Aether Brewing

“In Greek mythology, Aether is the fifth element, which holds the universe together. Obviously… that’s beer.”

This is the idea that gave birth to Aether Brewing years ago, well before the brewery opened in 2016. Plenty has changed at Aether in the intervening years, including the core range and the can designs and even the location of the brewery itself. But something that’s never changed is the firm belief that beer, along with the passion and creativity that go into making it, is at the centre of the universe.

Aether rocks a core range that moves from an easy-drinking Mexican lager, through an XPA and all Aussie pale ale, to a West Coast IPA and a blackberry sour built for maximum impact - with a ginger beer and two flavourful seltzers to boot. These may not all be your standard core styles from an Australian brewery, but they show that Aether isn’t afraid to try a different path.

Owner Dave Ward has always been one to pour his passion and creativity into Aether’s beers - the brewery was one of the early adopters of NEIPAs in Australia, one of the first to use hemp in beer (and a IIPA at that), and once released a double Irish red ale with bone marrow (“It was a stupid beer,” says Dave). The brewing philosophy at Aether isn’t just ‘think outside the box’; it’s ‘I wonder what’ll happen if we throw the box into the brew’. Expect to see some weird and wacky flavours coming through in their special releases.

Of course, the best way to drink Aether’s beers is at the source: Aether HQ in Northgate, a down-to-earth brewery taproom where the people of the community come together. The staff know the locals by name - and know the dogs by name, for that matter - and treat them as friends. And that warm sense of belonging is something the locals have embraced. For some, it’s something they always wanted to have. For others it’s something they didn’t know they wanted.

But it’s not just those who live in the area who frequent Aether HQ. The brewery is on the train line, making it accessible to and from the city and a couple of nearby suburban breweries. Visitors from all around come for the beer and stay for the friendly vibes.

From the moment you step inside you can see a green wall, a hop mural, an array of wooden barrels and the hop cone lights glowing above the bar. But once you’ve grabbed a beer in a cool tasting glass (ribbed for your drinking pleasure), you’re free to wander further into the matte-black and stainless steel wonderland. Explore far enough and you’ll find the long tables nestled deep in the heart of the brewery, surrounded by towering brewing tanks on all sides. From here, safe from the bustle and busyness of life outside, you can appreciate the beer machine in all its glory. Depending on when you’re there, you may see the brewers swinging off valves, or may simply get to appreciate the 3000L brewhouse at rest, the tanks like so many dormant metal giants.

While Aether HQ will always be the brewery’s beating heart, Aether is partnering with FnB Collective to open a stylish venue closer to the city. Located in Woolloongabba’s South/City/SQ precinct, The Wright House will be pouring Aether beer through all twelve taps, seven days a week as of early 2023. Punters rejoice!

(As a side note, Aether brews exclusive beers for two of FnB Collective’s restaurants in the same precinct: an Italian lager for Sasso Italian and a rice lager with Peruvian purple corn for Casa Chow.)

The Aether team have always found ways to use their beer for the good of the community, but they saw their rebrand in 2022 as an opportunity to double down on supporting local artists. They launched what they’ve called the Artist Amplifier Initiative - an ongoing and open call for Australian artists to submit existing artworks to be considered for beer label designs. Even the design on the Aether core range beers will be rotated annually with new artworks. The result is a range of labels showing different art styles from different artists working in different mediums, all held together by Aether’s motto: ‘The Art of Craft.’

While the initiative focuses on the long-term support of the Australian arts community, it’s also designed to help drinkers broaden their horizons with each tinnie, providing information on each artwork and artist via QR codes on the labels. The art can act as a conversation starter: ‘Have you seen this can? Seen this art? Heard of this artist?’ It can be all too easy to get stuck in a conversational loop about work and the depressing things in the news. How much better would it be to talk about the beauty and meaning of Australian art?

