Wheaty Brewing Corps

In 2003, Jade Flavell, Emily Trott and Liz O’Dea embarked on a mission: to create a pub that served “No crap on tap”. They did it so well that the now iconic Wheatsheaf Hotel – or The Wheaty to friends – is known nationwide for its high calibre brews and top quality service. A visit (or three) is a must for every craft beer fan that ventures into South Australia’s capital, and it never disappoints.

Fast forward to 2014 and the trio decided it was time to expand their operation, finally build that long talked about brewery and give their many and dubious brewing theories a trundle. Thus The Wheaty Brewing Corps was born with the message: “After pouring everyone else’s excellent beers over the last eleven years, we figured it was time to start brewing our own – time to install our own stainless and start walking the walk.”

Of all the people stepping up from amateur to pro, Jade was lucky enough to have been given a taste of the good brewing life; at Wheaty events over the years she’d brewed with some of Australia and the world’s finest on her 50 litre home brew system – not to mention at a number of microbreweries around the country too. Now, with Dave Scicluna (assistant brewer), Laura Mirsch (technical adviser) and Rose Bartholomeusz (malt wrangler) at her side, she’s been going hog wild: before the brewery’s first birthday, they’d smashed out 44 different beers in 61 batches.

As for the 600 litre brewpub setup constructed out the back of The Wheaty, it’s made up of a brand new brewhouse and three single batch fermenters from Premier Stainless. They installed a time lapse camera to record the entire build, which you can watch here.

Core beers do not really exist at the Wheaty, instead they like to call them the "regulars" and the "not so regulars and one-offs", for which they provide possibly the most detailed breakdown of ingredients and processes online of any brewer in Australia. Among those brewed more often than others are Blood Oats – a hoppy oaty red ale, Team Australia – an IPA brewed with only Australian hops, Danger Zone – a hot pink raspberry Berliner Weisse, Black Lime Gose – a slightly salty and sour Gose, Thebby Bitter; nicknamed ‘The Best End’, Wheaty-Bix – a thick breakfast stout, and Corps Promise – a hoppy, spicy and bitter rye ale, one of a number of brews to feature Jade’s beloved rye.

One thing the bar has always done extremely well is interact with the worldwide craft beer community. On many occasions, you’ll walk into the front bar and find all 13 taps have been taken over by a guest brewer for the night. On others, you'll find a permanent bank of six rotating Wheaty brews matched stylistically as best as possible against the half dozen from the visiting brewer so guests can line them up in a side-by-side face-off. And, while brewers are in town, they'll usually team up with the Brewing Corps on a recipe and a brew.

Already, Jade and co have spooned (the Yeastie Boys’ term for collaborating) with the Yeastie Boys, Birra Del Borgo, Magic Rock, To Øl, Sixpoint, Mountain Goat, Lobethal Bierhaus, Beavertown, Victory, Mornington Peninsula, Gladfield Malt, Cavalier Brewing and Doctor’s Orders (who is in Adelaide so often he now has his own illuminated sign behind the bar). It’s a list that’s destined to keep growing too.

Just as with many of their spooning partners, they don’t take themselves too seriously. Beers tend to come with pun-inspired names, themselves often referring to lasting memories of past collaborations or in jokes they’re happy to share.

Also in the works are a laboratory that will allow the team to experiment even further, some casks and barrels for ageing, and more fermenting space – maybe even a sidestep into whisk(e)y too. Such enhancements and additions will give them even freer rein to take the philosophy that inhabits every nook, cranny and patron’s glass of The Wheaty further still: more sours; more bugs; more hops; more rye; more happy customers; more spooning. But, just as importantly, still “No crap on tap”.

Matt King

Name
Wheaty Brewing Corps
Address

39 George Street
Thebarton
SA 5031

Phone
(08) 8443 4546
Open Hours

Mon to Fri: 11am to midnight
Saturday: midday to midnight
Sunday: midday to 9pm

Tours

Tours by appointment


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The Specials

Wheaty Brewing Corps Foeder: Strawberry Saison, Dunkel & Belgian Dubbel
Wheaty Brewing Corps X Bridge Road Brewers X Ferveo Grisette
Wheaty Brewing Corps & COMA The Real Bock Vol 1
Wheaty Brewing Corps x Bridge Road Fortune Keller
Wheaty Brewing Corps Mighty Mild
Wheaty Brewing Corps Schmaus Lichtenhainer
Wheaty Brewing Corps Exquisite Corps Session Saison
Wheaty Brewing Corps Team Australia 2020
Wheaty Brewing Corps Big Poblano
Wheaty Brewing Corps Philly Smasher Hop Sour
Wheaty Brewing Corps Poblano Mexican Stout
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Wheaty Brewing Corps Regulars

