Feral Brewing (CCEP)

It was on separate trips along the West Coast of the US that schoolmates Al Carragher and Brendan Varis hatched their plan for a brewery on the West Coast of Australia. It took a number of years for the plan to come together, during which Brendan project managed brewery installations and start-ups across Australia while Al worked in beer sales and identified the future site, but since opening its doors in Swan Valley in October 2002, Feral has gained a reputation for its beers that places it at the very pinnacle of the Australian brewing industry.

With Al long since in Melbourne running the Great Northern Hotel – the pub to first feature Feral on tap in the East – Brendan, his head brewer Will Irving and their growing team set about taking Aussie-brewed beer to new places, letting their imaginations run wild.

They enjoyed years of continued awards success, including Champion Exhibitor at the Australian International Beer Awards in 2009, when the brewery also picked up top gongs for its Hop Hog, Razorback barleywine and Feral White, a Belgian witbier that was the brewery's first release. Or 2012, when Feral was named AIBA Champion Large Australian Brewery, or 2015 when its sour Berliner Weisse style beer Watermelon Warhead was named Champion Australian Craft Beer. And so on...

In June 2012, Feral moved to a 5,000 litre setup established with another WA brewery, Nail, leaving the original brewery to be used for small batch brews. Then, in late 2016, they moved a few hundred metres down the road to a larger facility that allowed them to increase production to six million litres a year – and saw them add a canning line too.

Arguably, the biggest change occurred when the brewery was bought by Coca-Cola Amatil in October 2017. With Brendan departing in the years that followed, and Will moving onto fresh adventures too, the brewery has continued putting out eye-catching and popular beers, not least the Biggie Juice series of hazy East Coast IPAs.

That said, there will be many who argue October 3, 2021, counts as an even more significant moment than the takeover by CCA. It marked the closure of Feral's Swan Valley brewpub and spiritual home. Whether a new venue will rise to take its place remains to be seen.

For now, however, the brewery continues to focus on bringing typically hop-forward beers to its fans, completing a revamp of the core range in winter 2022 that puts the award-winning Runt and feisty West Coast IPA War Hog at either end of the lineup with the evergreen Hop Hog and Biggie Juice in between.

Name
Feral Brewing (CCEP)
Address

PO Box 3265 Bassendean
WA 6942

Phone
(08) 9296 4657
Open Hours

Brewpub now closed


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The Specials

Feral Brewing Imperial Hop Hog
Feral x Nail Nailraiser VJA
Feral Brewing Tropical Disco Sour
Feral Brewing Tusk 2021
Feral Brewing Dark Matter 2021
Feral Brewing Shooter's Juicy IPA
Feral Brewing West Coast IIPA
Feral Brewing Dirty Biggie
Feral Brewing Boris 2020
Feral Brewing BFH (Barrel Fermented Hog) 2020
Feral Brewing Tusk IIPA 2019 Edition
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Feral Brewing (CCEP) Regulars

Feral Brewing Cryo XPA

Published October 4, 2022
With a career built, first and foremost, upon on hop forward expressions, Feral’s spring 2022 addition to their year-round lineup sees the WA brewers charting a more sociable path than they've often done in that space. That said, they've done so with the exclusive use of Cryo hops, which represent a super-condensed version of lupulin – the good stuff in hop flowers that gives beer much of its character. Hop innovation here centres around flavour, which takes the lead over an assault of bitterness-bringing… Read more
Style
XPA
ABV
4.8%

Feral Brewing Runt (2021)

Published July 27, 2021
Although it appears here in a shiny new can, Runt’s history stretches back a decade when it first appeared as a 4.7 percent ABV riff on Feral's then brewery flagship, Hop Hog. Despite collecting some accolades along the way, it’s since been in and out of the Swan Valley brewery's lineup, often appearing as a draught-only offering, a legacy which, perhaps unintentionally, aptly reflects its name. Well, that’s about to change because in mid-2021 Feral welcomed Runt to their core litter, now as… Read more
Style
Mid-Strength Pale Ale
ABV
3.5%

Feral Brewing Draught

Published August 19, 2019
For a brewery that's done as much as any on the local scene when pushing the lupulin threshold of both Australian drinkers and the market, Feral Draught may come as a surprise to some. Described as an "easy drinking ale", this entry level beer is designed for inclusive, everyday drinking. It's all Aussie when it comes to the malt and hops, with a light dry-hopping of Vic Secret – not that many will be playing too much attention given the comments from tasters on the rigorous, 750 kilometre… Read more
Style
Session Ale
ABV
4.2%
Stockists

Available nationwide

Feral Brewing Biggie Juice (Cans)

Published March 19, 2019
It was all dream… In late Autumn 2017, a lurid, hip hop-referencing beer appeared at Feral’s Swan Valley brewpub with little fanfare. As an early Australian expression of the then little known New England IPA style, it was soon attracting lines of growler-wielding trub-chasers, much to the surprise of product development brewer Will Irving. The scenes mimicked the hazy pandemic sweeping breweries through the USA. With no locally available examples, Australian punters were coming to grips with… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA
ABV
6.0%

