Rocky Ridge Brewing Co

Many breweries have a local focus. Many more highlight their focus on freshness. And there is a growing number with a focus on sustainability. But you can count on one hand the number of Australian breweries that tie all of these elements together in the way Rocky Ridge Brewing Co does.

Aside from collaborations – we’ll get to those soon – the beers that owner/head brewer Hamish Coates produces on his family’s fifth generation dairy farm, located 20 minutes outside Busselton in the Margaret River region, are created exclusively with ingredients grown and sourced inside the farm’s fence line. Rainwater fills the tanks, solar power keeps the brewery running, Rocky Ridge barley and wheat fill the mash tun, hop bines soar on trellises, and the proprietary house yeast was the result of an air sample collected on site then cultured up at the University of WA. It’s quite an achievement.

What’s just as interesting is the rate at which the brewery captured the hearts and minds of Western Australian beer drinkers. Since launching in early 2017, the steady stream of releases from Rocky Ridge has gathered considerable momentum, with many selling out within days of release.

This noble pursuit of hyper-locality and sustainability does, however, have its limitations – not being able to use New World hops grown elsewhere or interesting adjuncts being the most obvious. Enter the collaboration.

Brewing and beer world peers have been lining up at Rocky Ridge’s doors since the middle of 2017 and, when embarking on collaborative ventures with them, Hamish has allowed himself leeway to play with ingredients that normally wouldn’t be permitted in his regular releases.

Within little more than a year of the first beer leaving the brewery, the distinguished list of brewing buddies included Dainton, Cellarbrations Carlisle, The Dutch Trading Co, Indian Ocean Brewing Co, Cape Cellars, the late Baby Mammoth, Cheeky Monkey Brewery, Burnt Ends Smoking Co and relative neighbours The Beer Farm. Add in a joint venture with Vasse Valley Hemp that led to one of Australia’s first commercially produced hemp ales, Dr Weedy’s, and it’s clear Hamish and co are a sociable bunch.

While there has been considerable hype around each release, it’s a single beer of which Hamish is most proud. Named after his loyal brewery dog – also featured on the can – Ace Pale AIe (which has since been replaced by Ace IPA in their core lineup) has a particularly sentimental appeal because it features the Flinders hop. The variety was recently revived from an old growing region in Albany in the state’s South West and, while its exact origins remain a mystery, Hamish describes his love for Flinders in its point of difference.

“It’s so different,” he says. “There’s a unique flavour and aroma that has floral notes but underlays citrus, passionfruit and grapefruit.”

This belief in unique is also manifested in the Rocky Ridge branding. The modern geometric design that contrasts wonderfully with the romantic sensibility of Rocky Ridge is the work of an old uni pal, Matt Nankivell, who counts among his other clients the Saatchi & Saatchi design agency in London. Not a bad place for a new brewery to get some brand design done.

It's proven to be a potent combination of elements, one that saw demand rocket so far so fast Hamish had to abandon his goal of only brewing with what they could grow and buy in some ingredients as they increase production of raw ingredients at the farm. It was a decision that didn't come easily but one he was quick to make public.

Speaking of the public, the best place to sample what Rocky Ridge have to offer is in Busselton, at the Tap House they opened in 2019. It's located on the edge of the Busselton foreshore redevelopment, offers visitors a huge range of fresh Rocky Ridge beers, and is the location for occasional events from the brewery team too.

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Name
Rocky Ridge Brewing Co
Address

10 Marine Terrace
Busselton
WA 6280

Phone
0406217247
Open Hours

Mon to Thurs: 11am to 7pm
Fri & Sat: 11am to 8pm
Sunday: 11am to 7pm


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The Specials

Rocky Ridge's Stouty, Hoppy, Harvesty Sextet
Rocky Ridge X Mr West West & Wester IPAs
Rocky Ridge Polskie Pivo, Ra Ra Raspberry, Tropicale & Ice Ranga
Rocky Ridge's Latest Septet
Rocky Ridge Rock Juice v11
Rocky Ridge's January 2023 Quintet
Rocky Ridge & Friends Retro Beer Fest Collabs
Rocky Ridge's November 2022 Quartet
Eagle Bay x Rocky Ridge Eagle Rock 2022
Rocky Ridge's October 2022 Quartet
Rocky Ridge California Stars & Holy Sh*t I'm A Dad Again
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Rocky Ridge Brewing Co Regulars

Rocky Ridge Rock Candy

Published November 18, 2022
Amid the constant flow of limited and seasonal releases, Rocky Ridge have expanded their core range with a refreshingly tart, fruited sour in the form of Rock Candy – a beer five years in the making that should slot effortlessly into the creative lineup from the Jindong brewers. Passionfruit, kiwifruit and strawberry all feature in the beer's fruit forward palate while retaining a pleasing drinkability. A short but sharp finish cleanses the palate with each sip, further enhancing its fruity, refreshing… Read more
Style
Fruit Sour
ABV
5.5%

Rocky Ridge Jindong Juicy

Brewer's notes: Pouring with a medium level of hop haze, this juicy pale ale is loaded with tropical fruit and citrus characteristics that are complemented nicely by a low yet cleansing level of bitterness. Well-balanced, highly sessionable and packed with flavour, texture and aroma - it really is a beer for all occasions.… Read more
Style
Juicy Pale Ale
ABV
5.0%

Rocky Ridge Baby Peach

Brewer's notes: Live with vibrant peach aromas, this smooth and highly enjoyable fruited IPA has a low level of bitterness that is complemented by a soft & creamy mouthfeel. Made using natural puréed fruit, a lower ABV makes this a highly sessionable beer that is unlike anything else.… Read more
Style
Fruited Session IPA
ABV
4.0%

Rocky Ridge Pilsner

Brewer's Notes: Clean, crisp and refreshing, our Pilsner is a nod to the classic king of lagers. A lean body of cracker malts is complemented by herbaceous noble hops that deliver notes of freshly cut hay. Finishing with a firm, cleansing bitterness, this no-nonsense beer is guaranteed to please Lager fans (and win over some new ones along the way).… Read more
Style
4.5%

Rocky Ridge Session IPL

Brewer's notes: Our session IPL delivers the best of all worlds: easy drinking refreshment, lower ABV and a boatload of all-Aussie hops that give off tropical fruit aromas. A light-bodied beer with low bitterness, it’s super crisp, highly sessionable and seriously more-ish!… Read more
Style
Session IPL
ABV
3.4%

Rocky Ridge Ace IPA

Brewer's notes: Big, bold and very well-balanced, this hoppy West Coast IPA is loaded with pine, mango and passionfruit characteristics that are backed up by a solid cracker malt backbone. Refined bitterness is complemented by a resinous mouthfeel in this punchy brew that will appeal to lovers of full-flavoured beers.… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
6.8%

Rocky Ridge Brewing Co Specials

Rocky Ridge's Stouty, Hoppy, Harvesty Sextet

Published May 6, 2023
It’s been another busy month for the Rocky Ridge brewers, releasing six fresh beers. As winter approaches, a couple of darker offerings feature alongside a duo of fresh hop beers courtesy of the South West’s hop harvest. It’s not just fresh hops, though, with a couple of extra hoppy numbers to round out the half-doz. Starting heavy, Double No Ordinary Bunny is a chocolate stout landing at 11 percent ABV and featuring eight different types of chocolate added throughout the brewing process. Over… Read more
Style
Various Styles As Indicated
ABV
11.0% & 5.5% & 8.0% & 4.4% & 8.5% & 6.0%

Rocky Ridge X Mr West West & Wester IPAs

Published April 9, 2023
The classic West Coast IPA has well and truly clawed its way back into the favour of many beer drinkers after being subsumed by the tidal wave of hazies, and the brewers at Rocky Ridge – with their penchant for brewing hop forward beers – couldn’t be happier. Or so it seems with this pair of beers created in collaboration with Footscray bar Mr West. West is light in profile, while still hitting 6 percent ABV, thanks to a lack of crystal malt in the grist. It's a subtle detail that yields a… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA & West Coast DIPA
ABV
6.0% & 8.0%

Rocky Ridge Polskie Pivo, Ra Ra Raspberry, Tropicale & Ice Ranga

Published March 24, 2023
In the month of March, Rocky Ridge have thrown down a couple of freshies alongside reboots of past favourites – all dropping just a couple of weeks on from the brewery's last seven limiteds. Where do they find the time...? Fresh takes on old favourites include Polskie Pivo, the Champion Beer of 2022 at the Perth Royal Beer Awards. It's undergone some slight adjustments but still boasts its famed taint of smoke and a light body with a spritzy carbonation. Ra Ra Raspberry is also back in tallboy… Read more
Style
Various Styles As Indicated
ABV
4.5% & 8.5% & 3.5% & 5.2%

