Temple Brewing

The renaissance of Temple is one of the great comeback stories of the modern Australian craft beer world. The original incarnation of the brewery and bar in Brunswick East – itself borne from one of Australia's original "gypsy" breweries in late 2011 – ran into difficulties and was forced to close its doors for a few months in 2013.

When new owners took over later that year, bringing a new look to the beers, a new feel to the venue and, ultimately, new beers too, one wondered how they would fare. Within a year or so it was clear the new Temple was here to stay.

In many ways, the new Temple is like the old Temple: same location off Lygon Street, same highly specced brewery, same eye-catching stone bars bearing "TEMPLE" in huge lettering and walls of glass offering unhindered views into the brewery. But much has changed too.

Today the core range consists of Anytime Pale Ale, Bicycle Beer, Weston St IPA, Okinawa Sour and New World Order while limited-releases have become a regular part of what Temple does and keeps the brew team busy experimenting.

From day one, Temple set out to offer food of a quality rarely seen at breweries, initially through a menu that tended towards gastropub fare. Today the focus is on a South American-inspired menu, with cassava, Brazilian stews and pastels (deep-fried pastries) providing the perfect accompaniment to the brewery's beers.

The food offering is part of the reason the venue has, like craft beer venues and brewery bars generally, started to attract a broad congregation through its doors. The opening of a long-mooted beer garden on Weston Street has helped too, while the upstairs function space with its own bar has come into its own and regularly hosts Temple's comedy nights.

The new team has also got Temple involved in many projects outside the beer world via sponsorship and partnerships. In part, it's all about supporting causes with which they share a bond – the Bicycle Beer makes them a great fit for the Melbourne Roubaix – but also those for which they have a personal passion that can help spread the better beer message into new areas.

The Pet Haven regularly pops up in the beer garden to help lost dogs find a home and Temple also supports local music, arts and cultural events both in the local neighbourhood and further afield too.

Award-winning beers, a slick venue, fine food and friends in all sorts of places – what more reason do you need to worship at Temple?

Name
Temple Brewing
Address

122 Weston Street
East Brunswick
VIC 3057

Phone
(03) 9380 8999
Open Hours

Thursday: 5pm to 11pm
Fri & Sat: midday to 11pm
Sunday: midday to 9pm


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The Specials

Temple Brewing IWD DDH IPL
Temple Brewing x Ellerslie It's Always Balmy In Brunswick
Temple Brewing 666
Temple Brewing x Market Lane Starry Sky
Temple Brewing & Oriental Teahouse Strawberry & Cream Tea Party
Temple Brewing Thongs & Jandals
Temple Brewing 888 Mandarin Sour 2022
Temple Brewing Raspberry Lime Tea Party
Temple Brewing Last Tram To Brunswick
Temple Brewing Hazy #4
Temple Brewing Hazy #3
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Temple Brewing Regulars

Temple Brewing New World Order Stout

Published June 8, 2019
New World Order is a stout that’s been a regular released from Temple for years, originally created by the stout-loving former head brewer Glenn Harrison, a man who's been known to claim he'd love little more than to open a stout-only brewery. Opaque, and American-influenced (in other words, more heavily and punchily hopped than your traditional stout), it joined the brewery’s core range when the lineup was revamped. And, like the rest of Temple's range, it's been moved into cans ready for winter… Read more
Style
American Stout
ABV
6.5%

Temple Brewing Okinawa Sour

Published December 20, 2018
In a craft brewing scene rapidly filling with fruited kettle sours, Temple’s Okinawa Sour stands somewhat apart from the crowd. Largely, that’s thanks to the inclusion of the shikuwasa fruit, which is only grown in two regions in the world, Taiwan and the Okinawa province of Japan. Temple’s beer makes full use of the shikuwasa, which sits somewhere between a lime and a yuzu on the flavour spectrum, to create what's quite the quaffable drop. Okinawa Sour combines a citrus zest with a slight… Read more
Style
Citrus Sour
ABV
4.0%
Bitterness
17 IBU

