusive

Or available from Moon Dog's two breweries

Moon Dog In The Crumble, The Might Crumble: Berry Edition

Published May 20, 2020
It's a sign of the beer times that, even when including water among the traditional ingredients, the list of ingredients marked as "Other" on a can manages to outgun the water, hops, malt and yeast by eight to seven. Making up the eight here are lactose, vanilla, cinnamon, apple and raspberry purée, blackberry juice and lactobacillus; no one ever said Moon Dog was in Munich. Their impact, at least visually, is as far from the lagers of Munich as you could imagine too; the murky amber liquid… Read more
Style
Fruit Pastry Sour
ABV
5.8%

Moon Dog The Future Is Bright IPA

Published April 28, 2020
Given the time at which the beer is being released, The Future Is Bright sits nicely alongside Boatrocker's Life Is Peachy in the pantheon of inappropriately named beers. Although perhaps the power of positive thinking will assist us in getting through the COVID-19 pandemic with minimal damage... In Moon Dog's case, however, the title is a nod to the impressive collection of solar panels on the roof of Moon Dog World (something we'll be writing a little more on) and their role in powering the brewing… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
6.6%

Moon Dog Jean-Strawb Van Damme Sour Ale

Published April 2, 2020
We've given Moon Dog's Magnificent Mullets series credit in the past for being somewhat ahead of the game in terms of the Aussie beer scene, even popping them into our Beers of the 2010s feature at the end of 2019, back when we thought that year was shithouse. Given our current predicament, it may well be they're prescient in more ways than one. After all, who among us hasn't considered the ways in which we can take advantage of enforced isolation from the rest of society? While mullets were briefly… Read more
Style
Fruit Cream Sour
ABV
4.5%

Moon Dog Leon's IPA

Published March 24, 2020
They may have had to shut their venues for a while but the new releases are set to keep on coming from Moon Dog, with Leon's IPA the latest in their Doggo IPA series paying tribute to their staff's canine buddies. In the case of Leon (which you may have had the chance to try on tap at their venues pre-shutdown before batch two was packaged), they've stepped into NEIPAland and held little back. At a time when many hazy IPAs are reining in the depth of haze, this is turbid AF; it's almost as if hop… Read more
Style
NEIPA
ABV
6.4%
Bitterness
55 IBU

Moon Dog It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Beer

Published December 24, 2019
There’s no doubt 2019 has been a pivotal year for Moon Dog, with the opening of Moon Dog World changing the game for what a brewery venue can be – not to mention the places suited for placing a lagoon. Once the actual brewhouse is firing away in the coming weeks, they'll also be able to aim for a capacity few other independent breweries can. But, to quote a Frenchman, the more some things change, the more they stay the same. Thus, here's the sort of Moon Dog the brewery's fans have long known… Read more
Style
Sticky Date Quad
ABV
9.3%

Moon Dog Magnificent Mullets: David Boysenbowie (330ml)

Published October 11, 2019
He might have been one of the later mullets to make an appearance but it looks like David Boysenbowie has jumped straight to the top of the class. The boysenberried sour has been chosen for a wider release in 330ml cans throughout spring and summer 2019/20 by the Melbourne brewers. If you've not made his acquaintance before, here's what we had to say about his first appearance earlier in the year: Boysenbowie pours a lurid crimson, reminiscent of an outpouring of blood in an early Sam Raimi movie;… Read more
Style
Fruit Sour
ABV
4.5%

Moon Dog Tiger's IPA

Published September 23, 2019
A spot of serendipity for the team at Moon Dog. Their Doggo IPA series celebrates dogs owned by various members of their staff and one of them just happens to have a dog called Tiger, perfect timing as the Tigers set out to try and claim a second AFL flag in three seasons. The beer was launched at the brewery as Richmond achieved a turnaround victory over Geelong and is in stores in time for Tigers fans to stock up before they run out against the Giants. The beer itself is an all Kiwi hop affair,… Read more
Style
NZ IPA
ABV
6.0%

Moon Dog Jumping The Shark 2019

Published September 19, 2019
How do you jump the shark when, from the very off, doing just that was part of your schtick? In the case of Moon Dog, it was to create a series of beers even bigger and more batshit crazy than those they were releasing already. The Jumping The Shark series kicked off with a barrel-aged imperial stout weighing in at more than 15 percent ABV that was loaded with truffles and ended up with an AIBA gold medal. There's been the odd miss along the way, with The Fonz failing to stick his landing when he… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
ABV
12.2%

Moon Dog Barrel-Normal Activity

Published September 14, 2019
Back in early 2019, we spoke to Jason Perrault, a hop breeder from the American Northwest. Towards the end of the interview, he spoke of a new hop variety they were developing that could give barrel-ageing qualities to a beer. The hop doesn't yet have a "proper" name but has started appearing very occasionally in limited release beers here, including an IPA that's just left Ballistic's brewery in Brisbane. Moon Dog got their hands on some of Yakima Chief Hops' HBC 472 too and decided to… Read more
Style
Porter
ABV
6.3%

Moon Dog How Now Brown Cacao?

Published August 9, 2019
Think nitro in a beer and you'll likely think stout. Think cacao in a beer and you'll be in roughly the same space. Think brown in relation to beer and you'll think, well, brown. So what is How Now Brown Cacao? A pale golden cream ale, of course. In something of a change of tack for Moon Dog, here the beer is actually less odd than the name would have you believe; if anything, it's quite normal in the way a comfortable tweed suit would be to an English gent. Why that image? Well, once it's been given… Read more
Style
Nitro Cream Ale with Cacao
ABV
6.0%
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Launching at the Abbotsford brewery on August 9

Moon Dog Black Lung IX

Published July 19, 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
Style
Barrel-Aged Smoky Stout
ABV
9.1%

Moon Dog In The Crumble The Mighty Crumble & Olida Bit Of Haze, Eh?

