Batch Brewing Co

When you can include wild fermentation, trophy winning beers, a bottleshop that brews and a brewery that distills, there’s merit to the argument that Sydney’s Inner West is home to the most interesting concentration of beer businesses in Australia. Yet, as recently as 2012 there was just one independent brewery in the area – and it wasn't open to the public. It’s more than a little remarkable how quickly things have changed.

Amongst the first to see this new wave coming was a pair of American ex-pats, Chris Sidwa and Andrew Fineran. In 2013 they took a chance on a warehouse in Marrickville, rolled in a small brewing kit and launched the Batch Brewing Company.

The choice of brewery name reflected their concept, one that would eschew a broad range of core beers in favour of just a couple of regulars and a rapidly changing array of single batches. There was no grand plan as to what styles these would be. Instead, they were happy to take a lead from the seasons, unexpected opportunities and whatever else they felt people in a then nascent beer scene might be willing to try. Then they banked everything on how well the ‘drink local’ concept would resonate; as a small business, from day one they were cognisant that any future success would depend on people in their own community supporting what they were doing. They came up with a line that summed up this inclusive ethos, painted it on the wall and stamped it on their labels: ‘We Brew For You’.

More than many others, Batch has always felt like a working brewery rather than just a place to go for a beer. At times the separation between brewery and bar was as thin as a painted line on the floor. In the beginning, when there was still space, it was almost wholly industrial with sprawling stainless steel, piles of ingredients, kegs being cleaned and bottles filled and capped by hand. Between the thrum of traffic outside on Sydenham Road and regular roars from planes descending on the nearby Sydney airport, quiet moments were rare. In summer the place was stifling. But as the business grew the place warmed in a different way.

More tanks came in, as did a more efficient bottling machine and, later, a canning line. They had to fit all this into the same space, of course, but they figured out how to fit it in better and the front third of the warehouse was reconfigured to make things more comfortable for guests. Where once your only option was perching at a high table surrounded by racks of malt while drinking out of hipster-era mason jars, now you could sit on a proper couch below a wall of locally made art and sip fresh beer from tulip glasses. Batch has always been popular but here was a brewery maturing, displaying more heart and soul to match the toil.

Out back, the brewers stayed true to the original plan. After a few years they settled on four core beers; a lager called Just Beer; an American pale ale (the only beer to have been there from the beginning), a West Coast IPA and Elsie, the nitro milk stout. When it came to one-off beers they were almost impossibly prolific; at its peak the brewery was releasing something new on average every ten days. Things have slowed a bit - if you call a new beer about every two weeks a slowdown – but the ideas remain as expansive as ever.

But perhaps the defining thing about Batch’s beer is that they’ve always tried to do right by it. They were one of the first local breweries to make date stamping a feature of their packaged product, letting customers know exactly when a beer was made and when to drink it. They kept distribution tight, believing that beer made in Marrickville should be consumed as close to Marrickville as possible; to this day they still sell the vast majority of their beer in Sydney, and much of that remains in suburbs close to the brewery.

They nurtured relationships with businesses in the community, brewing porter for pies and using honey from the neighbourhood’s rooftop hives. Their pursuance of all things local led them to form a close bond with Voyager, the burgeoning New South Wales craft malt grower, to the extent that the maltster now has a dedicated block whose bounty goes directly to Batch. Look behind the bar at the brewery today and you’ll see the weather and rain reports for the town of Barellan, where their de facto allotment is located. It could be easily missed but this simple chalkboard is a reminder, for those who care, that there is a genuine link between the land and the beer in your hand.

And one of the things about Batch is they make you care. You can't visit the bar without noticing what’s happening in the brewery, so you can't help asking a question of a brewer. Suddenly you're interested. Then you're invested and want to be more involved. Multiply that effect over a number of years and it would be hard to measure just how many people in the area will have found their way to better beer by virtue of Batch simply doing what it does in the place it does it. And that’s just people coming through their door.

The brewery has also been a veritable breeding ground for the wider industry, with Batch alumni having gone on to launch other pioneering local businesses and work behind the scenes to further change the face of the Sydney beer scene – read all about that here.

In winter 2019, Batch opened a second brewery specialising in creating more small batch brews, aptly named Small Batch. It's further reason to believe that, if you were to claim the Inner West truly is the most interesting place for beer in Australia, you could equally claim that the Batch Brewing Company is right at the heart of it.