Feral Brewing War Hog

Published November 24, 2015
A beer that is something of an evolution of Feral's all-conquering Hop Hog, via some hop driven internecine warfare with Swan Valley neighbours Mash Brewing and the odd name change. Essentially, it's the beer that has been pouring at Feral's brewpub and, on occasion, at the country's better beer venues as Feral Cat, but tweaked and packaged under the new name of War Hog. It's pitched as an American IPA yet clocks in at 8 percent ABV, perhaps a future-proofing nod to the fact that, over time, the… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
8.0%
Stockists

At good beer stockists nationwide

Feral Brewing Karma Citra

Published July 10, 2015
If you're someone who's been drinking craft beer for a while, cast your mind back. Back to when the Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular was merely the Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular. Back when it was a one-day event featuring 20 new Aussie beers brewed for events at The Local Taphouses in St Kilda and Darlinghurst. Back before it became the behemoth it is today. Among the beers brewed for the day was a black IPA, then a very new concept in Australia only attempted by one or two commercial brewers.… Read more
Style
India Black Ale
ABV
5.8%

Feral's Runt

Taking the mantle of Australia's Champion Ale from its biggest brother, the Hop Hog, in 2010, this American Pale Ale showcases once more brewer Brendan Varis' skill at balancing big hop flavours with the perfect malt backbone. A more delicate, dry and lightly hopped version of the Hog, it won Brendan an invite to the UK to brew 100,000l of it in cask-conditioned form to be served across the country for the pub chain JP Wetherspoon's Real Ale Festival. Hopefully, he'll be bringing some casks back… Read more
Style
American Pale Ale
ABV
4.7%

Feral White

The brewery's first beer and still its best seller, the Feral White is a beautifully clean and balanced take on the Belgian witbier style. It's so established in WA that you're likely to find it on taps in places you'd never dream of finding a microbrewed beer. What's more, after issues with the brewery that was producing the bottled version of the beer, bottling is being moved in-house onto Feral's recently installed bottling line. As for the beer itself, it's made with 50% barley and 50% wheat… Read more
Style
Belgian witbier
ABV
4.6%

Feral Hop Hog

A beer that needs no introduction to lovers of Aussie craft beer. Champion Ale at the 2009 Australian International Beer Awards, the Hop Hog is a superb recreation of the IPAs that originate in the Pacific Northwest of the US. Massive pine needle and citrus aromas waft from its glowing copper-orange body, with the hops also supplying a seriously impressive bitterness, all kept in check by the perfect malt backbone. The beer was first put into bottles in 2010 as a means of getting it into more Aussie… Read more
Style
American Pale Ale
ABV
5.8%

Feral Funky Junkie

A first in Australian commercial brewing, this beer uses as part of its blend a beer that was allowed to spontaneously ferment with microflora from the Swan Valley region. The resulting beer was rather too funky to be sold untouched, but blended with other Feral beers, it's helped create an intensely sour beer unlike any other.… Read more
Style
Australian Sour
ABV
4.7%

Feral Dark Funk 2.0

Part of Feral's mission to introduce Aussie beer drinkers to the wonders of sour beer styles, the Dark Funk is a no-holds-barred mother that incorporates into its blend 20% of Feral's high alcohol Boris Imperial Stout that had spent 18 months being worked over by pediococcus.… Read more
Style
Dark Sour
ABV
5.3%

Feral Smoked Porter

Feral has had its Smoked Porter around for a while, a brewed-occasionally number you'd regularly find at the brewery in the Swan Valley and occasionally further afield. With the large new brewery now up to speed and plenty more beer to offer up to eager mouths, it's the beer that's been chosen as the fourth member of their permanent range. It's a beer in which the smoke is rather subtle, coming from the use of German malts smoked over Birchwood chips, for those who care for such details. It adds… Read more
Style
Smoked Porter
ABV
4.7%

Feral Sly Fox

It's the year of 4.7 per cent summer ales! OK, perhaps that's a little strong an assertion, but hot on the heels of Mountain Goat's 4.7 per cent Summer-in-a-can comes a Summer Ale from WA champs Feral. A year in development, it's going to be the latest addition to their permanent range (making it summer all year round) and is the first release to feature the new branding that will soon appear across all their beers. It's a golden, lightly filtered ale that has a low bitterness but retains the brewery's… Read more
Style
Summer Ale
ABV
4.7%
Stockists

On draught in WA end of Sept

Draught nationwide from mid-October

Bottles following in November

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Feral Brewing (CCEP) Specials

Feral Brewing Imperial Hop Hog

Published February 11, 2023
There’s an important distinction to note with Feral’s first limited release for 2023, and it’s not the rare departure from a red Feral logo – even though the gilded stamp here hints at more innovation in 2023. The clue is found in the tag – imperial pale ale, not India pale ale – given to a beer many old money drinkers will still view fondly as a gnarly beast that remains an epiphany beer for many, as well as a multi-award winner and early Hottest 100 hero (still the only beer to take… Read more
Style
Imperial Pale Ale
ABV
7.5%
Stockists

