Bodriggy Brewing Co

Pete Walsh and the team behind Bodriggy Brewing Co aren’t phased by big projects. Standing in their future 1500 square metre brewpub in early 2017 – at the time filled with cars from neighbouring businesses using it as parking space – Pete rattled off the plans for the Abbotsford building. Brewhouse over here, bar here, one upstairs over there, a third out the front.

Since August 2019, that multifaceted brewpub has been welcoming people inside and introducing countless customers to fresh craft beer and a whole lot of good times. It might have taken longer than planned but we're pretty sure you'll find it worth the wait: the reimagined former Auto LP conversion warehouse is one of the most spectacular brewery venues you'll find anywhere in Australia.

It’s licensed to fit 424 people, is filled with booths, tables, a bar that pours beer (some directly from four towering serving tanks) and an array of other drinks, plus a full kitchen. And the attention to detail is breathtaking.

Determined to hold onto the building's heritage, the team salvaged old lights, reused materials when they could, and hired someone Pete calls a “guru” metal worker to design parts of the bar from scrap. Just take a look at the metalwork overhead or the sliding doors leading to the brewery and it's quickly apparent it's a labour of love – and less of a surprise, perhaps, that it's opened a few months later than planned.

There are 62 taps all up, including those in Stingrays Upstairs - a separate bar under the same roof named after one of their brewers - and more than 20 drinks on tap, including wines from Hop Nation and Garage Project. Cocktails and spirits are a big focus, as the nigh on ceiling high back bar makes clear, with a tequila and mezcal range to match the food coming out of the kitchen.

Going back to the beginning, much like the way in which the name of Dr Morse was influenced by a mural discovered on a wall of their new venue while it was under construction, Bodriggy draws its name from the building it inhabits too. While the lettering above the entrance offers up its former life as an auto service centre, it once served as a stonemasons villa, known as Bodriggy Villa, and that name can still be found on the roof of the building. It seemed fitting to follow the approach taken before them and name their new brewery after a piece of history too, particularly as a desire to celebrate the local community runs through everything they do.

Take as an example Speccie Juice, the session IPA brewed with inner north neighbours The Old Bar and its football team The Unicorns. It’s the kind of collaboration that fits with Pete’s priority that Bodriggy needs to be first and foremost an authentic Abbotsford space where anyone is welcome, one that just so happens to make its own beer. Take a look at the Speccy Juice cans and you'll find their blazed mascot meandering past all manner of local references.

In a city with so many emerging breweries, having a strong connection to the community around you seems to be evermore important. That's clearly the case for Bodriggy and, while it's taken them a while longer to open their doors than planned, that they're a welcome addition to the fast-growing craft beer hub of inner north Melbourne is in no doubt.

Name
Bodriggy Brewing Co
Address

245 Johnston Street
Abbotsford
VIC 3067

Phone
(03) 9417 2293
Open Hours

From 11.30am daily


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Bodriggy Brewing LoJo Mojo
Bodriggy Brewing Give Us A Spell
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Bodriggy Brewing Tame Punk & Chocolate, Cherry & Fig Stout
Bodriggy Brewing Bonza Fontana & Stout
Bodriggy Brewing Perfect Strata & Hyperspace
Bodriggy Brewing Bingboozled
Bodriggy Brewing MuckaMuck
Bodriggy Brewing MochaMuck
Bodriggy Brewing & Hop Nation The People's Elbow
Bodriggy Brewing Zooter Doozy: Nebbiolo
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Bodriggy Brewing Co Regulars

Bodriggy Brewing Stingrays XPA

Published March 9, 2023
The Stringray story continues its rise. Not content with being a person, a bar and one beer, Bodriggy introduced Stingrays XPA in early 2023. The sidekick to the crisp and effortless Stingrays Draught may be quite a hoppier affair but again, the focus is on keeping things simple and easy drinking. Crack into Stingray The Second and you’ll find a mix of tropical fruit, citrus and pine. With a soft haze and gentle bitterness, it’s a beer that sits comfortably in the modern XPA camp too so don’t… Read more
Style
XPA
ABV
4.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Iggy Seltzer