The brew team at Aether are in constant pursuit of that elusive perfection in their beer. After all, beer holds the universe together, remember? But with these folk, it always comes back to people. They say beer’s only as good as the company you keep, and when you rub shoulders with the Aether team, you’re guaranteed good people.

Mick Wust

Name
Aether Brewing
Address

340 Melton Road
Northgate
QLD 4013

Phone
1800 325 013
Open Hours

Friday: 3pm to 7pm
Sat & Sun: midday to 7pm


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The Specials

Aether Brewing Barrel Aged Cherry Sour & Peanut Butter Stout
Aether Brewing Sparkling Sour
Aether Brewing American Pale Ale
Aether Brewing Twisted Vine Passionfruit & Blood Orange NEIPA
Aether Brewing Summer of Sour: Yuzu Sake, Royal Fruit Cup & Strawberry Creamsicle
Aether Brewing Blueberry NEIPA
Aether Brewing Anti Matter Cascadian Dark Lager
Aether Brewing Junkyard Giant Barrel-Aged Red Rye IIPA
Aether Brewing Mulled Wine Imperial Stout
Aether Brewing Creme Brûlée
Aether Brewing Southern Haze
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Aether Brewing Regulars

Aether Brewing XPA

You know how sometimes you have a memory of something, and even though it’s a strong memory, it sounds vague when you try to explain it?† Well, I have a clear sense in my mind of what a cracking XPA ordered fresh from the source at a craft brewery is like. Gold and clear with a white fluffy head. Lovely hop character of tropical fruit and citrus, with the fruity hops followed up by a smooth malt profile with just a touch of biscuit and grain. Clean and sessionable. Now, I’m well aware that… Read more
Style
Mid-Strength XPA
ABV
3.5%
Bitterness
35 IBU

Aether Brewing Mexican Lager

Lagers make for excellent social drinks: many of us remember being introduced to lagers by our friends at a party, ordering lagers at the pub and chatting with the bar staff, sinking lagers at the family barbecue while our younger cousins try to get us to jump in the pool and play water polo (which we rebut by offering to be the umpire from our spot on the pool lounge). But, while this is a fine beer for the above scenarios, it’s also just right for sipping when there’s not a single other person… Read more
Style
Mexican Lager
ABV
4.2%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Aether Brewing All Australian Lager

In 2021, Aether made a limited hazy pale ale called Southern Haze. It proved so popular that the brew team reworked the recipe a little and turned it into this year-round beer - the All Australian Pale Ale. While Southern Haze can showed Aurora Australis, All Australian Pale Ale can bears an artwork† of a rainbow lorikeet on a red glowing gum in front of a Queenslander home. Can’t get much more bloody ‘Strayan than that. As for the beer, it’s what you're looking for in an Aussie pale. It’s… Read more
Style
Aussie Pale Ale
ABV
4.5%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Aether Brewing Ginger Beerd

In days gone by, Aether’s Ginger Beerd was personified by a grizzled ship’s captain wearing a sailor’s cap, smoking a pipe, and sporting a tinge of ginge in his beard and eyebrows. Now that same facial hair is on the face of a woman dressed in 18th century garb; Steve Falco (the artist behind both the former and current design) describes her "beauty with a touch of roughness." When you first look at a glass of Ginger Beerd, it looks a little blurry, and you wonder if your eyes are… Read more
Style
Ginger Beer
ABV
4.3%
Bitterness
15 IBU

Aether Brewing West Coast IPA

From the time they opened, Aether Brewing’s core range IPA has always been one of their most popular beers. When the brewery’s rebrand in 2022 saw them review some of their regular beers, the brewers decided to tweak the recipe of Hop Skip & Jump (the previous name for this IPA). The ABV dropped (from 6.4 percent ABV to 6.0), the flavour remained, and the drinkability increased. Now simply labelled West Coast IPA, this beer has an aroma that suggests sweet malty toffee while the taste is… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
55 IBU

