Posts Tagged ‘ Ben Kraus ’

Bombers over Beechworth

August 25, 2010
Bombers over Beechworth

In a further sign that Australia’s craft brewers are pushing flavour boundaries, not to mention blurring stylistic ones, Beechworth’s Bridge Road Brewers has created a new beer it describes as a black Belgian IPA. Released to celebrate the brewery’s fifth year of brewing, the beer — named B2 Bomber — is described as having a rich, dark colour...
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Bridge Road brags about Braggot

August 8, 2010
Bridge Road brags about Braggot

Beechworth’s Bridge Road Brewers has gone old-fashioned with its latest release, a unique beer style called a braggot. Not often featured in books about beer, let alone brewed, a braggot is a style dating back to the 1300s made by blending beer and mead (an alcoholic beverage made from honey). This beer, christened Megachile Pluto...
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Bridge Road — The Harvest

April 19, 2010
Bridge Road — The Harvest

Beechworth’s Bridge Road Brewers have released their 2010 Hop Harvest. The brewery reports that their local hop garden, Rostrevor, had a great year with plenty of rain and a decent harvest. Bridge Road was able to harvest 4 or 5 hop plants from Rostrevor, a miniscule quantity in comparison to the hundreds of acres...
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More hop harvests

March 4, 2010
More hop harvests

An increasing number of small brewers are growing and harvesting their own hops and brewing harvest ales...here are two.
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New from Bridge Road

January 31, 2010
New from Bridge Road

Ben Kraus describes Bridge Road Brewers’ latest creation as a ‘hop bomb’. The single hop IPA has been made using whole hop cones from a single type of hop, Galaxy. Grown at the nearby Rostrevor hop garden, Galaxy is a great aromatic hop, this beer showcases it’s aroma and bitterness and champions locally grown...
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