Rocky Ridge's Latest Septet

Published March 8, 2023
Hops feature heavily in this septet of limited releases from Jindong’s favourite (only?) brewery, six of which can comfortably call themselves hop forward in nature. A Margarita sour makes up the gang, providing a fitting change of pace. Starting pale is Lone Palm (5.5%), a collab with Bungalow Social: a pale ale with a generous dose of grapefruit that ensures grapefruit zest, orange, lemon, and grassiness feature on the nose before tasting reveals, surprise, a stack more grapefruit. A medium body… Read more
Style
Styles As Indicated
ABV
ABVS As Indicated

Rocky Ridge Rock Juice v11

Published March 1, 2023
Few previous Rock Juice’s begged to be improved, yet 11 iterations in and the Rocky Ridge stalwart continues to evolve and impress. A hop bill more akin to a shopping list features alongside a bitterness rarely experienced in today’s IPAs. With great hops comes great responsibility and, here, Rock Juice is surely responsible for some good times. There’s really three things to be considered when consuming a Rock Juice: one – there’s a lot of hops; two – there’s lots of alcohol; and three… Read more
Style
Triple IPA
ABV
10.0%

Rocky Ridge's January 2023 Quintet

Published January 25, 2023
Rocky Ridge have made a habit of releasing motley collections of beers in rapid-fire succession and their first foray in 2023 is no different: it features a quintet of beers ranging from a large format sour and a hybrid to a 12 percent ABV old ale and an ode to one of the cinematic world’s biggest moments. Starting light is Hybrid Beery, a sour IPA that gives off very refreshing green mango and grapefruit vibes. Exceptionally clean with bold sweet/sour character, Hybrid Beery is in a class of its… Read more
Style
Various Styles As Indicated
ABV
6.5% & 4.5% & 12.0% & 5.55 & 6.4%

Rocky Ridge & Friends Retro Beer Fest Collabs

Published December 20, 2022
Retro Beer Fest went down as one of the greats within the 2022 Australian craft beer calendar – a festival where the brewers not on colluded to produce a great time at Rocky Ridge HQ, but also on the creation of five collab beers, including an all-in, cross-border, 18 brewery effort. That beer is Herding Cats, a triple dry-hopped DIPA featuring a shopping list of hops including Wakatu, Strata, Meridian, Zamba, Sativa, NZH 101, NZH 107 & Lorien atop a medium body. Rich, fragrant hop character… Read more
Style
Various Styles As Indicated
ABV
8.5% & 7.0% & 6.5% & 5.0% & 8.0%

Rocky Ridge's November 2022 Quartet

Published November 16, 2022
Hot off the back of their hugely successful Retro Beer Fest, Rocky Ridge have pumped out four fresh beers from their Jindong headquarters (five if you include the new core range sour we'll get to elsewhere). From fruited and sour to hoppy and iconic, this swag has something for just about everybody. Starting fruity and you have not one, but two pineapple-spiked beers; a 4.5 percent ABV pineapple gose and a pineapple session IPA. The former is a mouth-puckering, strikingly sour offering with persistent… Read more
Style
Pineapple Gose & Session IPA, West Coast IPA & Triple IPA
ABV
4.5% & 4.5% & 5.8% & 10.5%

Eagle Bay x Rocky Ridge Eagle Rock 2022

Published November 2, 2022
Described as a best coast double IPL (India pale lager), this collaborative, hybrid offering from the minds at Eagle Bay and Rocky Ridge is a cut above when it comes to crystal clear, hop forward lagers. For the fourth reiteration of this collab between the South West pair, Incognito and Spectrum products (forms of hops designed to give brewers greater efficiency and impact during the brewing process) feature alongside an experimental variety from Freestyle Hops in NZ, nicknamed Peacharine. Ensuring… Read more
Style
Double IPL
ABV
8.4%

Rocky Ridge's October 2022 Quartet

Published October 23, 2022
Sure, they've got a stack of top brewers heading to their Jindong farm for the first Retro Beer Fest in early November, but something as trifling as that isn't going to stop Rocky Ridge from knocking out another four new releases beforehand. Jack’s Jam is a lemon lime cream sour brewed in collaboration with Singapore's American Taproom that, as you'd expect, is heavy on the citrus character. Reminiscent of a citrus-laced cheesecake or panna cotta, the fruit sweetness here is tantalising when set… Read more
Style
Various Styles As Indicated
ABV
6.0% & 4.0% & 7.0% & 4.5%

Rocky Ridge California Stars & Holy Sh*t I'm A Dad Again

Published September 26, 2022
Demonstrating no desire to slow down their efforts to keep pumping out original beers, Rocky Ridge here have released two freshies for the month of September: a strikingly clear California IPA and a quaffable Belgian witbier. The former, California Stars, is unusually transparent given the current nature of the world of IPAs, but still has a faint haze and a radiating golden hue. On tasting, a simple, clean malt profile carries layers of grassy, piney, berry and ripe stonefruit hop characters. Drinkability… Read more
Style
California IPA & Witbier
ABV
7.0% & 4.2%

Rocky Ridge's Froth Town 2022 Six

Published August 29, 2022
Each year, Perth’s popular Froth Town festival sees stacks of special beer releases. In 2022, it saw Rocky Ridge – who hosted the main stage – it was never going to be enough to put out just one new Froth Town frothy; instead the team from Jindong, in typical fashion, opted for half a dozen, initially tapped every hour on the hour at the festival and now available through their website and Busselton taphouse. Across the six releases, they cover an array of styles. For the hop heads, Bad Angles… Read more
Style
Various Styles
ABV
As Indicated

Rocky Ridge's Winter 2022 IPA & Stout Quintet

Published August 2, 2022
In the midst of a cold, wet South West winter, Rocky Ridge are doing their part to lift spirits and warm cockles with a couple of bold IPAs and a trio of luscious stouts of stature. Starting with the hoppy offerings, CTRL C/CTRL V is a Citra-dominant affair, with Citra Lupomax, Cryo and T90 pellets featuring heavily. A modest bitterness and balance underpins ripe citrus and stone fruits. Bright Direction, meanwhile, is a refreshingly clear hoppy offering, where sweet passionfruit, berry, and grapefruit… Read more
Style
IPA x 2 & Stout x 3
ABV
6.0% & 8.0% & 12.0% & 5.5% & 8.0%

Rocky Ridge's June 2022 Quartet

Published June 27, 2022
June 2022 marks yet another busy month for the Rocky Ridge brewers who have dropped four new and entirely different beers for thirsty punters. Two fruited beers feature within the quartet: You Put the Beer in the Coconut is a coconut and finger lime spiked gose – classically light with dominant sweet coconut and punchy lime zest; and the more robust Ma Ma Mango, which comes in a bigger can where sweet, pulpy mango stars alongside subtle oak, pineapple and sweet vanilla. Falling within the “thicc”… Read more
Style
Tropical Gose, Imperial Pastry Sour, Oaked Pale & Imperial Stout
ABV
4.0% & 8.5% & 5.0% & 16.0%

Rocky Ridge's May 2022 Septet

Published May 27, 2022
The month of May has been a busy one for the Rocky Ridge team, with new releases surpassing half a dozen. Never mind trying to keep up with drinking them all, we can’t understand how they manage to brew them all! They've delivered us an array of styles that includes a bourbon BA pastry stout, a fruited gose, the hop heavy and the winter warming. Starting light but fruit heavy is Enter the Dragon (4.5%), a gose dosed generously with dragon fruit, lime and some sweet agave. Clean and refreshing tartness… Read more
Style
Various Styles
ABV
ABV as indicated

Rocky Ridge's Fifth Birthday Collaborations

Published May 3, 2022
Rocky Ridge turned five in April and could we have expected them to do anything less than release five entirely unique collaborative beers that span the spectrum of craft beer styles from around Australia – even squeezing in a trip across the Pacific Ocean to little old America. With five years of experiences and plenty of trial and error, the Rocky Ridge team and their respective collaborators didn’t hold back, either. In true celebratory style, all five feature excess of some description, from… Read more
Style
Various Styles
ABV
ABVs as indicated

Rocky Ridge's April 2022 Foursome

Published April 11, 2022
Winter might be drawing ever closer, but the team at Rocky Ridge are holding onto what’s left of the warmth in WA’s South West and spoiling punters with a range of pale-erring quaffers: two fruited sours and two approachable IPAs. Kicking off with Mel’s Gin Sour – in its second iteration – you'll find bright acidity and sweet, ripe melon character dominating alongside a touch of soft, herbaceous character and a strikingly clean finish that allow light spice aromatics to linger. A refreshing… Read more
Style
Sours & IPAs
ABV
4.0% & 3.5% & 5.5% & 6.5%

