Green Beacon (CUB/Asahi)

Such has been the phenomenal rise of craft beer in and around Brisbane in recent times that, despite only throwing open its roller door for the first time in January 2013, you could argue that Green Beacon is one of the elder statesmen of the local scene. Just as the number of quality beer bars has flourished in the city since Green Beacon tapped its first beer, so has the number of breweries and brewing companies calling South East Queensland home.

The long held dream of a pair of Brisbane schoolmates, Green Beacon set up home in Teneriffe, the Brisbane suburb enjoying a revival as a social and entertainment hub. Marc Chrismas and Adrian Slaughter had been inspired by time spent in cities such as New York and London while working overseas (one as a teacher, one in corporate finance). They turned this inspiration into a venue with a brewery installed on one side of a warehouse, a spotted gum bar and venue on the other and, these days, with food trucks found outside the venue every day.

The result is a bright and airy brewery that offers visitors a welcoming place to sit and sip while watching the brewers do their thing. When you do, you can pick from an award-winning core range found in an increasing number of bars, restaurants and bottleshops throughout the country, as well as a rotating selection of seasonal beers – from big IPAs to barrel aged beers to fruit sours – some of which have proven adept at bringing home silverware too.

In early 2017, they opened a larger, highly specced production site in Geebung complete with a centrifuge, reverse osmosis water filtration system and a “hot rocket”. The addition of this second brewery allowed Green Beacon to triple the output of its core lineup of 3 Bolt Pale Ale, Wayfarer USA and Windjammer IPA, meaning you can find their beers in most states.

It wasn't the only big success for the brewery in 2017. They became one of just three Australian breweries chosen as a partner by Singapore Airlines, meaning business class travellers could drink Wayfarer USA on flights between Brisbane and Singapore.

That came on the back of major trophy success; in May 2017, Green Beacon was named Champion Small Brewery at the Australian International Beer Awards having collected the trophy for Champion Medium Brewery at the Craft Beer Awards 2016. They've since added two consecutive Champion Medium Brewery titles at the AIBAs, and launched the Fathom barrel-aged program, continuing a remarkable and rapid rise for the brewery – and a sign of how smart Marc and Adrian were to launch their business at a time when craft beer in Brisbane had barely reached the fringes.

That awards success and the brewery's rise attracted plenty of speculation and rumours about Green Beacon being courted by some of the world's biggest breweries too. In August 2019, those rumours became a reality when it was announced that Asahi had bought the Brisbane operation. Since the Japanese company's acquisition of CUB, Green Beacon now sit within a craft portfolio alongside the likes of 4 Pines, Mountain Goat, Balter, Matilda Bay and Pirate Life.

Name
Green Beacon (CUB/Asahi)
Address

26 Helen Street
Teneriffe
QLD 4005

Phone
(07) 3252 8393
Open Hours

Mon to Thu: 2pm to 9pm

Fri & Sat: midday to 11pm

Sunday: midday to 10pm

Tours

Typically the last Saturday of each month, check out Facebook or shopify store https://greenbeaconbrewingco.store


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The Specials

Green Beacon Alien Weaponry, Frivolous Juice, Trade Winds & Kinetic
Green Beacon Mr Sparkle & Cannonball & POG IPA & Journey X TDH IIIPA
Green Beacon Strawberry Smoothie Sour
Green Beacon Scrimshaw 2022
Green Beacon Mollyhawk Aussie Wheat Ale
Green Beacon Red's Dead 2021
Green Beacon Ditch Hopper NZ Lager
Green Beacon Helen Street Haze
Green Beacon Fathom Barrel Aged Beers: Raspberry & Cherry Sour & Belgian Style Red
Green Beacon Fathom Barrel Aged Beers: Belgian Style Brown Variants
Green Beacon Uppercut IIPA 2019
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Green Beacon (CUB/Asahi) Regulars

Green Beacon Subtropic Low Carb Hazy Pale Ale

Published May 23, 2023
Green Beacon’s stable of core beers has always set drinkers up for some easy-drinking hoppy pales (see Wayfarer Tropical Pale Ale and Seawolf Hazy Pale), but they’ve now added a lower carb option. Subtropic is cloudy yellow with a light, fruity aroma dancing all the way from beginning to end. Tropicals and citrus fruits join with a soft bready malt presence and low bitterness to make a quaffable beer designed for sessions, while still bringing some nice hop character. If you’re already a fan… Read more
Style
Low Carb Hazy Pale
ABV
4.0%