Launched in WA from February 10

Followed by a wider national release

Feral x Nail Nailraiser VJA

Published August 12, 2022
Marking ten years since they originally joined forces to create BrewCorp, Feral and Nail welcome Nailraiser. Given these two WA brewing icons have lived as siblings for 20 years, and shared a brewery for ten of those, it’s a wonder this hasn’t happened sooner. But then again, this is a long way from the then controversial fruity esters of Y2K Nail Ale or its assertive late Noughties stepbrother, Feral’s Hop Hog. Indeed, the outrage of Nailraiser pouring in any year, bar the last few, would… Read more
Style
Juicy IPA
ABV
7.5%
Stockists

Launching at The Dutch Trading Co on August 12

Then available nationwide in limited release

Feral Brewing Tropical Disco Sour

Published January 13, 2022
Having released one of the earliest sours in Australia to really go off, in the shape of Watermelon Warhead back at the turn of the 20Teens, Feral are no strangers to the puckering side of beer. Indeed, they'd been playing with wild ferments and other funky blends at their brewpub long before that too. Nor is Tropical Disco Sour a new beer, either, as it’s sashayed in and out of venues, draught-only, for the past few years. But it’s this literally eye-catching can which will likely cement lower… Read more
Style
Tropical Sour
ABV
4.2%
Stockists

Launching Jan 14 at Servo Leederville

Then across WA from Jan 17

Feral Brewing Tusk 2021

Published June 4, 2021
Tusk holds the title of Australia’s first IIPA / DIPA / imperial IPA / really big hoppy beer, one that – back in the early ‘aughts – wasn’t even dry-hopped because no one knew what DH, DDH, TDH – insert consonant-based acronym multiplier – was. Just imagine the palate-punching glee of all hot side hop extraction... Well, things have changed a bit, as has Tusk. Spoiler alert: it’s not clear. The 2010s saw the beer's aggressively-hopped, bi-annual, draught-only release turned into… Read more
Style
Imperial IPA
ABV
10.8%

Feral Brewing Dark Matter 2021

Published May 19, 2021
Dark matter surrounds us. There’s a lot of deep science about light, electromagnetic radiation and the like, and no agreement on what exactly it is or how we can even find out. Thankfully, there’s also coffee! And Feral’s returning dessert porter featuring Perth coffee roaster Laika’s new carbonic macerated bean from Veracruz, Mexico, as well as Dutch cocoa, Madagascan vanilla pods and lactose, puts it to work. But this isn’t the pastry party some may assume, instead Dark Matter 2021 is… Read more
Style
Dessert Porter
ABV
6.0%
Stockists

Available from the Swan Valley brewpub

And Feral stockists nationwide

Feral Brewing Shooter's Juicy IPA

Published February 10, 2021
Shooter’s was originally a draught only, 2018 GABS Festival release, one which may now be seen as a form of proto-oat cream IPA, although it's not labelled as such here. In the fickle and increasing ephemeral beer world, a beer like Shooter’s should have come and gone: a sweet fancy, stuffed with multiple breakfast cereals, and referencing an Adam Sandler vehicle whose moment was likely partially shared with increasingly-stained shoes on the wobbly walk back to an equally wobbly table inside… Read more
Style
Juicy IPA
ABV
7.0%
Stockists

Available from Feral stockists nationally

And from the brewpub, COVID restrictions permitting

Feral Brewing West Coast IIPA

Published October 23, 2020
Feral celebrate eighteen years of brewing the only way they know how: with a massive IPA that invites you to knock back a four-pack – even though you know this is probably a really bad idea. In order words, pretty much like many an eighteenth birthday party. As the first Feral beer designed by the entire brew team – and one which features Strata, Ekuanot and HPA-016, all hop varieties not normally associated with the brewery – West Coast IIPA could have moved stylistically away from its historical… Read more
Style
West Coast IIPA
ABV
9.0%
Stockists

Launched Oct 23 at besk and the Swan Valley brewpub

Nationwide the following week.

