Sauce Brewing Co

With the Australian craft beer industry’s rapid growth since the Noughties, its propensity for attracting interesting individuals, and the fact that you get to spend a lot of time drinking beer, it’s easy to understand why so many people have ditched successful careers in other, often more lucrative, fields to pursue a dream of becoming part of the scene. Mike Clarke is one of them.

Having spent two decades working in IT and telecommunications he called time on that career and began sniffing around for a new challenge, something he could launch himself into with fresh energy and build from the ground up. The search led him as far as his garage where, having graduated from a simple stovetop setup, a growing obsession with home brewing had ballooned out to something incorporating multiple vessels, a four tap keg system and nine fridges.

So sprawling would this setup become that he and his wife Katie would soon be forced to move house to accommodate it – possibly not something envisioned when she introduced him to her own brewing hobby when they first began dating. With that kind of trajectory, opening a commercial brewery almost became a given and a plan was duly hatched.

There’s a school of thought that the best way to succeed as a brewer in the modern Australian beer market is either by opening a small brewpub and catering to locals, or by going down the path of a larger production brewery that distributes more widely. Mike effectively chose both.

Having launched the Sauce brand (the name being a slice of slang he took a liking to one night over a few beers) as a gypsy brewer at the end of 2016, he locked in a large warehouse site in Sydney’s busy beer hub of Marrickville and began an arduous process of converting the infrastructure into something capable of housing a full production brewery. It took a lot of tradies and the best part of a year, but in October 2017 the roller door opened to the public for the first time.

Visitors were greeted by a state of the art setup featuring all the mod cons a brewer could want, from a highly automated brewhouse to a pilot system for experimentation, a canning line to a roof covered in solar panels – even so far as a lighting system that automatically adjusts to the ambient conditions.

Opposite the mountain of high spec tech stuff is a bar pouring 12 taps of Sauce, serving tasting paddles and selling fresh takeaways. Beyond that, at the rear of the warehouse, is the piece de resistance in the form of an enormous urban beer garden. From the front you’d never guess such a space existed, but as soon as you set foot on the (fake) grass you’re glad it does; for the array of experiences on offer across the Inner West breweries, there’s something special about simply enjoying a beer with greenness beneath your feet and bright blue skies above.

As for the beer you’ll be drinking, the core range – which was given a makeover in early 2023 – is made up of six beers, well hopped according to Mike’s personal tastes. Road trip the USA with their raw and bold West Coast IPA and smooth and juicy New England IPA, or chill out with the fruity, quenching Hazy Pale Ale. On the lighter end, there’s the crisp Premium Lager, the chunky Pale Ale and a really kicking Pacific Ale that's the perfect summer beer garden quencher at a sly 3.5 percent ABV.

Expect the unexpected on the remaining six taps, a rotating lineup of whatever creation the Sauce brewers have dreamt up on a whim. Roasted pineapple XPAs, single hop IPAs and all manner of cocktail beers such as Mimosa Gose, Pornstar IPA, Bloody Mary Gose and more, popping up to surprise and delight you. Generally, there's always one rotating sour and one rotating dark beer so you’re sure to find a fleeting love on the Sauce taps.

With a beer range this diverse you are well prepared to match your schooner with something from the rotation of independent food tents that set up out the front; they've previously featured the like of cheese steaks, jerked chicken and American BBQ.

With a grand home of their own firmly established in the heart of one of the country's busiest beer trails, a taproom that bustles, and beer that's picked up a few trophies over the years, there are plenty of reasons to get on the Sauce.

Name
Sauce Brewing Co
Address

1A Mitchell St
Marrickville
NSW 2204

Phone
(02) 9145 8288
Regular events

Food trucks every weekend

Open Hours

Taproom:
Weds & Thurs: 4pm to 9pm
Fri & Sat: 11:30am to 10pm
Sunday: 11:30am to 9pm

Takeaways
Mon to Fri: 10am to 4pm, and when the Taproom is open


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The Specials

Sauce Mango & Guava Juicy IIPA & Barrel-Aged Imperial Stouts
Sauce Brewing Mandarin Wild Sour Ale & Dark Choc Porter
Sauce Brewing Pornstar Cocktail IPA
Sauce Brewing Chill Factor 2023
Sauce Brewing Beer Selfie Oat Cream IPA
Sauce Brewing Toasted Pineapple Strong XPA
Sauce Brewing Co Infrared Red IPA & Imperial Stout Bourbon Barrel-Aged
Sauce Brewing Tr!ple & Squeak & Egg Hunt Choc Stout
Sauce Brewing Flat White & Long Black IPAs
Sauce Brewing Inoculation Booster Shot Juicy IIPA
Sauce Brewing Co Chill Factor & Daywalker
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Sauce Brewing Co Regulars