Aether Brewing Blackberry Sour

Most beers are good to drink in warm weather… but some beers were born for it. Blackberry Sour is one of these beers. It was originally released as a summer seasonal, but in time it became clear that cooler weather wasn’t stopping punters from wanting to drink this fruited sour, so Aether brought it into the core range. The pour of Blackberry Sour isn’t the dark purple of the fresh Tasmanian blackberry puree that was added to the brew (or of the cosmic tapestry pictured on the can). Instead,… Read more
Style
Blackberry Sour
ABV
3.9%
Bitterness
15 IBU

Aether Brewing Passionfruit Pavlova & Raspberry Seltzers

Many hard seltzers out there look like soda water and taste very close to it (with just a tiny hint of flavour). Not Aether’s seltzers. The Passionfruit Pavlova Seltzer has a yellowish, almost yellowish-green tinge to it, and it does indeed hit you as creamy pavlova. I don’t know how much vanilla and real passionfruit they used to nail this, but it certainly has more going on than many seltzers I’ve tasted. The Raspberry Seltzer is kind of gruesome. There’s a horrific woman on the label whose… Read more
Style
Hard Seltzers
ABV
Both 4.2%

Aether Brewing Specials

Aether Brewing Barrel Aged Cherry Sour & Peanut Butter Stout

Published April 14, 2023
Some things in life are simple. Some aren’t. When it comes to Aether’s Barrel Aged Cherry Sour, the artwork on the can is complex - it looks to me like the cosmos as seen from a psychedelic galaxy, with the view partially covered over by bunched-up cobwebs - and so is the beer. It’s a Berliner weisse that spent nine months in French oak with “a hand-picked mix of European yeasts,”* developing nuance and complexity and farmhouse character before being slammed with Kütahya sour cherries… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Cherry Sour & Peanut Butter Stout
ABV
5.8% & 7.0%
Bitterness
10 & 23 IBU

Aether Brewing Sparkling Sour

Published March 1, 2023
We don’t get many straight Berliner Weisses nowadays. In Australia, they usually have fruit added to them, which is a nod to the way such beers are traditionally enjoyed in Germany – with a shot of sweet syrup added to them. But there’s something lovely to be found in the nuances of a straight Berliner Weisse, courtesy of the delicate interplay of malt, yeast and acidity. Aether must think the same thing, as they’ve given us one, calling it Sparkling Sour on the can so as to not intimidate… Read more
Style
Berliner Weisse
ABV
4.0%
Bitterness
10 IBU

Aether Brewing American Pale Ale

Published January 19, 2023
It’s always nice to try a new take on an existing style; this one deftly dodged my expectations. If the brewers had only added hop varieties Cascade, Centennial and Simcoe, my expectations would have been more or less spot on. But they stacked on Loral, Zappa and Trident as well, and this extended cast introduced all kinds of new elements. I hear "American pale ale" and think "tastes like the early 2010s", but this limited release from Aether does not. In fact, it’s hard to… Read more
Style
American Pale Ale
ABV
5.0%

Aether Brewing Twisted Vine Passionfruit & Blood Orange NEIPA

Published December 2, 2022
Jump in a time machine and go back to the early days of Aether Brewing, and you’ll find Twisted Vine… but a little bit different. The year? 2017. The event? Beer InCider. The ABV? 8.5 percent. The passionfruit and blood orange NEIPA was a huge hit at the festival, which led to Aether re-releasing it in cans. But as they did so, they toyed around with the recipe and brought the crowd pleaser down to a more 4-pack friendly ABV - 5.5 percent. Today’s iteration is more in line with that second… Read more
Style
Fruited NEIPA
ABV
5.5%
Bitterness
20 IBU

Aether Brewing Summer of Sour: Yuzu Sake, Royal Fruit Cup & Strawberry Creamsicle