Rocky Ridge's March 2022 Quintet

Published March 24, 2022
There’s been a hop-heavy slew of beer releases from Rocky Ridge since the start of 2022, and with the launch of their "9" series there doesn’t look to be much let up for hopheads anytime soon. That said, we’re sure there won’t be too many complaints about the use of too many hops... The 9 Series is the latest in a long line of themed releases from Rocky Ridge, whereby all the hops that feature in the breweries famed Rock Juice are given their own IPA in which to showcase their contribution… Read more
Style
Hazy IPAs, Wet Hop Best Bitter & English Barleywine
ABV
6.66% & 4.0% & 16.0%

Rocky Ridge's February Fivesome

Published March 1, 2022
If we judged our breweries on the number of different styles they brewed, Rocky Ridge would be one of those dominating the Australian craft scene. We tend to judge breweries on their quality, however, and that’s an area Rocky Ridge also happen to thrive in, with their consistency as noteworthy as their lengthy and diverse tap lists. In February 2022, five new beers dropped for punters, each as thirst-inducing as the next. To start with, an internal battle has been brewing between taphouse legends… Read more
Style
Various Styles As Indicated
ABV
As indicated

Rocky Ridge Fresh Outta Puns, Mango Mac Daddy & Holy Sh*t Nectarine

Published February 7, 2022
As is the Rocky Ridge way, as the months shift a multitude of new beers hits taps and tins. So, as we embark on a fabulous February, they serve up a lemon curd tart ale, a mango and macadamia ice cream sour, and their tried and tested Holy Sh*t It’s A Mid, with this reiteration featuring nectarine. Fresh Outta Puns – the lemon curd tart ale – features heavy lemon and lime aromatics, with a touch of stonefruit and mango. Rich sweetness matches well with puckering tartness within a body viscous… Read more
Style
Lemon Curd Tart Ale, Ice Cream Sour, and Fruit Gose
ABV
7.5% & 6.0% & 3.5%

Rocky Ridge & Perth Home Brew Share Rockyfort Quad

Published January 12, 2022
Although we’re still in the very early days of 2022, Rocky Ridge have set the standard and expectations for the year ahead with an unrelenting 11.4 percent ABV quad which is, in typical RR fashion, a collab, and comes out at the same time as an even bigger IIPA. Brewed in partnership with Perth Home Brew Share, Rockyfort was created according to the recipe drawn up by Jim Pizey, who won the opportunity to have his beer scaled up and packaged for the general public. Rockyfort is a complex quad that… Read more
Style
Quadrupel
ABV
11.4%

Rocky Ridge Danny's Home IIPA

Published January 11, 2022
Danny’s Home is not a beer to be taken lightly. If intimidating acronyms like TDH weren’t enough, the 12 percent ABV lurking withing this exceptionally hopped up IIPA might warn the drinker to take this one slow – a not-so-simple feat given the surprising drinkability of such an enormous beer... Pouring a striking burnt hazy orange hue, Danny’s Home immediately emits lip-smacking notes of guava and ripened stonefruit. On sipping, a dense body coats the mouth with a slightly sticky, moderately… Read more
Style
TDH IIPA
ABV
12.0%

Rocky Ridge El Diablo & Magic Man IPAs

Published January 4, 2022
It’s not often a brewery pits their own brewers against each other, but that’s exactly what the team at Rocky Ridge wanted to do with Ash Gale and Adam Brookes: the pair were instructed by the powers-that-be to whip up an IPA, with the winner decided by thirsty punters… El Diablo is an East Coast IPA brewed by Adam with an abundance of Citra, El Dorado and Mosaic hops in which a medium body pairs well with big stonefruit and jammy apricot notes. Citrus makes an appearance too, balancing sweet,… Read more
Style
East & West Coast IPAs
ABV
Both 7.0%
Bitterness
35 & 65 IBU

Rocky Ridge & Line In The Sand The Rising

Published December 30, 2021
The Rising sees Rocky Ridge brew for Line in the Sand, an organisation committed to restoring WA’s south west coastal areas. It's the partners' first collaboration, with Rocky Ridge acting on behalf of the SW Brewers Alliance, and acts simultaneously as a launch for their brand and a fundraiser: all profits will help fund the revegetation/replanting of Toby Inlet. The beer falls in the hazy category and, more specifically, is a new world hazy pale loaded with all Australian hops that emits massive… Read more
Style
Hazy Pale Ale
ABV
4.5%

Rocky Ridge Christmas 2021 Quad Drop

Published December 23, 2021
For Christmas 2021, the team at Rocky Ridge rather generously brewed not just one, but four Christmassy beers to ensure an extra happy holiday for their fans, with all four inspired by the things that make the Christmas season joyous! To start with, drawing inspiration from one of Australia’s most controversial claims to fame, is a pavlova version of the existing Shake and Bake, with ten times the amount of fruit as the last batch. Still brewed in collaboration with Mane Liquor, Shake and Bake… Read more
Style
Christmas-inspired Beers
ABV
Various ABVs as indicated

Rocky Ridge Foeder Aged Pilsner & Starman

Published December 21, 2021
Amid a slew of seasonal releases from the ever-busy Rocky Ridge team comes a couple of particularly noteworthy brews released in time for the summer holidays. One is Rocky Ridge’s trusty Pilsner, brewed as normal but then stored in a recently acquired ex-Cognac foeder. After primary fermentation in stainless tank, this light and bready pils spent two months in the refurbished 65-year-old vessel, imparting delicate sweet oak and vanilla notes. The otherwise straight forward lager has developed depth… Read more
Style
Foeder-Aged Pilsner & DDH IIPA
ABV
4.8% & 8.5%

Rocky Ridge Good Energy IPA

Published December 2, 2021
Rocky Ridge’s latest collaborative release, this time with the Northern Suburbs' craft beer retail stalwarts Copper & Oak, offers a textbook West Coast IPA profile laden with bold fruit character and dominant fresh hop notes. Good Energy by name and by nature, this fresh-is-best release features a prominent and familiar sweet/sour pineapple profile upfront, while being underpinned by generous and vibrant stonefruit and orange notes. Remarkably, the 7 percent ABV is virtually unnoticeable, and… Read more
Style
West Coast Juicy IPA
ABV
7.0%

Rocky Ridge October Six-Pack

Published October 19, 2021
As is often the way in the Rocky Ridge camp, the month of October brings a slew of fresh beers, released in quick succession and spanning a range of styles. For those who like their beers hoppy, the returning Day Man (8.5%) is a DDH IIPA that showcases balance and tropical characteristics, while Nightman (8.5%) is a similar effort but brewed with nothing but Eclipse hops, a move that yields a more dominant citrus and pine profile. New Currency (8.5%), on the other hand, is loaded with sticky, sweet… Read more
Style
Various Styles
ABV
Various ABVs

Rocky Ridge Ken Oats

Published September 13, 2021
Ken Oats, a maple coffee breakfast stout from Rocky Ridge, is yet another collaborative effort from the Jindong brewers, leaning into their reputation for working with outside influences to produce exceptional beers. For this effort, Margaret River Roasting Co provides the coffee beans, which in turn provide a caffeine kick to an otherwise decadent stout. A super dark brown pour is a sign of things to come, while a tan, short-lived head leaves behind generous, leggy lacing. Ken Oats brims with caramel… Read more
Style
Breakfast Stout
ABV
7.0%

Rocky Ridge SMASH Strata Session IPA

Published June 11, 2021
Rocky Ridge are no strangers to collaboration and, for their latest team-orientated effort, they’ve thrown down with Scarborough Cellars and Palace Arcade to bring punters a 90s gaming-themed session beer. Although it sounds a little complicated, Smash Strata Session IPA is pretty simple: a single hop, single malt (actually, single maltster) session beer that clocks in at a very drinkable 5.5 percent ABV. Joe White malts and US Strata hops combine for an uber clean, super sippable ale that exhibits… Read more
Style
SMASH Session IPA
ABV
5.5%
Bitterness
35 IBU

Rocky Ridge Pillow Talk

Published May 24, 2021
A cold, dreary autumn in WA’s South West has prompted the team at Rocky Ridge to kick off their winter warmer offerings a touch early, and for those seeking out the decadence of adjunct-laden stouts, Pillow Talk is a beer with equal parts bold flavour and drinkable poise. Generously laced with spearmint and peppermint, Pillow Talk is a classic Irish stout. Although typically we expect a stout in 2021 to be loaded with lactose, candy and baked goods, Pillow Talk is surprisingly restrained in nature,… Read more
Style
Choc Mint Irish Stout
ABV
5.7%
Bitterness
35 IBU