Published July 19, 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
Style
Various
ABV
5.8% & 6.5%

Moon Dog Jacket's & Vinnie's IPAs

Published June 14, 2019
Their association with the canine world has long gone beyond the brewery name and roaming brewery dog. There's been sponsorship of various dog-related events and now both a series of IPAs named after dogs with a connection to the brewery and Doggy Adoption Day at the brewery on June 16. The day will also see the launch of two more Doggo IPAs, both brewed with Norwegian "super yeast" kveik, which saw the beers fermented in just 48 hours (in layman's terms: insanely fast). Jacket's is a West… Read more
Style
Kveik IPAs
ABV
6.5%

Moon Dog Cake Hole (Cans)

Published May 27, 2019
Moon Dog continue to move more of their beers into cans with Cake Hole, their winter seasonal now making a third appearance, the latest to make the transition. To give the beer its full name, it's a Black Forest stout, inspired by the cake of the same name and thus featuring sour cherries, cacao and vanilla as well as a half dozen specialty malts. The recipe has been tweaked for the 2019 release, which is best imagined as a wad of fudgey chocolate smothering the cherries within. It's soft on the… Read more
Style
Black Forest Stout
ABV
6.5%
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Available nationwide where you usually find Moon Dog beers.

Moon Dog Captain Raisin Beard

Published May 10, 2019
They've brewed many a big beer over the years at Moon Dog, and a fair few imperial stouts too. They've tried to get their hands on as many different barrels – and have developed a fine line in daft characters to adorn them. Here, in their 2019 Good Beer Week beer, they've combined all four in creating Captain Raisin Beard. He's big – 12.9 percent ABV, no less. He's an imperial stout, with a density of the "none shall pass" ilk. He's spent time in barrels, in this case rum barrels sourced… Read more
Style
Rum Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
ABV
12.9%
Stockists

Launching at Bar SK on May 10 then heading nationwide

Moon Dog Magnificent Mullets: David Boysenbowie & Cherry Seinfeld

Published May 10, 2019
Having been resurrected for summer 2019, Moon Dog's Magnificent Mullets welcome two more members to the band in the shape of David Boysenbowie and Cherry Seinfeld. And together they make for the most garish pair in the lineup to date. Boysenbowie pours a lurid crimson, reminiscent of an outpouring of blood in an early Sam Raimi movie; even the head takes on a pink hue. It leads you to expect a punchier aroma, but the creamy side of the lacto turns the fruit character into one more akin to a boiled… Read more
Style
Fruit Sours
ABV
4.5%

Moon Dog Brewing Timothy Tamothy Slam-othy

Published April 15, 2019
You wait all your life for the opportunity to do a Tim Tam Slam with a suitable beer then, whaddya know, two come along in quick succession. The first to land is Moon Dog's Timothy Tamothy Slam(othy), while attendees at this year's GABS will be able to check out one from Big Shed amid the Festival Beer lineup. First to try the Moon Dog version, at Crafty Towers at least, was brother-in-law Tim(othy), just arrived from the UK and having never been to Australia, heard of Moon Dog or had a Tim Tam in… Read more
Style
Chocolate Milk Stout
ABV
5.6%

Moon Dog Edie's IPA

Published April 9, 2019
If there's one thing the team at Moon Dog loves as much as beer, it's dogs. There's one in the brewery name, usually at least one hanging around the brewery, heaps of them in various events they sponsor and, now, a whole series of IPAs dedicated to them. Well, to the brewery dogs specifically. Edie is the first to get both name and visage on a tinnie, one the label declares as "bursting with Eureka, Centennial and Citra hops". That said, don't go expecting a burst of juiciness as tends… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
5.8%

Moon Dog Thunder Lips Yuzu Red IPA 2019

Published March 19, 2019
One of Moon Dog's limited releases from 2018 is back, this time around in cans. The beer is a red IPA laced with yuzu, a citrus fruit that sits close to grapefruit in terms of character. And it's not just the format that's changed for its 2019 rerun; the alcohol content has been lowered and, if we're to go off the write up we published last year, the malty side of the beer is more prominent. Thus you can expect a red IPA with the emphasis tilting more towards the red – rich, sweet toffee and treacle… Read more
Style
Red IPA
ABV
6.0%

Moon Dog The Magnificent Mullets 2019

Published February 19, 2019
Back in the barely remembered, distant era that was beer in 2012, back when many argued that craft beer was just a fad that would fade away as it had done in the past, when you'd be told in no uncertain terms that the revolution would never take off in Brisbane and when execs at the biggest beer companies swore blind 6 percent ABV, highly hopped, bitter IPAs would never work in Australia, Moon Dog released The Magnificent Mullets. By the standards of the fledgling brewery, they might not have seemed… Read more
Style
Fruit Sours
ABV
4.5%

Moon Dog Raspberry Splice Of Heaven

Published December 17, 2018
While we wouldn't like to say with absolute certainty that Moon Dog's original Splice of Heaven – the pine-lime version created in collaboration with Beer DeLuxe – was the first local IPA to feature lactose, it was definitely among the earliest. It seemed rather out there at the time – a whole three years ago – but such things are pretty much common or garden these days. And, as they've brought the Splice of Heaven beers back, the Moon Dog team has headed in the other direction, dropping… Read more
Style
Raspberry Ice Cream Beer
ABV
5.5%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Moon Dog & Patient Wolf Two Wolf Moon

Published December 3, 2018
As we've written in the past, while they're relatively scarce compared to beers featuring some other spirits, local brewers' partnerships with the world of gin have tended to prove rather successful. Among those to impress in 2018 was Wolf Of The Willows' Tom Collins-inspired GABS festival beer. It was created with Brunswick's Patient Wolf, who have now embarked on a second canine (or at least canine-lupine) collaboration as the year winds down. It's a rather different beast to that debuted in May,… Read more
Style
Sloe Gin Cocktail Ale
ABV
8.5%

Moon Dog Cherry Pie À La Mode

Published November 7, 2018
À la mode means in fashion. And quite why cherry pie is deemed as such by the experimental side of the Moon Dog brewing team we're not sure; maybe it's a nod to the US elections, what with cherry pie being the quintessential American pie, or maybe it's down to so many of the ingredients used within the brew – bourbon barrels, vanilla, fruit, Brettanomyces – becoming increasingly commonplace for brewers the world over. In the case of Cherry Pie À La Mode, the beer started out as a red ale built… Read more
Style
Barrel Aged Wild Cherry Red Ale
ABV
7.0%
Stockists