Published October 24, 2021
Like many breweries that have expanded into the seltzer market, Bodriggy’s entry into the sparkling soirée has seen the Abbotsford operation launch a new brand for it. But Iggy Seltzer might have its own name and tagline of No Biggy With an Iggy (presumably channelling the Instagram influencer and wildlife supporter named Biggy Pop, who happens to have a famous owner) but the new Iggy isn't too far removed from the wider Bodo look and feel. Largely that's thanks to the tins themselves where you'll… Read more
Style
Seltzer
ABV
Both 4.5%

Bodriggy Brewing Stingrays Draught

Published July 8, 2021
Much like its namesake bar (and the individual who spawned the bar’s name), Stingrays Draught is a little left of centre. Sure the beer inside may be straightforward enough but it represents a different look and feel when compared with the broader Bodriggy family, with the idea being that this is a beer grabbed by the case and enjoyed straight from the tin. Being a bit of a play for the mainstream lager drinker's attention, it hits the mark well too, pouring with a glistening gold with a bright… Read more
Style
Kolsch
ABV
4.5%

Bodriggy Brewing Utropia Pale Ale

Published November 22, 2019
For Thomas More, Utopia was a land without lawyers, private ownership and where any religious person could live free and well. Unfortunately for Thomas More, he didn’t live in his imagined state and, less than two decades after publishing his political manifest, Henry VIII came for his head when More the Catholic wouldn’t get on board with the Protestant Reformation. For Bodriggy, Utopia looks a little more like a world plastered in tropical hops and good times. It’s a sensation the brewery… Read more
Style
Hazy Pale Ale
ABV
4.8%
Stockists

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Bodriggy Brewing Staunch Pilsner

Published August 15, 2018
Staunch Pilsner is Bodriggy’s first release in what the Abbotsford brewery is calling its Pub Series; beers where it seems both the recipe and the can artwork is designed to just feel right when they are cracked over the bar at any number of classic old Melbourne watering holes. Staunch eschews the look of many of Bodriggy’s other tinnies, which can more closely resemble a shoegaze album sleeve than a beer label, and is instead wrapped in mostly black from top to bottom. Even the psychedelic… Read more
Style
Pilsner
ABV
4.3%

Bodriggy Brewing Cosmic Microwave NEIPA

Published July 19, 2018
Originally launched in May 2018 during Good Beer Week, Cosmic Microwave returned later in the year as a core range beer, while also being among the first Bodriggy beers brewed at their Abbotsford brewery. Dressed in a can that invokes images of the history of the universe, its future and a journey beyond reality – not to mention the Wayne Coyne artwork that adorns Flaming Lips releases – the beer is a trip into the haze. Pouring a creamy pale gold with the style's signature soft mouthfeel, Cosmic… Read more
Style
NEIPA
ABV
6.2%

Bodriggy Brewing Speccy Juice IPA

Central to the mission at Bodriggy is to be part of and celebrate the community in which the brewery sits. Thus collaborations are likely to play a regular role, collaborations such as this one with Melbourne icon, the Old Bar. Or, more specifically, its pub footy team, The Unicorns. Adorned with a rainbow unicorn and footy jargon aplenty, not least its name, it delivers much within its 3.8 percent ABV: punchy tropical hop aromas with grapefruit to the fore, potent hop flavours and a gripping, resinous… Read more
Style
Session IPA
ABV
3.5%

Bodriggy Brewing Co Specials

Bodriggy Brewing LoJo Mojo

Published March 16, 2023
LoJo was once Abbotsford’s sleepier corner but these days, it’s where all the fun is. Range's taproom, The Park Hotel, The Retreat, Dr Morse and Lulie Tavern all help make lower Johnson Street a delight for the senses – and that’s without talking about its nurseries, cafés and the best place in Melbourne for a shotgun wedding. In honour of this community, the City of Yarra is bringing back [LOJO Festival on March 26, an occasion for businesses to team up for a Western-themed celebration… Read more
Style
Cucumber Mojito Gose
ABV
4.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Give Us A Spell