Feral Brewing Dirty Biggie

Published June 25, 2020
In what may be an Australian first, an East Coast style IPA has been given American oak treatment. But, if you know the history of the brewery behind the beer, it makes sense. Biggie Juice has become the hazy modern equivalent of the then boundary-pushing Hop Hog, which many moons ago became the basis for B.F.H. (Barrel Fermented Hop Hog). And, much like the manner in which the oak altered Hop Hog, the impact with Biggie isn't just another dimension to the beer – the oak changes it considerably,… Read more
Style
Oaked East Coast IPA
ABV
6.0%
Stockists

Available in limited release from Feral stockists nationwide

Feral Brewing Boris 2020

Published June 3, 2020
Boris is back, and that’s a good thing. There’s a straightforwardness to this beer that allows the drinker to meet it on Boris’ terms, which for most WA drinkers was always the dark, belligerent, odd-one-out in Feral's Swan Valley brewpub tasting paddles... “People drink this?” There's no concessions here. You like it or you don’t. However, it’s a relationship that grew over time and, like all great romances, ended up created a faithful following. As such, while times have changed,… Read more
Style
Russian Imperial Stout
ABV
9.1%
Stockists

Find Boris at Feral stockists nationwide

Feral Brewing BFH (Barrel Fermented Hog) 2020

Published February 6, 2020
BFH is an Old Money beer but for many this will be a new Feral release, seemingly perfectly positioned for the zeitgeist. In cans? Check! Cool label? Check! French oak fermented? Check! Milkshake IPA vibes? Check! But without any lactose – I checked. BFH almost centres a marketing Venn diagram of what’s hot right now, yet the reality is that innovation brewer Will Irving has been making it at the Swan Valley brewpub since 2011. BFH is Old Money, but it won’t be for long. Originally, BFH was… Read more
Style
Oak Fermented Pale Ale
ABV
5.8%
Stockists

Heading nationwide from Feb 7, 2020, in limited

Feral Brewing Tusk IIPA 2019 Edition

Published October 25, 2019
Tusk started life as Australia’s first double IPA, way back in 2003: brash, arrogant and without a dry hop regime in sight, because no one knew what DH or DDH was at the time, but that wasn’t the point. The OG was just big, malty and bitter; a creative endeavour to push things further. A decade later, it was resurrected with a tighter focus: quality. After pouring cooked imported IPAs into a potted ficus at the Swan Valley brewpub, former Feral owner Brendan Varis and innovation brewer Will… Read more
Style
Imperial IPA
ABV
10.9%
Stockists

Tapped first at Feral's Brewpub Tusk Day celebration on Oct 25 then...

WA – Oct 26

Balmoral Hotel

Besk

The Bird

Boardwalk Beer Festival

Clancy's Fish Bar City Beach

Clancy's Fish Pub Fremantle

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Feral Brewing Imperial Biggie Juice

Published June 14, 2019
Biggie is the juicy gift that keeps giving. Over the past few months, the OG has become core range and iterations like Dirty Biggie, an American oak version, have surfaced; however, they all appear to have been a warm up for this imperial release which dropped, appropriately, during the GABS East Coast run. Rather than just scale up Biggie Juice, the recipe was tweaked to include dry-hopping with Citra and Mosaic. The impact of this is pronounced sweet orange – peel in particular – and mandarin,… Read more
Style
Imperial East Coast IPA
ABV
8.0%
Stockists

Launching at the Swan Valley brewpub on June 14 before a limited nationwide can release.

Feral Brewing King Brown 2019

Published May 21, 2019
In amongst a wave of Biggie Juice iterations and a riff on a Japanese whisky High Ball, Feral have released a Cognac barrel-aged brown ale that deserves more attention than it’s likely to get. The original 2011 release (the first keg of which was tapped at The Crafty Pint's first birthday, trivia fans) was rated by both former owner Brendan Varis and innovation brewer Will Irving as one on the top five Feral releases ever, so perhaps it’s worth looking behind the wave of haze and hype. "Solid",… Read more
Style
Cognac Barrel-Aged Brown Ale
ABV
6.8%
Stockists

From the Swan Valley brewpub

Feral Brewing Tusk IIPA (Spring 2018 Release)

Published November 16, 2018
What began in 2003 as a high ABV beer with no dry hopping has, in recent years, become an incredibly hyped beer that, twice a year, Feral have used to spread the message of the importance of freshness in beer as well as the cold chain when it comes to logistics. Sampling spring 2018’s release, the brewery's biggest iteration yet, an hour after the beer was kegged off, there's no doubt that it delivers on this promise. And then some. Pineapple and papaya are most evident with a wisp of mandarin… Read more
Style
Imperial IPA
ABV
13.5%
Stockists

Launched in WA on Nov 16 then heading east

Including a Tusk Day event at Forester's on Nov 23

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Feral Brewing Dank Blanc Brut IPA

Published July 30, 2018
“I don’t get it. It’s like a dry, hoppy lager.” “How drinkable is this?! This will be perfect for summer.” And there you have two disparate opinions on Feral’s Dank Blanc. To be fair, they're as much a comment on the Brut IPA style as the technical wizardry on display in brewer Will Irving’s Dank Blanc. So, before we get to the beer at hand, a little context... This is not a dry, hoppy lager but it does use a very similar malt base to Feral's Perth Local (a lager) before ably distinguishing… Read more
Style
Brut IPA
ABV
6.5%
Stockists

And a handful of other good beer venues (more to come)

Dank Blanc is also available from the Swan Valley brewpub. If they've not redeemed the offer yet, Crafty Cabal members can enjoy a free growler AND fill from the brewpub too.