Available on tap and in 650ml bottles nationwide

Moon Dog Skunkworks Cognac Barrel Aged IPA & Splice Of Heaven 2018

Published September 3, 2018
As spring 2018 springs, Moon Dog has reached into the vaults and plucked out a couple of past IPAs. Indeed, with Skunkworks, they've gone right back to the start with the first beer they ever released in bottles, while Splice Of Heaven is a tweaked version of what may have been Australia's first lactose IPA when it first appeared. Skunkworks is a Cognac barrel aged double IPA and was also a statement of intent by the brewery back when it launched with two of the three mates sleeping in the old office… Read more
Style
IPA variants
ABV
9.1% & 6.5%

Moon Dog Black Lung VIII & Big Truffle In Little Porter

Published June 26, 2018
Now into its eighth year, Moon Dog's Black Lung – the smoky stout where each iteration spends time in a different species of barrel prior to release – is one of the most hotly anticipated releases from the Abbotsford brewery. Indeed, we even chose to run a feature on it. It's been intensely smoky, lush and creamy, spicy and fruity over the years, so where does version VIII sit? It's been aged in ex-Cognac barrels and one assumes they came with a fair amount of their former inhabitant still hanging… Read more
Style
Smoky Stout & Truffle Porter
ABV
8.1% & 9.6%

Moon Dog Thunder Lips Yuzu Red IPA

Published April 12, 2018
Having built a large production brewery a few metres down the road from their original brewery in 2016, the amount of beer coming out of Moon Dog in recent times has been rising rapidly. Not only is their core range spreading ever wider across Australia and making inroads overseas, but it's steadily expanded to include five beers – not bad for a brewery that spent most of its life without one. Now they've settled into a groove at the larger site, the production of the more outré beers with which… Read more
Style
Yuzu Red IPA
ABV
6.3%

Moon Dog Sun Cat IPA

Published March 1, 2018
It's fair to say Moon Dog has explored many facets of the IPA world over the years. The brewery's first ever bottled release was the cognac barrel aged double IPA Skunkworks and since then there's been the likes of the core-range-for-a-while Jukebox Hero and the most recent Jumping The Shark, a multiply freeze distilled IIIIIIPA (we think that's the appropriate number of I's...). And now there's Sun Cat, a beer that's been in development for some time, mainly as a series of beers bearing the name… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
6.5%
Stockists

Plonk

Tippler's Tap

And other good beer outlets in VIC, QLD, NSW, SA, TAS & WA.

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Moon Dog Son Of A Plum

Published December 12, 2017
As you may well have noticed, sour beer styles are becoming rather popular, at least inside the beer bubble. It's an area in which Moon Dog has played around since day dot, opening its account with beers including the barrel aged wild black ale Perverse Sexual Amalgam and following soon after with Mr Mistoffelees. Yet, while they've continued to play silly buggers on their original brew kit, with the big new beast next door charged with keeping the Beer Can, Old Mate and co flowing, their sour side… Read more
Style
Fruit Sour
ABV
4.5%
Bitterness
10 IBU
Stockists

In stores across Victoria from Dec 11

Nationwide from Dec 21

Moon Dog Jumping The Shark 2017

Published September 28, 2017
Moon Dog set the bar high with its first Jumping The Shark release. Announced as the biggest, most over-the-top beer they could conceive, it was a huge imperial stout brewed with an insane amount of stupidly expensive truffles. And it lived up to the hype, even snaffling gold at the Australian International Beer Awards. Its follow up didn't do it for us (although, with a few years on it, we'd be willing to give the saffron'd beast another go and see if time has mellowed its aggressive nature) but… Read more
Style
Freeze Concentrated "Ayyy!"PA
ABV
14.4%
Stockists

Launched at the brewery on Sept 28

The Dan O'Connell

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Moon Dog Curtly Ambrosia

Published September 9, 2017
The experimental limited release program is well and truly up and running at Moon Dog now they've assigned Señor Brewer Adrian McNulty permanently to their smaller original brewery with instructions to go hog wild. And, for his latest bottled release, it's fair to say inspiration comes from left field – particularly with cricket season still a way off. Said inspiration is Sir Curtly Ambrose, one of the fiercest pacemen to stalk the planet in the latter days of the West Indies' decades of dominance.… Read more
Style
Imperial Chilli Pale Ale?
ABV
9.4%
Bitterness
35 IBU
Stockists

Moon Dog Brewery

The Public Brewery

Moon Dog Cake Hole

Published August 9, 2017
Moon Dog has a fondness for adding things to dark beers. OK, they have a fondness for adding things other than malt, water, hops and yeast to pretty much any beer that passes through their brewery. But, over the years, their darker beers have come laced with oak, smoke, Redskins, truffles, bugs and, well, you get the message. The latest is Cake Hole, the second stout to leave the brewery in quick succession, following Black Lung VII, and one tagged a Black Forest Stout in tribute to the famous, always-on-menus-in-the-1970s… Read more
Style
Black Forest Stout
ABV
6.5%
Stockists

Moon Dog Brewery

The Public Brewery

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Moon Dog Black Lung VII

Published July 28, 2017
Given we ran a lengthy interview on the Black Lung series earlier in the week, in which brewery co-founder Josh Uljans told us all about the beer's genesis and subsequent evolution, there's no need for background here. That said, the beer has been put inside 650ml bottles for the first time, it spent time in former Merlot barrels – the first time wine has featured – and, with seven cigars now at play on the label, the skeleton ran out of room in his gob and had to shove a couple into his suit… Read more
Style
Barrel Aged Smokey Stout
ABV
8.2%
Stockists

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Moon Dog Dunbar's Dream

Published June 1, 2017
An admission. There was a ripple of excitement at Crafty Towers when we first heard the name of Moon Dog's latest limited release. Knowing that, for all the silliness, there are some sharp and broad minds at the Abbotsford brewery, we figured it might be a reference to Yossarian's buddy from the novel Catch-22. Not only is Joseph Heller's masterpiece revered at Crafty Towers, but Dunbar is involved in an exchange that a much younger Crafty thought captured the very meaning of life. But it's not that… Read more
Style
Passionfruit & Coffee Porter
ABV
9.2%
Stockists