Green Beacon Windjammer IPA

In Green Beacon’s early years, Windjammer was a signal to craft beer lovers, attracting those who were looking for flavourful brews (which at that time usually meant West Coast IPAs). As IPAs became more and more common, and ‘flavourful’ became less rare, Windjammer took on a different role - the stalwart that holds onto those steady and familiar West Coast flavours while the rest of the beer world experiments with new. Windjammer not only holds its ground flavour-wise, but also offers a relatively… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
60 IBU

Green Beacon 3 Bolt Pale

I hear "pale ale" and "Galaxy hops" together, and my brain immediately goes to a certain popular Australian craft beer that’s pale yellow and known for its passionfruity aroma. But 3 Bolt is a different kind of pale ale. To the eye, this is a beer with light copper tones striking throughout the liquid and capped with uneven white froth that looks like the tops of clouds. There’s a depth of malt character that brings some toffee and biscuit sweetness, which interacts with the… Read more
Style
Pale Ale
ABV
4.5%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Green Beacon Grappler Lager

Once upon a time, Green Beacon used Grappler as a name for its seasonal lagers; in the past it spent time attached to an India pale lager, a German pilsner with new world German hops, and a New Zealand pilsner. But now, as it’s settled into the GB core range, Grappler’s not about being experimental or particularly hoppy. The brewers use German ingredients – Grappler’s hopped with Hallertau MittelfrĂźh and Perle hops, and fermented with Bavarian lager yeast – to make a fairly traditional… Read more
Style
German Lager
ABV
4.5%

Green Beacon Wayfarer Tropical Pale Ale

I assume the name of this beer refers to the versatile sailing dinghy of the same name, but all I think of when I hear the word Wayfarer is the final chorus of Boys of Summer.* Not that that’s ever a bad thing. This Wayfarer is about as easy-drinking as they come with a slight haze, a light but smooth mouthfeel, and a sprinkle of Amarillo and Citra hops. It’s infused with that feeling of looking out over the ocean: gentle and refreshing as a sea breeze, with a whiff of tropical fruit that’s… Read more
Style
Tropical Pale Ale
ABV
4.9%

Green Beacon Seawolf Hazy Pale

For a beer with such an aggressive name – Seawolf is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines that cost the US military three billion dollars a pop – this beer is all friendly and fluffy. Seawolf Hazy Pale isn’t designed to be a juice bomb (or juice torpedo, if we stay on the Seawolf theme). It glides across the tongue like a submarine gliding effortlessly through the water, with light citrus and floral notes washing over the palate. True to its style, it’s hazy and it’s pale,… Read more
Style
Hazy Pale Ale
ABV
4.2%

Green Beacon Beacon Draught

Look. The word "draught" used to describe a beer style annoys me no end. Especially when that beer is in cans or bottles, since draught is really a serving method: beer served off tap from a cask or keg. But the term "draught" often does now refer to the kind of easy-drinking beer people would drink off tap by the pint, and gives people an idea what to expect in a certain beer, and what to compare it to. So, yes, all you linguists will be quick to point out that language evolves,… Read more
Style
Mid-Strength Ale
ABV
3.5%

Green Beacon 7 Bells Sour Passion Fruit Ale

First things first: I refuse to write passionfruit as two words. One word 'til I die. 7 Bells is a big fat dose of passionfruit in a glass (or can, if you prefer to drink straight from the tinnie). Fresh passionfruit can tend either to be more sweet or more tart; the flavour here is as the sweeter end. But the sour ale provides the tang to give a smack of refreshment. This is a gose style of beer, which means you may notice a slight saltiness balancing out the sourness. If you’ve never had a gose,… Read more
Style
Passionfruit Sour
ABV
4.2%

Green Beacon (CUB/Asahi) Specials

Green Beacon Alien Weaponry, Frivolous Juice, Trade Winds & Kinetic

Published May 23, 2023
Three IPAs and a Cali pils. The hops are coming hard and fast at Green Beacon. The name of our first one here – Alien Weaponry West Coast DDH IPA – has me thinking of the Marvel movies, since people in those are always shooting blue zappy stuff from guns they stole from the aliens. You know, the ones from The Avengers that fly around on those giant whale-turtle-centipede things and crash into buildings. It begins as any number of classic West Coast IPAs: light gold in colour with a nice dankness… Read more
Style
Various Styles As Indicated
ABV
7.0% & 7.0% & 6.8% & 5.5%