Feral Brewing Shooter McGavin's Breakfast IPA

Published July 26, 2018
Despite selling out at every GABS session, meaning many attendees didn't get to taste it, Shooter McGavin’s Breakfast IPA from Feral still managed to place second in the People Choice. Perhaps it’s this fervour that called for a revisit, as the fruity NEIPA is now hitting taps around WA. In some coughs loudly out of the box thinking, the Feral team has literally put breakfast into a beer style most associated with breakfast juice, describing mash inclusions as having, “grains of nutra, flakes… Read more
Style
Breakfast NEIPA
ABV
7.1%

Feral Brewing & The Queens Malt Fiction

Published July 12, 2018
The Brewer's Loft events at The Queens in Mt Lawley have been showcasing a WA brewery on the first Tuesday of the month for the past couple of years. Working with WABA and the Perth Royal Beer Awards, the events have allowed punters to enjoy $5 pints and schmooze with their favourite brewing teams and, when the hosting Feral for the July event, they decided an exclusive collaboration was in order. While workshopping other names, Brewer's Loft brand ambassador Debbie Lilly coined the beer’s name,… Read more
Style
Vanilla Milkshake Pale Ale
ABV
5.0%
Stockists

Malt Fiction is at Feral’s Swan Valley Brewpub and the Queens in Mt Lawley

Feral Brewing & RTR FM The Pines

Published May 16, 2018
To celebrate the 25th In The Pines music festival, Perth community radio station teamed up with Feral to create a celebratory beer. Local musicians Lucky Peach and Em Burrows joined head brewer Will Irving at the Swan Valley Brewpub with the intention of creating a sessionable beer that would suit a full day underneath the Somerville Auditorium pines – but one with a local spin. With this in mind, the addition of native Aussie quandong (the second appearance of the marvellously named fruit in a… Read more
Style
Australian Pale Ale with Quandong
ABV
4.8%

Feral Brewing Brewpub Series: I Am Froot

Published May 4, 2018
“I am groot”. Repeating those three words for a week as the Stan Lee-created tree-humanoid in Guardians of the Galaxy may well have been the easiest acting role Vin Diesel's ever had. Never mind that he apparently had a 50 page script to help provide context for each recital. On face value, it’s a pretty sweet gig. And so is the new grapefruit IPA from Feral that puns upon the name of the anthropomorphic tree. The grapefruit isn't the only addition – there's lime too – and their impact… Read more
Style
Fruit IPA
ABV
6.9%
Stockists

On tap at the Swan Valley brewpub and select beer venues nationwide

Feral Tusk – Autumn 2018

Published April 6, 2018
It’s interesting that a single beer can hold such attention and hype but, despite its longevity, Tusk seems to continue to do just that. For many Perth locals, Tusk Day means taking the afternoon off work or even lining up at the Swan Valley brewpub before opening to get a taste of the Imperial IPA. The hype surrounding Tusk certainly ensures that it’s “fresh is best” mantra is adhered to with many venues selling out of their single keg within hours – the current record is 33 minutes. For… Read more
Style
IIPA
ABV
10.6%

Feral Brewing, The Bird & Peche Prickle Rick Pale Ale

Published March 8, 2018
In yet another collab from the Feral Brewing team, the Rick & Morty inspired beer multiverse is explored in the company of Northbridge small bar The Bird and graphic artist Dipesh “Peche” Prasad. Prickly pears handpicked from a Swan Valley neighbour of the brewery were supplemented by locally sourced fruit then combined in a pale ale with Azzaca and El Dorado hops. On launch night at The Bird, while proud of the result, head brewer Will Irving said it likely won't be happening again. The… Read more
Style
Prickly Pear Pale Ale
ABV
5.4%

Feral Brewing & Abbe May Bitch Craft

Published February 13, 2018
Feral Brewing has become one of the most frequent collaborators in recent times and here looks to raise the temperature with a brewing cauldron that has one of WA's most lauded songstresses stirring the pot. Named after the second track of R&B funk oozing from Abbe May’s album Fruit, Bitch Craft presents opaque orange in the glass with fresh squeezed lime, candied lime peel and lime flowers on the nose – basically, a bunch of lime variations - with some grapefruit and grassiness in there… Read more
Style
Citrus Summer Ale
ABV
6.0%

Feral Brewing Biggie Juice East Coast IPA

Published February 9, 2018
The momentum around Feral’s Biggie Juice continues as the turbid, tropical NEIPA – here labeled an East Coast IPA – rolls out of the Perth brewery as its latest Brewpub Series release. What began last May as a one-off collab for Good Beer Week with friends from the Royston in Melbourne – featured on the label here – evolved into a highly sought after beer that eventually landed 88th place in 2017’s Hottest 100, one of the few draught only entries to do so, as well as a slot in our Best… Read more
Style
East Coast IPA
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
40 IBU
Stockists