Mid-2020 saw Batch swap from 440ml to 375ml cans for beers brewed out of their Marrickville site – a move that warranted its own 80s-TV-commercial-inspired video – to make them "easier on the wallet for beer drinkers."

That said, 2022 arguably represented the biggest year of change for the inner west pioneers. In March of that year, they acquired Bucket Boys and transitioned the latter's Darling Square venue into a Batch taproom, before ending the year as one of two founding partners of the Local Drinks Collective, a new concept for the local indie beer world launched in tandem with Wayward Brewing.

Nick Oscilowski

Name
Batch Brewing Co
Address

44 Sydenham Road
Marrickville
NSW 2204

Phone
(02) 9550 5432
Open Hours

Mon to Sun: 10am to 8pm

Tours

Sat & Sun: 12.30pm & 3.30pm
Bookings essential. Other times available on request.

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Batch Brewing Co Brighter Future, La Sfida & In A Pickle
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Batch Brewing Co Blueberry Cheesecake & Little Lou’s Crème Brûlée
Batch Brewing Co All Time Low & Autumn Dawn
Batch Brewing Co Chapeau 2020
Batch Brewing Co A Berry Salty Gose & Single Hop IPA HPA-016
Batch Brewing Co A Currant State of Infusion Coffee & Currant Dark Sour Ale
Batch Brewing Co Juicy Boys & Island Style
Batch Brewing Co MacBatch Oak-Aged Wee Heavy
Batch Brewing Co Trippy Hippy’s Citra XPA, Vic & Pete’s Bodacious Nitro Pale & Beastie Boysenberry Sour Ale
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Batch Brewing Co Regulars

Batch Brewing Co Draught

Published July 23, 2021
Dazza: “Wanna go to Batch for a beer?” Shazza: “They make that craft beer stuff. I feel like a beery beer. Might just head down the road to the bowlo.” Dazza: “Nah they’ve got beery beer too. A proper draught ale. Big frothy head and everything. It’s got guts - savoury grain that fills the nose, fills the mouth, fills the bloody soul.” Shazza: “Don’t go getting all fancy on me.” Dazza: “Couldn’t help myself. It’s good but. Just try it.” Shazza: tries it “Not bad. Tastes… Read more
Style
Draught
ABV
4.2%

Batch Brewing Co Tasman Tango South Pacific Ale

Published October 22, 2019
In late 2018, Batch released two session IPAs under the name Tasman Tango - one made with Australian malts and hops, the other made with New Zealand malts and hops - and sold them in mixed four-packs, partnered up so people could compare them and see what they liked about each. Now, Batch has taken the Tasman Tango name and put it on a beer that essentially brings together the best of both countries as they dance the dance of love. The malts in Tasman Tango approach with confidence, head held high,… Read more
Style
Pacific Ale
ABV
4.2%

Batch Brewing Co Hay-Z New England Sour

Published September 18, 2018
Filling the ground between their series of fruit sours and juicy New England influenced beers, Hay-Z is back on stage at the Batch bar and filling fridges and fonts further afield too. In terms of general style, it seems less of the latter and more of the former, a 4.5 percent ABV beer that’s been loaded with Galaxy and Vic Secret hops that spit out intense lemon and citrus characters. It’s not especially murky but that’s forgotten when it hits your tongue and those citrus flavours team up… Read more
Style
Hoppy Sour
ABV
4.5%

Batch Brewing Co Pash The Magic Dragon

Published February 16, 2018
The Batch brewers have been playing around with all manner of funky, tangy, fruity things for a good while now and, as of summer 2018, it looks like one of the fruitiest fruits of their labours is graduating to become a regularly brewed and canned release. The beer in question is Pash The Magic Dragon, one that meets their requirement for a fun and punny name too. The name hints at what's inside the tinnies, with passionfruit and dragon fruit there in such volumes that you're left with a beverage… Read more
Style
Fruit Sour
ABV
4.5%

Batch Brewing Co. Elsie The Milk Stout

At a time when next to no one in Australia was regularly brewing a milk stout, Batch’s take on the style became so popular in Marrickville that it forced its way into the brewery’s very hard to penetrate core range. Elsie The Milk Stout, to give the beer its full name, is a luscious creature with all the best bits of a regular stout plus a sweeter side that lifts her up another level. She’s smooth and chocolatey, dark and toasty, and oh-so-wonderfully thick and creamy – a distinct benefit… Read more
Style
Milk Stout
ABV
4.3%