Rocky Ridge Bla Bla Blueberry & Pine Ridge

Published May 7, 2021
Rocky Ridge continue their onslaught of creative releases in 2021 with the release of a "thicc" fruited sour brewed with blueberry, vanilla, oak and lactose, and a bold 8.5 percent ABV West Coast DIPA… with pine needles in the mix. Bla Bla Blueberry is aptly described as thicc – it's densely creamy and entirely unsafe for vegans. The 260kg of blueberry juice add a striking, pale purple colour as well as bolstering acidity and lending a blueberry and dark fruit complexity. Oak rounds… Read more
Style
Blueberry Cream Sour & West Coast DIPA
ABV
Both 8.5%
Bitterness
10 IBU & 80 IBU

DTC & Friends Dankfest 2021 Quartet

Published April 3, 2021
Ever wanted to have a party with some mates and celebrate the good old days, but want it to be as fresh as it probably wasn’t then? So do The DTC crew, who've been celebrating all things dank in beer via four collabs created for their Dankfest 2021 weekender: each was conceived by a pair of hop-focused brewers – one East Coast, one West. All Shook Up is a double grapefruit IPA that's an amplified meld of classics from two breweries of Scottish origin, with the internationals from BrewDog lending… Read more
Style
Various IPAs
ABV
9.0% & 8.5% & 7.0% & 7.0%
Stockists

Available from The DTC and online

Rocky Ridge Rock Juice V8 & Karl's Date Turns Sour

Published March 3, 2021
Rocky Ridge’s eighth Rock Juice, the heavily hopped DIPA whose every release is hotly anticipated, has very much split the room, instigating a heated debate among hopheads. Some have lauded the beer as a complex, ambitious and trend-setting interpretation of the double IPA style. Others, however, are touting it as the least impressive Rock Juice since it debuted four years ago. The division doesn’t come down to a quality issue, however: the wedge seems to be the "avant-garde" way the… Read more
Style
Double IPA with Terpenes & Citrus Berliner Weisse
ABV
10.0% & 3.2%
Bitterness
30 & 10 IBU

Rocky Ridge Tropicale, Socks & Sandals & Sean's Sour

Published December 15, 2020
Rocky Ridge’s Tropicale was built with Summer BBQs in mind; designed to be easy-drinking in regards to both flavour and alcohol content, it registers modest 3.7 percent ABV and 15 IBU, but is heavy on the tropical punch vibes. Pouring straw-coloured and hazy, guava, strawberry, passionfruit and pine billow out of the glass while the medium, silky body easily transports comparable flavours and a very mild mid-palate bitterness. Some tropical fruits persist in a finish that's otherwise uber-clean,… Read more
Style
Hazy Pale & ESB & Sour Fruit IPA
ABV
3.7% & 6.0% & 6.5%
Bitterness
15 & 45 & 35 IBU

Rocky Ridge & Short Order Burger Short Order Beer

Published November 17, 2020
No strangers to collaboration, Rocky Ridge have teamed up with Short Order Burger here for a classic Aussie lager. It’s an idea which seems almost foreign for a brewery pushing out double oat cream IPAs, TDH triple IPAs and barrel-aged pastry quads; however, the notion recognises that simple is best when pairing with one of Australia’s best burgers – no, really, the burger team have been rated Top 5 nationally. Short Order Beer’s light, bready malt base is dusted with subtle herbal hop notes,… Read more
Style
Aussie Lager
ABV
4.8%
Stockists

Available from Short Order Burger Fremantle

Rocky Ridge Rock Juice V7

Published November 10, 2020
Rock Juice has already garnered much critical appraise and attention for its seventh release, causing a stir that spans Rocky Ridge’s Jindong brewery in the South West all the way to select venues and bottleshops throughout WA. The uber-limited release is deservedly hyped, a beer that's seldomly released but heavily hopped and a high achiever in the hazy IIPA category. This time around, a multi-layered American hop bill features, a noteworthy change from the previous few batches that were loaded… Read more
Style
Hazy Imperial IPA
ABV
10.0%

Rocky Ridge deVine Goodtimes Sparkling Saison 2019

Published October 20, 2020
If you're a member of our beer club, The Crafty Cabal, there's a good chance you'll have not only tasted this beer but also know everything there is to know about it following its debut as part of our second Virtua-Cabal event with Rocky Ridge. If not, you'll likely appreciate a little background. First brewed in 2018 as a collaboration between the Busselton brewers, Crafty contributor Guy Southern – AKA Goodtimes Craft Beer, and deVine Cellars, it's a chardonnay barrel-aged saison that spent several… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Brett Saison
ABV
8.0%
Stockists

Rocky Ridge Cellar Door

deVine Cellars

Or direct from the brewery

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Rocky Ridge Next Episode & New Currency

Published October 6, 2020
This limited pair join a new series of large format, big on booze and increasingly sought-after releases from Rocky Ridge. It's a series that recently included one of the most opulent WA beers released this year – Impossible View, a maple bourbon barrel-aged quad with vanilla and dates clocking in at 11 percent ABV. Yes, excess seems to be the intent here. And why not? For every crushable, seemingly forward in every sense West Coast IPA, doesn’t everyone want to really be enjoying a double digit… Read more
Style
TDH West Coast Triple IPA & Mango & Vanilla Oat Cream IPA
ABV
11.0% & 8.5%
Stockists

Available from the Rocky Ridge cellar door and online

And in super limited release from WA stockists

Rocky Ridge Day Man DDH IIPA

Published September 4, 2020
Rocky Ridge have never been the kind of brewery to shy away from hops. And this offering, a celebration of just one variety, comes packing a ludicrous amount – more than 20 grams per litre – that's been cleverly utilised and shamelessly flaunted. Day Man is a golden hued, 8.5 percent ABV double dry-hopped double IPA, loaded with locally grown Galaxy hops. Early kettle additions of the high alpha acid hop yielding a surprisingly modest 25 IBUs on the bitterness front, while later additions and… Read more
Style
DDH Single Hop IIPA
ABV
8.5%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Rocky Ridge Chunky Dates, DB 2020 & Imperial Custard Tart

Published July 25, 2020
An imperial stout brewed with dates, created in collaboration with a cookie shop and released alongside not one, but two limited edition imperial stouts... A release this massive wouldn't be attempted by many but the Rocky Ridge team are determined to make this uber-hyped triple release one of the most memorable of the year. Get Chunky takes centre stage: a beer brewed with pecans, lactose and 200kg of dates that were painstakingly caramelised by the brewery team before being added to the boil. This… Read more
Style
Imperial Stouts
ABV
10.0% & 9.5% & 12.5%
Bitterness
25 & 8 & 28 IBU
Stockists

Launching at the Cellar Door on July 25

Details here

Rocky Ridge Watermelon Ace

Published June 13, 2020
Rocky Ridge’s Ace pale ale is a mainstay for the South West brewer: a straightforward, albeit higher in alcohol content than most, Australian pale ale that's seen a few fruity variants along the way, now joined by this watermelon twist on the original. That said, Watermelon Ace is a pale ale first, fruit beer second. With a little help from the team at Refresh Juice in Perth, Rocky Ridge found a new home for a stack of watermelons that weren’t sold at market and instead were destined for landfill.… Read more
Style
Watermelon Pale Ale
ABV
6.2%
Bitterness
65 IBU

Rocky Ridge Choc-Coconut Porter 2020

Published May 27, 2020
The Rocky Ridge brewers have made a strong start in bolstering their winter lineup for 2020 and are showing no signs of slowing with their latest release, the decadent Choc-Coconut Porter. A revised recipe from last year's beer of the same name, this reiteration sees almost 60kg of toasted coconut added to a bold, porter base. If that wasn’t enough, a further 50kg of cacao husks, from local chocolatier Gabriel’s, also features to yield a beer bursting with robust chocolate and sweet coconut flavours. The… Read more
Style
Chocolate Coconut Porter
ABV
6.0%

Rocky Ridge & Besk & Mane Liquor All Together IPA

Published May 15, 2020
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately (or maybe in isolation?), you would have seen many a brewery toting a new, collaborative IPA with some striking similarities; that beer is the All Together IPA and it was originally put together by Other Half Brewing Co in New York. The beer and concept were launched to help support hospitality workers who had been laid off amid the coronavirus venue shutdowns. The idea is simple: an easy to follow IPA recipe to be brewed by as many breweries as possible… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
6.2%

