Little Bang Brewing

Before Little Bang Brewing came into existence, Fil Kemp and Ryan Davidson tapped keys rather than kegs, developed video game characters rather than beer recipes, worked with code rather than Columbus. Then, in 2014, the avid homebrewers made the step from one industry where people – not least them – proudly wear the tag “geek” to one where, well, they could work on satisfying an altogether different type of geek†.

The move from making video games to Fil’s backyard shed was something of a gamble, not least because the pair wasn’t fully away as to what they’d gotten themselves into. But, with the Australian games industry having fallen apart, leading them to jobs as a refrigeration mechanic and beer rep respectively, scaling up their recipes and testing them on Adelaide’s beer drinking community seemed one worth taking. Worst case scenario? They’d have plenty of beer they wanted to drink on hand at a fraction of the cost of buying it.

For two years, armed with equipment made up of repurposed wine making gear, some homemade additions and a couple of new inventions, the shed was Little Bang’s home. But, with the South Australian public loving what they made, and beer running out frequently, this small backyard brewery could contain them no longer.

Fil was sick of Ryan’s sweaty body rubbing up against his as they moved around the shed; Ryan was sick of lifting long hoses; it was time for an upgrade. So, in 2015, Little Bang Brewing moved into a small warehouse that allowed them to add two new fermenters and a cellar door. The move not only allowed for increased capacity (and less physical proximity) but also enabled them to develop a local community following. A year later, another mash tun was purchased too, this time one intended for making beer rather than wine.

At the end of 2018, it was time to move again to a new space in Stepney. So, after thousands of beers, dozens of food truck visits, many a legendary party and good times galore, they took up residence in their biggest space yet. It's one that's allowed for more beer, the opening of a Little Bang kitchen, more barrels, more space for customers, including a mezzanine overlooking it all, and, well, more of everything you've come to know the Little Bangers for.

As for the beers, it’s fair to say little is off bounds. Sure, there’s regular releases but they’ve made their name as much through beers such as the Galactopus barley wine (with said Galactopus adorning one wall of the brewery) Scratchy Vinyl black IPA, can design-winning Face Inverter sour, various barrel-aged, mixed-ferment, beer-wine hybrids and much more besides; they’re not averse to collaborations either.

The naming, conception and artwork behind the beers, which these days come in some of the most eye-catching cans in the country, tend to be shot through with lashings of off kilter humour – as you’d expect after five minutes in conversation with Fil and Ryan, two of the sharper and more thoughtful minds in the local industry. Just don’t be surprised if you have to ask for an explanation to get to the root of some of the multilayered jokes at play.

It’s been a pretty rapid ascent, particularly as it’s one that’s been made without compromise. But it doesn’t take long in their company to understand how seamlessly they’ve transitioned their passionate geekery from one industry to another.

As of June 2022, the business entered a new phase too as Little Bang was acquired by SA hotel group Duxton Pubs Group, which brought ex-Uraidla main man Oscar Matthews into the fold. You can read about that here.

We’re actually pretty sure the Venn Diagram showing video game designers and craft beer aficionados wouldn’t be too far off a perfect circle…

Matt King

Name
Little Bang Brewing
Address

25 Henry Street
Stepney
SA 5069

Phone
(08) 8362 7761
Regular events

Wed: Quiz Night
Monthly: New episodes on their YouTube channel

Open Hours

Wed & Thurs: 5pm to 10pm
Fri & Sat: midday to 10pm
Sunday: midday to 6pm

Tours

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Little Bang Brewing Regulars

Little Bang Spacer & The Perfect Pale Ale

Published November 20, 2021
Well, it's safe to say it doesn't look like the passion for alcohol-free beers is going away any time soon. Adelaide's Little Bang Brewing have now made their pitch for sobriety with Spacer, and boy what a good job they've done. Thanks to generous late hop additions plus "some cutting edge extracts" and "so much technology", this sub-0.5er with a pretty deep copper colour serves up some juicy candy fruits on the nose and a body as full as any no-alc beer I can recall. There’s… Read more
Style
Alcohol-Free APA & Aussie Pale
ABV
<0.5% & 4.1%