Batch Brewing Co. West Coast IPA

They’ve done a lot of IPAs over the years, have the brewers at Batch: nitro, lactose, grapefruit, mango, double, black, white, smoked, session – if it’s doable, they’ve probably done it. But over all that time and all those IPAs, the only one they’ve kept coming back to is this. Batch’s West Coast IPA takes its inspiration from the West Coast of the brewery founders’ native USA and aims to be a faithful representation of the style, albeit at the lighter end of the scale. You can thus… Read more
Style
American IPA
ABV
5.8%

Batch Brewing Co American Pale Ale

Considering Batch was founded by a pair of American ex-pats, it’s perhaps little surprise that the first beer they ever produced was an American Pale Ale. It’s also the only beer to have been continually produced at the brewery since those early days, a dependable pillar to fall back on as an ever expanding array of one-off releases came and went on a seemingly weekly basis. The beer itself is meant as a showcase of Cascade hops, which it uses exclusively and at several points through the brewing… Read more
Style
American Pale Ale
ABV
5.2%

Batch Brewing Co Specials

Batch Coffee Pale Ale, Tropical Nitro IPA & Das Roggen

Published April 22, 2022
I love ducking down to Batch Brewing Co. The staff are some of the nicest in the business, and when approaching the beer fridge it’s always an exercise in: “What have they gone and done now?” You’re just as likely to pick up a classically brewed BJCP style as something that could easily be explained as potential ingredients put through a random beer generator, complete with an intensity dial. Well, this time around I’d estimate that the Batch random beer generator was set at an intensity… Read more
Style
Coffee Pale, Nitro IPA & Rye Lager
ABV
4.5% & 7.0% & 4.6%

Batch Brewing Co Brighter Future, La Sfida & In A Pickle

Published March 3, 2022
If I tried to think of a satirical "Batch doing Batch things" release, I reckon I’d struggle to come up with a better trio than what we have here. I mean this in the fondest way possible, of course. Batch’s eclectic mix of invented styles, classics and GABS-worthy silliness is exactly why they’re so beloved. And the lineup today features a modern IPA, an Italian pils and a pickle sour. Marvellous. Brighter Future IPA is a version of what Batch have called a modern IPA. By my reckoning… Read more
Style
IPA, Italian Pilsner & Pickle Sour
ABV
6.7% & 5.5% & 4.7%

Batch Brewing Co Neu Bruin

Published February 25, 2022
When Sydney’s Batch Brewing Co opened their second venue, Small Batch, behind the Public House Petersham midway through 2019, the plan was to use the tiny 350 litre batches as a proving ground for experimental beers and flights of fancy. So when they were approached by international yeast maestros Fermentis to conduct a little souring experiment in mid-2021, Small Batch was the perfect environment. Armed with a brand new kind of souring bacteria, head brewer Luigi Mensi put together a recipe designed… Read more
Style
Dark Sour
ABV
6.0%

Batch Brewing Co Blueberry Cheesecake & Little Lou’s Crème Brûlée

Published July 23, 2021
Like the grandparent who spoils the kids with sweets whenever they want, Batch are slinging dessert beers for before and after dinner. After winning hearts at Batch’s Sourfest event, Blueberry Cheesecake returned in winter 2021. Shining the bloody stain of smashed blueberries with a lavender purple foam, Blueberry Cheesecake is a cheeky little brat, and surprisingly drinkable for a 7.2 percent ABV dessert sour. It’s luxurious but surprisingly balanced with a creamy nitro head, sweet jammy aroma… Read more
Style
Nitro Sour & Pastry Stout
ABV
7.2% & 8.0%

Batch Brewing Co All Time Low & Autumn Dawn

Published July 23, 2021
There's two very different hoppy beers available from Batch at the moment (actually knowing Batch, there's probably quite a few more - but here's a couple we've tried). Sitting at a petite 1.25 percent ABV - that’s just 0.3 standard drinks per tinnie - All Time Low is Batch’s way of giving a lighter alternative to other beers. Rather than aiming for the lager or hoppy pale ale flavour profiles of other low alcohol beers, All Time Low is more in the amber ale camp. It pours a reddish hue and gives… Read more
Style
Ultra Low Session Ale & India Red Ale
ABV
1.25% & 6.6%