Green Beacon Mr Sparkle & Cannonball & POG IPA & Journey X TDH IIIPA

Published February 9, 2023
Disclaimer: I’m going to get nostalgic in this write-up. Damn. Ten years. That’s a fair chunk of time that’s passed since I went and checked out that new craft brewery in Teneriffe called Green Beacon. “It’s in this cool old brick warehouse, and everything’s maritime themed, and the beer tanks are literally right behind the bar!” (That first visit also played a role in my then burgeoning love of amber and red beers. RIP Anchor Amber – I miss you.) Green Beacon’s getting nostalgic,… Read more
Style
Various Styles As Indicated
ABV
4.5% & 6.0% & 6.5% & 10.0%

Green Beacon Strawberry Smoothie Sour

Published October 29, 2022
Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like a straight strawberry smoothie is one of those things that’s a bit too flashy to make yourself at home. The kind of drink you’d happily order at Boost Juice, but if you tried making one for breakfast at home you’d chicken out and add a heap of banana to fill up the blender. Anyway, Green Beacon hasn’t chickened out: this is distinctly strawberryish beer. The colour isn’t quite as pink as the can’s label, but imagine apricot nectar with a dash of pink… Read more
Style
Smoothie Sour
ABV
5.0%

Green Beacon Scrimshaw 2022

Published October 25, 2022
I’ll admit, I haven’t had many Green Beacon beers since 2018. (I lived in Sydney for a while. Cut me some slack.) But my memory of this seasonal release is of a laid-back, refreshing IPA that acted as a gentler cousin of some of Green Beacon’s punchier offerings. And when I hear "Green Beacon" and "blood orange", my mind immediately goes to the zesty and assertive Whaler, the occasional release that has always held a special place in my heart. This year’s Scrimshaw Blood… Read more
Style
Blood Orange Hazy IPA
ABV
6.0%

Green Beacon Mollyhawk Aussie Wheat Ale

Published June 9, 2022
Either market research by CUB/Asahi (or Endeavour Group) has revealed there's an untapped desire in the local beer market for Aussie wheat ales or there's been a serious case of "great minds think alike" within the teams at a number of their craft brands. Matilda Bay, who let's not forget introduced many an Aussie to the concept of European wheat beers with Redback, released such a beer not long ago, and now there's two more from Green Beacon and Pirate Life respectively. I'm pretty sure… Read more
Style
Aussie Wheat Ale
ABV
4.5%

Green Beacon Red's Dead 2021

Published March 15, 2021
Green Beacon have a number of seasonals they revisit each year, and each has its own following. When it comes to Red’s Dead, the followers are a mix of malt fans, hop fans, and skeletal pirates who find precious few role models in the beer industry. The label on this autumn seasonal has been tweaked each year, and 2021’s version has seen it come back from portraying a full-bodied skeleton with torn shirt and hook hand and returning to the classic skull-with-knife-between-teeth-and-Rambo-headband. The… Read more
Style
Red IPA
ABV
6.5%

Green Beacon Ditch Hopper NZ Lager

Published March 1, 2021
For Green Beacon’s Eight Years of Beers celebrations, they released eight beers, six of which were keg-only releases at their brewpub. But it didn’t take long for one of those six to break the banks of the Helen Street headquarters and flow out to the rest of the country in tinnies. It’s called Ditch Hopper, and it’s a lager that lets Kiwi hop variety Nelson Sauvin come to play. While travel between Australia and New Zealand is restricted at the time of release, this beer is a shining symbol… Read more
Style
NZ Lager
ABV
5.3%
Bitterness
26 IBU

Green Beacon Helen Street Haze

Published August 9, 2019
The Green Beacon brewers have been displaying a knack for knocking out IPAs in a range of styles and doing it well. There have been red, black, double, hazy and other variants in recent times and it's to the world of the haze they return once more with Helen Street Haze, named after their original Teneriffe home. It's loaded up with tropical and citrusy hop varieties Galaxy, Azacca, Idaho 7 and Citra – in whole hop cone, pellet and cryo form – yet, to this olfactory system at least, it's predominantly… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA
ABV
6.2%