Sauce Brewing Premium Lager

Published March 17, 2023
From time to time, your dad might have enjoyed the odd "premium lager"; now, thanks to Sauce, you can too! Formerly Simples Lager, Premium Lager pours straw-coloured with a decadent white beer house head that will make you go “wow, it’s actually premium.” The aromas are immediately recognisable, clean and with some light hoppage. It performs as you’d expect the lagers in paradise do: without much of a fuss. It’s a pure sipping experience that nods to the quality of the water… Read more
Style
Lager
ABV
4.2%

Sauce Brewing Pale Ale

Published March 17, 2023
Sauce have called this beer Pale Ale. It’s to the point so to rip off Crafty writer Mick Wüst I will be too. It’s a gold colour you might associate with beer. The aroma is brimming with hops, an important ingredient in the brewing of beer. It’s an aroma that ends up jumping senses during your first sip and makes you abandon your plans to write with brevity. It’s easy to see why Pale Ale was formerly known as Hop Sauce. Brewed in the American pale ale style, it boasts a bountiful hop profile… Read more
Style
American Pale Ale
ABV
4.5%

Sauce Brewing Hazy Pale Ale

Published March 17, 2023
Everyone does a hazy pale ale these days, which makes it all the more ballsy that Sauce have called theirs just that: Hazy Pale Ale. Pouring an easily identifiable shade of carbonated breakfast juice, the beer formerly known as Caribbean Fog boasts equally fast-breaking juice aromas with pineapple and citrus at the forefront. There’s a nice, creamy, fruity, hoppy, kinky rhythm to HPA. To start, there's a pine bitterness driven by hops before a fruity sweetness tickles the tongue. The finish is… Read more
Style
Hazy Pale Ale
ABV
4.6%

Sauce Brewing New England IPA

Published March 17, 2023
I could give a preamble here about what a NEIPA is, how they came into being, and how to pronounce it (nay-pah?) or I could get straight to it like Sauce did when they named theirs New England IPA. With a colour similar to grapefruit rind, New England IPA pours opaque and pungent with resinous pineapple and bitter lime notes. NEIPA falls over your tongue like James Stewart in the poster for Vertigo: delicately, slowly and to a dreamy soft landing. The aromas are present in each juicy sip that starts… Read more
Style
New England IPA
ABV
6.5%

Sauce Brewing West Coast IPA

Published March 17, 2023
Once upon a time, brewers decided the West vs East Coast debate was too good for hip hop and made it about beer, a tradition that Sauce are keeping alive with their West Coast IPA. Pouring a darker shade in which you might find a mosquito with dinosaur blood encased inside, West Coast IPA amazes before tasting with a rich aroma of pine, stone fruits, earth, forest, soil, hiking and aspirational outdoor adverts. Holy dooley, does this one hit you. A trio of US hops combine to create a beer with… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
6.2%

Sauce Brewing Pacific Ale

Published November 25, 2022
As a brewery known for doing weird stuff (even by Marrickville standards), when I opened this delivery from Sauce I expected to be on the receiving end of some sort of prank. Inside I found a no-nonsense Pacific Ale, a far cry from the DDH IIPA ACAB brews that make up their usual special batches. But hey, it’s hot and I’m thirsty! Pacific Ale pours cloudy, the colour of caramelised pineapple flesh, with a nice foamy head that can’t quite say goodbye. The aroma is an absolute knockout, an intoxicating… Read more
Style
Mid-Strength Pacific Ale
ABV
3.5%

Sauce Brewing Frisson Hard Seltzer

Published December 18, 2020
If you’re finding yourself in search of fizzy refreshment that isn’t beer this summer, take note – Sauce have entered the hard seltzer game with their Frisson range. Sauce brews their seltzer through the same brewhouse as their beer, puts it on tap next to their beer, and puts it in cans just like their beer. But, unlike their beers that push for maximum flavour, their Frisson is all about light natural fruit flavours, high carbonation, and low sugar and carb. Since Sauce’s Frisson range… Read more
Style
Raspberry Seltzer
ABV
4.0%

Sauce Brewing Co Specials

Sauce Mango & Guava Juicy IIPA & Barrel-Aged Imperial Stouts

Published May 12, 2023
When Sauce changed their branding earlier this year, I was a little concerned we might be waving goodbye to cult Sauce favourites such as Mango Squeak, their juicy, fruity IIPA. So you can imagine my relief when I opened a delivery and saw Mango & Guava Juicy IIPA staring back at me. I then felt like a nong for thinking Sauce would ever stop brewing beers like this. Pouring the golden colour of the sun setting over water (or of undiluted orange cordial if you don’t want to be poetic), this… Read more
Style
Fruited IIPA & Barrel-Aged Imperial Stouts
ABV
8.0% & 11.0%

Sauce Brewing Mandarin Wild Sour Ale & Dark Choc Porter

Published March 31, 2023
With an updated core range and schmick-looking cans oozing with brand promise now out and about, Sauce have launched their first new-look limited releases, taking aim at opposite ends of the beer spectrum. According to head brewer Simon, the plan is to always have one sour and one dark limited release, ideally changing with the seasons. On the sour end, we have the Mandarin Wild Sour Ale, which pours pulpy with a seafoam head on top of a beer reminiscent of a certain orange-coloured citrus fruit.… Read more
Style
Fruit Sour & Chocolate Porter
ABV
5.0% & 5.5%