Rocky Ridge Darleen's Draught – RETIRED

Published May 15, 2020
The crew at Darleen’s in Busselton are all about good beer and good times. So it makes perfect sense that the South West craft beer aficionados deserve their own beer and it makes just as much sense for that beer to be adorned with the face of Darleen’s, an enthusiastic granny giving you the finger. "Stupidly. Crushable. Beer." is the tagline and an accurate description if what’s in the tin. This simple and satisfying 4.8 percent ABV lager, brewed to the standards expected of the… Read more
Style
Lager
ABV
4.8%

Rocky Ridge Wake Me Up Before You VoVo & Karl's Thickshake

Published May 14, 2020
Rocky Ridge add another notch to their collaborative belt with the release of Wake Me Up Before You Vovo, one of two decidedly sweet treats leaving the brewery in May. This one is a nod to the cult figure that is the Arnott’s Iced VoVo, adulated in the form of a raspberry, vanilla and coconut spiked milk stout. WMUBYV, was brewed in collaboration with Perth Homebrew Share, a 6,000 member homebrewing club in Western Australia. Initially, Rocky Ridge put forward a competition to the members who submitted… Read more
Style
Dessert Beers
ABV
6.0% & 7.0%
Bitterness
31 IBU & 25 IBU

Rocky Ridge Belgian Pale Ale & Ryes Against & Don't Drop The Cot

Published February 17, 2020
After a brief period of calm among WA brewers, punters are starting to welcome the first slew of original releases for 2020. And if Rocky Ridge’s first drop – multiple beers in quick succession, as is their wont – is any sign of things to come, we’re in for a treat. Among this trio of limited releases from the Jindong brewers is Don’t Drop The Cot, a sour Apricot IPA utilising rejected apricots deemed unfit for supermarket shelf space. Moderately hopped to 25 IBUs and sizeably sour, the… Read more
Style
Various Styles
Stockists

Rocky Ridge Cellar Door

Rocky Ridge Subiaco

And Rocky Ridge stockists nationwide

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Rocky Ridge Rock Juice V6

Published February 14, 2020
Few beers have garnered as much praise and hype throughout WA's beer scene as Rocky Ridge’s Rock Juice series. A regular yet limited release, it’s an imperial NEIPA that's synonymous with haze and boasts a reputation that's rock solid. Number 6, which was launched at their Subiaco pop-up, follows the unexpected and unfortunate recall of v4 and the triumphant comeback that was Rock Juice v5 – possibly the best version to grace our hop-thirsty palates. So, where does that leave us now? Taste… Read more
Style
Imperial NEIPA
ABV
10.5%
Stockists

Rocky Ridge Cellar Door

Rocky Ridge Subiaco

And Rocky Ridge stockists nationwide

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Rocky Ridge EXP IIPA #1

Published January 17, 2020
The seemingly perfunctory nature of EXP IIPA #1's name and obi-strip label does little to educate the drinker as to what exactly is inside this geometric clad can. Could it be hazy? Or is this a straightforward – whatever that means in 2020 – IIPA? Has this been designed with first year geology and engineering students in mind? With precious little to go on, could the contents be actually pink, given that’s the only reference outside of the monochromatic design scheme? It’s hard to say and,… Read more
Style
IIPA
ABV
9.0%
Stockists

Rocky Ridge cellar door

And Rocky Ridge stockists until it’s not. Or is called something else.

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Rocky Ridge Pilsner

Published December 14, 2019
After a brief period of relative quietness for the Rocky Ridge team – just four or so new releases in a few months – they’re ready to hit the ground running for the thirsty summer months ahead and have launched a fresh salvo with this crisp Pilsner – a beer designed to beat the heat. Carefully lagered for approximately three months, with the result it pours with a crystalline clarity, the real star of the show is a skillfully curated malt bill. A super clean and light base has been enhanced… Read more
Style
Pilsner
ABV
5.0%
Bitterness
35 IBU

Rocky Ridge Rock Juice V5

Published November 13, 2019
The Rocky Ridge team have unleashed the fifth version of their crowd-pleasing Rock Juice, reuniting with Celebrations Carlisle and Cape Cellars to create a tweaked and better-then-ever imperial NEIPA. Building on previous iterations, V5 brings with it a fresh look that’s in line with recent brand and packaging upgrades from the brewery. Throw in an increase in ABV – now up to a sizeable 10.5 percent ABV – and an all Australian hop bill, including Galaxy, Melba, Ella and Vic Secret, and you've… Read more
Style
Imperial NEIPA
ABV
10.5%
Bitterness
25 IBU
Stockists

Rocky Ridge Cellar Door

Cape Cellars

And other good beer stockists where you find Rocky Ridge beers

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Exit Brewing & Rocky Ridge Brekkie Juice IPA

Published October 28, 2019
It's become pretty commonplace to describe some of the haziest, thickest IPAs as aking to brekkie juice. And, here, collaborators Exit and Rocky Ridge go the whole hog (or should that be juice bar) in loading up an IPA with a quartet of fruits. As you can imagine, this moves the appearance beyond hazy and into full on brekkie juice territory, while it's the mango that dominates on the fruit front, with the guava, passionfruit and pineapple fighting it out for the lesser podium spots. It's not as… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA with Fruit
ABV
6.7%

Rocky Ridge & Blasta Blasta Creag Kveik XIPA

Published October 1, 2019
Returning the favour from their recent Blasta x Rocky Ridge collaboration, Incan Saison this time around the pair’s brew at the latter's farm brewery continues the theme of using interesting yeast, in this case kveik. Somewhat tenuously, and more than a little tongue in cheek, Rocky Ridge’s Hamish Coates says the Norwegian strain is on its third generation and, as such, could now be known as an Australian kveik strain. Smirks aside, the yeast is the dominant factor here. Hamish says all of Blast… Read more
Style
Kveik IPA
ABV
8.4%
Stockists

Available from the Rocky Ridge cellar door, Darleen's Busselton, Blasta Brewing Co and Rocky Ridge stockists

Rocky Ridge & Gweilo Custard Tart Stout

Published September 4, 2019
It's fair to assume that nothing would surprise craft beer drinkers anymore, with an array of interesting and perplexing ingredient-spiked beers coming at us ever faster. So it is that Rocky Ridge's Custard Tart Stout may have punters asking how, but certainly not why, in a era of eccentric beer. Brewed in collaboration with Hong Kong craft brewers Gweilo, the rich pastry stout resembles and acknowledges the iconic custard tart dessert that is famous in the global city. It features lactose, vanilla… Read more
Style
Pastry Stout
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
20 IBU

Rocky Ridge BD Imperial Stout & Barleywine Is Life

Published August 13, 2019
We’re well and truly into the thick of "big beer" season and the multitudinous Rocky Ridge brewers aren’t holding back with their seasonal releases of gutsy, warming ales. Most notably, their 2019 vintages of DB Russian Imperial Stout (previously Dirty Bitch after one of the brewery dogs) and Barleywine Is Life – both barrel aged – which have had many a punter waiting in anticipation. This year's DB comes in at a sizeable 12.5 percent ABV and, after spending six months in shiraz… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout & Barleywine
ABV
12.5% & 11.0%
Bitterness
20 IBU & 55 IBU

Rocky Ridge Where's Danny? & Blueberry Imperial Berliner

Published August 13, 2019
As has been the tradition since they launched, in recent weeks WA punters have had a slew of new releases from the team at Rocky Ridge to tuck into, not least among them a ginger nut stout brewed in honour of assistant brewer and all-round nice guy Ash "Danny" Gale. and the trend-bending Blueberry Imperial Berliner. Where’s Danny is an American style stout brewed with chocolate, orange and fresh ginger. Plentiful quantities were added during brewing and fermentation to ensure each adjunct… Read more
Style
Ginger Nut Stout & Imperial Blueberry Berliner Weisse
ABV
5.7% & 6.5%
Bitterness
20 IBU & 6 IBU

Rocky Ridge Front Rower Kiwi IIIPA

Published June 18, 2019
Ordinarily, the Rocky Ridge brewers like to champion local and celebrate homegrown but, occasionally they'll devote some time in the brewery to celebrate beer from a far off land, or at least from our neighbours across the Tasman Sea. Front Rower is one of a stack of beers from Rocky Ridge as part of their End of Beer Year en masse release and pays tribute to New Zealand's diverse hop industry. Coming in at a whopping 10.5 percent ABV and a potentially tongue-shredding 77 IBU, the brewing team clearly… Read more
Style
NZ IIIPA
ABV
10.5%
Bitterness
77 IBU