Green Beacon Fathom Barrel Aged Beers: Raspberry & Cherry Sour & Belgian Style Red

Published July 27, 2019
It may have taken many months of patient waiting for Green Beacon to launch their first Fathom beers but, as winter 2019 has passed, a growing number have been winging their way further from the brewery and into the hearts of many a beer lover. The Raspberry and Cherry Sour picked up a fair few votes in our Best New Beers Of 2019 – So Far roundup (although not enough to be the Green Beacon representative in the final article) and is a mixed ferment affair made with lactobacillus and two different… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Cherry Sour & Belgian Red
ABV
4.7% & 7.0%

Green Beacon Fathom Barrel Aged Beers: Belgian Style Brown Variants

Published July 25, 2019
Fathom is Green Beacon’s barrel-aged and mixed fermentation program that the highly-awarded brewery started developing quietly a few years ago. The series is named for the nautical method of measuring depth, which feels like as good a statement of intent as any for a program dealing with beer’s more complex, wilder and funkier side. Having started out selling the beers from their brewpub home in Brisbane, they've been making their way further afield since, with the lineup now embellished by a… Read more
Style
Barrel Aged Brown Ales
ABV
7.5% & 8.0%

Green Beacon Uppercut IIPA 2019

Published April 23, 2019
Now in its sixth round, Uppercut is Green Beacon’s annual celebration of the big, the bold and the hoppy. The double IPA has come in many shapes and sizes over the years, featuring different hop combinations, yeasts and alcohol content – albeit, every year it's predominantly a showcase for hops. The 2019 iteration is a double dry-hopped imperial IPA (or DDH IIPA if you want to fit it all on a tinnie) and has been given a wider release compared with previous years too. That will likely come as… Read more
Style
Imperial IPA
ABV
8.0%

Green Beacon POG Milkshake IPA

Published February 5, 2019
It would appear the article we ran at the start of the year looking at the use of lactose in beer – its history and why brewers are so in love with it right now – came not a moment too soon. In the past week, we've had two land at Crafty Towers and spoken to another brewery owner where they're planning to release a mixed four-pack of different flavoured ones later in the year. As for POG from Green Beacon, it's the beer created to mark the Brisbane brewery's sixth birthday. The POG of the title… Read more
Style
Tropical Milkshake IPA
ABV
7.0%

Green Beacon Scrimshaw Australian IPA

Published December 17, 2018
This year’s Scrimshaw seasonal release from Green Beacon is more restrained than in previous years. With the punchy Windjammer in the core range, and bangers like Whaler Blood Orange IPA, Red’s Dead Red IPA and Uppercut IIPA showing up at various times in recent months, this clean and refreshing Australian IPA provides an easy-drinking counterbalance to some of those hop explosions. The 2018 Scrimshaw is cloudy in the glass, and the nose is full of pineapple (which is far less uncomfortable than… Read more
Style
Australian IPA
ABV
5.8%
Bitterness
50 IBU

Green Beacon & Pizza Port Lucky Break West Coast IPA

Published November 8, 2018
Early in 2018, Green Beacon head brewer Johann van der Walt and general manager Chris Borbas took a trip to California. Their main aim was to do some research around yeast and visit the home of Premier Stainless Systems, the company that built their breweries. But, as you do, they smuggled a couple of suitcases worth of Aussie hops in with them just in case. That's the start of the tale that has led to the release of Lucky Break, but the beer's name came about from what followed. The guy who'd commissioned… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
7.0%
Bitterness
67 IBU

Green Beacon The Whaler 2018

Published September 6, 2018
It may have been a golden ale in its earlier days, but Green Beacon's spring seasonal, The Whaler, seems to have decided its comfortable in the shape it's taken since 2015: that of a blood orange IPA. It does continue to evolve a little, however, with the Brisbane brewery's designer coming up with artwork that continues to move these quarterly can releases ever further from the look of the core range. As for the beer in 2018, it's hazy and at the paler end of the IPA spectrum, but is most notable… Read more
Style
Blood Orange IPA
ABV
6.2%