Sauce Brewing Pornstar Cocktail IPA

Published March 3, 2023
How is that for a name? Taste.com.au tells us a pornstar martini (or passion star as they call it in their conservative publication) contains passionfruit, lime and vanilla. I’ve had the cocktail before on special occasions (eg new job, Christmas) but I haven’t had them in an IPA. Enter Sauce Brewing Co shouting: "Hold my Pornstar Cocktail IPA". Colour wise, it's a dead ringer for the cocktail itself, looking more like a dark passionfruit purée than a juice. It's a treat to sniff… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA
ABV
6.5% ABV

Sauce Brewing Chill Factor 2023

Published January 31, 2023
During the initial cold IPA boom, I had to put my hand up and admit I was confused. It’s an IPA but it’s also a lager somehow? Am I meant to drink it cold or drink it when it’s cold? Is it even a style? For those that missed The Crafty Pint's article and subsequent blind tasting focused on such beers, then Sauce Brewing have provided a handy explanation on tins of their new version of Chill Factor. If we use that as a source, a cold IPA consists of crisp malts typically found in lagers, hopping… Read more
Style
Cold IPA
ABV
6.0%

Sauce Brewing Beer Selfie Oat Cream IPA

Published September 14, 2022
When I first got sent the can art for this beer I thought some silly bugger at Sauce had messed up and put the graphics the wrong way (to be fair, the Sauce graphic designer does have to design a lot of limited release cans). Turns out it’s deliberately backwards so when you take a selfie with it (or hold it up to a mirror) it will face the right way. Turns out this amazing tin also has beer in it, so let’s go! Pouring the cloudy colour of preserved lemons, with a head that really sticks to the… Read more
Style
Oat Cream IPA
ABV
7.0%

Sauce Brewing Toasted Pineapple Strong XPA

Published August 26, 2022
If you’ve ever been to a Brazilian BBQ (churrascaria) there is a 100 percent chance you’ve enjoyed some caramelised rotisserie pineapple. It’s a dessert so tasty that if a New Zealander invented it we’d probably claim it for ourselves. Now Sauce have married these sickly sweet caramel flavours with an XPA, and not just any XPA: a strong XPA. Before I even have a chance to look at the colour, the sweet scent of candied pineapple jumps out of the glass and starts eating farofa in my nostrils… Read more
Style
Toasted Pineapple Strong XPA
ABV
5.5%

Sauce Brewing Co Infrared Red IPA & Imperial Stout Bourbon Barrel-Aged

Published June 20, 2022
As the old saying goes, as the days get shorter the beers get darker (OK, I just made it up). I am a certified lover of summer but always look forward to winter brews with roasted malts and palate-blanketing ABVs. Luckily for me, Sauce have released two such brews designed to do the job. Infrared Red IPA pours so dark it could almost pass as a porter. A glimpse under the light reveals a dark and mature red cordial colour with a delightfully sweet caramel and biscuit scent. Impressive from the first… Read more
Style
Red IPA & Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
ABV
7.0% & 12.0%

Sauce Brewing Tr!ple & Squeak & Egg Hunt Choc Stout

Published April 15, 2022
There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and Sauce releasing a new take on an overtly hopped favourite. After a successful run last year, Tr!ple & Squeak is back, a juicy IIPA dry-hopped with Citra, Idaho 7 and Sabro and finished off with real Aussie mangoes. Pouring with a thick, lingering head, this 9 percent ABV imperial looks the colour of a fresh cut mango and smells like one that just got dropped in a fresh bag of hops. Rarely does a beer seem to park itself on your tongue like… Read more
Style
Mango Milkshake IIPA & Chocolate Stout
ABV
9.0% & 6.0%

Sauce Brewing Flat White & Long Black IPAs

Published March 9, 2022
According to Sauce Brewing Co, in addition to being beer nerds they're also coffee nerds to the point they buy their own green coffee beans and roast them in-house. As brewers are wont to do, a member of the Sauce team eventually pointed at their house-roasted coffee and said: "What would a beer be like if we added that?" After learning from an initial small batch, Sauce have released two West Coast IPAs, each clocking in at 6.5 percent ABV. Long Black Coffee IPA features coffee beans from… Read more
Style
Coffee IPAs
ABV
6.5%

Sauce Brewing Inoculation Booster Shot Juicy IIPA

Published February 18, 2022
Continuing the trend of naming limited release beers after pandemic-related terms that future generations won't understand, Sauce have released Booster Shot, a juicy IIPA built around Simcoe and Idaho 7 hops that's the third in their Inoculation series. Pouring a rich and cloudy shade of burnt gold, a cautious sniff smells sweet and musky, like canteen lollies when you were a kid. An uncautious sniff hits you with memories of an early twenties night out, where opting for vodka led to you bingeing… Read more
Style
Juicy IIPA
ABV
8.0%