Rocky Ridge Choc-Coconut Porter

Published June 18, 2019
The Rocky Ridge team show no signs of slowing down as they move into the cold, wet winter months. And, among the beers they keep pumping out of their South West brewery doors are more with a slightly warming edge – beers like the experimental Choc-Coconut Porter, designed to hit shelves and warm cockles as the drizzle sets in. Brewed with 20kg of shredded and roasted coconut, the strong porter base has been brewed to a moderate 22 IBU and a generous 6.8 percent ABV. There's no question this thick,… Read more
Style
Chocolate Coconut Porter
ABV
6.8%
Bitterness
22 IBU

Rocky Ridge Dank Side Of The Moon

Published June 18, 2019
The black IPA might not be enjoying as much of the spotlight these days as many of the recent IPA variants doing the rounds, but it's a style that the past two or three weeks suggest remains in the mind of many a brewer who appreciates the place for robust, maltier IPAs in the dank, dark backstage of brewing. Rocky Ridge's 2019 BIPA has been released as a sister beer to the Pink Floyd-referencing Pine On You Crazy Diamond, although Dank Side Of The Moon is the darker, more twisted of the siblings.… Read more
Style
Black IPA
ABV
8.85%
Bitterness
75 IBU

Rocky Ridge Blueberry Sour

Published June 17, 2019
Rocky Ridge undoubtedly have their eye in when it comes to sours. And, with this release, they're pushing their sour game to the next level with a large format bottle and a label with a more "adult" edge than their typical can designs. Within each elegant 750ml bottle will still be the same blend of of local ingredients and microflora. The debut release in the new look packaging is a spritzy barrel-aged sour packed to the rafters with fresh, locally grown blueberries. As per Rocky Ridge's… Read more
Style
Blueberry Sour
ABV
5.0%
Bitterness
5 IBU

Rocky Ridge Karl Joins The Mafia

Published June 17, 2019
A 9 percent ABV imperial white stout brewed with coffee from a boutique coffee roastery in Margaret River in collaboration with a tiny craft beer bar in a Singaporean Chinatown complex... That's a lot to digest but, then again, this was initially brewed for GABS, and is another Rocky Ridge beer worth savouring. Karl Joins the Mafia is the latest release in a series of beers adorned with the "Karl" persona, an unlucky character who always seems to land in worrying predicaments. Thankfully,… Read more
Style
Imperial White Stout
ABV
9.0%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Rocky Ridge Alfie's Lager

Published June 17, 2019
Afie's Lager – a doppelbock – was brewed in honour of a Rocky Ridge family pup. Alfie is the trusty brewpup of head brewer Ross Terlick and spends his days helping on the Rocky Ridge brewery and farm. The beer itself is pretty self explanatory: a gutsy doppelbock brewed to a generous 7.6 percent ABV and 22 IBU. Don't let the big numbers worry you, though, this lager is well balanced and oozes drinkability. Pronounced malt and sweetness are key players on the nose and palate alike, with generous… Read more
Style
Doppelbock
ABV
7.6%
Bitterness
22 IBU

Rocky Ridge Plum Intended

Published May 21, 2019
Collaborations, sours, puns and rejected fruit... Just a few things Rocky Ridge won't shy away from and have successfully been serving up to punters since their beers first hit taps in 2017. This beer is one that ticks all the aforementioned boxes but, in classic Rocky Ridge fashion, it's a beer like no release before it. This fruity, punny, sour collaboration was brewed with the team at the Royston Hotel in Richmond and is loaded with 150kg of not-supermarket-worthy plums, and the can is embellished… Read more
Style
Sour Plum Marzen
ABV
4.0%
Bitterness
4 IBU

Rocky Ridge Imperial Ace

Published April 28, 2019
What does a brewery do when their trusty brewdog fathers a litter of eight adorable brewpups? Create a beer to celebrate the occasion, of course. Ace, the trusty Border Collie, already has his own beer in the Rocky Ridge range, but to celebrate becoming a dad the Ace Pale Ale has been ratcheted up to imperial status. Imperial Ace is a triple dry-hopped offshoot of what was already a bountifully-hopped American pale ale in its own right. Here, however, the beer offers up huge passionfruit, melon… Read more
Style
Imperial Pale Ale
ABV
8.0%
Bitterness
75 IBU

Eagle Bay & Rocky Ridge & Dunsborough Cellars Eagle Rock

Published April 12, 2019
Collab names don’t come much more obvious than this; however, for the Rocky Ridge team, this one has been nearly two years in the making. Brewery owner Hamish Coates says: “We’ve wanted to do something with the crew from Eagle Bay since the beginning. They helped us a lot when starting up, so a collaboration has always been on the cards. Making a beer from all WA hops and malts with two other advocates of the WA beer industry has been really special.” That "special" beer is a 100… Read more
Style
Wet Hop Sour
ABV
4.5%
Stockists

Launched at Dunsborough Cellars on April 12

Cans launched at Mane Liquor on April 18

Then hitting other WA retailers

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Rocky Ridge Bob's Your Aunty

Published April 9, 2019
Take one part Rocky Ridge Brewing, one part South Fremantle Brewing, add a dash of blood orange juice and Bob's your... ermm... aunty? The latest collab between the two WA brewing companies is a spritzy Berliner Weisse brewed with 30 litres of freshly squeezed blood orange juice sourced in the South West and fermented with Rocky Ridge's house strain of lactobacillus and kveik yeast. Pouring a hazy straw colour with a pillowy white head, Bob's Your Aunty is as easy on the eye as it is on the nose,… Read more
Style
Blood Orange Berliner Weisse
ABV
3.4%
Bitterness
5 IBU

Rocky Ridge Scratch That Itch Kveik IPA

Published March 21, 2019
Kveik is the craft beer world's latest fascinating beer trend. So, as you'd expect from a brewery that releases new beers with such frequency, like a bat out of hell, the Rocky Ridge brew team got their hands on some of the magic Norwegian yeast to brew a collab with The Dutch Trading Co, themselves no strangers to the weird and wonderful realms within craft beer. After time spent conditioning at the brewery, the public got the chance to experience a monster 9 percent ABV, fresh-hopped Kveik IPA.… Read more
Style
Kveik IPA
ABV
9.0%
Bitterness
70 IBU

Rocky Ridge Shake & Bake Milkshake IPA

Published March 21, 2019
When it comes to one of the many crazes swirling around the global beer world today, milkshake IPAs, it seems that thick and juicy is the rule of thumb. The team over at Rocky Ridge clearly just took that as their launchpad, however, and created a pavlova-inspired spin on the style that's thicker and juicier than any I've encountered before. Hefty additions of freshly juiced passionfruit, kiwifruit, blueberries and strawberries make up a flavour profile that's more fruit salad than IPA. A dose of… Read more
Style
Milkshake IPA
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
15 IBU

Rocky Ridge Melon Collies

Published March 7, 2019
Rocky Ridge's series of low ABV, fruited sours has quickly become a crowd favourite. Each release sees a seasonal fruit added to a clean, light malt base, which has been fermented with the brewery's own house strain of lactobacillus. This variant was brewed with more than 50kg of Caribbean gold melons and watermelons that weren't aesthetically pleasing enough for supermarket shelves. Initially created for the South West Craft Beer Festival with the help of staff from Rocky Ridge-associated craft… Read more
Style
Melon Gose
ABV
2.6%

Rocky Ridge Golden Rise

Published March 7, 2019
Craft brewers and rock musicians have plenty in common: beards, sticking it to The Man, passion in abundance and, perhaps most importantly, always ready for a beer after a hard day's work. When Mt. Mountain, a Perth-based psych rock band, wanted a beer to help them celebrate the release of their new album Golden Rise they didn't have to look to hard to find a brewery that could deliver. Rocky Ridge are no strangers to collaboration and they've nailed the brief once again with a very crisp, very… Read more
Style
Golden Ale
ABV
4.6%

Rocky Ridge Ryes Against

Published February 6, 2019
I suppose we asked for this. Quips in previous reviews that hinted at an unintentional Rocky Ridge "Classic Rock" series now appear to have manifested in another, more contemporary edition, Ryes Against. The similarly named Chicago punk band is a favourite of incoming head brewer Ross Terlick and, although the predominantly straight edge members may not appreciate the accolade from the Jindong brewery, it is further evidence of loud, ringing solos melding with water, malt, yeast and hops. An… Read more
Style
Rye IPA
ABV
6.66%
Stockists

Available in limited release from Darleen's Busselton and select WA retailers.