Little Bang Brewing Scratchy Vinyl

Published May 5, 2019
The annual Record Store Day is a big deal, with pop-up stores appearing in venues across the country and, in 2017, the Little Bang guys decided the day needed its own beer; hence Scratchy Vinyl was composed. The recipe for their 6 percent ABV Black IPA took a bit of tinkering to ensure it suited owners Ryan and Fil’s taste buds, neither of whom had previously been a big fan of the style. They wanted a Black IPA that went easier on the roast and pine characters and heavier on the fruity, floral… Read more
Style
Black IPA
ABV
6.0%

Little Bang Little Banger Super Session Ale

Published November 22, 2018
As they suggested in our feature on the rise of mid-strengths within the craft beer world, there’s been a gradually dawning realisation at Little Bang that it pays to have something lower in alcohol pouring at your brewery these days. That led to the development of Little Bang, a “super session ale” weighing in a just 3 percent ABV but with the bite of something rather bigger. It’s very pale, with just a little haze, and, for the most part, looks to give the drinker what they’d find in… Read more
Style
Session Ale
ABV
3.0%

Little Bang Brewing The Pinkening

Published May 8, 2018
The prolific team at Little Bang can always take you in various directions via the taps lining the brewery bar. Hops various ways, booze levels from high to low, fruity, a little funky or deeply malty – and, should The Pinkening be pouring, colourful as all hell too. The name hints at what to expect, but they could as easily have got away with calling it The Bloody Bright Reddening. As with Little Banger, this beer came from a desire to have a light beer on tap but not get to that point by sacrificing… Read more
Style
Hibiscus Session Sour
ABV
3.0%
Bitterness
10 IBU

Little Bang Brewing Naked Objector

Published September 20, 2017
There's usually a story behind all of Little Bang's beers – or at least the artwork or names that accompany them – and often stories it's a wise idea to take in accompanied by a beer or two. One of the more colourful ones relates to Adelaide beer bar Nola who, when they were looking to launch their venue, had to put in place some additional blinds due to an objection from a chap who liked to wander nude around his neighbouring apartment. Thus the Naked Objector was born. We're not sure how the… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
90 IBU

Little Bang Brewing Icon

Icon was one of the first beers ever released commercially by the Little Bang duo when they launched from a garage back in 2014 and soon found a spot in our Best New SA Beers list for that year. Originally inspired by a desire to create an Australian lager that possessed a lot of flavour, it became a hybrid of sorts, an filtered and highly hopped steam ale designed as their almost entry level craft beer. Pale and hazy, lively and fruity, lean and refreshingly bitter, it went off like a rocket from… Read more
Style
Hoppy Steam Ale
ABV
5.0%
Bitterness
85 IBU

Little Bang Brewing Happy Apples

The Super Lucky Golden Extra Apple Happy Fun Time cider was designed with the aim of making a cider that was dry yet retained plenty of fruit character. To achieve the goal, Ryan and Fil enlisted the help of The Hills Cider Company and ended up with both the cider with the longest name in history† – since renamed the far snappier Happy Apples – and one that has a cloudy, straw like appearance. An orchard's worth of apples can be found in the aroma, followed by a little sweetness, a slight… Read more
Style
Apple Cider
ABV
5.0%

Little Bang Brewing Happyland

If you've ever visited the Little Bang Brewery, you'll know it's a place where happiness resides. Embedded in the beer and cider names and decals, plastered across customers' faces and radiating back into the street, it's a place where it's easy to turn one's frown upside down and in which this summer ale possesses arguably the most wantonly and daftly joyous name and artwork of the lot. Originally brewed when Adelaide was sweltering through a week of 40C days, it was a time when all the brewers… Read more
Style
Summer Ale
ABV
4.5%
Bitterness
28 IBU

Little Bang Brewing Undercover Fashion Police

After unleashing more sequels than even the most shameless of Hollywood studios or video game producers, Little Bang decided it was time for their evolving NEIPA to park up the motor and take up residency in their year-round lineup instead. In doing so, the Undercover Fashion Police they settled upon sits at a very approachable 5.1 percent ABV and is tagged a hazy pale ale. That said, the alcohol content might be down compared to most of the limited release versions (which have ventured as high as… Read more
Style
Hazy Pale Ale
ABV
5.1%