Published January 20, 2023
A lot of beers are designed to be shared by Give Us A Spell seems destined to be stolen. Well, maybe not quite stolen, but taken with a smile as you lean over to an esky that isn’t yours and look a dear friend in the eyes and say “give us a spell would ya?”. The beer in question is a citrus IPA without any of the citrus, with Give Us A Spell steeped in whole Eclipse flowers in the hopback before being dry hopped with further Eclipse, Citra Cryo and Comet. It’s a hoppy combination that’s… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
5.8%

Bodriggy Brewing Dayspring & Cloudy With A Chance of Froth

Published August 16, 2022
Bodriggy Brewing have been flat out working with haze and hops of late, with the Melbourne brewery releasing two in the middle of winter. Indeed, in name, appearance, texture and flavour, Dayspring feels like a hazy IPA designed as an antidote to brutally cold weather. Brewed using Kveik yeast and Cashmere and Azacca hops, the idea was for that fast-fermenting yeast to really drive tropical fruit flavours to get as many Pina Colada vibes as they could. It’s certainly worked out that way too, with… Read more
Style
Hazy IPAs
ABV
6.7% & 7.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Tame Punk & Chocolate, Cherry & Fig Stout

Published May 19, 2022
Pink Boots Australia have long held brew days and made collaborations but with the not-for-profit celebrating ten years since they launched locally, we get to enjoy far more of them this year. In total, they're doing ten over the course the year and among them is this West Coast brewed with Bodriggy, Tame Punk. The beer’s inspired by brave women who speak out and start courageous conversations, while it also makes use of this year’s Pink Boots blend that comes courtesy of Yakima Chief Hops. Here… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA & Stout
ABV
3.8% 6.5%

Bodriggy Brewing Bonza Fontana & Stout

Published May 5, 2022
This pair of releases from Bodriggy might be quite different from a conceptual point of view but on drinking them, it’s hard not to think of them as falling under the banner of “pint beers for pubs.” If you’re in a place still warm enough to enjoy a sunny beer garden, Bonza Fontana is ready to welcome you (on second thoughts, even if it's cold, just rug up). The Italian pilsner was first brewed for Stomping Ground’s Lagerland Festival and pours crystal clear with a golden straw hue and… Read more
Style
Italian Pilsner & Stout
ABV
Both 5.6%

Bodriggy Brewing Perfect Strata & Hyperspace

Published March 4, 2022
Bodriggy Brewing have taken a big bite of tropical fruit with their end of summer releases, with each also feeling ready to combat La Niña's humidity. Starting with Perfect Strata, the hazy pale was born from a desire among the Bodo brewers to really showcase one of their favourite hops, which the beer does through both double dry hopping and dip hopping. Pouring pale orange, that Strata seems to provide quite rich and ripe strawberry first and foremost before that’s joined by passionfruit and… Read more
Style
Hazy Pale & Mango & Strawberry Smoothie Sour
ABV
5.4% & 5.5%

Bodriggy Brewing Bingboozled

Published August 6, 2021
There are a number of reasons breweries choose to collaborate with different businesses on a beer. If it’s two breweries working together, sharing knowledge is obviously a key one and it’s the same when non-brewery businesses pick up the mash paddle too. But often it can be a way to help both brands reach new audiences and quite simply, it can also be a whole lot of fun too. But in the case of Bodriggy’s collaboration with the cookie makers at Butterbing, surely that’s a collaboration driven… Read more
Style
Pastry Stout
ABV
5.0%

Bodriggy Brewing MuckaMuck

Published July 8, 2021
MuckaMuck is a fantastic beer name to say and regular from Bodriggy, with "The Big Kahuna" returning each year as the temperature drops, just as Melbourne's oldest and heaviest coats get pulled out from the back of the wardrobe. The imperial stout is part of the brewery's wider "Muck" range of dark beers, which often contain adjuncts too. In this case, the brewery's looked to channel lamington in a glass, with coconut and vanilla added to the stouts underlying of rich caramel,… Read more
Style
Imperial Stout
ABV
9.5%