Batch Brewing Co Chapeau 2020

Published December 15, 2020
It’s mid-December, and you know what that means – we celebrate another year of Batch's beautiful existence in our beer sphere with another year of Chapeau Raspberry Sour Celebration Ale. So, what’s the same with this year’s version, and what’s different? In 2017, we told you about the way Batch were sourcing their raspberries from small producers in Tasmania. And, even though so many of us were prevented from travelling interstate this year, that luscious red fruit still made its way up… Read more
Style
Raspberry Sour Ale
ABV
6.4%

Batch Brewing Co A Berry Salty Gose & Single Hop IPA HPA-016

Published December 14, 2020
Both of these beers are delightful examples of "exactly what it says on the label". Pouring a blushy pink – or, as my drinking buddy described it, "the rosé of beer" – Berry Salty Gose throws enough berry aroma into the air to to get you on board with the titular berry/very pun. A fair whack of citric acid hits you from the first sip, and the grapefruit zing and back palate saltiness get the saliva glands working overtime. (Note that this beer contains native Australian… Read more
Style
Berry Gose & Single Hop IPA
ABV
4.5% & 6.3%

Batch Brewing Co A Currant State of Infusion Coffee & Currant Dark Sour Ale

Published September 1, 2020
When I first tasted this beer, my immediate reaction was every single catchphrase from a TV show in the 80s and 90s. “Wowsers!” “Ay caramba!” Tim Allen grunt from Home Improvement A Currant State of Infusion lashes out at your senses from all quarters. It looks like red wine with bloody foam on top, and the very first sniff has you wondering what you’re smelling. Tart berry jam and sleek cold brew coffee intermingle in a way that’s intriguing on the nose and invigorating in the mouth. The… Read more
Style
Coffee & Currant Sour Ale
ABV
6.4%

Batch Brewing Co Juicy Boys & Island Style

Published September 1, 2020
Bring on the fruit; bring on the juice. Batch NEIPA Juicy Boys has been described by one Untappd user as “fruity as all hell,” and they’re not wrong. In the aroma, a wallop of tropical fruit salad joins with the richness of dark brown sugar, but the molasses character recedes once you start drinking, leaving only juice - fresh and hazy and pulpy breakfast juice with extra mango. To take the tropical feel even further, Batch have also released Island Style, a laid back coconut IPA that transports… Read more
Style
NEIPA & Coconut IPA
ABV
6.6% & 6.2%

Batch Brewing Co MacBatch Oak-Aged Wee Heavy

Published September 1, 2020
When I was a little kid - a whippersnapper, as my Pop would say - my Nanna used to hide Jersey Caramels around her house for me to find. I loved those little cubes with their condensed-milk sweetness and mouth-coating quality. Nanna knew how to spoil me. When it comes to Small Batch MacBatch Oak Aged Wee Heavy, no one’s hiding the Jersey Caramels - they’re out on display. From the first sip til the last, the sticky caramel fills your mouth while an oaky butteriness embraces the tongue. MacBatch… Read more
Style
Oak-Aged Wee Heavy
ABV
9.1%

Batch Brewing Co Trippy Hippy’s Citra XPA, Vic & Pete’s Bodacious Nitro Pale & Beastie Boysenberry Sour Ale

Published June 23, 2020
Have you ever put on a pair of headphones, closed your eyes, and listened closely to a song that pans the sound from one ear to the other? If not, it's an experience worth having - try Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love, or for a more extreme example, Foo Fighters’ Hey, Johnny Park! The reason I bring it up is because I had the taste version of this with Batch’s Trippy Hippy Citra XPA - the flavours transition seamlessly between hops and malt. The sherbety citrus and tropical notes blend with… Read more
Style
XPA & Nitro Pale & Fruit Sour
ABV
5.0% & 5.0% & 4.5%

Batch Brewing Co Into The Summer Session Ale

Published January 24, 2020
When you're after a summer smasher, you want something refreshing, low on alcohol, and tasty without bringing a sledgehammer to the senses. But when the Batch crew looked around at the mid-strengths other breweries were coming out with they found almost all of them sat in a certain part of the flavour spectrum. "We did a panel of all the mid-strength we could find, and everything was hop driven. So we wanted to do something different," is how they put it. Into The Summer is a session… Read more
Style
Session Ale
ABV
3.5%
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Batch Brewing Co Chapeau! 2019