Little Bang Brewing Face Inverter

Just as many offerings falling under the broad umbrella that is sour beer these days have won over drinkers who had once professed themselves to be non-drinkers, it's fair to say they can be an acquired taste. And not least when they are actually sour. The majority of such beers tend to promote their fruitiness and lack of bitterness more than anything wantonly sour, and are more often refreshing or a little tart rather than bracing and palate-puckering. So it could be seen as something of an audience… Read more
Style
Citrus Sour
ABV
5.0%

Little Bang Brewing Specials

Little Bang Bliss Point & Emotional Rescue

Published March 31, 2023
Nobody in Australia has released more hazy IPAs than Little Bang. Admittedly, they rigged the system somewhat when they released 12,000 different ones at the same time, but it's an area they've explored even outside that wee detour. And they're back at it again here. Bliss Point is, booze wise at least, the smaller of the equally opaque duo, and pours a few shades darker too. Before we get to the hops (Nelson Sauvin, Nectaron and Strata since you asked), it's worth mentioning it possesses a crushed… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA & DDH DIPA
ABV
7.2% & 9.4%

Little Bang Retro Feels New World West Coast IIPA

Published November 4, 2022
OK, there's a fair bit to take on board with this beer's title and descriptor. Sure, the West Coast and I for imperial part is simple enough, but retro and New World? Turns out the idea was to take the essence of an old school West Coast IPA on the larger size – 7.8 percent ABV so not craaaaazy big – and hop it to the eyeballs with a mixture of back-in-the-day US hops (Columbus) and newer, flightier offerings (Strata, Azacca and Cashmere) to create something with the punch of West Coasts of yore… Read more
Style
West Coast IIPA
ABV
7.8%

Little Bang Love Bomb Oat Cream DIPA

Published May 13, 2022
Bombs away!! Little Bang are about to start dropping love bombs across the country with a new beer for which they've given one of their brewers free rein over recipe development and the entire brewing process. Stepping up to the oche is the most recent addition to the team, Cameron Sproule – aka Camo – who's opted for a style that's been very much in fashion in the noisier parts of the Australian craft beer world for the past couple of years: an oat cream double IPA sitting at a hefty 8.2 percent… Read more
Style
Oat Cream Double IPA
ABV
8.2%

Little Bang Brewing & Banks Colorado Weed Money

Published March 1, 2022
If you're going to brew a beer with the crew at Banks, there's a good chance it's going to be hoppy and hazy, given it's what the Seaford brewers are best known for, even if they've released some damn fine lagers and dark beers over the years. Here, Little Bang did just that, making it an oat cream pale for good measure too, and adorning it with a suitably dreamy, sunset landscape on the labels. It's a rather different beast to the vast majority of of oat cream pales, IPAs, and DIPAs I've come across,… Read more
Style
Oat Cream Pale
ABV
4.9%

Little Bang Brewing Lupulus Verde & Zero Kelvin

Published September 20, 2021
Two spring releases from Little Bang are again a reminder of the brewery’s devotion to design (which is pretty fitting given they were released almost exactly a year on from the brewery winning the inaugural GABS Can Design Awards). Lupulus Verde is a dry-hopped sour created for the season, and it’s not just the zippy sourness from Philly Sour yeast or Amarillo and Citrus hops providing those vibes. The kaleidoscopic design features botanical drawings of hops and barley and, in total, the brewery… Read more
Style
Dry-Hopped Sour & Cold IPA
ABV
4.4% & 7.1%

Little Bang Brewing Tangent #4

Published June 14, 2021
The Little Bang team has been playing around with their barrels once more, releasing their craziest blended concoction to date. Tangent #4 starts with a co-ferment of merlot and saison that was housed in French oak grenache barrels, before being joined with some sour, wild fermenting cherries in American oak shiraz barrels. The last piece of the puzzle came in the form of a fresh, light, citrusy Berliner Weisse, there to tie the complex, decidedly different masterpiece together. In some ways it's… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Sour Blend
ABV
7.4%