Published November 20, 2022
Aether are well aware that in Brisbane summer arrives long before the calendar says it does (we had a 34 degree day in October), so they’ve got their Summer of Sours beers out well in advance of December. The first of this trio is Yuzu Sake. It’s a light and cloudy colour I was going to describe as "lemon yellow", but I guess "yuzu yellow" would be apt. The liquid gives off the floaty smell of lemon sherbet or lemon sorbet, but once it hits your mouth there’s a jolt of sour… Read more
Style
Fruited Sours
ABV
4.5% & 5.5% & 8.0%
Bitterness
15 & 15 & 20 IBU

Aether Brewing Blueberry NEIPA

Published October 26, 2022
Wow. This beer is a berry bomb, if not what I expected. What I expected: a hazy purple pour; the tropical fruit aromas and flavours of a NEIPA; sweet blueberry notes padding out the edges. What I got: a deep gold pour that only hinted at the addition of blueberries; a massive aroma of blueberry yoghurt and Ribena, followed by the taste of raspberry syrup then Fruit of the Forest cordial then light florals then full circle back to berry yoghurt. A subtle bitterness holds its ground, but other than… Read more
Style
Blueberry NEIPA
ABV
6.2%
Bitterness
25 IBU

Aether Brewing Anti Matter Cascadian Dark Lager

Published September 13, 2022
In modern physics, antimatter is defined as matter composed of the antiparticles (or "partners") of the corresponding particles in "ordinary" matter… A collision between any particle and its antiparticle partner leads to their mutual annihilation… I may only understand as much about physics as I read on Wikipedia, but surely mutual annihilation is never a good thing. And don’t even get me started on the theory that antimatter and antiparticles are regular particles travelling… Read more
Style
Cascadian Dark Lager
ABV
5.0%
Bitterness
35 IBU

Aether Brewing Junkyard Giant Barrel-Aged Red Rye IIPA

Published July 13, 2022
What is going on here?? Aether are calling this a red rye IIPA… but in reality it’s something much more complex than that, on both the production front and the tasting front. (Props to the label designer, because the illustration of a giant robot constructed from all different parts captures this beer excellently.) On the production side, this beer began life more than a year ago when Aether brewed a barleywine and stuck it into French oak barrels. Then, six months later, the brewers made a rye… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Red Rye IIPA
ABV
9.3%
Bitterness
55 IBU

Aether Brewing Mulled Wine Imperial Stout

Published June 23, 2022
When My Beer Dealer sold their "12 Imperial Stouts of Christmas" boxes in December, one of the offerings was a Mulled Wine Imperial Stout from Aether. But, alas, it was exclusive to those boxes, which were snapped up quicker than the cashews in a bowl of mixed nuts. And so, sympathetic to the plight of those who missed out, Aether’s brewed another batch - just in time for everyone’s Christmas in July parties (whether dinner parties or sitting-on-the-couch-eating-leftovers parties). For… Read more
Style
Mulled Imperial Stout
ABV
10.0%
Bitterness
35 IBU

Aether Brewing Creme Brûlée

Published June 1, 2022
Earl Grey Creme Brûlée, First at GABS and now in cans, Creamy treat for end of day. Get it – quickly – in your hands! Artwork – from a hot new game – By the great Sandara Tang, Like a dragon spitting flame, Cute and small, with tiny fang. Smells like things you love to eat: Marshmallow, all gooey soft Butterscotch, all sticky sweet. Pannacotta, just a waft. When it’s time to take a chug Takes you back when you were young: Drinking custard from the jug Thick and creamy on your tongue. Rich… Read more
Style
Dessert Beer
ABV
8.0%

Aether Brewing Southern Haze

Published February 28, 2022
When I was a kid I was super interested in the phenomenon of Aurora Borealis, or the Northern Lights, but viewing them always felt a bit out of reach; Norway or Canada may as well have been far away as the moon. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I learned of the existence of Aurora Australis – although I’ve now been to Tasmania twice and haven’t made a trip up Mount Wellington at the right time to catch the Southern Lights.† For now, the vivid label of Southern Haze can be my opportunity… Read more
Style
Hazy Pale Ale
ABV
4.0%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Aether Oak & Organisms: Intertwined & Severance

