Posts Tagged ‘ Bridge Road ’

Bridge Road Brewers has joined two other local Beechworth businesses to develop the local epicurean trade by purchasing a set of ‘town bikes’ for use by visitors to the town. The brewery joins specialty foodstore the Larder and Pennyweight Wines have set up the first two of what will eventually be four town bikes. The initiative...
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If you’re a passionate brewer or even a wanna-be-brewer that could handle life in God’s country making some of Australia’s best and most interesting craft beer, then we’ve got something for you. A full-time brewing position will be opening at Bridge Road Brewers, in Beechworth, Victoria in February 2011. Join a young team at an ever...
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Bridge Road has just bottled their latest release, a Summer Ale. The catch is, it’s exclusively available to members of the brewery’s Posse. The Posse, Bridge Road Brewers’ beer loyalty club, has been running for a little over three years and was modelled on a program used in the local wine industry for developing customer...
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While Oktoberfests abound in Australia, many seem to be headed the way of St Patrick’s Day – providing a thinly veiled excuse to drink with little reference to the underlying festival behind it. Many festivals are billing ‘authentic’ beers of a style that doesn’t even originate in Germany. Against this background Beechworth-based craft brewery Bridge Road...
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Following the successful Moose & Mountie SpecTAPular which showcased Canada’s finest craft beers, Australia’s best speciality beer establishment hosts its third annual ‘Oktoberfest SpecTAPular’ on Saturday October 9th. The annual event will continue the tradition of showcasing ten of Germany’s finest beers alongside ten Aussie beers brewed in German styles. All twenty beers will...
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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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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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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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An increasing number of small brewers are growing and harvesting their own hops and brewing harvest ales...here are two.
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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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