Little Bang Brewing 12,000 Hazy IPAs

Published January 12, 2021
In 2020, a plethora of limited release IPAs were discharged into the wild: straight IPAs, hazy IPAs, IIPAs, oat cream IPAs, sour oat cream IPAs; hop fiends were spoilt for choice. Many arrived with quirky names, eye-catching labels and diverse hop combinations. As the year came to a close, the team at Little Bang decided to release 12,000 of them at once – the same hazy IPA but each with a unique name and label. You can read how it came about here, with brewery co-founder Ryan Davidson's algorithm… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA
ABV
6.3%

Little Bang Brewing Zingibeer

Published December 20, 2020
It's a well known fact that Little Bang aren’t afraid to have a crack at different styles, even other types of booze. To complement the beer, they have their gin range, a few different wines of their own, and also a ginger beer. Zingibeer first surfaced in summer 2019 but previously had only been poured on tap at their venue. Now, in summer 2020, this 4.4 percent ABV alcoholic ginger beer can be enjoyed in can format, as well as on site, as it becomes a welcome – and typically eye-catching –… Read more
Style
Ginger Beer
ABV
4.4%

Little Bang The Passion Of The Schwang & UFP 12: The Froth Element

Published December 15, 2020
The Schwang is back, rearing its beautiful sour, fruity head just in time for some warm weather and a season of partying and festivities. A large variety of fruit has featured under the Schwang banner, but not passionfruit – until now. It's found inside a low ABV, zingy, tart hot weather negator, with The Passion of the Schwang kettle soured before passionfruit was added to the fermenter. Bright yellow in colour, there's a certain murky, pulpy cloudiness reminiscent of the fruit’s gooey interior.… Read more
Style
Pass & NEIPA
ABV
3.0% & 5.2%

Little Bang Experimental Barrel Series: Tangent #3

Published December 10, 2020
Little Bang’s third barrel-aged blend has been let loose, but this time bearing a new name. The first two editions were released under the Rabbit Hole banner; now they'll go by Tangent after a name clash with another beverage company. Leaving aside naming, #3 is a complex beast: they started with a sour blonde co-fermented on shiraz skins, then aged it in three ex-wine barrels (French oak that once housed grenache, chardonnay and pinot noir) for nine months before blending. The barrels and their… Read more
Style
Blended Barrel-Aged Sour Ale
ABV
9.2%

Little Bang Brewing Undercover Fashion Police 11: Hopocalypse Now

Published November 2, 2020
The 1979 American war movie Apocalypse Now is the inspiration for the eleventh iteration of Little Bang’s Undercover Fashion Police. For Hopocalypse Now, the ABV has been toned back down to 5.1 percent again and, just like the movie, Hopocalypse Now features a roll call of stellar characters. This action-packed NEIPA substitutes Marlon Brando with Citra, Robert Duvall with Galaxy and Martin Sheen for Vic Secret. Once the opening credits roll, it's more juicy thriller than dark meditation, as tropical… Read more
Style
NEIPA
ABV
5.1%

Little Bang Brewing Undercover Fashion Police 10: Haze of Thunder

Published August 3, 2020
The tenth iteration of Little Bang’s Undercover Fashion Police – titled Haze of Thunder – takes inspiration from both the movie Days of Thunder and the craziness of the current pandemic. Such unprecedented times called for a reworking of the recipe, which saw the brewers dropping the hammer and doubling up on the hops, the booze and the fun. Clocking in at a high octane 9.1 percent ABV, Haze of Thunder utilises Mosaic, Galaxy and Citra in large quantities to create a storm of resin and tropical… Read more
Style
Double NEIPA
ABV
9.1%