Green Beacon Cutwater Hazy IPA

Published August 2, 2018
Are we in a position yet to describe a beer as a line and length New England style IPA? Have Aussie brewers here been releasing beers in the style long enough for that to be a valid judgement call? Very probably. And, were you to nominate someone in the current climate to turn out such a beer, would Green Beacon be high on the shortlist? Very probably, what with their knack for knocking out fine beers in seemingly any style they fancy (and the trophies to prove it). Which brings as to their latest… Read more
Style
NEIPA
ABV
6.0%

Green Beacon & BrewDog The Hounds Of Hades

Published July 11, 2018
In the lead up to this year's Beer & BBQ Festival double-header in Sydney and Adelaide, the organisers lined up a tour of Australia by BrewDog's German brewer Franz Horak. On his grand tour, he created beers with five breweries in different states and ACT and, while all were poured at the two festivals, it's Green Beacon that has brought its collaboration, The Hounds Of Hades, to a wider audience in cans. It's a West Coast IPA that claims to be "packed with classic American hop aromas and… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
7.0%

Green Beacon Siren Song

Published June 6, 2018
"Steer clear of the Sirens, their enchanting song, their meadow starred with flowers. Race straight past that coast! If you are bent on hearing, have your shipmates tie you hand and foot, lashed by ropes to the mast, so you can hear the Sirens’ song to your heart’s content…" So the goddess Circe warned Odysseus to beware the Sirens’ song. This Siren Song carries the same mystical appeal… but, you know, without the threat of death. The beer's deep, cherry red shines in the light,… Read more
Style
Barrel Aged Chardonnay Berliner Weisse
ABV
3.5%

Green Beacon Barbary Coast 2018

Published June 6, 2018
Barbary Coast has been through a few iterations over the years, but the 2018 version may be the tastiest one yet. Whether you prefer to call it a Black IPA, a Cascadian Dark Ale, or an India Black Ale, just know this: it looks dark but, if you close your eyes, you’ll be forgiven for thinking you’re drinking a fine West Coast IPA, if only for a moment. The colour is a rich brown, almost black, with a light brown head. But the aroma isn’t one of a dark beer – it’s bursting with fresh pine… Read more
Style
Black IPA
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
55 IBU

Green Beacon The Botanist 2018 – Galaxy & Enigma

Published April 26, 2018
Green Beacon has released fresh harvest beers under The Botanist label for a few years now but, this year, they’ve stepped things up. Rather than brew one gentler pale ale with a few varieties of hop, they’ve brewed two wet hop IPAs, each featuring just one hop variety: one with Galaxy, one with Enigma. The Galaxy gives you a taste of Galaxy hops on steroids: huge bursts of passionfruit and a little of that citrus brightness. With the sweetness and strong effervescence of this beer, it gives… Read more
Style
Harvest Ales
ABV
6.2%

Green Beacon Red's Dead 2018

Published March 9, 2018
Green Beacon has tended to approach its seasonals as something of a vague theme upon which to riff each year. And the riff each autumn has been based around the interplay of lots of rich malts and plenty of (usually American) hops. A couple of years back, Red's Dead was tagged a West Coast red ale; now, for its first appearance in cans, ready to meet a far wider audience, it's a red IPA. Maybe it's a case of splitting hairs (or figuring the acronym "IPA" entices more eyes than the term… Read more
Style
Red IPA
ABV
7.0%
Stockists

Find Red's Dead here

Green Beacon & Friends Oddfellows Pale Ale

Published January 3, 2018
If you've known Brisbane then and now, you may well be aware of the transformation of Caxton Street, the strip of venues that was once the preserve of big brand mid-strengths but has since become one of the more colourful collection of crafty venues you'll find in the city. It's a transformation worth celebrating and that's what Green Beacon has decided to do, bringing together a few of the street's venues in the creation of a new beer. The beer is named after the Independent Order of Oddfellows… Read more
Style
Hazy Pale Ale
ABV
5.1%

Green Beacon Scrimshaw Australian IPA 2017

Published December 14, 2017
Scrimshaw has been the name of Green Beacon's summer seasonal for a few years now, named after the teeth of harvested whales into which sailors would engrave intricate designs back when whales were still hunted in the 50s and early 60s. It's a pretty brutal source of inspiration for a beer that packs a punch, but is altogether far more pleasant than the stories that inspired it. As in past years, this year's – the first to be canned – is an Australian IPA that layers heaps of Aussie hops atop… Read more
Style
Australian IPA
ABV
5.8%
Stockists