Published December 9, 2021
Aether’s latest entries in their Oak & Organisms series are delicately nuanced liquids with disgustingly creepy artwork. As someone who’s been trying more and more natural wines recently, I’m finding beer-wine hybrids more and more interesting. Intertwined incorporates heavy skin contact pinot grigio pressings, which were blended with wort and soured before being left for seven months in French oak to round out the flavours. While pinot grigio is generally a crisp style of wine, all bets… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Beer-Wine Hybrid & Truffled Witbier
ABV
6.8% & 6.5%

Aether Brewing Oak & Organisms: Respite

Published July 22, 2021
Personally, I've been waiting with bated breath for another entry from Aether’s barrel program and now the second Oak & Organisms is here. Respite Breakfast Stout is indeed a welcome respite during the troubled times we find ourselves in midway through 2021. It’s an imperial stout aged for 12 months in barrel before having oats, blueberry, cinnamon, almond and coconut added to it. If you think these muesli-type ingredients sound like they’re incongruous with an imperial stout, rest assured… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Breakfast Stout
ABV
8.2%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Aether Brewing Event Horizon

Published June 10, 2021
If you ever get the opportunity to head into space and look into a black hole (that’s the dream, right?), you won’t actually see anything. That’s because nothing – not even light – can escape it. That phenomenon is known as an event horizon and is discussed at great lengths by physicists and sci-fi lovers alike. But whether you’re an astrophysicist or just a punter whose knowledge of space is limited to what you learned from Interstellar, you’ll notice that Event Horizon is about as… Read more
Style
Spiced Rum Porter
ABV
6.7%
Bitterness
42 IBU

Aether Brewing & Flour & Chocolate Nitro Bee Sting & Velour Fog

Published April 23, 2021
If you’re going to make pastry beers, why not team up with a patisserie? That’s what Aether’s done with their neighbours at Flour & Chocolate Northgate for the second time and the results speak for themselves.* After a successful debut in 2020 and a flurry of customer requests, Nitro Bee Sting returns for 2021. Based on the sweet bun that share its name, Bee Sting is a flood of sweet and creamy goodness without the heaviness of many of the other pastry beers out there. The aroma is vanilla… Read more
Style
Cream Ale & Chocolate Stout
ABV
5.5% & 5.0%

Aether Brewing El Jefe Mexican Lager – SUPERSEDED

Published April 20, 2021
Lagers make for excellent social drinks - many of us remember being introduced to lagers by our friends at a party, ordering lagers at the pub and chatting with the bar staff, sinking lagers at the family barbecue while our younger cousins try to get us to jump in the pool and play water polo (which we rebuff by offering to be the umpire from our spot on the pool lounge). But while El Jefe is a fine beer for the above scenarios, it’s also just right for sipping when there’s not a single other… Read more
Style
Mexican Lager
ABV
4.2%
Bitterness
20 IBU

Aether Brewing Quadrophonic Hemp-Infused Double IPA

Published November 27, 2020
Aether were one of the first Aussie breweries to use hemp in a beer back in 2018 with HIIPA, their hemp infused IIPA. Late 2020 saw them celebrate their fourth birthday with Quadraphonic, an amped up version boosted to 9.4 percent ABV and pumped with Strata, Galaxy, Hort 4337, Citra and Mosaic hops. Neither the booze nor the bitterness hits as hard as you might think they would in a beer like this, so there’s plenty of room for the malt and hop flavours to get all up in your face. While 2018’s… Read more
Style
Hemp-Infused DIPA
ABV
9.4%
Bitterness
50 IBU