Published December 10, 2019
It’s Chapeau! 2019 time everyone and you know what that means?! Time to put on your most offensively idiotic French accent and wish Batch Brewing Co a bon anniversaire then do a whole lot of “oh hoh hoh” French grunting. It’s OK – it’s all for a good cause and you can’t be cancelled for being racist towards the French, it’s the law. Chapeau! is Batch’s annual birthday beer, a raspberry kettle sour. A fruited sour beer isn’t quite as crazy in 2019 as it was six years ago, but you’d… Read more
Style
Raspberry Sour
ABV
6.9%

Batch Brewing Co Juicy As Phuck NEIPA 2019

Published October 22, 2019
As trite as they can sound in certain contexts, the phrases “becoming who you are” or “finding yourself” ring true for most of us. As we go through life, the years teach us things and help us to grow into ourselves in a way that we could never have imagined in the past. We become a truer version of ourselves. And we can apply this same philosophical psychobabble to Batch Brewing’s Juicy As Phuck, which has undergone a recipe change that brings it more into itself. Juicy entered the market… Read more
Style
NEIPA
ABV
7.0%

Batch Brewing Co Farmhouse XPA

Published October 22, 2019
When Batch opened their second location, Small Batch, they said it would function as a kind of engine of innovation, providing experimentation and market research for developing new beers. As well as, you know, being a kickass venue where shuffleboard is king. Farmhouse XPA is the first fruit of this process. (The innovation and experimentation, not the shuffleboard.) The brewers had the time and space at Small Batch - not to mention a small army of drinkers - to work with the recipe and road test… Read more
Style
Farmhouse XPA
ABV
5.4%

Batch Brewing Co Azacca IPA

Published September 19, 2019
With Azacca hops headlining, and Citra and Ekuanot playing a supporting role, this beer is full of flavour, but doesn’t demand to be centre of the occasion. As far as IPAs go, this one’s at the easier end of the scale; or alternatively, you could think of it as a pale ale jacked up to 11. Florals and citrus aromas give you expectations of a delicate little number, and they’re joined with sweet fruits when you first put it to your lips. But it fades into flavours more reminiscent of noble hops,… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
6.4%

Batch Brewing Co The Huge Kahuna

Published July 21, 2019
There’s the Big Kahuna, Batch’s coconut infused brown ale and then - when the tides are right - there’s the Huge Kahuna, a coconut and cacao infused imperial brown ale. Although this is brown in name, it’s entirely opaque when you hold it up to the light. It’s full and fragrant; the coconut was delivered to the brewery immediately after being toasted at The Bread And Butter Project, a social enterprise bakery just down the road. If you’ll forgive the slightly unoriginal line, this beer… Read more
Style
Imperial Brown Ale
ABV
8.4%

Batch Brewing Co Addison Rye Ale

Published July 21, 2019
Complexity and simplicity come together in this beer to deliver an easy-drinker that can be explored in depth, or enjoyed without a second thought. If you like rye beers, you can appreciate the peppery aroma, the subtle spice, the savoury cracker character. A mix of seven Voyager and Gladfield malts bring layers of light zest and a savoury, earthy edge to the body. If you pair it with spicy food, the sweeter characters are drawn out, and sit parallel on the palate with any salt or grease. The whole… Read more
Style
Rye Ale
ABV
4.8%

Batch Brewing Co The Big Kahuna

Published June 16, 2019
One of Batch’s earliest releases and now a regular winter seasonal, The Big Kahuna, returns for the year, making its way into cans for the very first time. Inspired by founders Chris and Andrew’s Hawaiian travels, this brown ale is packed with malty goodness from no less than six different malts. But, the real stunner is a massive addition of toasted coconut at all stages of the process – mash, boil and fermenter. That coconut carries through in all aspects of the beer too, from aroma and flavour… Read more
Style
Coconut Brown Ale
ABV
4.8%

Batch Brewing Co Campos Milk Stout

Published June 16, 2019
Sydney coffee institution Campos is a household name in the Inner West, with their Newtown outpost having helped thousands of bleary-eyed students of the University of Sydney survive their studies (or maybe that’s just me.) Similarly, Batch share a similar level of fame when it comes to beer, so it’s only natural for these two to collaborate to create a delicious yet simple milk stout. Using a variant of Elsie the Milk Stout as the base, the beer is brewed with whole coffee beans from Campos… Read more
Style
Nitro Coffee Milk Stout
ABV
4.4%