The Public Brewery

And other good beer outlets

Moon Dog Del Polka Vista & Phine Mess

Published April 11, 2017
They've been as busy as ever at Moon Dog in the past year, although judging by the rate at which special releases have appeared in bottles you may think otherwise. With a large production brewery purchased, installed and now charged with knocking out their core range of 5 percenters and a new function space built and opened too, there's been little time to fire out the sort of beers upon which the Abbotsford brewery made its name – at least on a grand scale. But rectifying that is this pair. Del… Read more
Style
Berry Wild Ale & IIPA
ABV
6.8% & 10.2%
Stockists

Flight Bar, Bendigo

Dr Morse

Moon Dog Black Lung VI

Published July 9, 2016
One of the most anticipated annual releases from Moon Dog is back. The Black Lung is a peated, barrel-aged imperial stout that has appeared in a different form each year for six years now. The difference comes from the choice of barrel in which the beer spends time before packaging: first up was a bourbon barrel to be followed by others including whisky, Pedro Ximenez and fresh oak. It's a beer that has picked up trophies in the past (and is the brewery's entry in the forthcoming Great Australian… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Stout
ABV
9.0%
Stockists

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Moon Dog Bosco's Grapefruit & Cucumber IPA

Published April 5, 2016
This new IPA from Moon Dog is another beer to graduate from the brewery's weekly single keg specials. It was designed by senor brewer Adrian McNulty and is named after one of his dogs (pictured on the label with a fruity mouthful). As for why it's named after his dog, well, it's nothing to do with a canine love of grapefruit and cucumber, more a case of Adrian not having a name for the beer when the time came to tap the initial keg. From such inauspicious starts, however, came a beer that they deemed… Read more
Style
Fruit IPA
ABV
6.7%
Bitterness
50 IBU
Stockists

Moon Dog Brewery Bar

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Moon Dog Jumping The Shark 2015

Published December 22, 2015
The third Jumping the Shark annual special from the Moon Dog crew has been long in the making. A pre-barrel, pre-freeze distilling sampler went on at the brewery months ago but the finished product has only just been released in bottles for the end of the year. Just in time for summer, in fact – the perfect time to sit down with an 18.4 percent ABV rye imperial stout that spent four months in rye whisky barrels from Tasmania's Belgrove Distillery. According to Moon Dog senor brewer Adrian McNulty:… Read more
Style
Barrel Aged Rye Imperial Stout
ABV
18.4%
Stockists

Moon Dog Craft Brewery

Wine Republic Fitzroy

Cherry Tree Hotel

And outside Victoria from early 2016

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Moon Dog Love Tap – RETIRED

Published October 14, 2015
The evolution of Moon Dog's first ever "core" beer reaches its third (or is that fourth) and possibly final stage. The beer that started out as a double lager at 7.1 percent ABV and that, in its first iteration, we likened to drinking hop goo, was initially brought down to a more repeatable 5.9 percent ABV when first bottled. From 2015, its draught incarnation has been turning out as an even more sessionable 5 percent ABV, thus appearing as many a crafty pub's happy hour offering. And,… Read more
Style
Lager
ABV
5.0%

Moon Dog Holdin' Hay Time & Splice of Heaven

Published August 13, 2015
British expats d'uncertain age may recall Wesley "Two Scoops" Berry. The American was a contestant on Gladiators and had a party trick that saw him able to jump, without assistance, over a car. Pretty impressive, no doubt. But as impressive as releasing a double scoop of ice cream themed beers in a two-pack bearing colours of lurid pink, orange and green? We reckon that could prove a leap too far for even Two Scoops. But for the mentalists at Moon Dog? No Biggie. It's the second time they've… Read more
Style
Ice Cream Beer
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
Splice 60 IBU / Haytime 22 IBU
Stockists

Good beer stockists nationwide

Moon Dog Black Lung V

Published July 9, 2015
Ever since the first Black Lung staggered out of Moon Dog's brewery, coughing and spluttering its way into the world, it's been the annual release from the brewery we look forward to the most. Indeed, Jumping the Shark 2013 apart, its first and fourth iterations are probably the pick of everything they've released here at Crafty Towers. With the beer picking up the Champion Stout & Porter trophy at last year's inaugural Craft Beer Awards, it has plenty to live up to as well. Once again, the beer… Read more
Style
Smoky Imperial Stout
ABV
8.8%
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Chapel Street Cellars

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Father's Office

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Moon Dog & Beer DeLuxe Splice of Heaven

Published June 19, 2015
Many great, rare, vintage and colourful beers decorated the taps of Beer DeLuxe during Good Beer Week when the Fed Square venue was Festival Hub. Among the most colourful was one that the staff at the venue had conceived and brewed with the guys at Moon Dog before the festival. In a change from the brewery's current penchant for recreating other beverages in beer form, this one saw the joint venturers look to create one of their favourite ice creams: Splice. And, while the festival is passed for… Read more
Style
Milk Fruit IPA
ABV
6.9%
Stockists

Moon Dog Brewery Bar

Moon Dog Ogden Nash's Pash Rash

Published June 11, 2015
If it looks like a stout and tastes like a stout, then it's a stout, right? Well, maybe not if it smells like kids' lollies... The latest beer to graduate from the twisted collective consciousness at Melbourne's Moon Dog to a single keg brew to be tapped on a Thursday and then finally get the nod of approval as a nationwide packaged release is one of their most surprising. Just like the black IPAs that take the concept to its extreme – creating a black beer that smells and tastes utterly like a… Read more
Style
Fruit Imperial Stout
ABV
8.8%
Bitterness
30 IBU
Stockists

Moon Dog Brewery Bar

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Abbey Collaby V: Wet Hopped DIPA

Published June 4, 2015
The launch of the Abbey Collaby has quickly become a Good Beer Week institution, enticing massed crowds to Mountain Goat on the Wednesday night for a first taste of whatever concoction the minds at Goat, Moon Dog and Matilda Bay have come up with. In 2014, a rather drinkable 10.5 percent barley wine ensured that some of the attendees knew they'd had a night out. So, in 2015, they toned things down. And brewed a rather drinkable 10.3 percent double IPA. And put a keg of the barley wine on for good… Read more
Style
Double IPA
ABV
10.3%
Stockists