Launched in WA on Feb 8

Making its way nationwide thereafter

Feral & Old Faithful Walrus Tears

Published December 7, 2017
An American BBQ joint, an ex-Captain America artist and a shower beer blogger walk into a brewery. No, really, they did and the result was no half cooked idea or rush at opportunism. Instead, Walrus Tears is a poised lemon and rosemary gose that celebrates the flavours of low and slow cooking. The collaborators discussed creating a beer that would enhance the dining experience and settled on the gose style to balance the richness of Perth restaurant Old Faithful's menu. Salt levels for the beer were… Read more
Style
Lemon & Rosemary Gose
ABV
5.3%

Feral & Caboose Mango Ganguly

Published December 7, 2017
When the back of the train reached the heart of the (Swan) valley, the resultant Darjeeling Limited-like collaboration turned into a subcontinental spiced mango lassi IPA. Taking its name (well, half of it) from the former Indian captain and inspiration from his homeland, it's a beer that manages to retain Ganguly's elegant balance despite piling 200g of uncracked cardamom, freshly pulped mango and lactose into the 1000 litre batch. The last of these contribute to a creamy mouthfeel while the fruity… Read more
Style
Mango Lassi IPA
ABV
6.5%

Feral Brewing F-15 Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Brown Ale

Published October 25, 2017
As the April days became shorter and cooler in the Swan Valley, a 6 percent ABV brown ale began a six month hibernation through the dark days of winter. This was no ordinary slumber, however, because this humble brown ale would be kept safe and warm in bourbon barrels from one of the most sought after distilleries in the world, Heaven Hill. It was awoken in October's spring sunshine, revealing an an elegant beer befitting the 15th anniversary of the Feral Brewing Co. Clearly, much has changed during… Read more
Style
Bourbon Barrel Aged Anniversary Ale
ABV
9.0%

Feral Brewing Finn Diesel

Published June 8, 2017
There are plenty of excellent people working in all parts of the beer industry. And, in the opinion of the inhabitants of Crafty Towers, one of the most excellent is the man variously known as Dreamy Steve, "The tall, good looking one?" (Mrs Pint), Steve Finney or, thanks to this beer, Finn Diesel. Many of the things you'll have seen from Feral in the past few years, mainly the non-liquid things – rebranding, events and the like – have had Dreamy's fingerprints all over them after he… Read more
Style
American IPA
ABV
6.6%
Stockists

Available nationwide in good beer outlets

Feral Brewing Ace of Base

Published August 25, 2016
Feral's Brewpub Series sees them, on occasion, pluck a favourite beer from the many that have previously graced the taps at their Swan Valley brewpub (and often not too many other places). For winter 2016, they went back a little in time and opted for Ace of Base, a beer that, in typical Feral fashion, isn't the sort you might expect to see in the colder months and that, in typical Feral "styles be damned" fashion, they've tagged an "imperial India saison" for its bottle release.… Read more
Style
Imperial India Saison
ABV
8.3%
Stockists

And good beer stockists where you find Feral beers

Feral Knuckles & Milky Johnson & Houblon Voyage & Jackal

Published July 31, 2015
Given the scale of the tap takeovers they've been embarking upon – 32 beers at Forester's; 33 in the forthcoming event at Keg & Brew – there's been much in the way of new beer coming out of WA's Feral. Indeed, there are four new, draught-only beers available now at said takeovers and wherever else they're requested. And, being Feral, they're all rather different. Knuckles is a collaboration with Freo coffee roasters Darkstar: an American style pale ale infused with their beans. We're told… Read more
Style
Various
ABV
5.2% / 5.2% / 6.0% / 3.0%
Bitterness
40 / 30 / 50 / 8 IBU
Stockists

Feral Brewery

Others TBC

Feral Brewpub Series Hopfen Fahrt (bottles & kegs)

Published July 7, 2014
Hopfen Fahrt first saw the light of day as part of Feral's Brewpub Series of limited releases in draught form. It's a beer that uses a bunch of new wave German hops just arrived in small amounts Down Under. It's unusual hop character made it "one of the most divisive beers we have produced," according to the brewery - very much a love it or hate it beer for drinkers. So, being Feral, they decided they should brew loads more of it and unleash it again in bottle form across the land. It's… Read more
Style
German IPA
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
52 IBU
Stockists

Bottles and kegs to WA venues from July 7

East Cost from July 14

Actual venues TBC

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Feral Karma Chameleon

Published June 20, 2014
The Crafty Pint's younger brother was born while Karma Chameleon was number one in the British charts and here at Crafty Towers we tend to enjoy hoppy dark ales. And now Feral has released a hoppy dark ale - a massive one at that - called Karma Chameleon. Spooky! What can it mean? That our dreams will be red, gold and green? That we'll develop a smack habit, move to New York, become a Hari Krishna then undergo a transformation into a moderately talented but popular-on-the-house-circuit DJ? Or that… Read more
Style
Imperial India Black Ale
ABV
10.0%
Bitterness
84IBU
Stockists

On keg going to each of:

Sail & Anchor

Old Faithful - WA

The Pour House - WA

The Alehouse Project

The Terminus

[Grain Store](/beer/bar/grain-store/

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Feral / CUB / 2 Brothers Land of Plenty

Published May 22, 2014
It's not too often you see brewing behemoths like CUB becoming involved in collaborations. OK, so its craft beer arm Matilda Bay has been brewing the Abbey Collabbey for Good Beer Week for the past four years, but this time around it's the mothership getting involved. Last year's Australian International Beer Awards saw the Champion Australian Brewery trophies split into Small, Medium and Large, which meant this year's AIBA Collaborator would include brewers from all three. That saw brewers Andrew… Read more
Style
Unfiltered Lager
ABV
6.0%
Stockists

At select craft beer stockists nationwide

Feral

2 Brothers

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Feral Brewpub Series: Kelis

Published May 7, 2014
So, the accompanying artwork features a leggy black lady in leotard, complete with wild boar's head sat atop a tankard of beer that appears to have a dollop of ice cream in the top. Why, that must mean it's a Saisonâ?¦ Ummm... No, we weren't sure why either, but the good chaps at Feral have explained the thinking behind naming their latest draught-only Brewpub Series release after the singer who brought the world Milkshake. Apparently, just as her milkshake brought all the boys to the yard, so… Read more
Style
Saison
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
52 IBU
Stockists

Initially, on tap at the Feral brewpub.

Will update if / when it appears elsewhere...

Feral Brewpub Series: Barrique O'Karma

Published April 11, 2014
Fresh kegs of the latest batch of Feral's Barrique O'Karma have been hitting taps around Australia for a couple of weeks now. However, with one of the brewery's staff telling us the bottled version ' the latest beer in their occasional Brewpub Series ' is the best beer they had ever put into a bottle, we thought we should wait until we could get our hands on a stubby. Well, now we have, and... First, a recap of the beer. Initially brewed for last year's Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular, Barrique… Read more
Style
Oaked India Black Ale
ABV
6.5%
Stockists

At good bottleshops and craft beer bars nationwide

Feral Beral

Published April 1, 2014
The current craze for craft brewers to put their product into cans continues unabated. Latest to get involved is the reigning Champion Medium Brewery of Australia, Feral. The arrival of their first can has come almost unheralded and, most surprising of all, it is also their first cider. Feral Beral is launched following extensive research by the Swan Valley brewer which showed that, while Feral's core beer products appealed to discerning drinkers of both genders, they where missing out on a significant… Read more
Style
Extra Sweet Cider
ABV
5.0%
Stockists

Nationwide at good bottleshops

Feral Brewing Nan's Driving

Published March 24, 2014
It's all go out Feral at the moment, it seems. No sooner had a fresh batch of Watermelon Warhead made its way from the Swan Valley brewery than the German IPA Hopfen Fahrt followed, and now this limited release too. Nan's Driving is a tea-infused Amber Ale that we are told has "a slightly sweet malt body and an easy going bitter finish." The tea comes into play at the end of fermentation when the brewers add jasmine and green tea leaves to the fermenter, leaving the beer with an earthiness… Read more
Style
Amber Ale
ABV
3.2%
Bitterness
26IBU
Stockists

Feral

The Wheaty

Others TBC

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Feral Brewing Hopfen Fahrt

Published March 20, 2014
As the popularity of New World hop varieties has grown, there has been less love around for the Old World. But, just as Australia's main grower, Hop Products Australia, has changed direction in recent years to wind down production of Pride of Ringwood and its ilk in favour of new stars such as Galaxy, Ella and Vic Secret, so have breeders in Europe. Recent times have seen the traditional hop growing regions of Germany endeavouring to create flamboyant and expressive aroma and flavour hops to rival… Read more
Style
German IPA
ABV
6.4%
Bitterness
52 IBU

Feral Brewing Watermelon Warhead

Published March 7, 2014
The rise of sour beers in Australia hasn't been as rapid as many might have expected. It is understandable; when you're playing with bugs and barrels and wild beasties ' and something that, like love for Phil Collins, can't be hurried ' you're in a different ballpark than the relatively simple water, hops, malt and yeast scenario. However, the sour that has caused most excitement over the past couple of years is back. Watermelon Warhead made its bow at the 2012 Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular,… Read more
Style
Berliner-Weisse
ABV
2.9%
Awards

GABS 2012 People's Choice
CBA Champion Craft Beer 2015

Feral Brewpub Series: Boris

Published June 20, 2013
It seems the brewing maestros at Feral are genre-benders. Hop Hog IPA has made a habit of winning the Pale Ale trophy at the Australian International Beer Awards and now Boris has picked up the trophy for Best Porter despite being tagged as a Russian Imperial Stout. If anything, it shows that the brewers there know their beers inside out and just where they're going to fit within judging style guides. Semantics aside, any beer that wins a trophy is likely to be a cracker. And, as anyone who's come… Read more
Style
Russian Imperial Stout
ABV
9.1%
Awards