Wheaty Brewing Corps Corps Promise

Brewer's notes: Dependable Corps Promise is a hoppy, spicy and bitter Rye Pale with big, tropical hop aromatics and a dry, piney twang to finish. Golden Promise contributes a honey malt character, rye chimes in with drying spiciness and Simcoe, Centennial and Cascade stake a late claim; with Whirlpool, Hopback and Dry Hop additions. No surprises. Fresh, simple and unambiguous. The one beer we will never alter. The one recipe we will never tweak. Unbreakable...… Read more
Style
Rye Pale Ale
ABV
5.3%
Bitterness
24 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Non-Corps Promise

Brewer's notes: For the last year we’ve been telling you that Corps Promise was ‘the one beer we will never alter. The one recipe we will never tweak.’ We have decided, retrospectively, that our committment to ‘never alter’ Corps Promise was itself a non-core promise and so doesn’t count – especially under extenuating circumstances. So for the Wheaty Brewing Corps’ first Birthday, and quite possibly every Birthday to follow, we’re going to take Corps Promise and break it; in the… Read more
Style
Rye IPA
ABV
7.3%
Bitterness
60 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Blood Oats

Brewer's notes: Sixpoint’s Shane ‘Galaxy Galaxy Galaxy’ Welch couldn’t make it to Oz for the Good Beer Wheaty Yeastie ‘Fug Oats’ brewday in May, so when faced with the prospect of a short-order collaboration during his whirlwind October visit: Shane: “That would be killer!!!” Wheaty: “Blood Oats!” Job done. Clearly Blood Oats had to be oaty and had to be Red, so we settled on a cranked-up version of our Red Ale. In essence Blood Oats is a bigger, oatier, hoppier rendition of CRed,… Read more
Style
Oat Red Ale
ABV
6.1%
Bitterness
50 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps The Claw

Brewer's notes: Sharp, lean and clean, our first Black India Pale Ale adopts the ‘looks like a dark ale, smells and tastes like an IPA’ rather than the ‘roasty black ale hopped as if it was an IPA’ approach. In other words, both the malt and the hop character of the beer belie its appearance. A delicate BIPA in which malt takes a back seat. To a degree... Copious amounts of Simcoe and Mosaic lend a distinct piney twang to the mellow, dehusked Carafa roast; Carared gives our dark a mahogany… Read more
Style
Black IPA
ABV
6.66%
Bitterness
50 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Wheaty-Bix

Brewer's notes: Our plan with Wheaty-Bix was to brew the breakfast stout equivalent of cold drip filtered coffee: clean, lean and delicate on the one hand with a clear intensity of coffee character on the other – focused and sharp yet full and smooth. To this end we combined a layered roast malt bill with flaked and malted oats; a cool, clean ferment with Irish ale yeast – and cold drip coffee by the (literal) bucket load. Our friends at Market St sourced just the right bean for our purposes:… Read more
Style
Breakfast Stout
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
39 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Thebby Bitter

Brewer's notes: We figured it was time to celebrate our light industrial suburb with a not-so-industrial Bitter. A hoppy, malty, bitey, bitter ale weighing in at a modest 3.9% booze. A heritage listed style brewed in the shadow of Mt Thebarton, within earshot of Thebby Theatre* and a mere stone's throw from our self-titled Tram Stop... Thebby Bitter packs a fair whack of character into a small footprint; little beer, big flavour. With a biscuity malt backbone that just manages to hold those bitey,… Read more
Style
Bitter
ABV
3.9%
Bitterness
19 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Irony

Brewer's notes: The plan with Irony was to brew a lighter, drier, more delicate ale than Team Australia; one that straddled the Pale/IPA divide and was a little less shouty with hops. Where’s the irony? Not so much in the dry-hop selection but in the hops themselves: new-wave German aroma hops Hallertau Blanc and Hallertau Huell Melon, which contribute lebhaft mandarin, white wine and melon characters, represent a German take on a New World take on traditional European hops. Who would’ve thought... Less… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
37 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Team Australia

Brewer's notes: In the complex and often confusing world of Goodies and Baddies, we all need a little Joint Purpose, a single Team that everyone can get behind... Enter ‘Team Australia’, our first of many IPAs bursting with homegrown hops. First wort Ella, Galaxy for bittering, Ella/Galaxy/Vic Secret in the whirlpool and 2kg of Vic Secret flowers in the hopback provide a solid foundation for our new leader: Enigma. Enigma is a brand spanking New Australian who displays characteristics quite different… Read more
Style
Australian IPA
ABV
6.1%
Bitterness
42 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Picnic Assassin

Brewer's notes: Bright, fresh and easy, the Picnic Assassin can lull you into a false sense of security. The Picnic: pilsner and wheat malts provide a lean, spritely backbone; golden naked oats and Carared contribute body and mouthfeel and acidulated malt clips the finish. Dry hopped Ella brings a plate of tropical fruit salad and Nelson Sauvin a splash of sauv blanc. French saison yeast lends its spicy, peppery aromatics and bone dry finish. Blue skies, sunshine and a cool breeze. The Assassin:… Read more
Style
Hoppy Saison
ABV
5.5%
Bitterness
3 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Danger Zone

