Tallboy and Moose

Brewer

Name
Tallboy and Moose
Address

270 Raglan Street
Preston
VIC 3072

Phone
(03) 9484 7803
Open Hours

Mon & Tues: Closed
Wed - Fri: 4pm to late
Sat: 12pm to late
Sun: 12pm to 9:30pm

There’s something special about the part of Melbourne where Thornbury and Preston meet. Whether you want to call it Thornbury North or Preston South, it’s an area that’s become one of Melbourne’s most interesting, with cafés, band rooms, bars and restaurants all making the suburb a place locals don’t have much reason to leave and the rest of Melbourne frequently heads to.

Tallboy and Moose have been a major part of the area’s appeal, with the brewpub opening in the second half of 2016 and instantly connecting with that community. Respectively, the “Tallboy'’ and the “Moose” behind the brewery are Dan Hall and Steve Germain, with Dan’s towering height of two metres and Steve’s clear Canadian accent inspiring the brewery’s name.

The pair first met at Moon Dog around 2012 where Steve began his first adventures into the Melbourne beer scene after relocating from Toronto. Dan was on the brewing team at the time and the pair hit it off quickly. With a shared love of certain beer styles and similar impressions of the burgeoning Australian craft beer industry, they kept in touch to see what opportunities might arise for them to work together.

While their roles took them in different directions, they continued to discuss ideas for a future project, which soon turned into their first brewing partnership – Make Beer, an experimental nanobrewery from which they released small run beers and speciality kegs from December 2013 until early in 2015.

Over time, it became clear that they needed to go bigger to make their efforts worthwhile, and the search began for possible brewing premises. Conveniently, Dan took up residence in Preston just a stone’s throw away from the row of warehouses that would come to be the site for the Tallboy and Moose brew bar. After checking out a few different spots around the northern suburbs, Preston still rung true for Dan and Steve, as the craft beer scene was just starting to take hold thanks to venues such as the Raccoon Club, Stray Neighbour and Dexter, each bringing more of the good stuff into the suburb.

While the goal was to go bigger, Tallboy and Moose has always been a brewpub first and foremost, with an impressive range of beers pouring across their taps. True to their experimental Make Beer roots, the Preston brewery has always been incredibly innovative, often being among the first to make use of new brewing ingredients (and ingredients not often used in brewing) in Australia. In 2023, Steve decided to leave the brewery to focus on other opportunities but with Dan still very much at the helm, the Tallboy commitment to quality beer and innovation has never slowed.

When you visit, you’ll find a rotating roster of beers coming out of their on-site brewery, including their core range Deadset Lager and Sunray XPA while their kitchen serves modern Australian fare and perfect sides for drinking beer, like poutine and wings.

From late 2019 onwards, the brewery started canning their beers with some regularity and a Tallboy tap or tins have become common sights in spots for good beer across Melbourne. But undoubtedly the best place to enjoy those beers is their Preston home beer hall-style fit out complete with a beautiful beer garden for summer, warming fireplaces for winter and a striking blue and red mural mimicking their labelling. In short, they've created a neighbourhood brew bar that's become a regular haunt for Preston natives.

And, with the 86 tram route and Bell train station both in walking distance, beer lovers from further afield would be remiss to leave it just for the locals.

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Stories featuring Tallboy and Moose