Temple Bicycle Beer

One of Temple’s most established (and best known) permanent beers is a refresher with relatively low alcohol designed for, you guessed it, quaffing while still leaving the drinker able to cycle home. It combines the new world hops of Azacca, Citra and Mosaic for a fruit-forward punch that leans mostly towards citrus. The inclusion of wheat in the malt bill gives the beer a slightly soft and smooth mouthfeel but largely, this flagship beer is built for drinking a pint or tin of and feeling you can… Read more
Style
Golden Ale
ABV
4.2%
Bitterness
21 IBU

Temple Brewing Anytime Pale Ale

When Anytime Pale first launched at Temple, it was given the style tag session IPA, being a beer that packed that little bit more a punch than a pale ale but didn’t have quite the level of booze as most IPAs. The beer has since been rebranded to, simply, the Anytime Pale Ale, due to some confusion from drinkers as to what it was – a pale or IPA. What the beer has retained is its hop flavours and aromas of citrus and pine with a clean, light and only slightly sweet body designed presumably, so… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
4.7%
Awards

AIBA 2015 Best International Pale Ale

Temple Brewing Weston St IPA

Temple’s Weston St IPA is a tribute to two things: the brewery’s home in Brunswick East and dank West Coast IPAs. First brewed as a limited release in 2019, it’s since joined the brewery’s core range and the beer's look pays further homage to the brewery’s locale. Though classic in concept, the beer does make use of one more modern aspect of craft brewing in its use of Cryo hops over pellets, with a trio of Cascade, Simcoe and Chinook providing a punch of flavours for the crystal clear… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
7.4%

Temple Brewing Specials

Temple Brewing IWD DDH IPL

Published March 3, 2023
To celebrate International Women’s Day for 2023, the women who work at Melbourne’s Temple Brewing designed beer you don't often see, an IPL. But not just any India Pale Lager, either, this one was double dry-hopped with HBC 586, Amarillo and Mosaic.The recipe is Rachel Freeman’s, with the Temple brewer wanting to bring together some excellent American hops on a lean base. It’s certainly an excellent combination too, with fresh notes of pawpaw, pineapple and mandarin quite intense before being… Read more
Style
DDH IPL
ABV
6.4%

Temple Brewing x Ellerslie It's Always Balmy In Brunswick

Published January 16, 2023
Temple Brewing have started a new year paying tribute to their history, with the Brunswick East brewery releasing a collab with their former head brewery, Glenn Harrison. These days, Glenn’s the technical brewer at Ellerslie Australia; a job that sees him test and trial the suppliers' hops and other brewing ingredients to discover how brewers can get the most out of them. For It’s Always Balmy In Brunswick, he brought Trident Salvo along with him to the famous beachside suburb (that’s a joke… Read more
Style
Saison
ABV
6.3%

Temple Brewing 666

Published September 23, 2022
If you’re going to brew a beer called 666, you better make sure you get the ritual right. A hop out of place here, too much booze over there and suddenly you’re 6.66 percent ABV red IPA is 7.0 percent and a tribute to the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you feel about demonic possessions), Temple Brewing managed to get it right with their red IPA and used a blend of six different malts while hopping six times throughout the brewing. Although… Read more
Style
Red IPA
ABV
6.66%

Temple Brewing x Market Lane Starry Sky

Published July 29, 2022
Temple’s home of Brunswick East is a pretty good place for drinking craft beer but the Melbourne suburb does just as well when it comes to coffee. Indeed, right by the brewery sits Market Lane Coffee’s head office and roastery and the two manufacturers of delicious drinks felt it was time to work on a big beer together. That big beer is Starry Sky, an imperial Irish stout made with Brazilian coffee beans sourced by Market Lane. It might be thanks to the beans themselves, it could be the amount… Read more
Style
Imperial Irish Stout
ABV
12.0%

Temple Brewing & Oriental Teahouse Strawberry & Cream Tea Party

Published June 16, 2022
Towards the end of 2021, Temple Brewing got together with their mates at Oriental Teahouse to create a beer inspired by raspberry and lime tea. It may sound like an unusual flavour of tea but - much like many craft brewers - it doesn't really feel like the crew at the Melbourne restaurant likes to limit themselves, with quite a dizzying array of different types of tea on offer from their multiple homes. For GABS 2022, the collaborators come together again to create Strawberry & Cream Tea Party,… Read more
Style
Sour Ale
ABV
5.0%