Little Bang Brewing Undercover Fashion Police 9: The Hops Must Be Hazy

Published April 16, 2020
The Undercover Fashion Police series is a one in which the Little Bang crew take the piss out of trendsetting – ironically, in the form of a NEIPA. Now in its ninth edition, each release is altered slightly on the hop front while all sport a pun-driven movie title name of sorts. The Hops Must Be Hazy references the 1980 movie The Gods Must Be Crazy which, in case you are wondering, tells the story of a remote African tribe and the aftereffects of finding a soft drink bottle dropped from an airplane;… Read more
Style
NEIPA
ABV
5.7%

Little Bang Brewing Chipotle Panther

Published April 16, 2020
May Contain Traces of Panther is Little Bang’s well known English porter that comes out of hibernation every year in the cooler months. Combine that with co-owner Ryan Davidson’s love for chilli and chilli sauce and what do you get? A chocolatey bum burner [Is that an official beer style, Matt? – Editor]. If you want to obtain some information about the beer, you'd might be advise to do a quick course in Spanish, as translating the label could be difficult otherwise. That said, fear not as… Read more
Style
Smoked Chilli Chocolate Porter
ABV
6.5%

Little Bang Brewing Schwang Black Label

Published April 6, 2020
The Little Bang team have decided to add some extra pizzazz and flair to their latest Schwang release, brewing up an 8 percent ABV imperial mixed berry sour as a tribute to its predecessors. Housed in a fancy black can detailed with decorative gold trimmings, the "Black Label" Schwang contains three different berries: raspberry, strawberry and blackberry berries and juices, which lend the beer a light pink-orange hue. In short, it's boozy, it's fruity and it screams Schwang as much as any… Read more
Style
Imperial Mixed Berry Sour
ABV
8.0%

Little Bang Brewing Tangent #2 (formerly Rabbit Hole #2)

Published April 6, 2020
The first Tangent (initially called Rabbit Hole) experimental barrel series release saw Little Bang run a saison through gin-soaked shiraz barrels, creating a super complex array of aromas and flavours. Now the brewers have jumped down the rabbit hole for a second time, releasing a blend of three different beer styles housed in three different barrels. The blending session must have been a beauty with a Flanders red from grenache barrels, a gold lambic style ale from chardonnay barrels complete with… Read more
Style
Blended, Barrel-Aged Sour Ale
ABV
6.5%

Little Bang Brewing Schwangermelon

Published November 17, 2019
The Little Bang crew have utilised loads of different fruit in their beers to date, largely across their sNEIPA and Schwang range. In the past, it's mainly been berries and citrus fruits but here it's watermelon’s chance to shine within the aptly named Schwangermelon kettle sour. The schwangermelon takes on a perfectly clear, extremely light-yellow appearance, gaining little in the way of colour from the fruit additions. Certainly, the watermelon is dominant in the aroma, but it also brings with… Read more
Style
Watermelon Sour
ABV
3.0%

Little Bang Brewing Tangent #1: Gin/Shiraz Barrel Saison (formerly Rabbit Hole #1)

Published November 17, 2019
Rabbit Hole #1– since renamed Tangent following a complaint from a wine company of the same name – begins a barrel-ageing adventure for the Little Bang crew, this time in conjunction with Adelaide spirit gurus Prohibition Liquor. Ever since their new venue was opened, a large display of barrels has graced the brewery, but with little communication as to what lay inside. A clever ploy, one might say, amping up the hype of their barrel-aged brand. Tangent #1 is the first release an experimental… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Saison
ABV
4.4%

Little Bang Brewing Schwangberry & Guava sNEIPA

Published September 21, 2019
The Stepney brewers are at it again, releasing two new beers that are variations on their Schwang and sNEIPA ranges. Next up in the kettle sour range of Schwangs comes Schwangberry, utilising fresh raspberries to add a tartness, fruitiness and a vibrant colour to the beer. Due to the hefty load of added fresh raspberries, the beers pours a hazy bright pink with a light white head. A decent acidic aroma announces itself initially, along with solid backing from the fresh raspberries. It's an easy-drinking… Read more
Style
Raspberry Sour / Sour NEIPA
ABV
3.0% / 5.1%
Bitterness
11 IBU / 15 IBU