Aether Brewing Oak & Organisms: Sour Brown 2020

Published November 5, 2020
The first fruits of Aether’s barrel program are finally here, and they’re tasting ripe. Aether founder Dave Ward is always thinking of what’s going on at a microscopic level in his beer – he speaks of “the little organisms that tend to do what they want a lot of the time” – and now he’s encouraging drinkers to start thinking about it too. The luxurious burnished bronze cans show a microscope growing out of an oak branch above the name of the new series - Oak & Organisms. This… Read more
Style
Oud Bruin
ABV
5.5%

Aether Brewing Nocturnal Imperial Stout

Published August 23, 2020
In a piece of exquisite team management I managed to receive two separate write-ups for the same beer in my inbox within an hour or two of each other on Friday. So, given it's a whopper of a beer, why not run them both side by side? Mick Wust: Though I don’t usually drink sugar in my coffee, when I decided to try drinking espresso for the first time, I was determined to do it "the Italian way". It’s fairly standard for Italians to stir a teaspoon or two of sugar into their tiny cup… Read more
Style
Imperial Stout with Maple Syrup
ABV
11.7%
Stockists

From the Aether taproom, online and reputable stockists around Queensland

Aether Brewing Chaotic Good NZ Pilsner – RETIRED

Published December 17, 2019
I’ve only played Dungeons & Dragons once; it’s all fun and games until you’re reckless and don’t listen properly and your character dies early on in the game. But I’ve seen enough memes to know that “Chaotic Good” is a reference to the D&D Alignment Chart, which maps out characters according to their morals and worldview. Chaotic Good are happy to break the rules and do things their own way, but are ultimately good-hearted folk. Think Michael Scott from the Office, or Marvel’s… Read more
Style
Mid-Strength Pilsner
ABV
3.3%

Aether Brewing Creature Of The Night Peanut Butter Stout

Published August 8, 2019
We’ve seen a few peanut butter dessert beers in recent times, and often they’re sticky and syrupy, and fattened with lactose. If you’ve a sweet tooth, they may be just the thing you’re looking for. But what if you want the peanuts, you want the chocolate, you want the thick mouthfeel… but you want to ease off the sweetness? This is where Creature of the Night comes in. It’s thick - the dark head rises in slow motion, because even air struggles to wend its way through the viscous body.… Read more
Style
Peanut Butter Stout
ABV
7.0%

Aether Brewing Dryad Pét-Nat Sour

Published August 8, 2019
There’s a skill in blending sours to achieve a rich complexity of flavours, and there’s a skill in achieving complexity without blending. Here, Aether has nailed the latter with a beer-wine hybrid that holds layers and layers. Dryad began with a malt bill made up of half Golden Promise and half Australian wheat, then was spontaneously soured with 1,000 litres of freshly picked and pressed pét-nat riesling juice from Latta Vino in Victoria. While it didn’t spend any time in barrels, the dark… Read more
Style
Beer-Wine Hybrid
ABV
7.0%

Aether Brewing Roughneck Strong Pale Ale

Published January 31, 2019
Aether brought out an earlier version of Roughneck at the start of 2018 as a maltier and floral counterpart to their core range Pit Stop Pale Ale. Now it’s back with a vengeance: with the alcohol content upped to 5.8 percent ABV and the tag "strong pale ale"; they've put it into tinnies too. This isn’t a beer to add to the many bright, tropical pale ales around at the moment. Instead, it carries almost amber ale characteristics (though it’s still the shining gold of a pale ale), with… Read more
Style
Strong Pale Ale
ABV
5.8%

Aether Brewing Written In The Stars Sour Boysenberry DIPA

Published January 31, 2019
When it comes to special releases from Aether, the phrase: "Expect the unexpected" comes to mind. In the past, they’ve served up a smoked cherry double choc brownie stout, a Tom Yum gose, and even a bone marrow double Irish red ale to keep us on our toes. So, when it came time to christen their new brewhouse in Nundah, it’s no surprise their first brew was something experimental. But, if you think you can predict what the first sip of a sour boysenberry double IPA will taste like, you’re… Read more
Style
Sour Boysenberry Double IPA
ABV
8.8%