Temple Brewing Thongs & Jandals

Published May 3, 2022
Russell Crowe. Keith Urban. Barnaby Joyce. Some of Australia’s biggest celebrities are actually New Zealanders and it’s not something that ever seems to bother us too much (well, except when issues involving the last person in that last came before the High Court). If you were being kind, you might say it’s because the close bond between the two countries makes such differences meaningless but arguably, it’s more likely due to a desire from Australians to take credit for some of New Zealand’s… Read more
Style
DDH Hazy IPA
ABV
6.2%

Temple Brewing 888 Mandarin Sour 2022

Published January 24, 2022
Temple Brewing’s celebration of the start of a new Chinese New Year is back for its fourth year, with the "lucky" 888 mandarin beer taking on a new style and as new symbolic animal. You can read the story behind the beer and the very first release, a lion saison, here, while the last two versions have both been both mandarin pale ales. As we reach the year of the tiger, the Brunswick East brewery have brewed a sour that uses not just mandarin juice but is also dry-hopped with Hop Products… Read more
Style
Mandarin Sour
ABV
4.0%

Temple Brewing Raspberry Lime Tea Party

Published December 20, 2021
It’s been another very off-kilter year and before it’s out, Temple Brewing have looked to capture it with the Alice In Wonderland-inspired artwork of Raspberry Lime Tea Party. The beer’s a collaboration with Oriental Teahouse, which operate multiple restaurants in Melbourne with a devotion to dumplings, yum cha, other traditional Chinese food and flavourful drinks. The beer is based on their Raspberry & Lime Tea, with the Brunswick East brewery capturing that hot drink in a cold can by… Read more
Style
Rpasberry & Lime Sour
ABV
4.1%

Temple Brewing Last Tram To Brunswick

Published September 2, 2021
They’ve been making up for lost time at Temple. Their first hazy IPA to appear in tins arrived as recently as early 2020 – the aptly named Last Train To Boston – but the Brunswick East brewery soon followed that with a four-part Hazy IPA series released across six months. Now, in 2021, they’ve brewed a sibling to that original hazy; a DDH NEIPA by the name of Last Tram To Brunswick. In some ways, the brewers have done a disservice to tram lovers everywhere as the label image features an illustration… Read more
Style
DD NEIPA
ABV
6.8%

Temple Brewing Hazy #4

Published June 3, 2021
Temple Brewing started making hazy IPAs a little later than most, with the brewery only releasing their first - the aptly titled Last Train To Boston - at the start of 2020. The Brunswick East brewery has been making up for lost time though, launching their Hazy Series at the close of that year with the promise to release four beers focused on hops and haze. The final member of that series was launched at GABS 2021 but has also been given a wider release in cans that share in the scientifically stylized… Read more
Style
DDH Double NEIPA
ABV
7.6%

Temple Brewing Hazy #3

Published March 26, 2021
Given number two was bigger than number one in the first two beers in Temple Brewing's Hazy Series, we were working on the assumption that number three might dial things up a little further. Instead, Hazy #3 is the lightest yet released in a series of four with brewer Ross creating a rather sessionable hazy pale and looking to see how Motueka, Cryo Citra and El Dorado hops interact with kveik yeast. Cracking it, the first notes to come forward are lemon rind meets orange, while they're joined by… Read more
Style
Kveik Pale Ale
ABV
5.5%

Temple Brewing 888 Mandarin Ale 2021

Published February 1, 2021
Now enjoying its third iteration, Temple Brewing’s celebration of the beginning of another Chinese New Year, the 888 Mandarin Ale, continues to change with the passing of another lunar year. The first 888 was a lion-backed saison – which you can read about here – while the next saw Temple switch the recipe to a pale ale for the year of the rat. Now, for 2021, the Brunswick East brewery has marked the start of the year of the bull with another mandarin pale ale, though with changes beyond a… Read more
Style
Mandarin Pale Ale
ABV
4.5%