Sauce Brewing Co Chill Factor & Daywalker

Published January 25, 2022
Is anyone else disappointed that when Sauce brought out their take on a cold IPA they didn’t call it Cold Sauce? Just me? Well then, I’ll put my disappointment on ice and turn your attention to Chill Factor. The grain bill, yeast strain and fermenting temperature say "lager", but the hopping regime says "big old IPA". The body is crisp without being thin, with a clean malt base that’s all about paving the way for the hops to shine. Idaho 7 and Citra appear from the first… Read more
Style
Cold IPA & Spiced Ginger Beer
ABV
6.0% & 5.5%

Sauce First, Second Dose & Isolation Island IPAs & BA Quad

Published October 21, 2021
Simcoe Inoculation First Dose & Simcoe Inoculation Second Dose. I’m not sure punters would have known what to think of these beer names just a year or two ago – they’re very much of our time. And the beers are equally of our time; while they’re single-hopped with Simcoe, which has been around since the turn of the millennium, they’re playing in a very up-to-date space. Sauce are calling First Dose an old school West Coast IPA, and it bears plenty of true-to-style WC characteristics:… Read more
Style
Various IPAs & A Barrel-Aged Belgian Quad
ABV
6.0% & 6.0% & 7.0% & 9.0%

Sauce Brewing Bruclipse TDH Juicy IPA

Published September 4, 2021
Sauce have released another IPA in their dual-hop series “where we showcase two outstanding hops, and give the beer the least imaginative name possible.” Meet Bruclipse, which sounds like a disaster movie starring Channing Tatum. Brewers use American hop variety Bru-1 is to impart strong pineapple aroma and flavour in their beer, while Aussie-grown Eclipse is known for its powerful mandarin character. And what does Bruclipse smell like? Pineapple juice and mandarin. So unoriginal, Sauce. And… Read more
Style
Juicy IPA
ABV
7.5%

Sauce Brewing Strawberry Dreamshake & Mimosa Gose

Published July 22, 2021
Sydney may be in the throes of lockdown, but a double release from Sauce Brewing is always a welcome distraction. The distraction in this case is a combination they've called Sweet & Sour July. Strawberry Dreamshake Milkshake IPA brings the sweet. After a successful pilot batch of a similar beer earlier in the year, Sauce have brewed this to sate those all sweet-tooths (sweet-teeth?) out there. You don’t have to try very hard to smell the lollies on the label; strawberry puree, lactose and… Read more
Style
Milkshake IPA & Gose
ABV
7.0% & 3.5%

Sauce Brewing Triple & Squeak & Curaçao Dreams

Published May 27, 2021
For 2018 GABS, Sauce Brewing took their beloved Bubble & Squeak NEIPA, dialled it up, threw in mangoes, and called it Trubble & Squeak Mango NEIIPA. Now it’s 2021. GABS has returned after you-know-what cancelled it in 2020 and Sauce has gotten silly and made Triple & Squeak Triple Mango Milkshake IPA. It has more hops - the tropical flood is there from beginning to end - but of course, those hops are almost secondary since it also had more mango, prodding itself into your nostrils and… Read more
Style
Triple Mango Milkshake IPA & Blue Curaçao Milkshake IPA
ABV
11.0% & 7.0%

Sauce Brewing Simples Lager

Published December 18, 2020
It’s called Simples for a reason, so let’s not make this more complicated than it needs to be. It’s a crisp, dry lager. It’s a beer made for beer gardens and burgers. It has a touch of citrus and floral hops… but you’re not drinking this beer for the hops. It’s really all about the clean finish. It’s bloody refreshing. It’s on tap and in cans. Keep it Simples. Mick Wust… Read more
Style
Lager
ABV
4.2%

Sauce Brewing Pineapple Squeak & Extra Extra-Hop Sauce

Published December 16, 2020
Brewed first for Beer Cartel’s 2020 Advent Calendar – then immediately re-brewed as there was demand for wider availability – Pineapple Squeak joins the line of fruity NEIPAs from Sauce. It’s been supercharged with Bru-1 hops, known for their pineapple character, then topped off with some pineapple extract to double down on that flavour. It’s now all but impossible to discern where the hops leave off and the pineapple picks up, because the whole thing is one massive blast of pineapple –… Read more
Style
Pineapple NEIPA & Double IPA
ABV
6.2% & 8.2%

Sauce Brewing Mango Squeak NEIPA

Published September 9, 2020
At Sauce, they don’t try to hide the fact they love hazies and they love mango. They don’t try to hide it one little bit. The newest mango hazy IPA to come through the pipes is Mango Squeak. The process was simple enough: take their beloved Bubble & Squeak NEIPA; add a drum full of mango puree; throw in some Citra and Sabro hops for good measure. Because apparently, Bubbly & Squeak plus mango just isn’t tropical enough. The juiciness overtakes the haziness, flooding your nose upfront… Read more
Style
Mango NEIPA
ABV
6.5%