Little Bang Brewing Inside Voice

Published July 25, 2019
Stout is proving to be a very versatile style, with milk stouts, tropical stouts, pastry stouts and foreign extra stouts just a few of those doing the rounds these days. But, sometimes, just a straightforward stout is all you want: no adjuncts or crazy dessert additions, but something a little more simple. Inside Voice is a foreign extra stout that takes a little potshot at the craziness of the beer world today†, with a label that states: “It’s not a choc-peanut-butter-marshmallow-pancake-batter-milkshake-gose.… Read more
Style
Foreign Extra Stout
ABV
5.7%
Bitterness
41 IBU

Little Bang & Collective Arts Road Tripper Double IPA

Published July 25, 2019
Starting in 2018, the Adelaide Beer & BBQ organisers have flown an international brewing legend around Australia to whip up a series of collaborations to launch at the festival. In the first year, it was BrewDog, and in 2019 Collective Arts from Canada were given the nod. While visiting Adelaide, Collective Arts brewer Ryan Morrow collaborated with Stepney brewers Little Bang, creating a double West Coast IPA for which the collaborators drew upon their memories of the good old road trip. Road… Read more
Style
West Coast IIPA
ABV
8.1%
Bitterness
114 IBU

Little Bang Dark Arts & Sludgebeast

Published June 24, 2019
Why bring one dark beer out for winter when you can release two? (OK, if we're honest, there's more than two in the Little Bang locker, but bear with us as these two have been released in cans within a week of each other...) Dark Arts is the Stepney brewers' joint venture with SA's State Theatre Company. Apparently, the latter requested "a dark beer for a dark show", but by the end of the collaboration Little Bang "just wanted to give them some chocolates." The aroma suggests… Read more
Style
Chocolate & Imperial Stouts
ABV
6.3% & 12.0%
Bitterness
36.3 & 89 IBU

Little Bang Brewing Schwang Tangerine Sour

Published April 1, 2019
Little Bang love to embark on a series with their beers and have a couple on rotation that focus on two of the styles du jour: the SNEIPAs (sour NEIPA) and the Schwangs. Both favour fruity, sour compositions but are very different stylistically. The first Schwang to make it into a can is the original tangerine Schwang (with stablemates Schwangcherry and Schwangberry no doubt to follow), a 3 percent ABV Berliner Weisse featuring a hearty serving of tangerines. The citrus fruit and zingy acidity combine… Read more
Style
Tangerine Berliner Weisse
ABV
3.0%

Little Bang Brewing Exoplanet

Published March 28, 2019
Ryan Davidson and Fil Kemp have out-nerded themselves with their latest New World pilsner, Exoplanet. Paying homage to three of their favourite newly discovered planets, 55 Cancri e, HD 189733b and Kepler 10-b, they've created a trio of different decals outlining the features of each planet; one is a mildly sweat-inducing 2000 degrees Celsius, experiences gravity 2.1 times that of Earth and is made of diamond, for example. So how does a brewer translate such things into beer form? Through the use… Read more
Style
New World Pilsner
ABV
5.0%
Bitterness
48 IBU

Little Bang Brewing Mango sNEIPA

Published March 26, 2019
Little Bang Brewing sent their first sNEIPA into the world as part of the 2018 Carwyn Cellars’ Canvent calendar and many were surprised it was the first time the largely traditionalist brewery attempted such an historic style. Wait, that doesn’t sound right … hold on, what even is a sNEIPA? Put simply, it’s the intersection where two increasingly popular craft beer styles meet: take a kettle soured beer and introduce it to a New England IPA. And there you'll find a sNEIPA. For the brewery’s… Read more
Style
Sour Mango NEIPA
ABV
5.1%
Bitterness
22 IBU

Little Bang & Brewboys Simmo

Published January 3, 2019
Last year, a decade after launching Brewboys – running it pretty much solo for eight of those years – Simon Sellick decided it was time to hand over the reins to new owners. Prior to announcing his decision, he laid down a final brew with one of the people he'd mentored, Fil Kemp of Little Bang. And now, many months and time inside bourbon barrels later, that beast – named, appropriately enough, Simmo – has been released. And, appropriately enough for a man who was knocking out high ABV smoky… Read more
Style
Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
ABV
13.0%