Greenslopes Cellars

Hawthorne Cellars

Crafty Fox Cellars

Mr West Bar & Bottle Shop

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

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Green Beacon 7 Bells Passionfruit Gose

Published November 22, 2017
It's a sign of where we've come to that release notes from breweries can include phrases such as "approx 2 passionfruit per can" and it seems perfectly normal. In the case of Green Beacon's 7 Bells, a beer that's been seen for some time on tap and has now graduated into tinnies, the fruit comes accompanied by Himalayan pink salt and lactobacillus, making it very much a beer for today. It's also very much a beer for summer, joining the brewery's excellent Wayfarer in bringing refreshment… Read more
Style
Passionfruit Gose
ABV
4.2%
Stockists

Green Beacon Brewery

Crafty Fox Cellars - Hawthorne Cellars, Greenslopes Cellars, West End Bottle Shop

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

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Green Beacon Cutwater & ESB & Flanders Red

Published July 18, 2017
Given they've been busy building and starting brewing on a second production facility, winning champion trophies and touring the country with their beers, it's a wonder the team at Green Beacon has had time to create one new beer let alone multiple. But there's a trio that have hit taps in recent days and another seasonal on the horizon. Among that trio is Cutwater, a 5.2 percent ABV New England style pale developed over the course of a number of single keg releases at the brewpub. Now hitting taps… Read more
Style
Various

Green Beacon Grappler & The Whaler 2016

Published August 26, 2016
As is their wont, Green Beacon have evolved the latest two seasonals to hit taps from the previous year's models that bore the names Grappler and The Whaler. That said, they're pretty minor evolutions this time around. The Grappler remains a pilsner and is one that is 100 percent German in inspiration and ingredients (well, bar the Brisbane water). That said, it's a beer that makes a feature of some of the livelier new wave of hops coming out of Germany rather than the older varieties that make classic… Read more
Style
Pilsner & Blood Orange IPA
ABV
5.8% & 6.2%

Green Beacon Uppercut IIPA 2016

Published July 18, 2016
The biggest of Green Beacon's hop forward beers is back for round four. The Uppercut imerial IPA is a seasonal that, as is the Brisbane brewery's wont, tends to change a little with each release. Certain characteristics remain the same: it's always awash with New World hops and it always packs a sizeable boozy punch. This time around, those hops come in the form of West Coast Americans Simcoe, Columbus, Amarillo and Centennial and the boozemeter clocks in at 8.5 percent ABV. The beer into which they've… Read more
Style
Imperial IPA
ABV
8.5%
Bitterness
90 IBU
Stockists

Blackwater Trading Co

Pumpyard Brewery & Bar

Mill on Constance

Saccharomyces

Oxford Taphouse

And select venues around SEQ

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Green Beacon Session IPA & Passionfruit Gose

Published July 5, 2016
For much of the Green Beacon team, the focus is very probably turning towards its second brewery, a production facility that will help them get beers out beyond their hometown of Brisbane. But for head brewer Johann van der Walt it remains firmly in the brewery and continuing to knock out a consistently fine range of brews. The two latest short run brews to leave the brewery are a Session IPA and Passionfruit Gose, both of which display his fondness for dealing in subtleties rather than grandiose… Read more
Style
Session IPA & Passionfruit Gose
ABV
3.8% & 4.2%

Green Beacon The Botanist & Bourbon Barrel Strong Ale

Published April 13, 2016
Two new releases in the same week for Brisbane's Green Beacon – and they couldn't be much more different if they tried. First to hit taps is The Botanist, their 2016 wet hop ale, featuring Galaxy and Ella hops air freighted to the brewery from Tassie within a day of being picked. They've been added at four different stages to an otherwise pretty straightforward American style pale ale in order to allow the hops to shine, with the brewers describing the aromas as "green and grassy with hints… Read more
Style
Wet Hop Pale & Barrel Aged Strong Ale
ABV
5.6% & 8.5%
Bitterness
40 IBU & 30 IBU
Stockists