Sauce Brewing Oat & Aboat Oat Cream IIPA

Published July 16, 2020
While the name and design of this beer are all about the Great White North, Sauce Brewing are up front with saying: “There's nothing Canadian about this beer - it's just that we released it on Canada Day. And if you say the name out loud, you sound a little bit Canadian.” If you’ve read many of my beer write-ups you’ll know I'm a huge fan of drawing arbitrary connections between things, so this wins points for me right off the bat (or should I say, right off the hockey stick). Twelve months… Read more
Style
Oat Cream IIPA
ABV
8.0%

Sauce Brewing Mango Madness Milkshake IPA & Zoooom Choc-Pecan Mudcake Stout

Published June 12, 2020
Some people used their time in lockdown to get into baking sweet treats. Sauce used it to brew sweet treats. Their Trubble & Squeak is by no means a boring beer - when it was first released in 2018, we called it a “murky monster” and said it was “like standing in a cricket net, open mouthed and without a bat, being pummelled by a bowling machine loaded with mangoes.” But when the team at Sauce couldn’t open their taproom during lockdown, they got bored and decided to get into Trubble… Read more
Style
Milkshake IPA & Dessert Stout
ABV
7.0% & 9.0%

Sauce Brewing Caribbean Fog

Published February 28, 2020
What’s a brewery to do when they release a batch of tropical hazy pale ale that the people love, and continue to clamour for after it’s sold out? Bring it back (with a few minor tweaks) and add it to the core range. Roll the can of Caribbean Fog before pouring, and see the eponymous opaque fog gather in the glass. Azacca is still the star, bringing its tropical island fruit salad with a few extra chunks of pineapple and grapefruit, but there’s also a soft, creamy hint of coconut sweetness hiding… Read more
Style
Hazy Pale Ale
ABV
4.6%

Sauce Brewing Co Sabarillo Juicy IPA

Published January 24, 2020
First there was Mosarillo. Then there was Mosalaxy. Now Sabarillo is here. The Sauce crew aren’t trying to win any prizes for most original names for these beers - they’re just focused on squeezing different hop varieties together until they explode into a juicy IPA. (At least, that’s my understanding of the brewing process.) Double dry-hopped with Sabro and Amarillo (who’d have thunk it?), this beer has really got that piña colada thing going on. Smooth coconut comes together with freshly… Read more
Style
Juicy IPA
ABV
6.9%

Sauce Brewing Recovery Bloody Mary Gose

Published January 24, 2020
Cards on the table: I’m one of those annoying, self righteous people who thinks the best hangover cure is to avoid getting a hangover in the first place. So obviously I’m not one to turn to a Bloody Mary after a night of drinking. I also think Bloody Marys (Bloody Maries?) taste like spicy pasta sauce. Don’t get me wrong - I love spicy pasta sauce. I just don’t usually drink it. All of this might make you think: “Why am I reading a description of a Bloody Mary beer written by this guy?”… Read more
Style
Bloody Mary Gose
ABV
7.0%

Sauce Brewing Mosalaxy IPA & Sunrise In Berlin

Published December 2, 2019
Those who enjoyed Sauce’s second birthday beer Mosarillo - that is, surely, everyone who tasted it - are in luck. The Marrickville hop specialists have just introduced Mosalaxy, a juicy IPA showcasing an abundance of Mosaic and Galaxy hops. Aromatics leap from the glass, hitting your nose with tingly citrus - think mandarin sherbet - and smooth tropical notes of ripe mango, pawpaw, and light passionfruit. These characters are joined by deeper flavours of mandarin peel and a warm liqueur sweetness,… Read more
Style
Juicy IPA & Fruit Sour
ABV
7.5% & 4.1%

Sauce & Garage Beer Co Citrus Haze IPA

Published October 18, 2019
Sauce Brewing have become known for some damn fine hoppy and, more specifically in recent years, hazy beers. Garage Beer Co from Barcelona have become world-renowned for their NEIPAs. So, when the Spanish brewers recently visited Australia, the team at Sauce knew they had to bring them in for a collab brew. The result, brewed in an Australian brewery and given a label the colours of the Spanish flag, was Citrus Haze IPA. The partnership sure didn’t skimp on the haze, dialling it up to almost milky… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA
ABV
6.7%

Sauce Brewing Mosarillo Juicy IIPA

Published September 27, 2019
They may have won Champion Session Beer at the 2019 Indies awards, but the team at Sauce Brewing sure knows how to make a beer with oomph. For their second birthday, they’ve brewed a beer they’re describing as a “Double-hop, Double Dry-hopped, Juicy Double IPA”, one that brings together two of their favourite hops - Mosaic and Amarillo, in case you hadn’t figured it out. Sauce threw the biggest dry hop they’ve ever carried out into this beer, and it shows - the hop aromas leap up at you… Read more
Style
IIPA
ABV
8.0%