Batch Brewing Co What A Melon! & Hoppsy Mozy & Señor Spicy

Published May 30, 2019
The word fruity gets bandied around the beer world a lot as a general descriptor of beers but, boy oh boy, not all fruity beers are the same. Here are three "fruity" beers with very distinct personalities. For a summer ale that’s been infused with the juice from a full pallet of watermelons (this sounds it would’ve been a real pain to collect), What A Melon! handles subtlety and refreshment with finesse. The clear and sweet melony aroma is balanced out with a hint of tartness, a touch… Read more
Style
Various styles
ABV
4.6% & 6.4% & 4.5%

Batch Brewing Co Vapor Trails

Published March 30, 2019
Batch’s Sydenham home has the dubious honour of being right underneath the final approach to Sydney Airport. As a consequence, conversation is often interrupted as a jumbo jet flies overhead, rumbling deeply and temporarily blocking out the sun, casting an eerie shadow over the brewery for just a second. At the same time, according to a popular conspiracy theory, the jet produces white condensation trails from its wingtips, secretly containing biological and chemical reagents to ensure the citizens… Read more
Style
Cherry & Vanilla American Wheat
ABV
4.6%

Batch Brewing Co 2 Strainz Triticale Sour

Published December 6, 2018
Fruited sours have become quite the thing at the Batch Brewing Company. They usually have at least one pouring at any given time, often more – especially in summer. In the past they’ve added everything from passionfruit to raspberries to currants, but this latest one’s a little different. Why? It’s got no added fruit at all. 2 Strainz is a triticale sour, so named for the triticale strain of grain which is a hybrid of wheat and rye. The beer itself is pale, slightly hazy and, for something… Read more
Style
Sour Ale
ABV
4.0%

Batch Brewing Co Tasman Tango Session IPA

Published December 6, 2018
Is the Tasman Tango one beer done two ways or two totally different beers? Well, kind of both. Batch’s new Session IPA experiment involves taking one recipe but brewing it using two distinct sets of ingredients, each sourced from a different country. The Gold version is a showcase of Australian malt and hops while its Silver dance partner represents New Zealand grown ingredients. Flipping the coin and starting with the Kiwi version, the Gladfield malts do the subtle but important work of giving… Read more
Style
Session IPAs
ABV
4.0%

Batch Brewing Co Rye IPA

Published November 13, 2018
Back in the heady days of 2015 when small breweries were still relatively rare and small distilleries rarer still, the Batch Brewing Co teamed up with the fledgling Archie Rose distillery on an experiment: they made a beer brewed not only to go with a spirit, but also to be turned into it. The beer was the First Wash Rye IPA and it was later distilled into the Hopped Rye Spirit, with both released simultaneously at venues around Sydney as a rather incestuous form of boilermaker – read about it… Read more
Style
Rye IPA
ABV
7.2%

Batch Brewing Co Trippy Hippy’s Voodoo Gold

Published September 14, 2018
Golden ale is a style of beer that can be hard to get excited about. Their purpose for existence seems, in the majority of Australian examples at least, to be plugging a gap between lager and pale ale. So they’re principally hoppy beers, but also meant to be approachable. Satisfaction without offence. Like a smart kid held back a year at school, Trippy Hippy’s Voodoo Gold seems to have a bit too much going on inside for it to be lumped in with such dull company. To start with it’s a deeper… Read more
Style
Golden Ale
ABV
5.6%

Batch Brewing Co Juicy As Phuck

Published September 14, 2018
The ever-evolving Juicy beers keep coming at Batch, with a slightly modified re-release of their double New England IPA, Juicy As Phuck. From a technical perspective perhaps the most significant thing of note is the use of a Nottingham yeast, as opposed to a more common Vermont yeast. That aside, it’s all familiar territory. This is a beer with an absolutely rampaging tropical fruit character – like drizzling a tin of pineapple juice over a peach and mango salad. But what else could you reasonably… Read more
Style
Double NEIPA
ABV
8.9%

Batch Brewing Co Black Magic Coffee Porter

Published September 14, 2018
The whole coffee and beer thing isn’t new, but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. Particularly when you come across something like this. Batch’s Black Magic Coffee Porter is a beer dripping in coffee character. Pop the top off a bottle and the aroma fills the room as if you’re standing at a café chatting with the barista as they work the tamper. The brewers acquired the cold brew from their over-the-road neighbours at the Voodoo Coffee Company who had, in turn, sourced the beans from… Read more
Style
Coffee Porter
ABV
4.4%

