Hop Nation x Mr West x D&K Seafood Saltwater

Style
Oyster Black Lager
ABV
4.8%

If you haven’t been to D&K Live, you haven’t lived. The Footscray seafood store is one of Melbourne’s best places* to buy fresh fish, live crabs, sea snails, and oysters that are still submerged in water. Naturally, it’s a place well known by the suburb’s Mr West and Hop Nation, so when the former turned seven, they sought out some of those oysters.

When they got them, they brewed Saltwater, an oyster black lager named after a local term for the mighty Maribyrnong River. Those freshly shucked molluscs bring a salty edge to the beer, which also contains a richer caramel or brown sugar side, along with a firm roasted bitterness. Having said that, it’s still quite a dry lager, and much like D&K, if you’re not returning again and again, then there’s no saving you.

Will Ziebell

*To throw in a bit more hyperbole, I'd argue it's the world's best.

Published August 30, 2024

Name
Hop Nation
Address

Unit 6, 107/109 Whitehall Street Footscray
VIC 3011

Open Hours

Thursday: 3pm to 9.30pm
Friday: 12pm to 10pm
Saturday: 12pm to 10pm
Sunday: 12pm to 9pm

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