Brewer's notes: As brewers, we like to push the envelope and sometimes our egos write checks our yeast can’t cash. This beer spent a weekend souring in kettle and got treacherously close to the pH danger zone. Fortunately, she hadn’t quite lost that loving feeling and our yeast pushed through... in overdrive. Add 25 kilos of raspberries from the Adelaide Hills and you get a beautifully tangy, mouth-puckeringly tart, perfectly refreshing summer beer. And at only 3.2 percent ABV, it promises not… Read more
Style
Raspberry Berliner Weisse
ABV
3.2%
Bitterness
3 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Schmutzig

Brewer's notes: A Pedio innoculated, kettle-soured Berliner Weisse. The plan was to take a relatively ‘clean’ sour and schmutzig it up a little, to add a sharp hard edge to this light, lively and dry Weisse. To this end we enlisted the services of super bug Pediococcus, capable of producing a fair smack of lactic acid in a short space of time. Hard and fast. Given its lean backbone – consisting of German pilsner and wheat malts and a single addition of Magnum hops – this beer is really all… Read more
Style
Berliner Weisse
ABV
4.1%
Bitterness
3 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Black Lime Gose

Brewer's notes: We’ve taken the traditional German ‘Gose’ – a light, tart, sour wheat ale brewed with coriander seeds and salt – and had a spielen. Rather than relying on Lacto to provide gose’s characteristically acidic kick, we’ve enlisted ‘Limu Omani’ – black limes – to sharpen things up. Used as a seasoning in Middle Eastern dishes, black limes are simply fresh limes boiled in salt brine and sun-dried over several weeks until they feel hollow. Flavour wise they are complex… Read more
Style
Gose
ABV
5.4%
Bitterness
4 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Sir Bob (Gelbhopf)

Brewer's notes: Once we established that the beer we’d be brewing with good friend and long term ally Dave Bonighton was a golden, hoppy German pils, Sir Bob ‘Gelbhopf’ – ‘Gold Hop’ auf Deutsch – pretty much named himself. Sir Bob is German style pils positively growling with spicy, floral and herbal characters courtesy of New World Hallertau hop derivatives Helga (AUS) and Pacifica (NZ). Dave hadn’t brewed with Helga before and we hadn’t brewed a proper pils, so this pretty straight… Read more
Style
German Pilsner
ABV
5.3%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Specials

Wheaty Brewing Corps Foeder: Strawberry Saison, Dunkel & Belgian Dubbel

Published May 2, 2023
Jade Flavell and her Wheaty Brewing Corps are always pushing boundaries, never satisfied and always looking to improve. In 2023, this process of constant evolution is all about their new toys: there's a new canning line and, with it, perhaps the most exciting new piece of equipment to enter the Thebarton brewhouse, a foeder. Flown in from America, they view it as both a blank canvas and a new challenge. Heralding the oak vessels arrival are not one but three beers, with the foeder’s toasty oak… Read more
Style
Foeder Beers
ABV
6.1% & 5.5% & 7.2%

Wheaty Brewing Corps X Bridge Road Brewers X Ferveo Grisette

Published April 17, 2023
The Wheaty crew have been collaborating with long term allies Bridge Road Brewers again, this time bringing new-to-the-scene Ferveo Brewing along. The man behind Ferveo is Tommaso Watson, who has a doctorate in fermentation microbiology and has been using his talents to start up a fresh yeast business in Adelaide. For this Grisette, the collaborators opted for a French saison yeast, combined with pilsner, flaked spelt and sour grapes, plus Enigma and Eclipse hops. There's much that comes from the… Read more
Style
Grisette
ABV
5.3%
Bitterness
10 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & COMA The Real Bock Vol 1

Published December 20, 2022
The Real Book or the Fake Book is well known in jazz circles and provided the perfect pun for the Wheaty Brewing Corps' 2022 collaboration with COMA (Creative Original Music Adelaide). The book was created in the 1970s by two students who attended Berklee College of Music, providing enough basic information about melody, chord symbols, structure and lyrics for musicians to be able to fake their way through a song. As for the beer inspired by the book, it's a strong red lager containing a long list… Read more
Style
Bock
ABV
6.2%

Wheaty Brewing Corps x Bridge Road Fortune Keller

Published October 31, 2022
The Wheaty are always learning and adapting their techniques, tweaking their recipes in the pursuit of perfection and their latest is dip hopping for their old-world-meets-new-world lager brewed with Bridge Road Brewers. Even though Australia's Enigma and Eclipse hops are the centre piece of this beer, you could comfortably assume this to be a Kiwi pilsner. Fortune Keller takes on a lot of those familiar white wine characters, especially in the aroma, mixed in with a touch of orange citrus and a… Read more
Style
Kellerbeer
ABV
5.8%
Bitterness
15 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Mighty Mild