Sauce Brewing Lemon, Lime & Bitterness Units

Published September 10, 2019
There’s a lot of fun to be had with the trend of naming beers after a non-beer food or drink - whether a chocolate bar or lolly, a juice or cocktail, a dessert or something else. That fun is intensified when the beer delivers something pretty damn close to what’s on the label. Lemon, Lime & Bitterness Units nails it. If you’ve ever ordered a lemon, lime & bitters at a pub and had them make it in front of you (as opposed to pouring a glass of the packaged soft drink), this is sure to… Read more
Style
Brut IPA
ABV
6.2%

Sauce & Bar Pop Isolation Island NEIPA

Published August 8, 2019
Western Australia loves its East Coast IPAs - must be something about the IPA always being juicier on the other side. So, for the 2019 Perth Craft Beer Festival, Sauce Brewing showed the isolated city some love by making a collaboration beer just for them; they hung onto some kegs and shared a few with Brisbane and Melbourne venues, but the tinnies are exclusive to those out west. It’s not hard to see why this was dubbed an “Island NEIPA”. With a radiant yellow like the island sun, and a fluffy… Read more
Style
NEIPA
ABV
7.0%
Stockists

Some kegs appearing at Sauce's brewery and at East Coast venues.

Cans at WA retailers only.

Sauce Brewing O Oh! Cascadia

Published May 21, 2019
The term black IPA has always been one that defies logic. How can it be black and pale at the same time? Madness! It’s one of the reasons some people prefer the name Cascadian dark ale for what's essentially the same style of beer.* Another reason for the name is pride in Cascadia itself, a proposed region made up of the American states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia. And what a region it would make... The majestic Cascade Mountains reaching above the clouds.… Read more
Style
Double Cascadian Dark Ale
ABV
8.0%

Sauce Brewing Dark Rice Lager & Fresh Hop Sauce & Imperial Stout 2019

Published May 21, 2019
As much as we love our dark beers when it’s cold, it’s still important to have sessionable quaffers to keep us going on those long winter nights. The Dark Rice Lager brings floral, herby, and bready notes to the table, and carries a complexity that summer lagers aren’t interested in. The dark malts in this whippy little number give a reddy brown hue, as well as a hit of dry fruit and toffee, but the 30 percent of rice making up the grain bill keeps it from getting sticky. After a couple of… Read more
Style
Various styles
ABV
4.0% & 6.5% & 10.7%

Sauce Brewing Follow Your Passion

Published March 26, 2019
Want to know how to get a brewery to brew, package, and sell your beer? Step 1: Enter your beer into a homebrew competition. Last year, Chris Doble took out the judge’s prize at Sydney Beer Week’s Homebrew Hoedown with a passionfruit Berliner Weisse. Step 2: Get a job at a brewery. Chris went on to work the canning line at Sauce Brewing. His beer had caught the attention of the Sauce Brewing team, so it was only a matter of time before they suggested he brew a batch of it for the whole country… Read more
Style
Passionfruit Berliner Weisse
ABV
3.8%

Sauce Brewing Egg Hunt Chocolate Stout

Published February 26, 2019
Though it pains me to say it, we’ve all come to terms with hot cross buns and chocolate eggs appearing in shops months before Easter. So it’s only fair that we should also be able to buy chocolate beers well in advance of Easter, yes? While hot cross buns bought now will go stale before Easter, and chocolate bought now will melt or bloom, Egg Hunt will only improve over the next few months. This dark beauty doesn’t contain any cocoa, but the combination of chocolate malts, vanilla and lactose… Read more
Style
Chocolate Stout
ABV
7.0%

Sauce Brewing Infrared Red IPA

Published February 26, 2019
Sometimes you feel like trying an experimental beer, a new style, something that will surprise and delight you with its imaginative combination of crazy ingredients… and sometimes you want a fine version of a style you’re familiar with. Infrared isn’t an attempt to revolutionise red IPAs. Nor is it trying to be the biggest, baddest, blow-your-face-off red IPA on the block. At six-and-a-half percent, it’s weighty, without being heavy; you can have more than one, but you could never mistake… Read more
Style
Red IPA
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
60 IBU

Sauce Brewing Summer Smoothie & Belgian IPA

Published February 26, 2019
Remember when IPAs were new to you, and you thought they all tasted the same? At the tail end of summer, Sauce has released two IPAs that show just how broad the spectrum of IPAs can be. First up is Summer Smoothie, following in the footsteps of Bubble & Squeak, Trubble & Squeak, and last year’s Breakfast Smoothie. Sauce is no stranger to the hazy IPA, and since we keep asking for them, they keep making bangers. The name says it all for this one. The mango and the lactose team up for that… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA & Belgian IPA
ABV
7.2% & 6.0%

