Matt Kirkegaard gets up close and personal with the 10th brewing of Cascade’s annual First Harvest ale…
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Creatures announce Australian IPA
The latest batch brew from Little Creatures will be a celebration of southern hemisphere hops and has been described by the brewery as an ‘Australian’ IPA. The upcoming draught-only IPA follows on from last year’s “Stimulus IPA”, which was made using 100 per cent US Cascade hops and will will feature a blend of Australian… Read more →
Beer bottles: The answer is not clear
Beer, traditionally packaged in brown bottles, is increasingly being sold in green and even clear glass because beer marketers discovered that beer in this colour glass is more attractive to consumers. What’s best for beer? Chris Bible finds that the answer definitely isn’t clear…
Little Creatures release Brown Ale
Western Australia’s Little Creatures has following on from their first single batch brew, an India Pale Ale, released earlier in the year, with a Brown Ale. The brewery has announced they are using Australian hops, in particular Tasmanian Hallertau and Cascade, Topaz and Galaxy, which have been added in four additions in the brewing process… Read more →
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 grown… Read more →
Little Creatures release single batch IPA
Western Australia’s Little Creatures brewery has just released the first in what they are planning as a series of limited release, single batch beers, an IPA. Available in bottle and and on draught, the brewer describes the beer as “a celebration of a hop that we have fallen in love with for a while now…the… Read more →
Still more hops…
We couldn’t mention hop producing breweries without mentioning Tasmania’s Two Metre Tall brewery which produces its own, well, everything.
Cascade Hop Harvest
The Tasmanian hop harvest started this week with the now annual picking of hops for Cascade’s First Harvest Ale. The Foster’s-owned brewery describes Cascade First Harvest as “a celebration of the freshest and best of the Tasmanian harvest and uses only the first hops and barley of the season.” “It was the first beer produced… Read more →
In beer is bitter better?
With a UK brewer aiming to claim the title of the World’s Most Bitter Beer, we ask whether, in beer, bitter or balance is better