Published October 31, 2022
The Wheaty are well known for their vast variety when it comes to the styles that they brew and while they're always keen to explore what's new in beer, they don't shine away from styles that aren't all that common. Soon after releasing a smoked, sour wheat beer, the Adelaide pioneers turned their attention to a 3.5% dark mild. Mighty Mild starts off with classic dark beer vibes, in the form of light chocolate, some nuttiness and also a touch of earthiness, while a light but not thin body paves the… Read more
Style
Dark Mild
ABV
3.4%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Schmaus Lichtenhainer

Published October 10, 2022
The Lichtenhainer style is not one that frequents many taps anywhere, let alone in Australia. It's a soured, lightly smoked wheat ale that's been brewed for centuries and has origins in Jena, a small town in East Germany. Traditionally brewed with up a grain bill splits a third wheat, a third pilsener and a third smoked malt, here in true Wheaty fashion, the SA brewers have put their own tweak on the recipe: joining pilsener malt are beech-, oak- and Manuka-smoked malts, torrified wheat and acidulated… Read more
Style
Lichtenhainer
ABV
4.5%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Exquisite Corps Session Saison

Published July 13, 2021
Collaborations between musical outfit COMA and the Wheaty Brewing Corps have been an ongoing thing for some time now, bringing us beers such as (COMA)toes IIPA, COMA Chameleon Mango Sour, and Rizzocato, which was the starting point for their now core range Rizzo Rice Lager. In 2021, the collaboration went down the Belgium route, taking the form of a session saison at 3.4 percent ABV and featuring pilsner, flaked oats, wheat and acidulated malts, Magnum, Mandarina Bavaria, Amarillo and Eclipse hops,… Read more
Style
Session Saison
ABV
3.4%
Bitterness
5 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Team Australia 2020

Published December 17, 2020
The Team Australia IPA isn't a new beer: it was first brewed way back in 2014. However, the recipe was then put on the shelf, making way for the plethora of other styles and collaborations from the Wheaty Brewing Corps team. However, when the COVID-19 lockdown arrived, Jade and the Wheaty team figured it was time for a Team Australia resurgence. It might have something to do with the large stack of Aussie hops they had in storage, and a temporary inability to obtain some ingredients for others recipes;… Read more
Style
Aussie IPA
ABV
7.0%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Big Poblano

Published December 9, 2020
The Big Poblano hit the Wheaty taps and their Friday tinnies releases just in time for summer, ready to merge fire with fire. Baby Poblano was released earlier in 2020, destined for the local chilli festival, but head brewer Jade Flavell wanted a little more: more booze, more body and more spice. The summer version amps up the alcohol content to 7.4 percent, with the spice amplified as well. The same amount of Ancho, Guajillo and Habanero chilli was added to both versions; however, this time around,… Read more
Style
Mexican Stout
ABV
7.4%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Philly Smasher Hop Sour

Published November 12, 2020
The Wheaty Brewing Corps team is very familiar with brewing sours, generally using yoghurt or kettle souring overnight to get to where they want to be. However, the Philly Smasher Hop Sour takes a new approach, instead using Lallemand’s Philly Sour yeast. They kept the malt bill light and wheaty, adding a smattering of high alpha hops – namely Enigma, Nelson, Citra and Motueka – late in the boil and then then again in the fermenter. The end result is a 4.9 percent ABV, hoppy, sour summer quaffer.… Read more
Style
Hoppy Sour
ABV
4.9%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Poblano Mexican Stout

Published July 6, 2020
The Wheaty Brewing Corps crew are well known for their witty, pun driven beer names, however there was no comic intent behind releasing a Mexican stout amid the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the Poblano was brewed back in February in anticipation of the West Torrens Chilli Festival, an event at which the Wheaty team run the bar every year. When the festival was cancelled, the Poblano was put in the cellar ready to debut as part of the Wheaty Brewing Corps 6th birthday. Incorporating 1500 SHU (Scoville… Read more
Style
Mexican Stout
ABV
5.9%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Ella High Water Wet Hop IPA

Published April 17, 2020
It’s that fresh hop time of year and Jade Flavell at The Wheaty hasn't let the distance between the Tasmanian hop fields and Adelaide stop her, even in these challenging times. She was the recipient of 25kg of fresh Ella hop flowers, that were flown in as soon as they'd been pulled from the bine by Hop Products Australia. Pale ale, wheat, oats and Munich 2 forms the malt grist, with the alcohol content up at the 7 percent ABV mark. The single hop IPA saw 20kg used in the whirlpool, while the remaining… Read more
Style
Fresh Hop IPA
ABV
7.0%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Drirish & De Cider