Bodriggy Brewing MochaMuck

Published May 27, 2021
Bodriggy’s dive into dark drops with their Muck range continues apace in 2021, with the brewery launching MochaMuck. The Muck series of beers first kicked off with the imperial stout MuckaMuck, before being given a midstrength makeover in 2020 with MandyMuck, a mandarine and chocolate stout created with the chocolatiers at Birdsnake. For MochaMuck, Bodriggy have again partnered up with Birdsnake, but this time around they’ve also roped in the roasters at Blume Coffee while keeping the ABV modest… Read more
Style
Chocolate Coffee Stout
ABV
3.3%

Bodriggy Brewing & Hop Nation The People's Elbow

Published May 20, 2021
Among the many collaborative events running during Good Beer Week 2021 was Hop Nation and Bodriggy's battle, North X West Fight Club. Given it was one that involved brewery employees being dunked in tanks of water, you could assume it wasn’t the friendliest of collaborations, but we’ve been told everyone remains as good mates as ever. Launching at that event was The People’s Elbow, an imperial porter featuring each brewery transformed into mascots ready to do battle. The beer inside is 9.5… Read more
Style
Imperial Porter
ABV
9.5%

Bodriggy Brewing Zooter Doozy: Nebbiolo

Published May 13, 2021
In 2019, Bodriggy partnered with their mates at Little Reddie to get their hands on some pinot gris grapes to turn into the sour, Zooter Doozy. In 2021, the Melbourne brewery have brought back their collaboration with the Castlemaine winery but this time instead of pinot gris, they’ve gone with Nebbiolo. Pouring with a light touch of crimson, the beer might not look like a glass of red but there is a palate weight on this iteration of Zooter Doozy which brings it quite close to wine. There’s… Read more
Style
Wild Nebbiolo Sour Ale
ABV
5.3%

Bodriggy Brewing Gongim Red IPA

Published May 6, 2021
Given how many times I’ve watched The Castle - it was about a monthly viewing at one stage - I’d assumed it would be pretty hard for a brewery to release a beer containing a reference to the movie that I didn't immediately get. But Bodriggy achieve that with Gongim; a reference that’s obvious once you think about it but which I missed until the beer was gone. The Red IPA was first released during Good Beer Week in 2017 and received a new look and slight recipe tweak for Autumn 2021. Though… Read more
Style
Red IPA
ABV
6.0%

Bodriggy Brewing WaterMelanie

Published March 26, 2021
Often, when Australia’s brewers look to America’s West Coast for inspiration, their search is for big, bold and hoppy IPAs but, for Bodriggy's March 2021 release, they’ve instead opted for the fruit-filled and light. WaterMelanie is a watermelon ale inspired by Hell or High Watermelon from California’s 21st Amendment Brewery and has seen the Abbotsford brewers add 2,000 litres of watermelon juice to a base beer that’s heavy on the wheat. Having never tried a Hell or High Watermelon it’s… Read more
Style
Watermelon Wheat Beer
ABV
5.5%

Bodriggy Brewing Aunty Margs

Published February 24, 2021
It may be a brewery first and foremost but Bodriggy’s Abbotsford home also boasts an impressive bounty of backbar mezcal. To transport some of the spirit's flavours into beer form, the brewery have released the cocktail-inspired grapefruit and mezcal sour, Aunty Margs. In order to replicate the quintessential smoked note found in mezcal - one caused by the agave plant being roasted before being distilled - the brewery added Red Gum Smoked Malt from the small-batch maltsters at Voyager. It might… Read more
Style
Grapefruit & Mezcal Sour
ABV
4.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Here If You Need

Published February 2, 2021
Following the release of Good Thanks, Yourself? midway through 2020, Bodriggy are starting 2021 with another hazy limited release named after an equally common (and just as often hollow) phrase. Here If You Need is a spiritual successor to last year’s release where the dial’s been turned up by turning a DHH hazy pale into a DDH hazy IPA and where 5.5 percent ABV has been boosted to 6.4. Here If You Need also seems to have had the citrus turned right up too, shedding last year's light tangerine… Read more
Style
DDH Hazy IPA
ABV
6.4%