Batch Brewing Ginu-Pine & Big Pun-Net & Juicy Pale Ale & Malt Save The Dream & Marrickville Pork Roll

Published August 24, 2018
Prolificacy is a virtue at Batch as the Marrickville brewery has packaged up two very different sours, two very different pale ales and another beer that’s simply very different. Continuing the brewery's run as number one at rap puns, the first sour is Ginu-Pine. This is a pineapple and Mosaic sour and it’s difficult, borderline pointless, to advance that line in terms of useful flavour descriptors. It’s very close to pineapple juice but, crucially, doesn’t leave you with a nasty cloying… Read more
Style
Various styles
ABV
4.2% to 6.0%

Batch Brewing Co Elsie's Other Udder

Published July 20, 2018
Amid the torrent of new beers that flows unabated from the tanks of the Batch Brewing Company, one of the notable things about their range is that a permanent place has long been made for Elsie, their milk stout. This is a beer style that feels like it ought not to have cachet with modern drinkers. It feels like an old fashioned English thing, one whose heyday might have come and gone when Ena Sharples downed her last pint and walked out the doors of The Rover’s Return. But Batch brews it all year… Read more
Style
Double Milk Stout
ABV
7.0%

Batch Brewing Tank 6 2018 & Method Man-darin

Published July 17, 2018
Winter 2018 represents the fourth vintage of Batch’s annual Russian imperial stout release, Tank 6. What’s always quite refreshing about this – if refreshing is a word in any way applicable to a beer in the realms of ten percent ABV – is that it’s a straight up big stout. No infusions. No additions. No oak barrels. It’s all malt, hops and time in tank. And, to paraphrase the Mystic Valley Band, that’s the difference. It spends six months in the brewery’s now eponymous tank number… Read more
Style
Russian Imperial Stout & Fruit Sour
ABV
9.6% & 4.2%

Batch Brewing Co Batch 1000 APA

Published May 24, 2018
One hot October day in 2013, Chris Sidwa and Andrew Fineran rolled a brewhouse into a sparsely filled warehouse on Marrickville’s Sydenham Road. It took a few weeks to hook it all up and get going but, by December, they’d got the thing working. Their first beer was an American Pale Ale, which made sense: they were Americans, so they brewed an American style beer. They hand bottled it, then hand stamped it with the name of their new business: Batch Brewing Company. Some four and a half years… Read more
Style
APA
ABV
5.0%

Batch Brewing Co Pilsner & Das Vienna Lager & Das Roggen

Published May 11, 2018
There’s common comment, if not quite lament, that too few local brewers go to the trouble of making lagers. Perhaps it’s something to do with lagers having become so common that they’re seen as boring. Perhaps it's that their flavours are too subtle compared to the bold New World beer styles. Perhaps it’s just that they take longer to produce, which pushes against commercial necessities. Probably it’s a mixture of all three. Batch is one brewery that’s never felt locked to a particular… Read more
Style
Lagers
ABV
5.4% to 5.6%

Batch Brewing Co Sweet Sweet Nugz

Published March 29, 2018
Proving that this time of year needn’t be all about chocolate and buns, the brewers at Batch are exploring their sweet side by releasing what they’ve styled a Yankee Strong Ale. Sweet Sweet Nugz ended up spending a bit longer in tanks than they originally planned but it’s done the beer absolutely no harm as it presents the most gorgeous aroma, like a pudding replete with caramel, raisins and dried fruit. Those luscious sensations meld together in your mouth with a long, smooth and rich sweetness… Read more
Style
American Strong Ale
ABV
9.5%

Batch Brewing Co You Enjoy Myself Farmhouse XPA

Published March 27, 2018
Still trying to figure out what an XPA is? Never mind, we’ve moved on. Exhibit A: You Enjoy Myself, a Farmhouse XPA from the Batch Brewing Company. This beer is some kind of mixture of a saison and really hoppy pale ale – a super dry-hopped saison, if you will – which greets you with aromas mainly concerning peppery spice and a little lemon. But it’s the palate where most of the action is, with a huge hit of hops delivering punchy flavours of citrus zest of lemon, orange and grapefruit plus… Read more
Style
Farmhouse XPA
ABV
5.9%