Published March 16, 2020
With summer fading for another year, the Wheaty Brewing Corps have begun cranking out some new darker beers to warm up the crowd for another cold South Australian winter. First up is a dry Irish stout that sits at 4.2 percent ABV: nothing over the top, nothing outlandish but instead just a good, honest, wholesome stout. Pouring deep black with a light brown head, big roast aromas come through initially with lashings of milk chocolate. It has a creamy, medium to full bodied mouthfeel that is full… Read more
Style
Dry Irish Stout & Beer-Cider Hybrid
ABV
4.2% & 7.4%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Apricot's Hour & Blank Czech Pilsener

Published January 12, 2020
To close out 2019 with a bang, the Wheaty Brewing Crew invited long-time friend and collaborator Ben Kraus from Bridge Road Brewers into their house to play with something fruity and sour one more. The fruit of choice this time around was Swan Reach Apricots, with South Australian Bridge Road sales rep Dave lending a hand to pit and slice 40kgs of fresh fruit for the fermenter. The fruit sour saison was then dry-hopped with Aussie HPA-016 and US Amarillo for added stone fruit characters, while the… Read more
Style
Apricot Sour & Czech Pilsener
ABV
3.9% & 5.1%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Can Can Passionfruit Gose

Published December 27, 2019
Every year, in anticipation of the heat of South Australia’s summer, the Wheaty Brewing Corps tweak their popular Black Lime Gose recipe, adding a different tropical fruit to the traditional gose base (including coriander seeds and Pink Murray salt). The Can Can saw them add bucketloads of passionfruit juice to the secondary ferment, where it joins The Menace – the evolving house mixed culture that brings together yeasts and bacteria from many of their collaborators' beers, with some bugs that… Read more
Style
Passionfruit Gose
ABV
4.8%

Wheaty Brewing Corps & COMA Malto Allegro

Published December 27, 2019
For the fourth year in a row, the Wheaty Brewing Corps teamed up with Creative Original Music Adelaide (or COMA) – regulars at the bar and frequently performers in the tin shed out back. There's been a steady style progression over the years, starting with a DIPA called COMAtoes, followed by a rice lager and a mango and lime sour. Now, having tried a hop bomb, a clean drinker and a fruited sour, they wanted something a little more malt driven. Enter Malto Allegro. It's another play on words that… Read more
Style
Brown Ale
ABV
4.7%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Zephyr Quartet Wit Noise

Published December 27, 2019
To help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Zephyr Quartet, the WBC crew did what they do best: collaborated on a beer with them – a beer with a pun in the name too, of course, with the award-winning string quartet's called Wit Noise. They started with a traditional witbier base of pilsner and flaked, unmalted grain, added some oats and Gladfield’s Sour Grapes to lower the pH ever so slightly, with coriander seeds, Maeval orange peel and lemon myrtle completing the picture. Taken together,… Read more
Style
Witbier
ABV
5.0%
Bitterness
13 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Lervig & Deschutes Da Big Lerv

Published August 6, 2019
Collaboration number three to emerge from the 2019 version of Good Beer Wheaty saw Deschutes and Lervig step into The Wheaty’s brewery to brew up a monster. The end result is an 8.6 percent ABV choc raspberry milk stout that conjures nostalgic childhood memories of raspberry lollies, with the conjuring in the brewhouse taking the form of a phone book's worth of malts and oats, which created a bed upon which bucket loads of fresh raspberries could be scattered. Sampled from The Wheaty's hand pump,… Read more
Style
Choc Raspberry Milk Stout
ABV
8.6%
Bitterness
26 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & The Bruery Quandong Saison

Published July 20, 2019
It is no secret the Wheaty Brewing Corps team love a collaboration, especially around the time of Good Beer Wheaty. As part of the 2019 mini-fest, the crew from The Bruery in the US jumped into the Thebarton brewery and straight into the hazmat suits, as house culture "The Menace" was once again wheeled out to make something wild and full of unidentifiable bugs. The malt bill was kept simple, with some heavy late Amarillo and Citra hop additions to bring a little something extra. But they… Read more
Style
Quandong Saison
ABV
5.8%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Small World Bakery Kvass

Published July 20, 2019
The Wheaty Brewing Corps don't just collaborate with other brewers; here, they turned to a business that specialises in a very different type of fermentation: sourdough bread. Along with the Wheaty’s mixed culture yeast, 60kg of Small World Bakery’s rye sourdough was sliced, toasted and thrown into the top of the mash to create a Kvass. It's a style best known in Russia, where old stale bread was wild fermented with sugar to create a sour, very low ABV ale. The Wheaty’s clocks in at 4.8 percent… Read more
Style
Kvass
ABV
4.8%
Bitterness
pH 3.5

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Bridge Road Footloose

Published March 29, 2019
After playing around with Wildflower's mixed culture when creating Mildflower, WBC head brewer Jade Flavell wanted to take things up a level with her next table beer. So, when Ben Kraus from Bridge Road called in for another collaboration, he brought the Brett C culture from his Mayday Hills range to be combined with blackberries and raspberries, Jade's French saison strain and Topher’s Wildflower bag of tricks. The result is a 4.5 percent table beer that oozes berries, one in which a pinkish… Read more
Style
Berry Table Beer
ABV
4.5%