Temple Brewing Blackberry Rhubarb Gose

Published December 23, 2020
Every time I visit my parents in South Gippsland, I can’t leave without my dad offering me some rhubarb. Sometimes it’s a few stalks of the stuff, often it’s part of the plant’s crown; with the assertion being that I should really be growing it in my own garden. It’s not often I’ll leave with any because while I quite the stuff, I rarely know what to do with it. Sure, put it with apples and make a crumble but I did that twice during Melbourne’s endless lockdowns and that was quite enough.… Read more
Style
Gose
ABV
4.2%

Temple Brewing Hazy IPA #1 & #2

Published December 1, 2020
Having only released their first hazy IPA – the aptly named Last Train To Boston – towards the start of 2020, the Brunswick brewery has doubled down towards the close of the year with the launch of their Hazy Series. It's set to feature four variants, with different Temple brewers designing the recipes for each and having the freedom to explore what's a growing field of hazy sub-styles. The first two come as a pair with Hazy #1 dubbed a DDH New England IPA and featuring the hops Palisade and… Read more
Style
NEIPAs
ABV
6.6% & 8.4%

Temple Brewing Trident Tropical Sour

Published October 6, 2020
Melburnians might still be waiting to enjoy the city’s beer gardens once more but, if scenes from the weekend are anything to go by, park beers are very much the order of the day. And Temple Brewing’s spring seasonal release – a sour with generous dry-hopping – is designed with those situations very much in mind. That dry-hopping features Trident, a hop blend out of America made up of three different hops grown in the Pacific Northwest. It’s a fitting blend for a kettle sour too, as it’s… Read more
Style
Tropical Sour
ABV
5.5%

Temple Brewing Cakepricot

Published June 29, 2020
In 1832, the Austrian Empire's Chancellor, Prince Metternich, had a particularly important dinner party to organise and some guests he needed to impress. He did what you can do when you've got an empire's finances and an army of workers under your control and tasked his kitchen staff with coming up with a new cake. But, with the head chef unwell, that task fell on a 16-year-old apprentice named Franz Sacher who set off to pound chocolate, eggs and apricot together in a manner that impressed not… Read more
Style
Imperial Dessert Stout
ABV
9.2%

Temple Brewing Last Train To Boston & Pineapple Seltzer

Published March 26, 2020
Temple Brewing’s twin tinnie release sees the Brunswick brewery arrive a little late to one party but nice and early to the seltzer soirée. Last Train To Boston is a NEIPA - the brewery’s first to get a wide release – and one that’s triple dry-hopped, thus enabling the brewery to give the beer an extra dash of modernity by calling it a TDH NEIPA. That heavy hopping regime also gives the beer a big hit of orange, along with mango and nectarine, in a soft, thick and entirely opaque beer. … Read more
Style
TDH NEIPA & Fruit Seltzer
ABV
6.4% & 4.7%

Temple Brewing 888 Mandarin Ale

Published January 23, 2020
With a history stretching back 3,800 years, to say Chinese New Year is an important celebration on the calendars of millions around the globe is an understatement. Marking the start of the Lunar Calendar, it sees people toast to good fortune, prosperity and wealth among many other things, as well as being a time for gift giving, special meals and catching up with family and friends in a manner not unlike the Christian festive period. Symbolism during Chinese New Year is strong. For example, the colour… Read more
Style
Mandarin Ale
ABV
4.5%
Stockists

Available from the brewery and Temple stockists nationwide

Temple Brewing Nitro Espresso Stoutini

Published August 7, 2019
The recent playfulness continues at Temple Brewing in both the concept and design of this winter 2019 specialty. Nitro Espresso Stoutini is, as the name suggests, their spin on an espresso martini. To reach that point, they took a stout recipe, added Commonfolk coffee beans in the mash and a dash of Stache House Martini (cold extract coffee) in the fermenter, then shot the beer through with nitrogen to recreate the texture of the cocktail's creamy head. The cans come with handy instructions stuck… Read more
Style
Nitro Stout
ABV
6.1%

Temple & Big Shed Tripale

Published July 3, 2019
High profile collaborations have been a part of Good Beer Week since the early days, with Melbourne breweries taking advantage of their international peers who descend on the city. But brewers don’t need to traverse oceans to pick up a malt shovel when in town, as was the case during this year’s festival when Adelaide’s Big Shed Brewing popped to Brunswick to brew up something Belgian. While it might be appearing in can, Tripale is a decidedly Old World beer, with the gothic fonts of its packaging… Read more
Style
Tripel
ABV
9.6%

