Now in its fourth year, The Dark Nights party is one of the best weekends of the year for the crew at the Union Hotel Newtown.
Why's that? Well, it sees the pub curate a list of 40 different dark beers to pour over two nights, so expect a huge list made up of some of the best stouts, porters, bocks, browns, blacks and everything in between they can get their hands on.
On Friday and Saturday, 20 different dark beers will be tapped; then, on Sunday, some of the highlights from those two days reappear.
This year the Union crew are also running a bottle and can menu alongside the taps, with another dozen dark beer options, plus another 40 beers to choose from that aren’t so dark, just in case you feel like a change.
So what's pouring?
Friday, June 14:
- Bridge Road Brewers Beechworth “B2 Bomber Mach 9” Imperial Stout
- Ballast Point Brewing Company (USA) “Sea Monster” Imperial Stout
- 4 Pines Brewing Company Imperial Honey Stout
- Capital Brewing Co. “Hello Darkness” Black Forest Black IPA Sour
- Bad Shepherd Brewing Co. Double Chocolate Hazelnut Brown
- Little Bang Brewing Company “Dark Arts” Dark Chocolate Stout
- Balter Brewing Company “Handsome Elvis” Nitro Stout
- Modus Operandi Brewing Co. “Born to Rum” Porter
- Boatrocker Brewers & Distillers Stout
- Green Beacon Brewing “Portside Penny” Oatmeal Stout
- Holgate Brewhouse “Temptress” Chocolate Porter
- Wayward Brewing Company “Coffee and Donuts” Milk Stout
- Black Hops Brewing Eggnog Stout
- Big Shed Brewing Concern “Golden Stout Time” Sweet Stout (on nitro)
- Willie the Boatman Cappuccino Stout Coffee Milk Stout
- Bodriggy Brewing Co. “Blinker” Dark Ale
- CoConspirators Brewing “The Beancounter” Coffee English Porter
- New England Brewing Company Brown Ale
- Nine Fingers Brew “Black Ale Sun” XBA Black IPA
- Batch Brewing Company Campos Coffee Milk Stout
Saturday, June 15:
- Evil Twin Brewing (USA) Even More Coco Jesus Imperial Stout
- Stockade Brew Co “The Mountie” Maple Imperial Stout
- BentSpoke Brewing Co “Descent 19” Bourbon Barrel-Aged Russian Imperial Stout
- Mountain Goat Beer & Garage Project (NZ) “Horn Please” Chili Chai Imperial Stout
- Stone & Wood Brewing “Stone Beer 2019” Porter
- Philter Brewing Caribbean Stout
- Feral Brewing Company “King Brown” Imperial Brown Ale
- Akasha Brewing Company “Blacksmith” Black IPA
- Sauce Brewing Co. Winter Stout English Export Stout
- Brasserie Dieu du Ciel (Canada) “Aphrodisiaque” Stout
- Deep Creek Brewing Co (NZ) “Lord Lamington” Sweet Stout
- Yulli's Brews “Fat Nerd” Vanilla Porter
- Bad Shepherd Brewing Co. “Jaffa Milkshake” IPA
- Mismatch Brewing Company Chocolate Stout Oatmeal Stout
- Collective Arts Brewing (Canada) “Stranger than Fiction” Porter
- The Grifter Brewing Company “Omen” Oatmeal Stout NITRO Stout
- Young Henrys “Motorcycle Oil” Porter
- Tallboy and Moose “Porter Pounder” Dry London Porter
- MOO BREW Dark Ale
- The Coastal Brewing Company, Forster, Australia “Little Street Coffee” Milk Stout