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Fixation Funky Menace

Published March 29, 2019
So, who is the Funky Menace? Many, many things it turns out – most of them microscopic. On the surface, the beer is an India saison brewed by the Wheaty Brewing Corps and Fixation, one that combines the former's fondness for funkier styles with the latter's obsession with all things hops. But scratch the surface and you'll find quite the tale. The mixed culture with which the beer was brewed is one that has many parts, a combination of the Wheaty Brewing Corps' French saison-based house culture,… Read more
Style
India Saison
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Wildflower Mildflower

Published January 29, 2019
The Wheaty Brewing Corp brewers are extremely particular about cleanliness and their brewery is always impeccable. So, when Topher from Wildflower flew into town with some bugs in his suitcase for a collaboration, Jade and the crew were on edge. The beer they set about creating combines Wildflower’s house mixed culture with the Wheaty’s preferred French saison yeast. Thus, into a Thebby fermenter for the first time went all manner of yeast strains and bacteria – more than 620 bugs of one form… Read more
Style
Table Beer
ABV
4.0%
Bitterness
15 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Coma Chameleon

Published January 29, 2019
Creative Original Music Adelaide (COMA) is a not for profit organisation that raises the profile of original music in Adelaide. They host regular events at The Wheaty on the first and third Monday of every month, racking up an impressive 700 performances at the one establishment at time of writing. Last year’s collaboration saw them create Rizzocato, with a slightly different version now continuing as part of the Wheaty Brewing Corps core range. Their 2018 collab saw them create a mango sour saison.… Read more
Style
Mango Sour Saison
ABV
5.3%

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Gladfield Enzed Red

Published January 29, 2019
The Wheaty Brewing Corps has collaborated with New Zealand’s Gladfield Malt for three years in a row now and there seems to be a common theme running through the beers: red. In the case Enzed Red, yet again three of Gladfield’s red hued malts were used in the grist, with Aurora, Red Back and Shepherd’s Delight also contributing to the beer's big, chewy malt characters. Combine that with New Zealand hops Motueka, Nelson Sauvin and experimental variety HORT 4337 and we have Enzed Red. A deep,… Read more
Style
Red IPA
ABV
6.3%
Bitterness
50 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Tiny Rebel & Doctor's Orders Whey Puft

Published July 19, 2018
Another successful Good Beer Wheaty has delivered yet another inventive collaboration at the expanding Adelaide brewpubs. This time Darren from Doctor's Orders returned while Gaz from Welsh powerhouse Tiny Rebel made his Wheaty debut. Darren is known for throwing weird ingredients in beer and Tiny Rebel have a very popular beer called Stay Puft, a marshmallow porter and the new beer was sparked from a combination of the two. Whey Puft is an imperial blackberry milkshake porter, albeit without the… Read more
Style
Blackberry Milkshake Porter
ABV
7.4%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Bridge Road Hopikopi Sour Coffee IPA

Published March 31, 2018
Every year, around the time of the Tour Down Under in Adelaide, Ben Kraus from Bridge Road Brewsers stops in to the Wheatsheaf Hotel to collaborate with Jade Flavell anf the Wheaty Brewing Corps team. At their 2018 brainstorming sessions, the table lit up with an array of interesting concepts, an array that started out with IPA and hoppy, to which Ben added: “Let’s sour it with Greek yoghurt, then add coffee”, and that ended up as Hopikopi. It might sound like a monstrous beer that couldn’t… Read more
Style
Sour IPA with Coffee
ABV
5.5%
Bitterness
pH 3.6

Wheaty Brewing Corps Heaps Berry Saison

Published January 11, 2018
When berries are in season, you might be advised to stock up quickly because Jade at the Wheaty Brewing Corps may otherwise beat you to the stash. She loves berries in beer for the flavours they impart on the final product and uses them a lot: saisons, kettle sours, sour stouts and Berliner weisse have been met with a flurry of raspberries, blackberries and sometimes both. This creation for summer 2017/18, Heaps Berry Saison, is the fruited version of their lacto-inoculated kettle sour saison. Berries… Read more
Style
Sour Berry Saison
ABV
5.4%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Cutlet

Published November 8, 2017
The choice cuts of a lamb are dependent on personal preference, but there will be few meat lovers who can go past a small, tasty, juicy cutlet. A little chewy but tender at the same time and of a size that you can consume a few in one sitting. Which is a roundabout way of getting to the inspiration for this beer: a pale ale with plenty of juicy hop flavours that's a little meaty too. Oats and specialty malts are among the grain bill, contributing to a substantial body for a beer of just 4.5 percent… Read more
Style
Pale Ale
ABV
4.5%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Milko