Bodriggy Brewing Cloudtown & Skyblazer

Published December 1, 2020
in yet another twin release from the Abbotsford brewery, Bodriggy have looked to hops and been exploring soft haze and dank bitterness with two big IPAs. Both come in at 8 percent ABV and both are made with the same trio of hops – Simcoe, Mosaic and Cashmere – while sharing similar malt bills before their paths diverge. On the haze train is Cloudtown, which includes unmalted wheat and was fermented with kveik yeast. As well as pouring pale and cloudy, the beer gives off notes of lychee, peach… Read more
Style
Double IPAs
ABV
Both 8.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Indoor Plant Sale

Published September 22, 2020
Like keeping your Devil's Ivy in direct sunlight or overwatering a Zanziber Gem, Boddriggy have paid little attention to the rules with the release of Indoor Plant Sale, a hazy West Coast IPA. The name might be an oxymoron but the aim is a simple one: combining the soft mouthfeel and tropical flavours found in so many hazies with the dank and piney whack more commonly found in a West Coast. It combines one of the classic “Three Cs” – Centennial – with the younger American Strata in an opaque… Read more
Style
Hazy WCIPA
ABV
6.2%

Bodriggy Brewing Coconut & Mango Thundercloud & Muckamuck

Published August 7, 2020
There must be a coconut fiend at Bodriggy as the brewery have two releases out featuring the shredded stuff. There’s the return of the Thundercloud Sour IPA series in which coconut and mango are the featured fruits. While the coconut is only lightly sprinkled in there, the mango does the heavy lifting and meets the beer's tart edge to bring it awfully close to fresh juice. Second in the coconut run - and with added vanilla - is the imperial stout, Muckamuck. It’s a returning beer for the brewery… Read more
Style
Sour IPA & Imperial Stout
ABV
6.4% & 7.8%

Bodriggy Brewing Good Thanks, Yourself? & Big Night Big Night

Published July 22, 2020
Bodriggy have been experimenting with different levels of haze in this pair of bird-studded tinnies. There’s Good Thanks, Yourself?, a phrase people in Melbourne are surely still using but maybe shouldn’t given the current circumstances, and in this case a DDH hazy pale that makes a feature of Citra, Zappa and Meridian hops. It's a combination that brings out a mix of tangerine, sherbet-like orange and a little bitterness in what’s an incredibly pillowy and texturally soft beer. Big Night… Read more
Style
DDH Hazy Pale & Hazy IIPA
ABV
5.5% & 7.9%

Bodriggy Brewing Big 'Sner & Moonbeam

Published June 19, 2020
These twin releases from Boddriggy may both be inspired by New Zealand but it’s there any similarities end. Big ‘Sner is an imperial celebration of New Zealand pilsners, taking inspiration in particular from one of the country's best known: Emerson’s Pilsner. Using nothing but NZ malts and hopped with Wai-iti and experimental variety HORT-9909, you can certainly tell there are Kiwi hops within. Along with a sherbety lemon and peach character, there’s that slightly sharper diesel-esque quality… Read more
Style
Imperial NZ Pilsner & Fruit Ginger Sour
ABV
9.0% & 6.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Fuzzy Dance Explosion

Published June 15, 2020
Fuzzy Dance Explosion is Bodriggy’s newest sour and that name is precisely what the beer aims to do: get your tastebuds grooving through a mix of hazy, juicy acidity. The Abbotsford brewery has stuck fruit and plenty of other parts of the pantry into their sours but for this beer, the brewers have gone for a more straightforward approach to provide that tingle on the tongue. Instead it’s the hops, Galaxy and Sabro, that drive that tropical flavour with the tart and juicy lines being delivered… Read more
Style
Tropical Sour
ABV
4.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Draught

Published June 15, 2020
Once a word only found on Australia’s many variations of Big Beer lager, “Draught” has made its way onto plenty of small brewery tins in recent times too. The beer itself might a lager, at times it’s an ale. But what the term does always signal is: if you're after a beer to knock back by the pint, or to consume straight from the can on the couch, then this is likely for you. Bodriggy Brewing's Draught is a Kölsch, the German-style that effectively straddles lager and ale territory, and… Read more
Style
Kolsch
ABV
4.5%