Green Beacon Brewery

Brewski

And select craft beer venues in QLD

Bourbon stockists to follow when on wider release

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Green Beacon Red's Dead

Published February 26, 2016
The brewers at Green Beacon have been favouring hops when it comes to their seasonal releases in recent times. And that's not about to change with Red's Dead. Following the Uppercut Imperial IPA, Whaler 2015 blood orange IPA and the Grappler reworked into a New World Pilsner, it's what they're calling a "West Coast Red Ale". What that means is enough specialty malts to make sure it's red and heaps of US hops. The hops come in the form of Cascade, Columbus, Azacca, Citra and Simcoe and are… Read more
Style
American Red Ale
ABV
7.0%
Bitterness
65 IBU
Stockists

Launched at the brewery on February 26 and out around SE Queensland from March 1.

The Mill (Tapped during Brewsvegas)

Oxford Taphouse

Woolly Mammoth (Tapped during Brewsvegas)

The Burrow

Surfers Sandbar (Gold Coast)

And select beer venues on tap and in growlers

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Green Beacon Grappler New World Pilsner

Published October 16, 2015
Well, it is Spring, after all: the time for rebirths and all that jazz. And the latest release from Brisbane's Green Beacon is just that. Having recently decided to reinvent their Whaler as a blood orange IPA (it was previously a zesty golden ale), they've now decided to rework their Grappler. The beer was originally an India Pale Lager (a lager hopped to the level you'd expect of an IPA) and, if memory serves correctly, was one of the standout beers on our first visit to the brewery a couple of… Read more
Style
New World Pilsner
ABV
5.2%
Stockists

Green Beacon Brewery

Good beer venues across South East Queensland

Green Beacon The Whaler 2015

Published September 1, 2015
Last year, Green Beacon released The Whaler as its spring seasonal. Taking inspiration from the tale of a ship, the Duke of York, that, in the 1830s, having been repurposed as a whaler, turned out to be rather useless. On its maiden whaling voyage it was wrecked north of Moreton Bay without catching a single whale. The 2014 Whaler celebrated the moment via the means of a zesty golden ale. This time around, they've decided to step things up. In comes new American hop Azacca (joining country fellows… Read more
Style
Blood Orange IPA
ABV
6.1%
Bitterness
50 IBU
Stockists

Green Beacon Brewery

Good beer venues around Brisbane

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Green Beacon Uppercut Imperial IPA

Published February 20, 2015
The biggest and baddest of Brisbane's Green Beacon's beers is back for a third round of heavy-hitting, hop forward action. The Uppercut is an ever-evolving beast with its exact makeup changing round by round according to the brewer's whim, but "always bold, always courageous. The latest, draught-only release pours a bright gold with the brewers aiming for the "big hop aromas typical of classic West Coast IPAs". As such, the malt side of things has been kept lean to "let the hops… Read more
Style
West Coast IIPA
ABV
8.2%
Bitterness
85 IBU
Stockists

Tomahawk - South Brisbane

Hoo Ha Bar - South Brisbane

The Burrow - West End

Brewski - Petrie Terrace

The Bent Elbow - Stones Corner

Ze Pickle - Burleigh

Tapestry - Toowoomba

Mort Estate - Toowoomba

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Green Beacon The Whaler

Published October 1, 2014
Another beer from Brisbane's Green Beacon drawing inspiration from the nautical world from which it takes its name. The Whaler is the brewery's 2014 Spring seasonal and comes from the story of The Duke of York, an old old wooden ship built in 1817 that traveled from London to Kangaroo Island, carrying passengers that would establish the first free settlement in Australia. The story goes that in September of 1837, on a golden Spring morning, the Duke met her fate. On her maiden voyage as a whaler,… Read more
Style
Golden Ale
ABV
4.1%
Bitterness
34 IBU

Green Beacon The Digger – Anzac Bock

Published September 1, 2014
This beer was originally conceived with beer educator and writer Matt Kirkegaard of Brews News for the annual Media Brew competition at Beervana NZ. It's brewed with golden syrup and oats and plenty of New Zealand Motueka hop in the hopback as a tip of the hat to the 100th Anniversary of the beginning of the Great War and the making of the original ANZAC diggers. Say the people behind it: "We celebrate the friendship between Australia and New Zealand in a far happier light, brought together… Read more
Style
Bock
ABV
7.0%