Core Range

Tallboy & Moose Deadset Lager
Lager
4.5%
Tallboy & Moose Sunray XPA
XPA
4.8%

Limited Releases

Tallboy & Moose Spruce Springsteen & Wayward Cosmic Crush
American Strong Ale & American Pilsner
5.0% & 5.8%
Tallboy & Moose 90210
California IPA
6.1%
Tallboy & Moose x King River Brewing The Spare
ESB
5.2%
Tallboy & Moose Goop Troop Part Deux & Mochaccino
Hazy IPA & Chocolate Coffee Milk Stout
6.0% & 4.0%
Tallboy & Moose Yabby Dabba-Doo & Ursa Minor
Yabby Stout & Australian Amber
5.5% & 5.3%
Tallboy & Moose Bit-A-Citra & Code Red Alert
Pale Ale & Cold Red IPA
5.2% & 6.1%
Tallboy & Moose Crispy Nelson
New Zealand Pilsner
5.0%
Tallboy & Moose Dankosaurus
West Coast IPA
6.5%
Tallboy & Moose x Pomelo Rooftop Rosella Rooftop
Hibiscus Pale Ale
4.5%
Tallboy & Moose Transwarp Conduit & Q Continuum
Modern Pale & IPA
5.0% & 6.3%
Tallboy & Moose Amarillo Greenhouse & Lemon Gelati Nitro Fresca
IIPA & Cream Sour
8.2% & 4.5%
Tallboy & Moose x Deeds All Play & No Work
Cryo Cold IPL
6.5%
Tallboy & Moose Pillow Fight & Royal Fang
Oat Cream IPA & Red IPA
6.0% & 6.1%
Tallboy & Moose Trifecta
Barrel-Aged Blended Stock Ale
11.0%
Tallboy & Moose Barrel Aged Birthday Suit
Barrel-Aged Eisbock
30.0%
Tallboy & Moose Put A Boot On & Bambino
Wattleseed Amber Lager & Italian Pilsner
5.0% & 4.7%
Tallboy & Moose Nitro Chaiger King & Double Jenny
Spiced Stout & Doppelbock
5.9% & 7.8%
Tallboy & Moose Dark Nebula (with Carwyn Cellars) & Chubby Bunny
Fresh Hop Black IPA & Marshmallow IPA
6.3% & 6.0%
Tallboy & Moose Dark Nebula (with Carwyn Cellars) & Chubby Bunny
Fresh Hop Black IPA & Marshmallow IPA
6.3% & 6.0%
Tallboy & Moose Peachy Fresca & Goblinoid
Fruit Cream Sour & Cryo IPA
4.5% & 7.0%
Tallboy & Moose Moscow Moose & Serenity Now
Ginger & Lemon Sour & Lemon Myrtle Rye Saison
3.5% & 5.7%
Tallboy & Moose Summer Sippin' & Worlds Collide
Various Styles
Tallboy & Moose Birthday Suit
Eisbock
20.0%
Tallboy & Moose Citra Greenhouse & Skux Life
IIPA & IPL
8.2% & 6.0%
Tallboy & Moose E.S.P. & Set Phasers To Stun
ESB & NEIPA
4.6% & 7.0%
Tallboy & Moose 303 Denver Lager, Recalibrate the Sensor Array, Citrus Nice Cola & Noise Machine
Various
5.3%, 6.5%, 6.0% & 5.5%
Tallboy & Moose Spring Chicken & Crayzon
Hazy Pale Ale & Dry Hopped Saison
5.5% & 5.9%
Tallboy & Moose Shadow Ban
Black IPA
6.2%
Tallboy & Moose Straight To The Poolroom & Nitro Moose Mousse
Strong Ale & Nitro Milk Stout
7% & 5.5%
Tallboy And Moose Bizarro Cherry & Splash City
Cherry Gose & Guava Oat Cream IPA
4.5% & 6.5%
Tallboy And Moose Nice Cola & TDH Miasma
Cola sour & TDH IPA
6% & 7.1%
Tallboy And Moose Goblin Warlord and Elven Prince
Cryo IPAs
7.5% & 7%
Tallboy & Moose & Blackhearts & Sparrows Party Cardi IPA
Hazy IPA
5.7%
Tallboy & Moose 2 Solid 2 Gold & Jungle Berry Fresca
Hazy IPA & Fruit Cream Sour
6.5% & 5.4%
Tallboy & Moose Un Poco Loco, Thunder Hammer & Nitro Snot Block
Various Styles
6.5% & 8.0% & 6.0%
Tallboy & Moose Silk Road Sunrise & DDH Stardust
Belgian Pale & IPA
5.0% & 6.0%
Tallboy & Moose Lightning Axe 2020
Kveik IPA
7.0%
Tallboy And Moose Highly Illogical & Baked & Confused
Double IPA & Cookie Dough Stout
Tallboy & Moose Terminal Velocity, Solid Gold & Chaiger King
Kveik IPA, Hazy IPA & Spiced Stout
5.9% & 6.5% & 5.9%