Bottles at good beer venues around Australia

Possibly kegs at Mountain Goat and Moon Dog breweries

Moon Dog Coughlin's Diet: Old Fashioned

Published April 29, 2015
The replication of unbeers as beers continues apace at Moon Dog's HQ in Abbotsford. Hot on the heels of the Bad Boy Bubbly barley champagne and their Bloody Mary replicant comes their most audacious attempt at reimagining another beverage as a beer. Coughlin's Diet – inspired by Bryan Brown's character in the 1988 "classic" Cocktail – sees them attempt to fashion an Old Fashioned. But they don't merely give you the finished product; they're offering up a two-pack featuring two beers… Read more
Style
Cocktail Beer
ABV
7.6%
Stockists

Moon Dog Brewery Bar

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Moon Dog Breakfast of Champions

Published March 30, 2015
In addition to his official title of Señor Brewer, the man who helped 3 Ravens to the Champion Small Australian Brewery title before crossing town to Moon Dog could also be tagged The Recreator. One of Adrian McNulty's last beers at 3 Ravens was his attempt to recreate Pedro Ximenez in beer form (The Druid) and more recently he's looked to recreate champagne as beer with Bad Boy Bubbly. He's at it again here with a beer that originated as a brewery bar single keg but has since been given a guernsey… Read more
Style
Bloody Mary Red Ale
ABV
7.6%
Bitterness
18 IBU
Stockists

Moon Dog Brewery

Carlton Cellars

Wine Republic

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Moon Dog Bad Boy Bubbly

Published February 3, 2015
One of the final beers brewer Adrian McNulty created for 3 Ravens before heading to Moon Dog was an attempt to fashion a beer that tasted like Pedro Ximenez. The beer was Druid, a strong Belgian ale aged in PX barrels that was a damn fine effort and contributed towards 3 Ravens' Champion Small Australian Brewery title. Continuing the theme, the first beer he has created at Moon Dog that has been bottled for a wider release is his attempt to fashion a beer that tastes like champagne. Said beer is… Read more
Style
Barley Champagne
ABV
13.1%
Bitterness
0 IBU
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Moon Dog Brewery

Grape & Grain Moorabbin

Carlton Cellars

Wine Republic

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Moon Dog & Rogue The Beard Down Under

Published December 19, 2014
As soon as word arrived at GBW HQ in September last year from Rogue’s importer, Phoenix Beers, that John Maier was planning to head to Melbourne for Good Beer Week, the third Masterclass collaboration event wrote itself. Who else from the Melbourne scene would you pair the brewer behind beers as colourful and varied as Dead Guy, Voodoo and Beard Beer with aside from Abbotsford crazies Moon Dog? That Phoenix distributed the latter’s beers too made things easier still. Thus it was that, following… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Barleywine
ABV
9.0%
Stockists

Grape & Grain Moorabbin

Carlton Cellars

Wine Republic

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Moon Dog Marmajuke

Published December 8, 2014
Thursday regulars at Moon Dog's brewery bar, or indeed their Facebook followers, will be aware that each week the crazy kids like to unleash a new single keg experiment on one of their taps. Usually high in booze content, almost always featuring some unusual ingredient and definitely an excuse for one of them to exercise his skills on MS Paint, it is also a chance for the brewers to try out some new ideas that may or may not graduate beyond the 50 litre stage. First to graduate is Marmajuke, a citrus'd… Read more
Style
Marmalade Double IPA
ABV
8.4%
Bitterness
73 IBU
Stockists

Grape & Grain Moorabbin

Carlton Cellars

Wine Republic

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Moon Dog Jumping The Shark 2014

Published September 26, 2014
It looks like September 2014 shall forever more be known as Saffron Month in the world of Australian craft beer, with Bendigo’s Brookes Beer and Abbotsford’s Moon Dog decided that for too darn long have drinkers been denied the chance to sample the spice obtained from the stigma of a crocus flower in their beer. Although for lovers of Moon Dog’s unique brand of experimental, high ABV madness, it will more likely be remembered as the month that “Ayyyyyyy!” returned as The Fonz reappeared… Read more
Style
Barrel Aged Spiced Imperial Red Ale
ABV
14.1%
Stockists

At good craft beer venues nationwide.

Moon Dog Black Lung IV

Published August 12, 2014
In a recent radio interview to chat about our new beer book, the host in Brisbane plucked a few beers from its pages that had caught her eyes for different reasons. Among them was Black Lung, with its eye-catching packaging – a suit-and-tie-wearing skeleton with hole in its skull smoking multiple cigars – prompting a question about the importance of presentation in the craft beer world. Acknowledging that Moon Dog's was among the most visually arresting, we suggested it would only get a brewery… Read more
Style
Smoked Stout
ABV
9.1%
Stockists

At good craft beer venues nationwide.

If you want help finding it near you, contact Moon Dog's distributor Phoenix.

Moon Dog Cold Drip War

Published July 16, 2014
The GABS 2014 beers keep on coming, with the latest cab off the ranks the entry from Melbourne's Moon Dog. The Stalin-endorsed beer is tagged as a coffee and chicory porter, but has a wee bit more besides, with a touch of rye malt in the grist. The coffee (from their friends and neighbours at Coffee Supreme) was added during conditioning with the chicory making an appearance in the boil. As for the inspiration, it turns out that during the late 70s there was a coffee crisis in East Germany so a replacement… Read more
Style
Coffee & Chicory Porter
ABV
6.4%
Bitterness
40 IBU
Stockists

At good craft beer venues nationwide.

If you want help finding it near you, contact Moon Dog's distributor Phoenix.

Moon Dog Bjorn To Boogie

Published January 16, 2014
It's almost as if they knew the heatwave was coming... For their latest release, Moon Dog has returned to the fruit bowl and, vaguely, to the scene of one of their earlier adventures. Some of you may recall the Magnificent Mullet series of beers that saw Mel(on) Gibson, MacGuava and Billy Ray Citrus star as fruity, wheaty, tarty ales. Foregoing the temptation to forge an ancestral thread through the beers by releasing a Limey Citrus (a beer that would no doubt require more twerking than tweaking),… Read more
Style
Watermelon Weizen
ABV
5.3%
Bitterness
11 IBU
Stockists

At good craft beer venues nationwide.

If you want help finding it near you, contact Moon Dog's distributor Phoenix.