Little Bang Brewing Ira

Published August 14, 2018
There might be debate as to whether the Little Bang duo, a pair that moved from designing video game characters to beers, are nerds or geeks, but a desire to put Ira on a can suggests they know where they sit. According to the label, the bespectacled redhead "doesn't go for sports, he's not interested in the school disco, but you should see his collection of vintage Spiderman." It's their inimitable way of saying an India red ale might not be the coolest beer style around, "but beyond… Read more
Style
India Red Ale
ABV
6.0%
Stockists

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Little Bang Galactopus Barleywine

Published August 14, 2018
They may have Little as part of their brewery name, but it was with a rather large bang that Ryan and Fil launched Little Bang back in 2014. It was a 10 percent ABV bang that's returned for just the second time in cans for winter 2018. And it's name is Galactopus, the creature that adorns one wall at their Stepney brewery. The beer is a barleywine and first impressions will have you expecting the sort of high octane, malt forward beer that originated in England. But it doesn't take long, once liquid… Read more
Style
American Barleywine
ABV
10.1%
Stockists

And other good beer retailers in SA, VIC & NSW

Little Bang & Rio Coffee Breakfast At Stepney

Published June 13, 2018
Coffee visits in the morning, beer visits in the afternoon. This same pattern repeated over and over. Little Bang owners Ryan and Fil would buy coffee around the corner at Rio Coffee in the morning and the folk at Rio Coffee would drink beer at Stepney’s only brewery in the afternoon. Eventually, the inevitable happened and the two beverages merged into one, with a load of cold brew coffee added to a oatmeal stout. The name worked itself out: let’s have breakfast at Stepney. Initially a seasonal… Read more
Style
Coffee Oatmeal Stout
ABV
6.0%

Little Bang Brewing Geezer Pleaser ESB

Published April 25, 2018
Walk into the Little Bang cellar door and eight taps greet your presence. To the left of those taps sits a hand pump, resting high on the bar. Yet, despite its permanence, it's rare you'll find a beer deemed worthy of pouring from it. In the past, it's been graced by a 12 percent imperial stout named Sludgebeast and a 10 percent barley wine name Galactopus; now, for autumn 2018, they're joined by a rather more traditional inhabitant of such tools: an ESB called Geezer Pleaser. It pours a rich, slightly… Read more
Style
ESB
ABV
5.5%

Little Bang Brewing Fancy

Published December 18, 2017
The beer geeks of Stepney went all upper class with their very first barrel creation, Fancy. A farmhouse style ale that was co-fermented with cabernet sauvignon grapes, the bottled version even comes with its own wine like label complete with some typically Little Bang descriptors such as: "That sounds like a complete and utter toss. But admit it, you’re intrigued, aren’t you?" and "Farmhouse, that could mean bloody anything. Was it made on a farm? Was it made FROM a farm? Does… Read more
Style
Farmhouse Ale With Grapes
ABV
7.4%
Bitterness
8 IBU

Little Bang Brewing 50 Dalrymples

The Little Bang crew has formed quite the community in Stepney, making many friends that help out along the way. One of those is Iain Dalrymple, of Iain Takes Pictures, a close friend to Ryan and Fil who, as his business names suggests, takes sweet beertography. He also likes bitter beers and, as their long time brewing buddy, has been referred to by the name Iain "I think it could use a little more bitterness" Dalrymple. So the beer that bears his name (and image), 50 Dalrymples – or… Read more
Style
Double IPA
ABV
8.5%
Bitterness
79 IBU

Little Bang Brewing May Contain Traces Of Panther

With a name inspired by Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy, it's hard not to come at this beer with a smile. Unlike the cologne Sex Panther – and despite the name – this beer is not made with elements of real panther and neither is it illegal in nine countries. Instead, May Contain Traces of Panther is something of a hybrid, an English porter given a bit of a New World spin on the hop front. Pouring brown with a slight amber hue, you'll find plenty to delight in this hearty 6.5 percent beer… Read more
Style
Chocolate Porter
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
32 IBU