Bodriggy Brewing Fuzzy Dance Explosion

Published June 15, 2020
Fuzzy Dance Explosion is Bodriggy’s newest sour and that name is precisely what the beer aims to do: get your tastebuds grooving through a mix of hazy, juicy acidity. The Abbotsford brewery has stuck fruit and plenty of other parts of the pantry into their sours but for this beer, the brewers have gone for a more straightforward approach to provide that tingle on the tongue. Instead it’s the hops, Galaxy and Sabro, that drive that tropical flavour with the tart and juicy lines being delivered… Read more
Style
Tropical Sour
ABV
4.0%

Bodriggy & Birdsnake MandyMuck

Published May 20, 2020
The brewers at Bodriggy turned to one of Melbourne's other purveyors of tasty treats, Birdsnake Chocolate, in creating MandyMuck. The chocolatiers bring a similar ethos to the cocoa bean as many local coffee roasters do to their handiwork, where the focus is on working closely with growers to ensure what you shove down your mouth is sourced as ethically as possible and handled with great care. Together, Bodriggy and Birdsnake came up with a beer in which the “Muck” name is borrowed from the… Read more
Style
Mid-strength Stout
ABV
3.2%

Bodriggy Brewing Block Party & Thunder Cloud Ruby Red Grapefruit Paloma

Published April 9, 2020
Bodriggy’s impressive venue might not be pouring beers for the time being but the space out back is still knocking out new releases to send into the world and for pickup from the Abbotsford Froff Shop. Block Party was brewed with Blackhearts & Sparrows to celebrate their new proximity after the bottleshop team opened a store right next to the brewery. The guava, lime and pink salt gose is in many ways familiar territory for the brewery, packed with fruit and highly quaffable. Mostly, it's those… Read more
Style
Gose & Sour IPA
ABV
3.1% & 6.7%

Bodriggy & Fancy Hank's Dayspring IPA

Published March 12, 2020
For the 2020 Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, Bodriggy and Fancy Hank’s got together to create a menu based on the Latin American and Tex Mex-inspired menus both Melbourne haunts offer. As well as co-hosting an event, The Good, The Barbacoa, The Ugly, (on March 21 if you're reading this in time) they got together to brew a beer too. Dayspring IPA is a hazy IPA brewed with the Norwegian kveik yeast that local breweries have been experimenting with regularly over the past year or so. It was used… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA
ABV
6.7%

Bodriggy Brewing Cucumber & Mint Sour Pilsner

Published February 21, 2020
Once upon a time, not that long ago, beer advent calendars felt a little like a way for bottleshops to get rid of any old stock lying around. That's not the case today, with breweries asked to brew unique beers for many of the packs so that, come December, fridges are emptied of the usual Christmas essentials and instead loaded with mystery beers. Among the many sour, hoppy, dark and unusual releases in Carwyn Cellars’ Canvent in 2018 was Bodriggy's Cucumber and Mint Sour Pilsner. Sure, it might… Read more
Style
Cucumber Pilsner
ABV
4.2%

Bodriggy Brewing Thundercloud Sour IPA

Published December 11, 2019
Different approaches to sours and IPAs have been floating across Bodriggy's taps since the doors of their brewpub opened in August and, to see out the year, the Abbotsford brewers have combined those two passions to create Thundercloud. The apricot and peach sour IPA tinnie aims to strike the palate with a mix of tropical hop flavours from Simcoe, El Dorado and Rakau and follow up with a rolling thunder in the shape of tartness. Pouring it, my first thought first thought was: “This is definitely… Read more
Style
Sour IPA
ABV
6.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Space Milk Vol.5