Moon Dog Jumping The Shark 2013

Published September 26, 2013
The launch of what is intended to be a series of annual specials from Moon Dog has something of the PR strategist's approach about it. Namely: own the attack before your opponent can. For the uninitiated in leather jacket-wearing, quiff-haired pop culture references (which turns out to be quite a lot of you if Crafty's mates are any guide), "jumping the shark" refers to an episode of Happy Days in which The Fonz jumps a shark on waterskis (while still wearing his leather jacket). It was… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Truffled Imperial Stout
ABV
15.4%
Stockists

Slowbeer

At good craft beer venues nationwide.

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Moon Dog Mummy Have A Bite

Published September 20, 2013
Presumably launched to coincide with the start of the Royal Melbourne Show (or more likely because they had secured some calvados barrels), the second new release of the week from Moon Dog is touted as a Toffee Apple Amber Ale. In adding calvados to the list of barrels they've dragged through the brewery, pumped full of booze (and sometimes bacteria), emptied and released into the world - think shiraz, bourbon, whisky, rum, Cognac... - they set about recreating that tooth-rotting, appley-underneath… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Amber Ale
ABV
8.2%
Stockists

At good craft beer venues nationwide.

If you want help finding it near you, contact Moon Dog's distributor Phoenix.

Moon Dog Bock Naked

Published September 19, 2013
It's all go at Moon Dog these days. The brewery is expanding - mainly so they can fill more tanks with Love Tap, they're looking to invest in lots of new gear, are about the launch their first annual "Jumping The Shark" beer and have big plans for the brewery itself too. Amongst that, they're still knocking out the odd beer too, odd in all senses, obviously. Latest cab off the rank is Bock Naked, a "Dry Chipotle'd" strong German style lager. And dark it certainly is, a barely… Read more
Style
Chipotle'd Bock
ABV
7.7%
Stockists

At good craft beer venues nationwide.

If you want help finding it near you, contact Moon Dog's distributor Phoenix.

Moon Dog Black Lung III

Published August 9, 2013
It's not just Hollywood that has sequel fever. It's even infiltrating the Aussie craft beer world. You've got Red Duck banging out Ra #2, #3, #4 and so on (a hopless Imperial Egyptian Bread Beer for the uninitiated) and here's Moon Dog with Black Lung III. At its heart (it's black, molten heart) it's a "smokey stout", in other words a stout with a little peated malt added for a touch of smokiness. The reason subsequent batches are being released as sequels with "II" and "III"… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Stout
ABV
8.7%
Stockists

We asked Moon Dog Josh how "far and wide" the beer was going.

"Both far and wide," he said. "Around Oz, NZ and Finland."

So, presumably, pretty much every bottleshop listed on Crafty and other places too.

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Moon Dog / Kissmeyer Nordic Saddle Buffer

Published June 4, 2013
In the year or so since he was in Australia to judge at the 2012 Australian International Beer Awards and brew with a number of local brewers, we've come to understand well the modus operandi of Danish gypsy brewer Anders Kissmeyer when it comes to collaborations. He rocks up, turns on his laptop and smokes rollies and pipes all day and a few weeks or months later a beer appears. Thankfully, it would appear the Master Brewer has such skills that even by his mere presence in a brewery some pretty… Read more
Style
Barleywine
ABV
14.6%
Stockists

Beer DeLuxe

Deja Vu

Deco

The Dispensary Enoteca

Grain & Grape

[The Local Taphouse St Kilda](/beer/bar/local-taphouse-st-kild

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Moon Dog Lando Kardashian

Published April 24, 2013
As hybrids go, the fusing of Star Wars' Lando Calrissian with one of modern TV's most potent symbols of an impending apocalypse is pretty unusual; adding what appears to be a Wookiee's hand and a rubber glove to the label of the beer bearing said name adds further confusion. Yet the style for Moon Dog's latest isn't as outlandoish as many from their past. That said, the fact that a massively hopped, high alcohol Belgian Tripel isn't completely novel probably says more about life on the boundaries… Read more
Style
Belgian Tripel
ABV
11.5%
Bitterness
65 IBU
Stockists

Beer DeLuxe

The Dispensary Enoteca

Grain & Grape

The Local Taphouse St Kilda

Blackhearts & Sparrows

Prince Wine & Spirits Essendon

Purvis Beer Richmond

Purvis Cellars

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Moon Dog Mr Mistoffelees

Published April 15, 2013
Now this is a weird one. And not just because it's a beer from Moon Dog. No, because when we first sampled Mr Mistoffelees at last year's Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular, we found it to have an unpleasant characteristic that rendered it, to the Crafty palate at least, undrinkable. That it went on to be voted one of the most popular beers at the event was a surprise, one we put down to the fact that some beer nerds just want to love anything different or that we had yet to unlock some part of the… Read more
Style
Wild Ale with Fruit
ABV
6.2%

Moon Dog Great American Challenge

Published January 19, 2013
It's all getting a little weird, as it seems that, recently, pretty much every single beer being released in Australia reminds us of one song or another. We had Mountain Goat's Little Girl sparking renditions of Billy Idol's White Wedding followed by Holgate's Millennium Falcon bringing back memories of Carter. This one, however, could well be our favourite. The Great American Challenge, to the uninitiated (which we are glad to confirm includes the residents of Crafty Towers), is the name of the… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Trappist Ale
ABV
8.9%
Bitterness
35 IBU

Moon Dog Dasher's Envy

Published December 24, 2012
Apparently this is a "Fancy Christmas Ale". We're not sure what that means, to be honest. Does it mean that there are brewers out there producing beers for the festive period that aren't fancy? Or have the Moon Doggers done something particularly out there for this one - perhaps swimming in the mash tun again? Perhaps the fact that they seem to have emptied the majority of the contents of their malt cupboard and spice rack into it has something to do with its elevated status - with a little… Read more
Style
Christmas Ale
ABV
8.1%

Moon Dog Artisan Pouseuré

Published December 3, 2012
The words "Moon Dog" and "pumpkin", when used in tandem, send a shudder down the Crafty spine. Before the brewery launched, we were given a sample bottle of a trial Pumpkin Ale as a taster of what was to come. It miraculously disappeared one AFL Grand Final Day with nobody in attendance able to recall what could have happened to it. The mystery remains unsolved; our guilt unassuaged. Still, there have been subsequent chances to sample other Moon Dog pumpkin beers, including a… Read more
Style
Spiced Pumpkin Ale
ABV
7.5%
Bitterness
32 IBU
Stockists