Temple Brewing Dia-Brux & Weston Street IPA

Published June 8, 2019
Just before winter kicked into gear, Temple Brewing released two new IPA cans that couldn’t be much further apart in nature from each other. The first, Dia-Brux, was brewed for GABS 2019 and, in true festival fashion, it’s a sour IPA making full use of some of the most hyped brewing ingredients du jour. Hopped with Mosaic, kettle soured with lactobacillus and featuring Belgian yeast strain Saccharomyces Bruxellensis Trois, one that’s used for funkier ferments, it ticks all the right boxes to… Read more
Style
Sour IPA & West Coast IPA
ABV
6.8%

Temple Brewing 888 Mandarin Saison

Published January 24, 2019
Beer and New Year’s Eve might be inseparable in Australian culture but it’s not often you see the same connection with Chinese New Year. For 2019, however, Temple Brewing has looked to capture that celebration in a can in the form of 888, a mandarin saison or “lucky ale”. Every aspect of the beer’s design is inspired by different traditions around Chinese New Year: eight is considered the luckiest number and red is the luckiest of colours, so the red tinnies of 888 should be about as lucky… Read more
Style
Mandarin Saison
ABV
4.8%

Temple Brewing Brewer's Choice Red IPA

Published September 1, 2018
Among Temple’s regular lineup of keg only releases is the brewery’s IPA – a constantly shifting beer that the brewers alter each time the previous batch is sold through and takes the shape of whatever they feel its next iteration should be. And, as spring 2018 rolled in, Temple’s head brewer Paul Cook decided it was time for a Red IPA. It’s a beer that pours a deep red and punches out aromas of tropical fruit – guava and passionfruit – plus a strong whack of pine and even some floral,… Read more
Style
Red IPA
ABV
6.1%

Temple Brewing Midi

Published August 1, 2018
They've got plenty of beers that make a feature of sessionability in the Temple lineup but, in mid 2018, they decided to add a beer that dipped into mid-strength territory. And that beer is Midi, one that may well transition into the core range over time. While the label talks about "citrus and fruity notes" from the use of classic US hops, it's more about the grainy side of things. Toasted, biscuity malts lead the way in a beer that's reasonably full-bodied with a mild bitterness and,… Read more
Style
Mid-Strength
ABV
3.5%

Temple Brewing Brewer's Choice Rye Lager

Published November 17, 2017
Temple Brewing head brewer Glenn Harrison's parting gift to the Brunswick East operation before moving on is the fourth beer in the Brewer's Choice series he launched earlier in the year – one-off, draught only beers conceived by and ordered direct from the brewing team. You might expect a brewer to sign off with something extravagant – loaded to the eyeballs and beyond with hops, aged in barrels or showcasing some unusual ingredients – but that's never been Glenn's way; sure, he's won an AIBA… Read more
Style
Rye Lager
ABV
4.8%
Stockists

Temple Brewery Bar

Temple Brewing Brewer's Choice: Astra AXPA & Bold New World & Half Time

Published August 31, 2017
Brewer's Choice is a new series of one-off, small batch, draught only releases from Temple. The brewers will decide what they want to brew and any venues wanting the beers on tap go straight to the brewing team – well, head brewer Glenn Harrison to be precise – to order them. From the brewer's heads, through their brewery and direct to you, so to speak. They're launching the series with three beers, one of which introduces a new acronym to the local beer world. The Astra AXPA is an "Australian… Read more
Style
XPA & Imperial Stout & Session IPA
ABV
4.8% & 9.4% & 3.8%

Temple Brewing Under The Cover Of Darkness

Published May 18, 2017
What happens when the brewers see a spare tank and feel like brewing something different? According to the team at Temple, they brew a new beer and don’t tell anyone. Apparently: "The GM doesn’t need to know. The accounts people don’t need to know. The sales team, they'll be fine." So, "under the cover of darkness", that's what the brewers did. The beer, which they're tapping at the brewery during Good Beer Week, sits somewhere between English and American brown ales. Repping… Read more
Style
Brown Ale
ABV
5.7%
Stockists