Best Porter at the 2013 Australian International Beer Awards

Stockists

Feral

Australia wide at good bottleshops such as these

Feral Tusk

Published April 26, 2013
When The Crafty Pint was over in the US in March, there was plenty of hype around Stone Brewing's Enjoy By Double IPA, a new release from the Californians that is sent out as fresh as possible with the date before which it must be drunk emblazoned across it. The result is an impeccably fresh hop bomb of a beer in which the hop characteristics don't have time to taper off. The day before returning, we had another IPA - Maine's Lunch - recommended to us that, again, comes with a tight best before date… Read more
Style
Imperial IPA
ABV
9.8%
Stockists

September 2013 release venues

Five Bar

Sail & Anchor

Clancy's City Beach

Norfolk Hotel

SA

The Wheaty

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Feral Brewpub Series: Raging Flem

Published March 25, 2013
In their 10-plus years of brewing, Feral has accumulated such a long and wildly varied list of beers on its roster that you rarely see one-off, limited releases from them. Instead, it's more a case of waiting until the next batch of Boris/Fantapants/Watermelon Warhead/Razorback (delete as appropriate) appears on tap or travelling to the brewery's home venue in the Swan Valley to sample them year round. In fact, whenever a new release does appear, chances are it's going to become a permanent fixture… Read more
Style
Belgian IPA
ABV
7.4%
Stockists

Feral

Australia wide at good bottleshops such as these

Feral White Hog

Published October 18, 2012
The most successful brewery in recent Aussie history turned ten this year and decided to mark the occasion with a new beer. How to mark the occasion appropriately? Why not combine their first and historically best-selling beer - the White Ale - with their most successful - the Hop Hog. The result is the White Hog (well, they did tell us recently they don't put much thought into their beer names!). According to the brewers, the beer displays "all the bitter hoppiness of the Hog and the smooth… Read more
Style
Belgian White IPA?
ABV
5.8%
Bitterness
52 IBU
Stockists

Feral

The Alehouse Project

Other good beer bars tbc

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Feral Watermelon Warhead

Published September 17, 2012
Named after the sour kids' lollies, this was originally the Swan Valley brewery's entry for the 2012 Great Australasian Beer Spectapular. When asked to nominate a style, Feral said it was along the lines of a Berliner Weisse, although that their main aim was to create something akin to said kids' lollies. The beer itself went down so well at the Spectapular and then everywhere else that it appeared, both in Australia and overseas at Beervana NZ, that it's now being brewed regularly. It's a fine,… Read more
Style
Berliner Weisse
ABV
2.9%
Stockists

Feral

Feral King Brown

Published October 16, 2011
Of all the beers that were put on the lineup for the Festival of the Frothy, few had people more excited than this, a cognac barrel-aged Imperial Brown from Feral. Perhaps it was because it was a new beer from Feral, perhaps it was because the brewer Brendan Varis had called it the "most luscious" beer they'd ever created which, given the output from their Swan Valley base, is quite a claim. The result is a deeply dark brown beer and one that lives very much in the darker realms of flavour… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Imperial Brown
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Feral

Beer DeLuxe

Feral Boris (2011)

Published August 5, 2011
One of the first Aussie beers to go really big when it was first brewed, Feral's Russian Imperial Stout weighs in at nigh on 12%. A big, bold, jet black, take-no-prisoners kind of a beer, a new batch has just been unleased by the Swan Valley brewers and started appearing on a handful of taps around the country. We've yet to get our smackers around the latest incarnation so are handing over tasting note duties to Al, who runs the Great Northern Hotel and has just taken delivery of a couple of kegs.… Read more
Style
Russian Imperial Stout
ABV
11.5%

Feral Golden Ace

Published April 27, 2011
In the ongoing quest to create new beers and serve up new flavours, brewers are often on the lookout for an ingredient that can add something different. Late last year, a new hop variety arrived in Australia - the Sorachi Ace developed by Japanese brewery Sapporo. A couple of Victorian brewers played with it - each thinking they'd brewed the first commercial Sorachi Ace beer in Oz, only for Crafty to discover the guys at Feral in WA had beaten them to the punch. Feral 983 was the beer in question… Read more
Style
Belgian Golden Ale
ABV
5.6%
Stockists

Feral - Now

Perth bars - Now

Perth bottlesops - From May 2

The Local Taphouse St Kilda - May 3

The Local Taphouse Darlo - May 3

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BFH (Barrel Fermented Hop Hog)

How do you improve on one of the best beers in the land? In the case of the Hop Hog, Brendan Varis stuck his award-winner into new French oak barriques for its primary fermentation before switching it to stainless steel for final processing and carbonation. He says: "Think of all the great pine needle and grapefruit you associate with Hop Hog with an added vanilla aroma and softened mouthfeel." We say, try it wherever you can find it - it's marvellous.… Read more
Style
Barrel Fermented IPA
ABV
5.8%