Beer DeLuxe

Deja Vu

Deco

The Dispensary Enoteca

Grain & Grape

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Moon Dog Love Tap – Retired

Published November 30, 2012
Standards must be slipping at Moon Dog. I mean, seriously, when you've offered up buxom nurses holding breast-shaped cupcakes and cigar-smoking skulls on your labels, who's going to be satisfied with a pig in lime green bow tie and top hat? Next thing you know, they'll be brewing a lager. Thankfully, this is nothing of the sort, but instead the equivalent of drinking fresh hop goo, goo that's an amalgam of German, Aussie and Kiwi hops, an amalgam in which the New World hops carry out an almighty… Read more
Style
Strong hoppy lager
ABV
7.1%
Bitterness
34 IBU

Moon Dog Mustafa's Dancing Helmet

Published November 7, 2012
Another eminently sensibly named beer from the Abbotsford crew that comes complete with another eminently sensible label. Just don't try and locate it via the label as they decided to make this batch keg-only. The beer was offered up for sampling at last month's Fed Square Microbreweries Showcase, alongside the Artisan Pouseure (sic), which will soon appear in bottles (confused yet?). It's an apricot IPA and, in keeping with Moon Dog tradition, tips the scales close to 10 per cent ABV. Brewer Josh… Read more
Style
Fruit IIPA
ABV
9.2%
Bitterness
60 IBY
Stockists

Slowbeer

Belgian Beer Cafe Eureka

Royston

Others TBC

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Moon Dog Wet Nurse Tonic

Published September 7, 2012
It says something of the way the Australian beer industry is going that just days after learning Moon Dog was to release a beer called Wet Nurse Tonic, The Crafty Pint was at another brewery in another state when the brewer announced plans for a pale stout called Wet Nurse. Devious buggers... In the case of this one, it's the Abbotsford brewers' take on a milk stout that - aside from the saucy label that channels British seaside postcards from the 60s via Mars Attacks and Jeff Koons' porno paintings… Read more
Style
Milk Stout
ABV
7.3%
Bitterness
36 IBU
Stockists

Slowbeer

Purvis Cellars

Purvis Beer Richmond

Mane Liquor

[Cellarbrations at Carlisle](/beer/bottleshop/cellar

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Moon Dog / Yeastie Boys 7Ps

Published August 25, 2012
AKA Peter Piper's Pickled Pepper Purple Peated Pale Ale AKA the beer the Moon Doggers were destined to make from the moment they discovered they shared more than a passing resemblance to the Yeastie Boys. Knocked up during Good Beer Week in May, when the Kiwis were in town, it's not your typical pale ale. For a start, it's nine per cent. Then there's the hint of purpleness from the addition of blackberries (leading to a colour grading on the label that says "15 Purpley SRM"; on the other… Read more
Style
Peated Fruit IPA
ABV
9.0%

Moon Dog Black Lung II

Published July 14, 2012
The original Black Lung was quite possibly the Crafty Pint's pick of the Moon Dog beers to date. The sequel sees them replace the bourbon barrel aging with whisky instead and it's instantly apparent that the beer has picked up far more character from its time spent inside wood than the previous iteration. Considering it's been blended with an unwooded batch of the beer, one can only imagine how the unblended version must have tasted - like licking the inside of the barrel itself, perhaps! The intensity… Read more
Style
Smokey Stout
ABV
8.9%

Moon Dog / Beer Here Freaks and Geeks

Published June 4, 2012
This year's Danish invasion of Melbourne has left quite a legacy. Well, it would have if people didn't keep drinking it so fast, with the Mikkeller efforts with Goat and Bridge Road all but gone already. Next cab off the collab ranks is this from kindred jokers Moon Dog and Beer Here. Described as a Danish farmhouse ale of sorts, it's brewed with flaked oats, maris otter, biscuit, dark wheat rye and peated munich malts and a farmhouse yeast, the penultimate of these explaining why the initial aroma… Read more
Style
Dark Farmhouse Ale
ABV
7.6%
Bitterness
14 IBU

Moon Dog Billy Ray Citrus

Published May 16, 2012
The final part of the Magnificent Mullet series (unless they go and get all Hitchhiker's Guide on our asses) sees everyone's favourite ponytail-sporting, line-dancing, annoying sprog-spawning, Bill Hicks-inspiring hick have his face replaced with a citrus fruit and the Moon Doggers chuck a heap of citrus peel into their witbier-y, berliner weisse-y concoction. Of the three, it's the one in which the fruit addition is most prominent, with a pretty intense lime like character offering up plenty of… Read more
Style
Fruit Witbier
ABV
5.6%
Stockists

Slowbeer

Purvis Beer Richmond

Smith Street Cellars

[Local Bottle Store & Provisions](/beer/bottleshop/the-local-bottle-store-provisi

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Moon Dog McGuava

Published May 1, 2012
Part of the brewery's ongoing Magnificent Mullet series (and their obsession with tart, sour or wild ales) gets off to a flier before you've even opened it. In the centre of the label, surrounded by said mullet and where McGuyver's head would be is an open guava that makes it look like the enduringly popular TV star has had his face cloven in two with an axe. Such prettiness continues in the glass with the beer pouring as a cloudy light yellow with the purdiest of foamy white heads. That they've… Read more
Style
Fruit Witbier
ABV
5.6%
Stockists

Slowbeer

Purvis Beer Richmond

Smith Street Cellars

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Moon Dog Melon Gibson

Published February 25, 2012
The opening salvo in what will become Moon Dog's Magnificent Mullet series of beers, created in tribute to one of the great hairdos of the past (or concocted after sampling some of their own product, perhaps). The three beers are all kind of witbier-y and kind of Berliner Weisse-y thanks to the addition of a wee bit of wild yeast. In the case of Melon Gibson, the defining factor is the, you've guessed it, melon - or watermelon, to be precise. The boys hacked more than 100kg to pieces using some sort… Read more
Style
Fruit Beer
ABV
5.6%
Bitterness
10 IBU
Stockists