Sauce Brewing 12 Hayz of Xmas

Published December 13, 2018
Pursuing the mantra that too much of a good thing is folly, Sauce is ushering in Christmas with a mini celebration of a form of beer for which it’s becoming increasingly known, which is to say: hazy. Indeed, they began the week in which the celebration is launched with their Bubble & Squeak taking top spot in The Crafty Pint’s Blind Tasting of New England IPAs and, as if on cue, a couple of days later a third of their taps were pouring hazy beer. And how very, very hazy they are. It’s… Read more
Style
Hazy IPAs
ABV
7.0%
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Sauce Brewing DIPApotamus

Published December 7, 2018
It could be that the most notable thing about the new double IPA from Sauce Brewing is that there’s really nothing unusual about it. Indeed, it brings to mind a comparatively quaint time within the Aussie craft beer boom, before all the haze and the fruity sours, when the default way for a brewer to make an impact with drinkers was to concoct some sort of IPA recipe then throw as many hops as possible at it. And that’s pretty much what they’ve done here as DIPApotamus is the hoppiest beer… Read more
Style
West Coast Double IPA
ABV
8.2%

Sauce Brewing Pazy Hale

Published October 29, 2018
Ever since Sauce decided to try wading into murky waters by brewing the Bubble & Squeak New England IPA, the brewers have been afflicted by the haze craze. They’ve taken the burgeoning trend to heart and fine tuned their recipe to the point where it’s become one of the brewery's most popular releases and, arguably, their signature beer. So it all seemed very reasonable when they chose to release a fruitier and boozier cousin to that beer in the form of the Trubble & Squeak imperial NEIPA.… Read more
Style
New England Pale Ale
ABV
5.8%

Sauce Brewing Peach Sauce – RETIRED

Published October 29, 2018
There’s only so long you can keep brewing a one-off batch with such regularity that you have to accept that you might as well make it part of your core range. It took the folks at Sauce about ten months to get there but they did get there when they announced that Peach Sauce had officially joined the team. Now, it’s not exactly the same beer as the one they first launched in January 2018 under the name Son Of A Peach and which has gone through a few iterations in keg and can, but it is a completely… Read more
Style
Peach Berliner Weisse
ABV
4.0%

Sauce Brewing You Bruty! IPA

Published August 6, 2018
Considering the appetite their customers have shown for the “haze craze”, which has prompted the brewery to unfurl an ever expanding range of New England IPAs, it perhaps ought not to be surprising to learn that Sauce is one of the first breweries in Sydney to jump onto the latest trend to afflict the beer world. Their Brut IPA, nicely channelling a catchy colloquialism, is called You Bruty! and it’s been launched in conjunction with their near neighbours at good beer bar Uncle Hops. That’s… Read more
Style
Brut IPA
ABV
7.0%

Sauce brewing Breakfast Smoothie & Super Saison

Published July 17, 2018
Fruity, fruitier and fruitiest. That seems to be the natural order of things at Sauce as they gradually crank the tropical dial on their New England IPA releases to the right. The latest – following the "straight" Bubble & Squeak NEIPA and the mango-infused iteration Trubble & Squeak – is Breakfast Smoothie, a beer they’ve termed a Tropical Milkshake IPA. These three beers are, to be fair, all quite different but they’re just so easily lumped together by virtue of them… Read more
Style
New England IPA & Saison
ABV
7.0% & 7.2%

Sauce Brewing O Cascadia

Published June 21, 2018
While it's not for everybody, and is still dismissed in some quarters as a fad, there's no doubting the New England IPA is very much a thing. And it's a thing that shares much in common with another hoppy beer style that originated in the US a few years before NEIPAs arrived in all their turbid glory. Back then, it was brewers on the opposite side of the country, the home of the West Coast IPA, that had done something wicked: sticking heaps of hops into dark beers and giving them the oxymoronic title… Read more
Style
Cascadian Dark Ale
ABV
5.5%

Sauce Brewing Trubble & Squeak

Published June 21, 2018
Want to know what it tastes like when a New England IPA gets raised on a diet of mango and steroids? For their 2018 GABS entry, Sauce took the recipe for their almost permanent NEIPA, Bubble & Squeak, to the operating table and turned it into a murky monster: Trubble & Squeak. NEIPAs are fruity. This is like standing in a cricket net, open mouthed and without a bat, being pummelled by a bowling machine loaded with mangoes. NEIPAs are juicy. This is dense, a sweet and viscous syrup. Bitterness?… Read more
Style
Imperial Mango NEIPA
ABV
9.0%

Sauce Brewing Fresh-Hop Sauce WXXPA

Published April 27, 2018
As fate would have it, on the day of an unscheduled visit to the Sauce brewery the brewers were midway through making their second fresh hop beer of the 2018 hop harvest season. The first had been and gone a few weeks prior, just a tiny test batch made from the scrawny hops that’d grown out in their beer garden. This next beer was on a different level. Peering into the steaming stainless steel cauldron and seeing it stuffed with hop bags brought to mind laundry day after an extended camping holiday… Read more
Style
Hop Harvest Ale
ABV
6.5%

