All Inn Brewing

A suburban brewery can be different things to different people. To those who live in the ‘burbs nearby, it’s a welcome oasis that provides lazy drinks on a Friday afternoon and merry times on the weekend. To those who live closer to the city centre, it’s a puzzle to be solved – you want to go there, but it’s not near your usual haunts, and it’s one helluva taxi fare.

When you step into All Inn Brewing, it doesn’t take long to realise the patrons are split about 50/50 between regular locals and visitors from further afield (as well as a few dogs for good measure). The Banyo brewery is all about gathering together different kinds of people, and it’s been around long enough - and built a strong enough reputation - to lure punters from all over. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that it’s only a few hundred metres from Nudgee train station. Or that there are two other breweries nearby, also on the train line. Brewery crawl, anyone?

In 2012, with no investment and a tiny budget, owner Harley Goodacre turned an industrial warehouse into a brewery using a bunch of repurposed equipment and bucketloads of elbow grease. But while the corrugated iron shell remains (earning the nickname The Shed from the regulars), almost everything else about All Inn has been upgraded over the intervening years. The wood-clad brewhouse and milk vat fermenters (as charming as they were) have been replaced with shining stainless steel. The solar panels added to the roof of The Shed are more or less enough to cover the brewery’s power usage. There's even a centrifuge to clarify the bright beers and evenly distribute haze in the hazy beers. It’s an expensive piece of equipment that few small breweries would shell out for, but since Harley’s dedicated to always improving the quality of his beer, he reckons it was worth it.

His exact words: “Worth its weight in gold.”

The changes were slow and organic. “Nothing happens fast here,” Harley says. “We always take our time.”

But while there’s truth to that statement, it belies the intentional and persistent attention to detail, the drive for growth, and the constantly improving quality of the beer itself.

While all of the above changes have been critical to the success of All Inn, they haven’t been a transformation so much as they’ve been an evolution. All Inn’s beers have been winning hearts and snagging awards for years, and that hasn’t really changed at all; in the ever-growing and shifting market that is the Aussie beer scene, All Inn have continued to adapt and thrive and, most importantly, tantalise tastebuds.

A new core range can design in early 2022 saw the beloved characters previously on the cans replaced with clean, uncomplicated branding to make it easier for punters to distinguish between their favourite styles. The cans bear the tagline Good Beer for Good People, which highlights the straightforward and inclusive mission of All Inn. You’ll find the core range tinnies reaching ever farther up and down the east coast as more people get a taste of All Inn, and if you’re in Brisbane you can head in to The Shed for beers fresh from the source - core range and seasonals alike.

In a move uncommon in the Aussie craft beer scene, All Inn also makes many of their beers available as fresh wort kits: 15 litre of unfermented beer that you can buy from home brew shops to finish the brewing process yourself at home. You can follow the recipe exactly to make your favourite All Inn beer, or tinker with it to experiment with flavours.

A suburban brewery can be different things to different people. It can be a place to play pinball and trivia, to listen to live tunes and feast from food trucks, to work your way through sixteen beer taps and a hand pump (though maybe not in a single sitting). It can be the producer of the fresh wort kits you brew in your garage and share with your mates. It can be the source of clean and classy cans that fill your fridge hundreds of kilometres away.

What’s All Inn to you?

Mick Wust

Name
All Inn Brewing
Address

189 Elliott Road
Banyo
QLD 4014

Phone
1300 462 739
Open Hours

Mon to Thu: 10am to 7pm
Fri: 10am to 10pm Sat: midday to 10pm
Sun: midday to 7pm

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All Inn Brewing Regulars

All Inn Brewing Session Pale Ale

In the past, many of us set our expectations low when we picked up a mid-strength, knowing there may not be much flavour. Things have changed, for the most part, in recent years, yet it’s still always nice to have your expectations exceeded. This mid-strength hints that it has more to offer as soon as it shows its first glints of rich gold colour. A full aroma of tropical fruit from the Azacca and El Dorado hops sits on a comfortable body, and each sip shows the fruitiness making way for some grainy… Read more
Style
Mid-Strength Pale Ale
ABV
3.5%

All Inn Brewing Lager

In the past, All Inn’s core range lager was a Euro style pale lager hovering at five percent ABV and characterised by a hit of malt sweetness. While still sitting firmly in the pale lager category, the current iteration is a different beast: a new world lager that sits at 4.2 percent. A lighter body means there’s more room to shine for the spattering of New Zealand hops – all Motueka, all the way. There’s a tang of citrus edged with other fruits to go along with the bready wash of Pilsner… Read more
Style
New World Lager
ABV
4.2%

All Inn Brewing Pale Ale

All Inn opened in 2012, at a time when the Aussie craft beer scene couldn't get enough of American style pale ales, and always had an APA available in their regular offering. When the brewery was rebranding and reconfiguring its core range ten years later, a few things changed… but the presence of their bangin’ pale ale didn’t. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Clear and bitter and laced with specialty malts, All Inn’s Pale Ale is flowing with pine and citrus aromas from the solid lineup… Read more
Style
American Pale Ale
ABV
4.9%