Beerfarm Shirazzaweiss 2020& Bubblina ft Tallboy & Moose
Grape Berliner Weisse
6.0% & 6.2%
Tallboy & Moose Wet Hop 2020 & Royal Fang & Ursu Major
Wet Hop Pale & Red IPA with Tea & American Brown
5.2% & 6.1% & 5.2%
Tallboy & Moose The Fang & Snickerdoodle
Red IPA & Amber Ale
6.1% & 6.0%
Tallboy & Moose DDH Nebula
DDH Pale
5.9%
Tallboy & Moose Pinkest Pink & Pukka
Lemon Myrtle Sour & Grisette
3.4% & 4.3%
Tallboy & Moose Florida Vice
OJ Kettle Sour
6.0%
Tallboy and Moose Lil Zinger & Itty Sticky
Kettle Sour & Session IPA
3.1% & 3.5%
Tallboy & Moose Goblinoid & Snot Goblin
Cryo-Hopped IPAs
7.0%
Tallboy & Moose Lazy Riviera & Wolfenstein
Saison & Altbier
5.2% & 5.0%
Tallboy & Moose Hey Presto & Kokomo IPA & Black Parade
Various Styles
Deeds & Tallboy & Moose All Work & No Play
DDH IIPA
8.5%
Tallboy & Moose Zing Tang (can) & Zee Pilz & Eagle Vs Kiwi
Various styles
Tallboy & Moose Pillow Fight
Oat Cream IPA
6.0%
Tallboy & Moose Citrus Got Real & Nectarine Of The Gods & Imposter Importer
Various styles
5.9% & 5.9% & 6.4%
Tallboy & Moose Fruit Basket & Negative Light
IPA & Barrel-Aged Stout
6.2% & 9.9%
Tallboy & Moose The Noodler & Guava Fresca & Pillow Fight & Sleight Of Hand
Various styles
Various ABVs
Tallboy & Moose Boysenberry Zing Tang & Lecker Hammer & Party Like It's 1999
Fruit Sour & Oktoberfestbier & IIPA
3.8% & 6.0% & 8.8%
Tallboy & Moose Lucha Lager & Torch Girl
Mexican Lager & Hoppy Saison
4.6% & 5.7%
Tallboy & Moose Les Soeurs Chasseurs & Goblinoid
Sour Ale & west Coast IPA
6.0% & 7.1%
Tallboy & Moose Blackberry Warpaint & Builder's Brew
Fruit Cream Sour & ESB
4.5% & 5.5%
Tallboy & Moose Rum Daddy & Berried Alive!
Rum Barrel Aged Strong Ale & Berry Yoghurt
8.8% & 6%
Tallboy & Moose Lightning Axe & Practically Bier
Norwegian Pale & Honey Wit
6.0% & 5.8%
Tallboy & Moose Shelfie & Das Brut & All Are Neighbours
Various styles
5.8% / 6.8% / 4.2%
Tallboy & Moose & The Crafty Cabal & Wheaty Brewing Corps Vigilante Justice & Universal Promise
Blended Sour & Rye NEIPA
6.5% & 7.2%
Tallboy & Moose The Moose Strikes Back & Les Soeurs Agricoles
Barrel Aged Imperial Stout & Mixed Ferment Red Ale
10.4% & 5.0%
Tallboy & Moose Sonny Brook & DDH Nebula & Polski Prince
Vienna Lager / NEIPA / Grodziskie
4.7% / 5.5% / 3.8%
Tallboy & Moose La Grisette & The Fang
Grisette & American Amber
4.2% & 5.6%
Tallboy & Moose SummaTime XPA & Ping Tang & OiPA
Various styles
4.7% & 4.0% & 6.5%
Tallboy & Moose La Blanche & Pulpa De Oro & Hey Gang! & Zing Tang
Various
Various
Tallboy & Moose Double Coolade & Wee Man's Heavy & Thingy
Various
Various
Tallboy & Moose & Carwyn Cellars Dark Side Of The Moose
Russian Imperial Stout
9.0%
Tallboy & Moose & Bucket Boys Zero IBU
New England IPA
5.3%
Tallboy & Moose Cookie Brown
Spiced Brown Ale
5.5%
Tallboy & Moose & The Mill Export Stout
Export Stout
6.7%
Tallboy & Moose & Carwyn Cellars Milky Wet Galaxy
New England IPA
6.6%
Tallboy & Moose Rye'd Beard & Noisy Weisse
Rye Ale & Berliner Weisse
5.1% & 3.5%
Tallboy & Moose & West City Brewing Citrachi IPA
IPA
6.5%
Tallboy & Moose Only HPA035
Single Hop Pale Ale
5.5%
Tallboy & Moose Cream Ale – RETIRED
Cream Ale
4.9%
Tallboy & Moose Table Pale Ale
Session Pale
3.4%
Tallboy & Moose ESB
ESB
4.7%
Tallboy & Moose Tropicalismo IPA
American IPA
7.6%