Sauce Brewing Son Of A Peach

Published April 13, 2018
At many breweries these days, usually somewhere towards the end of a bank of taps, you’ll find something that fits under a loose umbrella description of: “For people who say they don’t like beer”. In the past, that’s generally been a cider but, increasingly, what’s been offered is a kettle soured ale, often boosted with some sort of fruit addition. Summer seems a particularly popular time for these beers to emerge due to their light and refreshing nature, the warm weather and an abundance… Read more
Style
Berliner Weisse
ABV
5.0%

Sauce Brewing Piss-Weak Sauce – SUPERSEDED

Published March 31, 2018
Having been a keg only release since the day the brewery opened, Sauce’s Piss-Weak session IPA made a move into cans to test itself out in the wider but sometimes watery world of the mid strength market. The name itself sits somewhere between irreverent, self deprecating, crass and amusing. So it kind of naturally lends itself to a certain market appeal, one that – if we’re honest – is a bit blokey and characterised by a liberal use of colloquialisms. There’s actually a precedent in this… Read more
Style
Session IPA
ABV
3.5%

Sauce Brewing Bubble & Squeak NEIPA

Published January 2, 2018
When Sauce first opened to the public in October 2017, the brewery may not have been 100 percent ready, but the beer was. Throughout the brewery’s opening weekend and the subsequent few, the beer that proved the most popular (by virtue of that most empirical verdict of being the first to be drunk dry) was a keg-only New England style IPA. So it’s little surprise they chose to bring it back again… and again… and again. It became known as the ‘special batch that’s always available’, standing… Read more
Style
New England Style IPA
ABV
6.5%

Sauce Brewing Saucy Pils –RETIRED

Published December 15, 2017
For the many merits of urban and industrial breweries, one of the downsides is their locations often mean you don’t get the simple pleasure of enjoying a beer outside, whether in the sun or beneath the stars. When it opened towards the end of 2017, the Sauce brewery became one of the obvious exceptions as their Marrickville home has one of the more impressive outdoor beer gardens of any Sydney city brewery. So, one of the first things they did when it was opened to the public was add a year round… Read more
Style
NZ Pilsner
ABV
5.0%

Sauce Brewing Co Extra-Hop Sauce

Published February 1, 2017
Beer number four from Sauce brewing, and number three in the core range, is one that neatly plugs the gap in founder Mike Clarke’s thus-far hop-forward repertoire; first there was the Mega-Hop Sauce double IPA, then he pulled things back somewhat with the Hop Sauce pale ale, now we have Extra-Hop Sauce, a West Coast IPA. It’s a punchbowl of a beer, filled with big tropical fruit characters, especially pineapple, and a resinous kick. While the fruitiness remains throughout and mingles well with… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
6.2%

Sauce Brewing Co Saucy Saison

Published December 10, 2016
Sauce’s third beer release and first ever seasonal was decided by democracy, which is to say they put a vote out on social media asking their followers to choose what style of beer they should brew next. That there was a resounding winner isn't necessarily a surprise. That it was a saison perhaps is. Anyway, they’ll be glad it won't because the ensuing beer, Saucy Saison, is rather lovely. It’s a bit of a blend of a beer, doffing its cap to yeast-driven French-Belgian saisons and using some… Read more
Style
Saison
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Sauce Brewing Co Hop Sauce – SUPERSEDED

While Sauce owner Mike Clarke may have opted to launch the Sauce Brewing Co. with a double IPA, that’s unlikely to be the kind of beer to win over your average punter. Hop Sauce, on the other hand, very much is. This is effectively the brewery’s go-to beer and a recommended first port of call when testing out the range. It’s a clean and refreshing American style pale ale that’s resplendent, thanks to the American and Aussie hops, with tropical and stone fruit aromas and flavours.… Read more
Style
American Pale Ale
ABV
4.5%
Bitterness
35 IBU

Sauce Brewing Co Mega-Hop Sauce – RETIRED

As a brand new brewing company, if you want to try and cut through the noise of an increasingly crowded beer scene it generally pays to do something a bit out of the ordinary. Making your first beer an 8.3 percent ABV double IPA and launching it in cans would seem to fit that bill. That’s what Sauce did when they hit the market with Mega-Hop, a thoroughly enjoyable and deceptively drinkable DIPA. It’s a beer that leans a lot on deep and sweet malt characters to balance a trio of hops – Calypso,… Read more
Style
Double IPA
ABV
8.3%
Bitterness
83 IBU

Sauce Brewing Co Saucy Red

Starting life as a one off release at the beginning of 2017, by the time the Sauce brewery opened towards the end of the year the Saucy Red had made its way into the core range. It's is an American style red ale that comes in packaging likely to reignite debate about sexism in marketing, but inside the tin chooses to strut its stuff by way of three US hop varieties: Calypso, Simcoe and Amarillo. Yet it’s not just hops, hops, hops. If someone told you he’d added Redback, Shepherd’s Delight and… Read more
Style
Red Ale
ABV
5.0%