Published November 8, 2019
Now that Bodriggy have opened their doors to the public, they’ve got a lot of taps to keep full for the hordes of people keen to enjoy the brewery's Abbotsford home. One unfortunate consequence of opening a bustling brewpub that struck fear into the heart of this writer is that it might spell an end to one of my favourite series, Space Milk. The lactose-laced sours have previously welcomed the likes of almond, cayenne pepper, marigold and coffee skins into their lives in a way that works surprisingly… Read more
Style
Fruit Cream Sour
ABV
3.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Space Milk Vol. 4

Published June 6, 2019
To date, Bodriggy’s Space Milk series has explored a list of ingredients not often traversed in brewing, with the likes of soursop, alphonso mango, cayenne pepper, wild Australian raspberries and coffee skins all added to a beer despite sounding more suited to the menu of a trendy café. For number four in the lineup of lactose sours, the Abbotsford brewery has gone for an Annie apricot, marigold and almond sour. Considering marigold is a flower used to make some margarines, it shouldn’t be surprising… Read more
Style
Fruit Cream Sour
ABV
3.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Blinker Dark Ale

Published May 8, 2019
Bodriggy Brewing’s eyes appear set towards winter as the Abbotsford brewery releases the Blinker Dark Ale. The beer is inspired by the traditional dark ales of England, though it might be more accurate to say it’s inspired by the pubs those beers are enjoyed in as, in the brewers' words, Blinker is “as comfortable by the pint at the pub as it is by the fireplace paired with a hearty meal.” While it’s not quite as luscious or sweet as many stouts out there, there is a clear rich chocolate… Read more
Style
Dark Ale
ABV
5.2%

Bodriggy Brewing Twin Harvest: Sun Buzz & Zooter Doozy

Published April 9, 2019
March and April might be two months that are inherently connected with picking hops in the Southern Hemisphere's beer world but, for winemakers, it’s also the tailend of their own harvest. It’s a fact Bodriggy has decided to showcase through their Twin Harvest releases, featuring two colourful 500ml tinnies filled with liquids brewed with hops straight from the bine and grapes right off the vine. The first of those is Sun Buzz, featuring some 60kg of Hop Product Australia’s Enigma hops, shipped… Read more
Style
Harvest Beers
ABV
5.4% & 5.1%

Bodriggy Brewing Space Milk Vol. 3

Published March 15, 2019
Bodriggy’s Space Milk series is now a trilogy with the release of a lactose sour that might feature the Abbotsford brewery's most unusual collection of ingredients yet. Following on from the lactose-sour-pineapple-lime-cayenne pepper offering, Bodriggy has returned with a Cashmere-hopped soursop, alphonso mango sour. Popular in Central and South America, soursop is a sweet fruit often used in juices and is variously described as being akin to sweet pineapple, strawberry, citrus and smooth banana.… Read more
Style
Lactose Fruit Sour
ABV
3.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Space Milk Vol. 2

Published January 23, 2019
Bodriggy’s Space Milk cans promise to offer a glimpse into the expanse beyond our own planet, while the beers that sit inside set out on a journey into the world of lactose-laced sour beers. The first in the series showcased cascara, the dried skins of coffee cherries, and wild Australian raspberries and here Volume 2 has combined what is quite possibly an even more disparate collection of flavours. Pineapple and lime may sound normal enough for an Australian mid-strength sour. But add in some… Read more
Style
Fruited, Spiced Cream Sour
ABV
3.0%

Bodriggy Brewing Space Milk Vol. 1

Published October 15, 2018
Now that Bodriggy’s brewery is firing on all cylinders we can expect to see a steady release of new and quirky tinnie releases leaving Abbotsford. Among them is a new series going under the Space Milk banner that will feature a rotating range of lactose-laced sour beers. Volume 1 is a kettle soured wheat ale in which the lactose is joined by cascara (the dried skins of coffee cherries) and wild Australian raspberries. That combination makes for a beer that pours a pinkish-orange hue with a soft… Read more
Style
Fruit Cream Sour
ABV
3.0%
Stockists

And select good beer outlets in Victoria

Bodriggy Brewing Pear & Juniper Radler

Published December 11, 2017
You'd have needed one pretty high-powered crystal ball to accurately predict the beer styles that would take off in the Australian beer scene over the past five years. When the number of mangoes per litre or an exhaustive list of the yeast strains and bacteria added during the brewing process have become part of the standard way of things, you know we're not in Kansas anymore. Some of the styles that have come to the fore have roots in Germany – think Berliner Weisse and gose – and now (with… Read more
Style
Pear & Juniper Radler
Stockists