Aether Brewing & Bloodhound Bar Hemp Double IPA

Published March 21, 2018
Over the years, many IPAs have been described as "dank", "resinous", "sticky", 'weedy' and plenty of other marijuana-related terms. Hop cones look a little bit like buds and hop leaves can look similar to pot leaves if you squint hard enough. And, since researchers have discovered that hops and marijuana are both in the cannabaceae family, this isn’t really surprising. They’re cousins. The fact they share some traits makes a lot of sense. But sometimes you need to… Read more
Style
Double IPA with hemp
ABV
8.5%
Bitterness
72 IBU

Brisbane Brewing Collective BNEIPA

Published March 7, 2018
Australia saw a lot of New England style IPAs release in 2017, with 90 percent seemingly using the words "juice" or "crazy lazy hazy Swayze" in the title. It makes sense, given NEIPAs are known for their juiciness and for looking like a hazy glass of orange juice. But, when ten Brisbane breweries join together to brew such a beer, they can be expected to bend the rules. Thus it was that members of White Lies, Slipstream, Semi Pro, Helios, Revel, Newstead, Brisbane Brewing Co,… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Aether Brewing Witching Hour Blackberry Sour – RETIRED

Published January 16, 2018
Most beers are good to drink in summer… but some beers were born for it. Witching Hour Blackberry Sour (an occult-ish name softened by a delightful rhyme) is Aether Brewing’s summer seasonal release, and it’s a beer that grabs you right from the moment you see the impressive gothic artwork on the decal or can. The pour isn’t the dark purple of the fresh Queensland blackberry puree that was added to the brew. Instead, the combination of the blackberries and the classic light gold of the Berliner… Read more

Aether Brewing Twisted Vine

Published November 30, 2017
How do you make a fruity New England style IPA even more fruity? Add fruit, of course. At least, that's where a couple of years of experimentation led Aether's Dave and Jimmy. Twisted Vine has had both fresh passionfruit and blood orange added to its hazy mix and is also the first Aether beer chosen to appear inside a can. They reckon it's a beer that "embodies the fresh, bright boldness of a Queensland spring bursting with life" and is one that received an "overwhelming" when… Read more
Style
Passionfruit & Blood Orange NEIPA
ABV
5.5%

Aether Brewing Average Ale

Fact #1: It’s a very Australian thing to be self-deprecating and poke fun at your own achievements as much as you’d ever criticise anyone else’s. In line with this, there’s a trend among Australian craft brewers to be self-deprecating about their own beers. Fact #2: While a number of brewers take pride in the amount of flavour they’re able to get into their mid-strength beers, a fair portion of the craft beer community will mumble that mid-strength beers are lame. Fact #3: It’s common… Read more
Style
Mid-strength
ABV
3.5%
Bitterness
28 IBU

Aether Brewing Pit Stop Pale Ale – RETIRED

A pale ale in a brewery is like the comic relief character in a movie – not the reason you came in the first place, but might easily become your favourite part. Pit Stop is a little cloudy in appearance, but clean drinking from beginning to end. There’s a subtle malt background, but the New World hops (Galaxy, Azacca, and Mosaic) do the lion’s share of the work, bringing a whack of tropical fruit and citrus to the aroma and flavour. A solid bitterness rounds it out, ensuring you’re not left… Read more
Style
Pale Ale
ABV
4.5%
Bitterness
40 IBU

Aether Brewing Hide & Seek Pilsner

Despite all the attention hop-forward beers have received in the past decade, there are still many beer lovers who’ll declare their love of a good pilsner above all else (usually accompanied by a string of stories about the time they went to Germany or passed through the Czech Republic). This Old World Pilsner is a light straw colour with grassy aromas. It’s full of refreshing flavours: a touch of sweet malt and citrus zest, followed by the earthiness brought by a good balance of Czech Saaz… Read more
Style
Pilsner
ABV
5.0%
Bitterness
27 IBU