Rocky Ridge Karl's Date Turns Sour

Published February 6, 2019
Poor Karl. You’ve gotta feel for him. Moving on from his nondescript but possibly 9 percent ABV DIPA-fuelled request for help, his current attempt to find love has been sadly derailed. Indeed, it’s even been infused with misfortune but, if we're honest, selecting a piece of fruit as a potential mate may have been ill conceived from the off. One can only hope that, in his future adventures, Karl has the resilience and considered judgement to find good in the world. Go Karl, you got this! The aroma… Read more
Style
Lemon Sherbet Berliner Weisse infused with Misfortune
ABV
3.2%
Stockists

The continuing misfortunes of Karl can be found in limited release from Darleen's Busselton and select WA retailers.

Rocky Ridge Out Of The Blue

Published February 6, 2019
Rocky Ridge owner and head brewer Hamish Coates describes Out of the Blue as the second in a “series of charity beers started with the idea that we should be giving back to the community wherever possible, given the support we receive from our locals.” As with last year’s Sarcoma fundraising beer, 100 percent of profits are donated to charity, in this case Darren’s Ride, which supports those suffering from Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and research into the debilitating disease. Darren’s… Read more
Style
Summer Ale
ABV
4.8%
Stockists

Out of the Blue is available from Darleen's Busselton and select WA retailers.

Rocky Ridge & Petition Beer Corner Pine On You Crazy Diamond

Published January 11, 2019
Putting the classic rock back into Rocky Ridge, this Pink Floyd-referencing double IPA collaboration first appeared during Petition Beer Corner’s weeklong Collabosaurus event for WA Beer Week 2018. While the eponymous song was allegedly a stab at redemption by the group for ejecting founding member Syd Barrett due to mental health and substance issues, the beer has no such emotional hang-ups – this is celebratory drinking with a booze level to match. The style is something of a sweet spot for… Read more
Style
Double IPA
ABV
8.85%
Stockists

Available from Petition Beer Corner, Darleens Busselton and WA Rocky Ridge stockists while stocks last

Rocky Ridge Holy S**t, It's A Mid! Cucumber Edition

Published January 10, 2019
“I hope you like cucumber,” Hamish Coates says mischievously, at the exact moment his new beer hits my lips. It’s a question that drinkers should probably consider before drinking as the fruit flavour is undeniable. The explanation for this is explained in a further droll quip when noting that around ten percent of the beer’s final volume is cucumber because “we were worried that the cucumber would get lost”; he needn’t have been concerned. By now the Rocky Ridge gose base has been… Read more
Style
Cucumber Gose
ABV
3.7%
Stockists

Available in limited release from Darleens Busselton and select WA stockists

Rocky Ridge Session

Published December 20, 2018
Over the first two years of Rocky Ridge’s life, there have been times when releasing brewery-only beers has almost appeared like an afterthought, such has been the volume of collaborations. When they do release something of their own volition, it’s usually close or above double digits in terms of booze content, has sat in barrels for months or swells with half of last summer’s hop crop. You’d be forgiven for wondering whether there’s actually a core range at all; well, yes folks, there… Read more
Style
Session Ale
ABV
4.6%
Stockists

Available across WA wherever you find Rocky Ridge beers.

Rocky Ridge & Two Birds Elder Sour

Published November 22, 2018
In a meeting of minds, Jayne Lewis from Two Birds and Hamish Coates from Rocky Ridge wanted to celebrate her pre-beer, West Australian winemaking background with a release timed for WA Beer Week. After settling on a sour beer, seasonal serendipity struck as the mature elderflower tree behind Rocky Ridge’s small bar, Darleen's, was in full bloom, with the resultant onsite hand-picking of the delicate flowers extending the brewery’s normal terroir 15 kilometres beyond the farm gates. Beginning… Read more
Style
Elderflower Sour
ABV
4.7%
Stockists

Available now from Darleen’s and select WA venues before heading to Two Birds Nest

Rocky Ridge Devine Goodtimes Sparkling Saison

Published November 14, 2018
Chances are, if you've read about a beer from WA in the past couple of years on The Crafty Pint, the words originated with Guy Southern or, to give him his online handle, Goodtimes Craft Beer. Not this time around, however. And that's for a very good reason: Guy was involved in the conception and brewing of this one. He travelled south from Perth to hook up with the team at Rocky Ridge, where they were also joined by folks from de Vine Cellars and set about creating the 4,723rd (or thereabouts) collaboration… Read more
Style
Barrel Aged Saison
ABV
8.0%

Rocky Ridge & Baby Mammoth Inglorious Chutney

Published November 2, 2018
It’s one thing to be creative and it’s another to make a chutney beer aged on apricots for six months in ex-chardonnay barrels. It’s also quite another to launch said chutney beer as the only liquid pairing for a six-course degustation but the Baby Mammoth team wouldn’t have any other way. Just to add to the collaborative creativity, when the dinner took place, each course included ingredients foraged from Rocky Ridge’s farm. To be clear, Inglorious Chutney is something unique – a food… Read more
Style
Barrel Aged American Spiced Amber Ale
ABV
6.9%
Stockists

Darleens Busselton plus selected retailers and venues

Rocky Ridge & LS Merchants Rosé Gose

Published October 8, 2018
For Rocky Ridge and Margaret River rouseabout Jacob Nesbitt, the chance to blend grape and grain was a dream come true. Having assisted with LS Merchant’s 2018 grape harvest – as well as working on the farm brewery's packaging line – when winery owner Dylan Arvidson offered Jacob the chance to make a project wine with him, he saw the opportunity instead for a unique collaboration. As luck would have it, Dylan had been experimenting with salted rosé blends and Rosé Gose was born. Using the… Read more
Style
Beer-Wine Hybrid
ABV
4.0%
Stockists

Rosé Gose is the smallest Rocky Ridge release yet and initial demand has been fierce.

If you're keen, seek it out quickly from independent WA retailers.

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Rocky Ridge Holy S**t, It's A Mid – The Mandarin Edition

Published October 2, 2018
Given how many high octane IPAs have been leaving the Rocky Ridge farm in recent weeks, it's perhaps not before time that they're serving up a little balance in the form of the latest edition in the Holy S**t, It’s A Mid! series. This time around, the brewery team rescued tens of kilograms of perfectly edible but second grade mandarins from landfill. Normally, farmers would have to pay to dump this fruit, however, thanks to Rocky Ridge, it now receives a second life, reborn in a refreshing, seasonally… Read more
Style
Mandarin Gose
ABV
3.7%

Rocky Ridge Karl Requires Assistance IIPA

Published September 20, 2018
Karl requires assistance. Exactly with what remains a mystery but, for his debut in what looks to be the first of multiple releases in the "Saga of Karl", he sure could use a hand. Perhaps it’s the crushing weight of the five different malts that were employed in this imperial IPA – the most ever in a Rocky Ridge beer outside of the recent barrel aged imperial stout. These come across clear and sweet, yet Karl still requires assistance. Maybe it’s the curious selection of unnamed… Read more
Style
Imperial IPA
ABV
9.0%
Stockists

Karl will be accepting assistance across WA from September 21

Rocky Ridge & Carwyn Cellars Black Brute IPA

Published September 1, 2018
Well, that didn’t take long. No sooner has a new style arrived than the barstardisation begins... And would it come as a surprise that these two collaborators – Melbourne venue Carwyn Cellars and WA brewery Rocky Ridge – would be shaking the tree? The origins of Black Brute began with venue owner Ben Carwyn on a West Coast holiday. He met brewer Hamish Coates, with the former keen to do something with coffee and Hamish excited about the nascent Brut IPA style; the ideas soon coalesced into… Read more
Style
Coffee Brut IPA
ABV
7.75%
Stockists

Available in WA from September and at a Rocky Ridge tap takeover at Carwyn Cellars on Sept 22

Rocky Ridge Citrus IPA

Published August 29, 2018
Citrus IPA returns for 2018 in a deceptively understated form. Juice and peel from oranges and grapefruit grown locally to the Rocky Ridge farm – “about six buckets” was the technical information supplied - were added to a base similar to the brewery's ACE Pale Ale. The citrus chicanery shows as fruity flavour and with pithy restraint rather than delivering any sticky, marmalade hoppiness. The real subterfuge, however, lies with the near 7 percent ABV. Wherever that's been hidden, it's worthy… Read more
Style
Citrus IPA
ABV
6.8%
Stockists