Dr Morse

And select good beer outlets across Melbourne

Bodriggy Brewing & The Mill Roggenbier

Published October 20, 2017
Bodriggy and The Mill are two of the younger brewing operations to call inner Melbourne home. Indeed, the former is still in the process of building its home in a large warehouse in Abbotsford, while the latter only opened its doors in Collingwood for the first time earlier this year. The two got together recently to celebrate their near neighbourly-ness and shared youth in a beer. And they did it with a roggenbier. "A roggenbier?" you cry. Yes, a roggenbier, a style with origins in Germany… Read more
Style
Roggenbier
ABV
5.7%
Stockists

The Mill Brewery

Dr Morse

The Mill

Dr Morse

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Bodriggy Brewing Blinker Oatmeal Stout

Published May 17, 2017
Bodriggy continues its embrace of the local Melbourne beer and bar community via this collaboration with Collingwood venue Nighthawks. Alongside their near neighbours they concocted Blinker to be launched on May 17 at Nighthawks as part of a Good Beer Week event screening the documentary A Band Called Death about Detroit's punk pioneers. So, how do you honour a punk band in beer? Something dark would seem to fit the bill and that's what you have here: an oatmeal stout also available in cans complete… Read more
Style
Oatmeal Stout
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Public Brewery

And select beer outlets around VIC

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Bodriggy Brewing Bruno Bitter (Retired)

Published March 29, 2017
Bodriggy Brewing will, at some point, have a brewery inside the building that housed Victoria's first automatic carwash and what was at one stage the largest Auto LP conversion business in Australia. "So what?" you may well ask. Well, the new lessees of the space across the road from their bar, Dr Morse, are keen to pay homage to the building and its former inhabitants. One of those was Bruno, a man who emigrated to Australia from Italy in the 1950s, once invented a device that powered… Read more
Style
Golden Ale
ABV
4.5%

Bodriggy Brewing & Frankie's Pineapple Ale

Published March 7, 2017
Sydney CBD late night hangout Frankie's has forged quite a relationship with the craft brewers of the country, both in terms of leading them astray during beer festivals like an irresistible Pied Piper for (pretend) grownups and when it comes to hopping into bed with them for collaborations. Often, the two come hand in hand, with said collaborations created for special events during beer festivals. But not this time. Here, it was a case of the guys at Bodriggy and Frankie's / Hubert's being good… Read more
Style
Pineapple Cream Ale
ABV
4.5%
Stockists

Dr Morse

Jimmy's Tap & Barrel

Frankie's By The Slice

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Bodriggy Brewing Chuckaboo (Retired)

The first Bodriggy beer to start appearing on taps – or, more accurately, peering from above them via the brewing company's distinctive decals – was the pink jacketed Chuckaboo. And it isn't the sort of beer too many breweries will have chosen as a lead product before them: a white IPA. For those unfamiliar with such a style, it's one in which the spicy, citrusy characteristics of a witbier yeast are combined with the sort of heavy hopping regime found in an IPA. They can often be quite a mouthful,… Read more
Style
White IPA
ABV
4.8%
Bitterness
51 IBU
Stockists

Dr Morse

Jimmys Tap and Barrel

And select Victorian outlets

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Bodriggy Brewing Highbinder (Retired)

Where, for a while, it was golden and summer ales doing the heavy lifting as the Australian craft beer industry drew in new drinkers, that baton has since passed to pale ales, presumably as more and more drinkers have become accustomed to more hop character, body and bitterness in their beers. It's a pattern that follows that of the US, which is where Highbinder very much takes its inspiration. The second beer in Bodriggy's core range is an American pale ale and one that ticks the boxes you expect… Read more
Style
American Pale Ale
ABV
4.8%
Bitterness
39 IBU
Awards

Best In Show – Royal Adelaide Beer Show 2017