Batch Brewing Co Chapeau

Published December 15, 2017
It’s Christmas, it’s berry season and that means it’s time to once again say hello to Chapeau. 2017 represents the fourth release of Batch’s annual raspberry sour ale and perhaps the most notable change from last year’s edition comes down to origin. In keeping with their aim of sourcing as many of their beer ingredients as possible from small and independent producers, this year the brewers managed to get their raspberries from a small scale farmer in Tasmania. The finish product is a… Read more
Style
Raspberry Sour
ABV
6.2%
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Batch Brewing Co Tiny Coconut Bubbles & Island Style

Published November 17, 2017
On current evidence it seems the brewers at Batch have been experiencing Polynesian dreams. Maybe it’s longing for a relaxing holiday at the end of a busy year in the brewery; a desire, perhaps, to swap the rattling of the bottling line for the soothing sounds of the sea, or to rake their fingers through golden sand instead of spent grain. Whatever the case, the tropical vibe has been embraced and brought to life in a pair of recent beers. The first was Tiny Coconut Bubbles, a golden coloured… Read more
Style
Fruity Lactose Beers

Batch Brewing Co Summer Farmhouse / Zonnebeke India Saison

Published October 27, 2017
In time for spring, Batch has brought a couple of saisons to the table. The first is, somewhat ironically, the Summer Farmhouse, a pale, light and lively little wee number that harks back to the original intention of the style: to be a quencher at the end of a long hard day toiling in the farms and fields of France and Belgium. It’s a very clean beer with a soft yeast character that wakes up and rises forth as you let the beer warm – though don’t let it warm too much; this is meant as a refreshing… Read more
Style
Saison / India Saison
ABV
4.1% / 7.1%

Batch Brewing Co. The Dank IPA

Published October 24, 2017
After making its first appearance as the official beer of Sydney Craft Beer Week a couple of years back, The Dank IPA is back for SBW ’17. A double IPA, it is obviously and by necessity, hugely hoppy. The way in which they’ve pulled it all together you feel a real depth and density to the way it drinks; chewy, resinous and bitter with a slightly peppery edge. But there’s also just a touch of sweetness which helps maintain the balance – inasmuch as a big, brash and hoppy beast of a beer can… Read more
Style
Double IPA
ABV
8.6%

Batch Brewing Co DJ Jazzy Ginger & The Zest Prince

Published September 29, 2017
They love a good pun at the Batch Brewing Company, and never more than when it involves a a hip hop reference; 2 Peach Shakur, Mango Mathers and HopFace Fillah – all the big names get a beer here. The latest in the lineage is a throwback to the 90s ft. DJ Jazzy Ginger & The Zest Prince. And it's a ginger and lemon sour ale. Pouring a pale yellow with a little haze, it throws up big aromas of ginger just like a ginger beer – as in the non alcoholic kind – which, if nothing else, makes it… Read more
Style
Sour Ale
ABV
4.5%

Batch Brewing Co Trippy Hippie's XXPA

Published September 29, 2017
One of the ongoing arguments against pre-mixed spirit and soft drink RTDs is that they pack a surprisingly high percentage of alcohol into a surprisingly drinkable – and usually incredibly sweet – package. The key is balance (or, in the case of RTDs, sweetness): the strength of the drink is disguised in order to convince you that buying and necking a discounted case from a big box retailer is a really excellent idea, despite the next morning demonstrating it's very much not. With that in mind… Read more
Style
Double XPA
ABV
8.8%

Batch Brewing Co Das Bock

Published September 29, 2017
Despite being the most widely consumed beer by style in the land, lagers tend to have a bit of a bad rep with Aussie craft beer drinkers; after all, lagers are what the big brewers do. And that’s partly the reason why, when Oktoberfest rolls around, few local brewers tend to make a traditional lager for the occasion. Instead they skirt around the sides, brewing all manner of Märzens, festbiers, dunkels, hefes and the like. Or, in Batch’s case, a bock. Their Oktoberfest beer is Das Bock, a strong… Read more
Style
Strong Lager
ABV
7.6%

Batch Brewing Co Just Beer

Despite being the most consumed beer style in Australia by some margin, lagers tend to have a bit of a tough time of it in the craft beer world. You'd have to suggest that’s mainly an effect of generations of drinkers having been weaned on the mass market stuff, growing up and wanting to run as far from those kinds of beers as possible. This is the kind of lager that should pull a few hardcore beer drinkers back the other way. Just Beer is a double entendre in that it is an unabashedly simple… Read more
Style
Lager
ABV
5.0%