Temple Brewery

Other venues TBC

Temple Brewing One Time Double IPA

Published December 8, 2016
Considering Temple head brewer Glenn Harrison's personal preferences lie elsewhere – he most enjoys the challenge of brewing good pilsners and stouts (and drinking them) – he's a pretty dab hand when it comes to brewing hoppy beers. Temple's Anytime Pale (back when it was tagged an IPA) won an Australian International Beer Awards trophy and this double IPA is finding favour among hop heads. It debuted last year as a once-a-year brew and has returned this year unchanged. So you might ask why… Read more
Style
Double IPA
ABV
7.7%
Stockists

Temple Brewery

Others TBC

Temple Brewing Bold New World & ESB

Published May 20, 2016
There's been a flurry of new releases from Temple this month. We've already written about this year's Season's Harvest but if you're heading to their stall at GABS or visiting their brewery bar (plus a handful of other venues) look out for a couple of others. One is the Bold New World, an imperial version of their New World Order American stout. It weighs in at 10.2 percent ABV and let's you know, presenting vinous qualities, a liqueur like dark chocolate character and a touch of cherry alongside… Read more
Style
Imperial Stout & ESB
ABV
10.2% & 5.2%
Stockists

GABS

Temple Brewery Bar

Prosciutto Bros

And select other beer venues

NB some venues listed only have one of the beers

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Temple Brewing Season's Harvest 2016

Published May 8, 2016
In the first part of 2015, Temple Brewing kicked off a partnership with the highly regarded Royal Mail in Dunkeld. It saw them raid the kitchen garden of the Grampians restaurant and place the spoils in a beer. The result was Season's Harvest, a Belgian style witbier brewed with lemon verbena, a plant with intense and lively lemon characters, and pink peppercorns. They were that happy with the results that they returned this year to pick some more, thus creating a beer rather different to most of… Read more
Style
Spiced Witbier
ABV
4.7%
Stockists

Temple Brewery

Royal Mail Dunkeld

Others TBC

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Temple Brewing Powerstance Pilsner

Published March 21, 2016
Powerstance Pilsner is a beer conceived through the slightly unusual process of two head brewers on either sides of the planet working through a recipe over the phone. Temple’s then head brewer Glenn Harrison had met the then head brewer at Weihenstephan, Frank Peifer, during a past Good Beer Week and, when Glenn decided he wanted a traditionally minded pilsner, he sought some guidance from Frank. The name is inspired by the manner Glenn uses when addressing an audience: legs apart beyond shoulder… Read more
Style
Pilsner
ABV
5.1%
Stockists

Available relatively widely in good bars and bottleshops

Temple Brewing Onetime Double IPA

Published December 12, 2015
When the Best International Pale Ale trophy at the 2015 Australian International Beer Awards went to Temple Brewing for its Anytime Session IPA, it felt like more than just an award for a beer. Having been on the brink as a business as recently as 2013, the award was something of a landmark moment for the new business that emerged last year. However, the crescendo of what's been a truly significant year for Temple Mk II has, appropriately, been left right until the end with the final act of the Melbourne… Read more
Style
Double IPA
ABV
7.8%
Bitterness
90 IBU
Stockists

Launched at Temple Brewing on December 12

Other stockists to follow

East Coast Brewers Union Exile IPA

Published July 21, 2015
This beer is one of the few silver linings to come from the collapse of equipment supplier Core Brewing earlier in the year. It left many Aussie brewers – amateur, commercial and in between – out of pocket, some to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. One of the affected breweries was Temple, whose head brewer Glenn Harrison invited the others to join them for a commiseratory, "let's turn a bad thing into something positive" collaboration brew day earlier in the year. Among the… Read more
Style
East Coast IPA
ABV
5.7%
Stockists

Temple Brewery Bar

Illawarra Brewery Bar

More to follow

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Temple Brewing / Royal Mail Hotel Season's Harvest

Published May 6, 2015
In its various guises, Temple Brewing has undertaken quite the array of collaborations. They've brewed twice with Frank Peifer, head brewer at the world's oldest established brewery Weihenstephan. Last weekend they hosted a mass collaboration between the brewers affected by a failed supplier to create an Eastern Coast IPA. They've brewed with the Local Taphouse Ale Stars and also created the People's Pint in a competition we ran a few years back asking the people of Australia to come up with a beer. Their… Read more
Style
Spiced Witbier
ABV
4.5%
Stockists