Royston Tap

More tbc when bottles are released

Moon Dog Symbiotic Solipsism

Published December 26, 2011
It's always nice to see brewers joining forces with other producers to expand their horizons. Already the Moon Dog chaps have hooked up with neighbours Mt Goat and CUB for the Abbey Collabbey beer brewed for Good Beer Week and now they've made a beer in cahoots with Coffee Supreme, namely a coffee and raspberry amber ale. The coffee is of a roasted nature (as opposed to the more fragrant "green bean" type found in Mt Goat's Coffee IPA, for example) and the raspberry comes across fresh and… Read more
Style
Coffee & Raspberry Amber
ABV
7.9%
Bitterness
30 IBU
Stockists

Slowbeer

Carwyn Cellars

Purvis Cellars

Blackhearts & Sparrows

[Purvis Beer Richmond](/beer/bottleshop/purv

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Moon Dog Gingerbread Brown

Published December 22, 2011
"Ain't no stopping us now-ow! We're on the move. We've got the groove." Don't know about you, but we can really see the Moon Doggers prancing around like McFadden & Whitehead performing their disco classic while knocking out what, at present, seems to be an unstoppable line of crazy beers with silly names. Not in a Hey, Hey, It's Saturday! racist embarrassment kind of way, more a kind of "Yes. We. Can." attitude, boosted by a subtle undercurrent of gay abandon. Latest off… Read more
Style
Spiced Brown Ale
ABV
7.5%

Moon Dog Black Lung

Published December 6, 2011
The Black Lung first appeared as a teaser keg at Josie Bones during Good Beer Week, where its no holds barred smokiness was undermined a little by a lack of body. No such problem this time around as it gets a full release, complete with tweaked recipe and a rich, smooth mouthfeel. Considering there's both peated malt and a bourbon barrel at play, it's a surprisingly rounded affair, with plenty of sweetness in the malt profile to balance the smoke and oak. The effects of the bourbon really come into… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Smoked Stout
ABV
7.7%
Bitterness
40 IBU
Stockists

Carwyn Cellars

Purvis Beer Richmond

Smith Street Cellars

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Moon Dog Perverse Sexual Amalgam (bottles)

Published December 5, 2011
The beer that debuted at The Crafty Pint's first birthday bash, Festival of the Frothy, is back in a strictly limited bottled release. So limited, in fact, the brewers are already bemoaning how little of it they have and it's only just started leaving the brewery. More has been laid down, but will be months away. The Amalgam is likely to be the first of many wild or sour ales from Moon Dog. It's a lightly carbonated dark ale that spent several months in oak with some tart cherry plums and comes… Read more
Style
Wild Ale
ABV
6.9%
Bitterness
14 IBU
Stockists

Carwyn Cellars

Purvis Beer Richmond

Smith Street Cellars

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Moon Dog Henry Ford's Girthsome Fjord

Published December 5, 2011
So, it's got a ridiculous name, is described as a "Bulgo-American India Brown Ale" and has a list of ingredients that could be entered into a short story competition; little wonder there's lots going on in Henry Ford's Girthsome Fjord. A typically Moon Doggian mangling of styles, this has hops aplenty, a splash of brown sugar to accompany the malts and a mix of yeasts, including a Belgian Trappist one that does its level best to dominate proceedings. Not that that's an easy task. Its distinctive… Read more
Style
Belgian India Brown Ale
ABV
8.9%
Bitterness
65 IBU
Stockists

Carwyn Cellars

Purvis Beer Richmond

Smith Street Cellars

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Moon Dog Pumpkin Porter

Published November 1, 2011
Now they've started they just can't stop. Hot on the heels of the Skunkworks is a return of the Pumpkin Porter that made an appearance in smaller volumes last Halloween. Featurig 35kg of roast pumpkin in the boil (plus honey, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg), the only thing that is missing is the usual barmpot Moon Dog name. According to the boys, it's "a black ale with golden-red hues", "dark, smooth and roasty" with "hints of dark malts on the nose" ending with spice and… Read more
Style
Pumpkin Porter
ABV
7.0%
Bitterness
45 IBU

Moon Dog Perverse Sexual Amalgam

Published October 15, 2011
One of the best gifts we received on the occasion of our first birthday at The Festival of the Frothy was the decision of the Moon Dog brewers to give us the first keg of Perverse Sexual Amalgam, a wild black ale to which has been added all manner of funky yeasts as well as, at some point in its existence inside some of their many barrels, tart cherry plums. The result is a deeply dark ale with a light white head that hints at a bright future for the boys. Sour and tart, for sure, but in a balanced,… Read more
Style
Barrel-aged Wild Ale

Moon Dog Skunkworks Double IPA

Published October 14, 2011
Having tested the water / teased the beer geeks over the past few months with occasional single keg releases, Moon Dog have finally got their brewery fully up and running and popped a beer into bottles. As you'd expect, said bottles are suitably off the wall, bringing lunacy to the land of labels (wonder what the collectors societies will make of them?), as well as upfront honesty with a complete list of ingredients and when they've been added to the brew. We're actually a little late with this… Read more
Style
BarrelAged Double IPA
ABV
9.1%
Bitterness
105 IBU
Stockists

Slowbeer

Carwyn Cellars

Purvis Cellars

Purvis Beer Richmond

[Local Bottle Store & Provisions](/beer/bottle

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Moon Dog Love Tap II – Retired

STOP PRESS! Moon Dog has a core range! Well, a core beer, at least. Yes, after a couple of years exploring the outer reaches of God knows where with every beer and rarely brewing the same thing twice, they've decided it's time to introduce a workhorse. Or at least as close to a workhorse as you're going to find from the three guys behind the most idiosyncratic brewery in Oz. Said beer is a reworking of their Love Tap, a "double lager" that if you're in need of a stylistic description is… Read more
Style
Double Lager
ABV
5.9%

Moon Dog Jukebox Hero IPA – Retired

Not long after this beer first appeared, it became the third permanent addition to the Abbotsford brewery's range. When we first sampled it in its first form, as part of the Moon Dog tap takeover at The Royston during Craft Beer Rising, our first thought was: "Many of their hardcore fans might not like this." If that sounds like a particularly unpleasant and even un-Crafty thing to say, rest assured we texted such a thought directly to one of the brewers. It was, however, meant as a compliment.… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
7.0%