Published November 8, 2017
When deciding what sort of sweet stout to brew next, head brewer Jade Flavell drew inspiration from the Old El Paso taco advertisement. She couldn’t decide if she wanted an oatmeal or a milk stout, therefore decided: “Why not both?” The idea was to combine the sweetness from the lactose in a milk stout with the body of an oatmeal stout, bringing in an English ale yeast to finish the job. The Wheatsheaf Hotel has the ability to pour a beer up to three different ways, with standard CO2 carbonation,… Read more
Style
Oat Milk Stout
ABV
4.5%
Bitterness
20 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Doctor's Orders & Gladfield Malt Moule Rouge

Published October 10, 2017
Every year, Jade Flavell and the Wheaty Brewing Corps team up with Darren "Doc" Robinson when he's town for Good Beer Wheaty. In 2017, Gabi from Gladfields Malt in New Zealand jumped in to the brewery too, bringing some red, malty goodness with her. Vienna was used as the base in a beer designed to showcase Gladfield’s Aurora, Supernova and Shepherd’s Delight malts. In typical Doc fashion, he wanted to shake things up a little, which here meant the addition of Boston Bay Mussels and… Read more
Style
Mollusc Red Ale
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Kransky Mini Pils

Published October 10, 2017
If there's one brewery in the country you can trust to take a pun and run with it, it's the Wheaty Brewing Corps. Here, the Kransky of the title refers not so much to the sausage but sausage dogs. Why? Apparently, it's a reference to the small frame of a sausage dog and how they still pack in plenty of personality and character. It's a mid-strength-ish pilsner made with Vienna as the base malt alongside sprinklings of Carapils and acidulated malt and with newish German hop Callista alongside one… Read more
Style
Small PIlsner
ABV
3.7%
Bitterness
18 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Hobart Brewing Co & Van Dieman Ice Coffee

Published October 4, 2017
While showing Scott and Jimmy from Hobart Brewing Co and Will from Van Diemen Brewing around town, the Wheaty Brewing Corps stumbled across a South Australian favourite, Farmer’s Union Iced Coffee. Well, they stumbled on a version of it – instead of finding the milky beverage in a fridge, the group created a beer in its image. The foursome had been discussing opposites and how a beer that looked like an IPA could taste like a stout; the result was the Ice Coffee White Stout. Sweet, sweet lactose… Read more
Style
White Coffee Stout
ABV
6.2%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Naparbier & 8 Wired Screwdriver

Published October 4, 2017
When a 5kg brick of Belma hop hash landed in her lap, Wheaty Brewing Corps founder Jade Flavell was elated – and for more than one reason. Firstly, neither she nor her collaborators (Søren from NZ's 8 Wired and Juan from Naparbier in Spain) had used hop hash before, while Belma is a relatively new hop variety she hadn’t played with before either, thus creating the opportunity to design a recipe showcasing a certain product. They decided upon an imperial IPA SMASH beer (Single Malt And Single… Read more
Style
Farmhouse IIPA
ABV
8.5%
Bitterness
60 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Booty Blocker Brown

Published August 14, 2017
Since launching a decade ago in 2007, the Adelaide Roller Derby has enjoyed a long connection with the Wheatsheaf Hotel. The venue has supported the league since the beginning, first brewing the Booty Blocker Brown on grand final night in 2014 and continuing to release it at the same time each year since, changing the recipe slightly each time. This malt driven brown pours a medium brown in colour, with a deep red glow when held to the light. Dark chocolate subtly drifts from the glass, some coffee… Read more
Style
Brown Ale
ABV
4.4%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Berry Tight Down Under, Honey

Published April 10, 2017
When Ben Kraus from Bridge Road Brewers was in town for the Tour Down Under, he decided to pedal past the Wheatsheaf Hotel for a quick collaboration. He even managed to squeeze some ingredients into his suitcases to contribute to the brew: a saison with a twist in the shape of Beechworth blackberries, honey, Adelaide Hills raspberries and vanilla. Once poured into the glass, the saison has a pinkish hue from the berries and an illuminating golden glow. The head is best described as "blush"… Read more
Style
Berry Honey Saison
ABV
5.8%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Indy

Published April 10, 2017
When thousands of homebrewers descend on your home town for their large annual conference, you're almost duty bound as a busy brewpub operator to create an interesting beer for them. ANHC 5 took place in Adelaide in 2016 and, as a major sponsor, the Wheaty Brewing Corps was put in charge of brewing the official beer. Pilsner, wheat, flaked oats and acidulated malts met Magnum, Amarillo, Nelson, Citra and Simcoe hops with the final piece to the puzzle being the White Labs French Saison yeast from… Read more
Style
India Saison
ABV
5.2%
Bitterness
20 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Benatar

Published April 10, 2017
A beer brewed in honour of Emily Trott, one of three owners of the Wheatsheaf Hotel who passed away in 2016. Emily had three cats, Pablo, Little One and Benatar; hence the name and decal image for this stout. Benatar is "a good, solid name" according to head brewer Jade Flavell and is used to describe the beer in a variety of ways" Flat Benatar for pouring off the hand pump or Vat Benatar for a barrel aged version. Benatar takes the term Sour Puss to a whole new level: a cat that doesn’t… Read more
Style
Sour Berry Stout
ABV
7.5%