Aether Brewing Red Giant Red Ale

This beer’s name brings together the Ancient Greece/fantasy theme of some of Aether’s beers and the astronomical theme (see Event Horizon). It seems to be referring to a huge dying star, but the picture on the label appears to be a dragon’s eye. (Just Google "Aether red giant" and "Smaug eye" and you’ll see the similarity.) Either way, this beer is clearly in powerful company. Perhaps the Magnum and Mosaic hops are leathery wings, beating down as the dragon breathes out… Read more
Style
Red Ale
ABV
5.0%
Bitterness
38 IBU

Aether Brewing Hop, Skip & Jump IPA – RETIRED

Of Aether’s core range beers, this is the one that’s received the most attention. In the current beer climate, an Australian brewery always tends to be judged on its pale ale and IPA, and this IPA has not been found wanting – it brought home a silver award from the Craft Beer Awards in 2017 and is the favourite beer of regulars at Aether’s brewpub in Milton. It’s a West Coast style IPA, juggling stone fruit and citrus flavours with resinous hop characters. The rich, almost creamy mouthfeel… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
6.4%
Bitterness
70 IBU

Aether Brewing BOOS Bitter

You don’t have to spend long around Jimmy Young of Aether Brewing to hear him utter the word, “BOOS!” It’s one of those exclamations (is it a word? is it a sound effect?) that’s hard to define, but usually makes sense in context. It’s an apt name for this English style bitter, which always makes a whole lot of sense when you’re knocking it back, whatever the context. The two row base malt does all the heavy lifting, bringing the smooth caramel and toffee flavours you’d expect from… Read more
Style
ESB
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
56 IBU

Aether Brewing Pitch Fork Saison

Picture this: You’re a Belgian farm owner in the 1700s. You need a lot of harvesting and other various work done in your fields, but you don’t have a lot of drinking water to offer the seasonal workers (saisonniers) you’ve hired. What do you give them to drink? You've guessed it: you let the saison flow freely. It’s a good thing saisons aren’t just for farm labourers anymore, because most of us are more experienced with a cake fork than a pitchfork. But this Pitch Fork is accessible to… Read more
Style
Saison
ABV
5.2%
Bitterness
32 IBU

Aether Brewing Black As Your Heart IPA – RETIRED

There’s plenty of talk about the absurdity of the name, Black India Pale Ale. How can it be black and pale at the same time? This same confusion sometimes translates to the experience of drinking a black IPA, when the flavours can clash and vie for centre stage. But something intriguing takes place when you drink this brew. The fruitiness of the hops and the roastiness of the malts seem comfortable side by side. This hybrid beverage enters your lips as a tropical IPA, but slides down your throat… Read more
Style
Black IPA
ABV
6.7%
Bitterness
70 IBU

Aether Brewing The Mayor Lager – RETIRED

When Aether was situated in Milton, they first released this lager as “The Mayor of Milton”. The classy character on the label - a toothy-grinned skeleton wearing a bowler hat and a fancy coat - clearly ranked above any other Milton lager, or any other character smiling and wearing a suit and hat. Now that Aether is located in Northgate, this character is simply known as The Mayor. He still has a little natural cloudiness about him. He still has the clean malt sweetness of a Euro lager. He still… Read more
Style
Lager
ABV
4.3%
Bitterness
23 IBU

Aether Brewing Ginger Beerd – SUPERSEDED

Ginger Beerd personified is a grizzled ship’s captain wearing a sailor’s cap, smoking a pipe, and sporting a tinge of ginge in his beard and eyebrows. Just one look into his weathered face tells you he’s not afraid of rough seas, and he expects you to be able to handle them as well. When you first look at a glass of Ginger Beerd, it looks a little blurry, and you wonder if your eyes are out of focus. But that haze is a testament to the use of real Queensland ginger - and plenty of it - which… Read more
Style
Ginger Beer
ABV
4.3%