Available at good retailers across WA

Rocky Ridge Kenny Wagon Wild Zebra

Published August 14, 2018
Rocky Ridge's first charity beer, Kenny Wagon Wild Zebra, is one very close to the brewery’s heart. McKenzie Spalding – aka Kenny Wagon - is the daughter of one of the Rocky Ridge team and is currently undergoing treatment for Sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that affects the bones and connective tissue, including muscles and fat. The full 100 percent of proceeds will be donated to Sock it to Sarcoma!, a group that supports and raises awareness for those affected by the disease. Ambassadors Chris… Read more
Style
Milk Stout
ABV
5.0%
Stockists

Launched on Aug 15 at a charity dinner at new Perth burger & beer venue, Big Bopper

A limited release will follow via select WA retailers

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Rocky Ridge & Beerland Brewing Undead Monk Belgian Stout

Published July 26, 2018
Start dusting down your Enigma CDs because the monastic undead are wandering the country roads of Jindong. For Beerland Brewing’s first collaboration brew (partners-in-crime Rocky Ridge know a thing or two about making beer friends already), the cowled collaborators settled on a Belgian stout with a devilish ABV. Belgian yeast derived esters lead you into a lighter than expected body where chocolate, light liquorice and muted coffee appear alongside a little spice. The smooth mouthfeel is aided… Read more
Style
Belgian Stout
ABV
6.66%
Stockists

Following Undead Monk’s launch on July 27 at Northbridge Brewing Co, it will hit Whitfords & other good WA retailers

Rocky Ridge White Buffalo

Published July 13, 2018
Let’s get this out of the way early – stouts weren’t always black. We can thank Guinness for popularising this idea, but the term stout originally meant a stronger form of any beer before becoming solely associated with stout porters and, ultimately, turning into its own thing. With this in mind, the Dr Seuss-like concept of brewing a golden coffee stout may have broader appeal than first glance might suggest as many drinkers aren’t inclined to darker beers. Once again, Rocky Ridge enlisted… Read more
Style
White Coffee Stout
ABV
6.2%
Stockists

White Buffalo is on limited release via WA retailers

Rocky Ridge Dirty Bitch Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stout

Published July 6, 2018
Described by Hamish Coates as the greatest beer produced in his young brewery’s life, Dirty Bitch certainly comes cloaked in expectation. Named after Indy, the lesser photographed and perpetually muddy brew dog, this Russian imperial stout has spent four months in cabernet, shiraz and Malbec red wine barrels with 200 litres of hand pressed, local Shiraz grape juice. Adding to this indulgence, two barrels were infused with coffee from the Margaret River Roasting Co, two with chocolate from Gabriel… Read more
Style
Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
ABV
12.5%
Stockists

Available at good WA retailers and being poured by Hamish himself at the Crafty Pint x Beer Sucks x Caboose event on July 12.

Rocky Ridge Holy S**t, It's A Mid! The Plum Edition

Published June 15, 2018
Continuing his noble work in saving fruit from landfill, Rocky Ridge’s Hamish Coates and his expanding team have given 300 kilograms of plums a new lease on life in this iteration of the brewery's fruit gose series. Salty aromas lead the way on the palate with Holy S**t, It’s A Mid! – The Plum Edition showing similar restraint on the fruit front as the previous Kiwi edition. The refreshment of the base beer holds the spotlight with the plum characters providing tart acidity underscored by a… Read more
Style
Plum Gose
ABV
3.7%
Stockists

And for a limited time at other good WA retailers.

Rocky Ridge & Burger Baby Rock-A-Bye Baby & Barrel Aged Version

Published June 6, 2018
Another week, another Rocky Ridge collaboration, this time with Margaret River craft beer and burger joint, Burger Baby. It’s a wonder the brewery team can keep pace with these releases, let alone punters! Not that anyone is likely to be complaining about a Baltic Porter arriving at the start of winter. It’s a style that finds occasional favour with Australian breweries but perhaps the longer lagering time - 42 days in this case - means it doesn’t have the profile of its speedier-fermenting… Read more
Style
Baltic Porter
ABV
7.77%
Stockists

Rock-A-Bye Baby is available in limited release from WA retailers and venues including Burger Baby, Margaret River.

Rocky Ridge & Old Bridge Cellars Stairway To Resin IPA

Published May 25, 2018
An online pie chart divides the entire Led Zeppelin song book into three categories: "Sex", "Vikings, hobbits and some shit" and "Citrus". Adhering to these pithy – pun intended – guidelines should see Rocky Ridge’s latest collaboration with Old Bridge Cellars land in the latter segment. Not concerned with current trends, this duo has crafted a classic West Coast IPA that swells with citrus. While the referenced rock classic is in A minor, the beer is definitely… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
7.8%
Stockists

The limited release - cans and draught – is available now from select WA retailers and venues.

Rocky Ridge Wet Hop IIPA

Published May 17, 2018
Explaining the concept of wet hop beers to a local retailer, I suggested that many such beers allow some characters and nuance to come through that may be restrained or lost once hops have been through drying or pelletising. As a result, these beers may not always be the hop bomb that some punters expect but can be an excellent reminder that beer is, at its essence, an agricultural product, influenced by the seasons not a person in hi-vis, deep in a production facility. No sooner had I finished this… Read more
Style
Wet Hop IIPA
ABV
8.8%

Rocky Ridge & 4 Skateboard Company 4 Seasons Lager

Published May 1, 2018
Driven by sales manager Ricky Watt’s love of skateboarding, this collaboration sees the Busselton brewing team at Rocky Ridge hook up with local skate brand the 4 Skateboard Company to create a skate session beer: nothing too complex but nothing too beige, with the day’s cruising between skate spots in mind. The pale lager they came up with offers sweet biscuity malts and soft carbonation that come with a hop derived side of light peach and citrus flavours plus a medium bitterness that leaves… Read more
Style
Lager
ABV
5.2%

Rocky Ridge Holy S**t, It's A Mid! The Kiwi Fruit Edition

Published April 25, 2018
Already in its short existence, Rocky Ridge has made a considerable impact on the WA beer scene. Besides almost out-collaborating every other brewery in the state, the steady tide of limited releases has left little room for what most would consider a traditional core range. This seems a tenuous means of building a brand and, to a degree, it probably would be for owner/head brewer Hamish Coates if it wasn’t for the consistently high quality of his releases. Which brings us to the second iteration… Read more
Style
Fruit Gose
ABV
3.7%
Stockists

And in cans and on tap at other good WA venues and retailers

Rocky Ridge & Cellarbrations Carlisle & Cape Cellars Rock Juice V2

Published March 2, 2018
Early in 2018, the trio of collaborators behind last year's Rock Juice reunited to squeeze more juice from the rock. The sequel amplifies the original's hazy appearance and perceived fruit content while building on the the mouthfeel; however, the 9 percent ABV remains the same. For Rocky Ridge's core range of beers, the brewery sticks to the “Everything we brew, we grow” ethos; for the increasingly frequent collaborations, the team is happy to draw from beyond the fifth generation dairy farm's… Read more
Style
Imperial NEIPA
ABV
9.0%
Stockists

And other good beer stockists across WA

Rocky Ridge & Dainton Family Brewery Peach Invasion

Published January 23, 2018
Serendipity seems to surround Rocky Ridge Brewing Co’s Hamish "Hammer" Coates. Sure, there’s a lot of hard work involved too but the last four specialty releases - some of the most sought after beers in WA – have been kindly kissed by Lady Luck at one point or another. Most famously, the potential drain pour of Sour Buffalo – which made it to the Crafty Pints Best WA Beers 2017 – became a Coffee Infused Sour Golden Stout that’s spent the last few months bending minds and palates. The… Read more
Style
Peach NEIPA
ABV
6.3%

Rocky Ridge Ace Pale Ale – RETIRED

While there has tended to be considerable hype around each Rocky Ridge release, there’s a single beer of which head brewer and owner Hamish Coates is most proud. Named after his loyal brewery dog, who is also featured on the can art, Ace pale aIe is especially sentimental because it features the Flinders hop, a hop variety that was recently revived from an old growing region in Albany in Western Australia’s South West and is now grown in the Rocky Ridge hop garden. While its exact origins remain… Read more
Style
Pale Ale
ABV
6.2%

Rocky Ridge Pale Ale – RETIRED

One of two pale ales in the Rocky Ridge core range and the beer described as their flagship, this Pale Ale is a beer that makes use of the brewery's homegrown hops and malt to produce what you might term an old school pale in these increasingly fruit forward days. Sure, you'll pick up some melon, peach and citrusy touches but they're fairly restrained, sitting alongside a pale malt sweetness. On the palate, however, the hop character is much more of the earthy, drying variety, akin to something… Read more
Style
Pale Ale
ABV
4.8%