Temple Brewing

Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld

Temple Brewing Hefeweizen

Published September 24, 2014
Given he spent a day in the company of Frank Piefer, head brewer at wheat beer maestros Weihenstephan, during this year’s Good Beer Week, you’d imagine Temple brewer Glenn Harrison picked up a thing or two about brewing a good hefeweizen. And so it is that, in time for Oktoberfest, he’s created one that he’s describing as a purely traditional take on the style. What that means is characteristics of vanilla and clove with a touch of banana – “but not too much” – wrapped up with some… Read more
Style
Hefeweizen
Stockists

Temple

Others TBC

Temple / Weihenstephan Der Handschlag

Published July 11, 2014
During May's Good Beer Week in Melbourne, Frank Piefer, head brewers of the world's oldest established brewery, Weihennstephan in Germany, visited Temple to create their second collaboration beer. The brew day, to which members of the public were invited, ended up being a mammoth session with brewers there late in the night thanks to opting for the sort of heavy duty grain bill that brewhouses don't take to fondly. In the mix was heaps of wheat, some rye malt and a touch of smoked malt too, with… Read more
Style
Smoked Amber Wheat Beer
ABV
6.1%
Bitterness
19 IBU
Stockists

Temple

Temple New World Order Stout & Rye Hard IPA

Published May 8, 2014
Self-confessed dark beer lover Glenn Harrison has wasted little time imposing his dark passion upon his new brewery. The former Hargreaves Hill head brewer has only been in his post at Temple for a few weeks, but already his love of stouts cannot be contained. The New World Order is an American Stout and one of two new beers created under his stewardship that are out and about now. It's a pretty opaque, damn near jet black beer with the slightest ruby tinge and, being American influenced, has a pronounced… Read more
Style
American Stout & Rye IPA
ABV
6.5% / 6.2%

Temple Resurrection Pilsner

Published November 23, 2013
There are plenty of reasons for the folks at Temple to be happy these days. After a brief spell in voluntary liquidation, they're back in business and had one of their biggest nights ever on their first night back. They've got designers giving their East Brunswick home an overhaul. There are plans for significant expansion. And there are new beers. And, having dropped in to sample them the other day, it would seem that it's the last of these that, perhaps understandably, has co-founder and head brewer… Read more
Style
American Pilsner
ABV
5.6%
Stockists

Temple

Temple Monsoon Ginger Beer

Published February 23, 2013
They're not afraid to play around with unusual ingredients at Temple. Since opening their brewery in December 2011, a few years after starting out "gypsy" brewing at breweries around Victoria, they've released a Soba Ale, made with buckwheat, the Scarlet Sour, featuring hibiscus and cranberries, and now a ginger beer. This might not seem so unusual, given the mini-explosion of interest in ginger beers in the past couple of years, yet it's a breed apart from the others on the market. For… Read more
Style
Ginger Beer
ABV
3.5%

Temple Scarlet Sour

Published November 9, 2012
Brendan "Watermelon Warhead" Varis, from Feral, told The Crafty Pint a while back that the only element more refreshing in beer than bitterness was the acidity found in well made sour beers. And, as a tiny but growing number of Aussie drinkers begin to explore the world of wild and sour beers - helped by the experimentation of a tiny but growing number of Aussie brewers in this area - we can expect to see more beers that test his theory. The latest is the first sour beer from Temple, the… Read more
Style
Fruit beer
ABV
4.0%
Stockists

Temple

Others TBC

Temple Oatmeal Stout

Published August 10, 2012
Considering the array of beers Temple has unleashed in recent years, it might come as some surprise that this is their first stout. Originally it was going to be held until next winter, but with one of the brewers - an avowed stout fiend - following his partner to Tassie, it was decided to brew the Oatmeal Stout early as a send off. In a break from the norm at the Brunswick East brewery, there's is nothing out of the norm. As head brewer Ron Feruglio says: "The twist is there is no twist."… Read more
Style
Oatmeal Stout
ABV
5.9%
Stockists