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Weihenstephan Wolperdinger

Published December 20, 2016
Once you've collaborated on a beer with The Crafty Pint, where's left to go? Upwards, presumably, which is where the Wheaty Brewing Corps team headed earlier this year when they took advantage of a visit to Australia by Weihenstephan Braumeister Tobias Grollo to create a beer with the Bavarian brewery that lays claim to being the oldest in the world. The hosts described the opportunity as a situation in which "us part-time ivory tinklers had been invited to jam with Bach; surreal and utterly… Read more
Style
Hoppy Dunkel
ABV
5.5%
Bitterness
35 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Corps Blimey!

Published October 16, 2016
The Wheaty ladies don’t just deal with good beer, they also tend to dabble in good whiskies. And why not? After all, to make whisky, you start out as if making beer. For the Corps Blimey! London Porter, the brewpub's Brewing Corps invited in two whisky experts to collaborate: Graham Wright and Dr Paul Gooding who previously worked on the Wheatsheaf Hotel’s very own spirit drop aptly named Wheaty Whisky. The resultant beer collab measures just 4.4 percent ABV but it is loaded with a selection… Read more
Style
London Porter
ABV
4.4%
Bitterness
26 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Wheaty Wheaty

Published October 16, 2016
When it comes to beer names, The Wheaty Brewing Corps crew generally deals in puns or witty jokes. So, when the time came to brew a wheat beer for the first time, what else could it be than Wheaty Wheaty? Instead of aiming for the banana / clove aromas of the wheat beers that originated in Bavaria, the Thebarton lupulin lovers opted for the American wheat style; thus this is a beer that comes hopped to the eyeballs, albeit added late to obtain aroma and flavour with little in the way of bitterness.… Read more
Style
American Wheat
ABV
4.2%
Bitterness
12 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps & Crafty Cabal Landlady

Published August 21, 2016
When The Wheaty launched its brewing arm, a very generous offer was extended in the direction of Crafty Towers, asking if we'd like to make a beer with them at some point. Given they've brewed with some of the finest brewers locally and from New Zealand, Europe and the States – and we once asked Murray's to put peated malt, Belgian yeast, mussels and oysters into an imperial stout – this was beyond the call of duty on their part. But, with our reader subscription service, The Crafty Cabal, up… Read more
Style
English Pale Ale
ABV
4.4%

Wheaty Brewing Corps Whisk(e)y-Bix

Published October 21, 2015
Brewer's notes: Our plan with Wheaty-Bix was to brew the breakfast stout equivalent of cold drip filtered coffee; clean, lean and delicate on the one hand with a clear intensity of coffee character on the other - focussed and sharp yet full and smooth. To this end we combined a layered roast malt bill with flaked and malted oats; a cool, clean ferment with American ale yeast - and cold drip coffee by the (literal) bucket load. Our friends at Market St sourced just the right bean for our purposes:… Read more
Style
Barrel Aged Stout
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Sir Bob (Gladfield) & Sir Bob (Weyermann)

Published October 21, 2015
Staying true to their promise to play around with Sir Bob, the classic pils style beer they originally created with former Mountain Goat co-owner Dave Bonighton, Wheaty Brewing Corps has created two new versions using malt from two different suppliers in different parts of the world. The basic idea for the beer remains the same – read about the original here – but the plan is to switch in different hops and malts. This pair features, respectively, malt form New Zealand's Gladfield and Germany's… Read more
Style
Pilsner
ABV
5.2%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Black Pils

Published October 21, 2015
Brewer's notes: Black: or thereabouts, with just a shaft of red when held up to the light. Pils: most definitely. Lean, herbal, spicy and dry with that telltale strawlike malt character for which pils is renowned. A clean and cool fermentation with our favourite lager yeast gives this beer a gentle mineral backbone, while the malt lends a soft, subtle roast character. Spicy hop notes round out the mix making this a straight-up Pils; except it’s black... Another misnomer – that makes perfect sense. Looks… Read more
Style
Black Pilsner
ABV
5.4%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Wheaty Brewing Corps Mirschzen

Brewer's notes: A fresh, clean, nuanced lager named in honour of Wheaty Brewing Corps’ new recruit Laura ‘totally got this’ Mirsch. Our first ever lager is a mellow take on Märzen: malt-driven, straw-like, full and smooth with earthy, spicy and herbal hop notes. German malt, German hops (and their southern hemisphere descendants) along with Pilsen yeast, a cool ferment and cold conditioning has produced a beer unmistakably ‘Lager’ and unquestionably ‘Craft’. A not so yellow, not so… Read more
Style
Marzen
ABV
4.9%
Bitterness
25 IBU