Green Beacon Barbary Coast American Brown

Published July 1, 2014
In the mid 19th century a motley crew of Australians terrorised an area of California known then as the Barbary Coast. They were drawn to San Francisco in search of one thing: gold. In Barbary Coast Brown we've utilised El Dorado hops, a new gold from the west coast of the USA. Combined with the iconic Simcoe hop and backed by a malt bill that includes British pale, roast, chocolate and crystal malts Barbary Coast Brown at 5.9 percent ABV and 50 IBUs is one our most intense beers to date. The combination… Read more
Style
American Brown Ale
ABV
5.9%
Bitterness
50 IBU

Green Beacon Penny Porter

Five specialty malts including amber, chocolate and crystal combine with unmalted roasted barley to give Penny Porter a deep black appearance and an even deeper robust body. A host of complex aromas including rich dark chocolate, coffee and berries are released as this porter warms to its glass and its drinker. The flavour is cold press coffee and delicate roast characteristics, on the palate reserved carbonation and medium to full body gives Penny Porter a luscious, indulgent mouth feel. Brewer's… Read more
Style
Porter
ABV
5.3%
Bitterness
32 IBU

Green Beacon Anchor Amber - DISCONTINUED

THIS BEER HAS BEEN REPLACED IN THE LINEUP WITH MAINSTAY AMBER ALE Another Green Beacon favourite that lets the distinct malt profile clearly take centre stage. Pale and amber grists from a world famous British floor maltster combine wonderfully to lend sublime malt character and depth to this amber ale. Copper in colour and hopped with traditional Fuggles and Goldings, Anchor is a craft delight that drinks well all year round and a nice change up for those who prefer a malty backbone to their ales.… Read more
Style
Amber Ale
ABV
4.1%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Green Beacon Wayfarer USA – SUPERSEDED

Where once there was the Wayfarer Wheat, a German style hefe, now there is the Wayfarer USA, a far hoppier American style wheat beer. Look out for subtle hop aromas and flavours of lemon and grapefruit as well as pineapple, passionfruit, honeydew melon and coconut. Flaked and malted wheat give a creamy mouthfeel and finish that is reminiscent of a pina colada. Brewer's notes… Read more
Style
American Wheat
ABV
4.9%
Bitterness
20 IBU

Green Beacon Cross Knot Kolsch – SUPERSEDED

Brewed using a combination of Australian and German barley malts, wheat and a traditional top fermenting German yeast culture, Cross Knot is a continental style bright ale that exhibits lager like smoothness due to an extended conditioning and cool fermentation. Clean and crisp, with soft herbaceous and mellow notes, it is complimented by mild bittering from a traditional noble hop variety and a southern hemisphere zinger on the nose. Brewer's notes… Read more
Style
Kolsch
ABV
4.4%
Bitterness
24 IBU

Green Beacon Scrimshaw IPA

From 1952 until 1962, the waters of Moreton Bay were home to the Tangalooma Whaling Station. Over the course of a decade, for five months of the year, around 150 men were employed from all over the world to harvest whales barbarically for their meat and bones. In the off season, they would often drink beer and produce intricate engravings on the teeth of harvested whales, better know as "Scrimshaws". While the whaling station is no longer operational, there is one thing that remains prominent… Read more
Style
Australian IPA
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
50 IBU

Green Beacon Mainstay Amber Ale – RETIRED

The replacement for the brewery's Anchor Amber is this midstrength amber ale. Described as a new world amber with old world roots, the brewers say it's a combo of "toasty, toffee and gingerbread biscuit malt character ... balanced by a subtle but reassuring bitterness." New world hops are used in the hopback to lend an "orange zest and faint aniseed oil nose" while the body and flavour are designed to be bigger than its low alcohol content would suggest, making it a favourite… Read more
Style
Amber Ale
ABV
3.5%
Bitterness
20 IBU

Green Beacon Grappler - SUPERSEDED

As with many Green Beacon seasonals, Grappler started out as an ever-evolving creature. Always some form of lager, one year it might be an New World pilsner, another an IPL. These days, while it's not totally settled – the brewers there are always refining their recipes – it is part of their core range and is a German influenced lager that head brewer Johann van der Welt says sits somewhere between a helles and a pilsner. "I've wanted something with a little more hop character than a helles… Read more
Style
Hoppy Helles
ABV
4.5%
Bitterness
25 IBU