Temple

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The People's Pint: Double Hoptendre

Published May 15, 2012
We've written plenty about this beer already, given its unique conception through the competition we ran earlier in the year via The People's Pint website. Invented by Brisvegan Leo Hede, chosen by a public vote, turned into a beer by Ron Feruglio at Temple, launched during Good Beer Week at a night on which Steve Grossman announced their partnership in the Temple Good Beer Week Scholarship and now available at a selection of the country's top craft beer bars, it's the first of what we hope will… Read more
Style
Rye Red Ale
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Scratch Bar, Brisbane

Sail & Anchor, Fremantle

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Temple / Weihenstephan UNIFIKATOR

Published May 4, 2012
When the head brewer from the world's oldest existing brewery decides to pop into your brewery when it's only been open for a few weeks to make only the second collaboration in his brewery's history, you have every right to give the beer a name entirely in capital letters. And a name as bold as UNIFIKATOR. Because however you look at it, the fact that Temple hooked up with Frank Peifer of Weihenstephan is an incredible achievement. The beer - a strong wheat beer or weizenbock - uses the distinctive… Read more
Style
Weizenbock
ABV
7.0%
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Temple Midnight IPA (Retired)

Published January 13, 2012
When this beer was offered up as a single keg taster at a trade event in 2010, it was the pick of pretty much everyone in the room. One chap with about as senior a role in the Australian brewing industry described it as faultless - not something he would give up easily. More importantly, it was delicious. And now, back as the final member of the Temple permanent range, it still is. Deeply dark and with powerfully pungent piney (that's enough "p's" thanks) hop aromas that greet you well… Read more
Style
Black IPA
ABV
7.0%
Bitterness
77 IBU
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Temple Brunswick Draught (Retired)

A beer conceived with a nod both to the local community and the good old Aussie bitter, the Temple Brunswick Draught is one that will be familiar to anyone that's drunk a traditional Aussie beer, yet different too. The familiarity comes from the use of the old school and much unfancied in craft beer circles Pride of Ringwood hops. The difference comes from the fact that it's used in a beer that's clean and flavoursome and comes with a rich malt flavour drawn from ten different malts sourced from… Read more
Style
Bitter
ABV
4.5%
Bitterness
32 IBU

Temple Soba Ale (Retired)

A beer that first made its appearance as a specialty brew for the Shinobi Japanese Garden at Beer DeLuxe early in 2010, it became the fifth member of the Temple permanent range when the brewery opened its doors in December 2011. A tweaked recipe for the beer based on the traditional German altbier style has led to a firmer bitterness thanks to generous lashings of noble European hops. As you might expect from Temple, there's a twist, in this case the use of Japanese buckwheat as part of the malt… Read more
Style
Altbier with Buckwheat
ABV
4.9%
Bitterness
31.5 IBU

Temple Saison (Retired)

One of the beers that put Temple on the craft beer map when they were operating as gypsy brewers - making their beers on other people's breweries. A flavoursome and complex take on a style that's becoming increasingly popular in Australia. Saisons are traditional farmhouse beers originating in parts of France and southern Belgium. The Temple take is pale and cloudy with a light orange hue and a dense rocky head. The aroma is full of fruit and spice with a noticeable yeast character, with unmalted… Read more
Style
Saison
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Temple Pale Ale (Retired)

The return of an old favourite, this is Temple's faithful take on the US Pale Ale style, with plenty of floral new world hops on the nose, captured in the brewery's hopback, and a rich, full malt flavour wrapped up with a firm bitterness.… Read more
Style
American Pale Ale
ABV
5.1%
Bitterness
34.5 IBU

Temple Extra Special Bitter (Retired)

Back in their gypsy days, one of Temple's regular tipples was the Special Bitter, as good a take on a classic English ale that you would find around Australia. Now that they're back but bolder and shinier than ever, so is the beer. Brought out for autumn, it comes with added "Extra" with Ron and his team of brewers beefing the beer up all round. That said, they say it remains as true to British stylings as its forefather, just with "extra hops, extra malt and extra flavour".… Read more
Style
ESB
ABV
4.7%
Bitterness
39IBU
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