All Inn Brewing IPA

I sometimes feel like I’m betraying the craft beer cognoscenti when I refer to an IPA as "straightforward". Aren’t I meant to list off the 24 fruits (and the ripeness of each), baked goods and spices that I can detect? My treason is surely greater still when the brewery itself is good enough to tell me the multiple hop varieties they used – in this case, Chinook, Centennial, Strata and Comet. Shouldn’t I rave about the passionfruit and dank complexity Strata adds to the beer, or… Read more
Style
IPA
ABV
6.0%

All Inn Brewing Hazy IPA

Yowsers. With the saturation of the word "juicy" when describing IPAs nowadays, it can be hard to express when a beer really hits it out of the park. But this Hazy IPA is juicy, juicy, juicy. Juicy. It’s less hazy than many hazies on the market: cloudy, but without the opaque orange smoothie appearance of some others. But the fruit is strong in this one. There’s an explosive fruitiness coming not only from the hops, but also the yeast (SafAle S-33 from Fermentis, for those interested),… Read more
Style
Hazy IPA
ABV
6.5%

All Inn Brewing Red IPA

There are two halves to this beer. The first is everything you expect in a good red IPA. It’s a deep rust colour with an off white head. It’s sticky malt and bright fruit floating in tandem out of the mouth of the glass. It’s the flavour of that caramelised burnt toffee you get drizzled over your dessert at a wedding, the mouthful of resin and dried mango and candied orange, the hit of bitterness. The second half of this beer isn’t that of a hefty red monster, though. It doesn’t leave a… Read more
Style
Red IPA
ABV
6.5%

All Inn Brewing Specials

All Inn It’s Just Not Cricket IPL & Summer Fruits Sour

Published February 6, 2023
“Tell me you don’t follow sports without telling me you don’t follow sports.” I’ll go first: someone had to explain to me that IPL also stands for Indian Premier League. But I’m not ashamed of that. Nor am I ashamed to admit that I have a soft spot for IPLs. All the biting hop character of a West Coast with the refreshing crispness of a lager? Sign me up! It’s Just Not Cricket IPL – that’s India pale lager, not India Premier League – is loaded with Galaxy and Comet hops, and features… Read more
Style
IPL & Fruit Sour
ABV
5.8% & 4.2%

All Inn Brewing The Dopplenator

Published September 30, 2022
Can we first take a moment to marvel at the artwork on the can? All Inn have taken the traditional -ator suffix for naming a doppelbock, and applied it in the way that tickles the 90s nostalgia many of us have for Arnie films. And if it looks like we’re shedding a tear for the sacrificial destruction of a robot assassin that served as a father figure for a rebellious teen, be assured it’s just the pollen in the air at this time of year. Ahem. The beer. At first glance, I thought Dopplenator was… Read more
Style
Doppelbock
ABV
7.2%

All Inn Brewing New School and Old School IPAs

Published August 28, 2022
I’m a sucker for a dual release, and this dynamic duo is All Inn’s first. I recommend you drink New School before Old School. Thematically it seems wrong, but flavour-wise it just makes sense. New School East Coast Hazy IPA has a translucent glow, and features an aroma that seems to be a chorus of fruity hops and fruity yeast esters singing in unison. The flavours are an integrated blend of peach, orange and mandarin, with a soft zesty bitterness eventually building up. There’s something quite… Read more
Style
East & West Coast IPAs
ABV
6.4% & 7.0%

All Inn Brewing iForgoto Affogato Stout

Published June 14, 2022
The beginning of an affogato is very different to the end of an affogato. The beginning of this simple Italian treat is a game of contrasts as the fresh espresso and the vanilla ice cream clash wildly with each other: hot versus cold; oily versus creamy; wildly bitter versus intensely sweet. But the end of an affogato is a smooth and thick puddle, the flavours of vanilla and coffee joining together neatly like when you’re using Photoshop and you merge the once-disparate layers to create a unified… Read more
Style
Sweet Stout
ABV
8.0%

Venom Beer & All Inn Brewing The Rhubarbarian

Published August 18, 2021
With a mighty axe and pet snake, like a hero from a television show designed to encourage people to eat more veggies, The Rhubarbarian cuts a striking figure. The rhubarb pastry sour is a collaboration between Melbourne’s Venom Beer and Brisbane’s All Inn Brewing, with the concept born in Brisbane back in March after both brewing teams were enjoying drinking sours in the hot sun. The collaborators came up with the idea of creating a winter sour resembling a rhubarb Danish that would be vegan… Read more
Style
Rhubarb Pastry Sour
ABV
6.0%

All Inn Brewing Arrive Late Leave Early

Published July 9, 2020
We’re all getting sick of 2020, so thank goodness All Inn Brewing have brought us a bangin’ West Coast IPA to take us back to 2013, when Frozen stole our hearts and Man of Steel disappointed us bitterly. All Inn call this beer a “descent into dankness”, and they’re not wrong. It begins on the nose as mostly floral notes - with support from grapefruit, pineapple and gin botanicals - that capture the feel of the pink California sunset on the label. But from the first sip there’s a definite… Read more
Style
West Coast IPA
ABV
7.0%

All Inn Brewing Sabre Session Ale – RETIRED

When you pick up a beer that sits at the 3.5 percent ABV mark, it’s important to have the right expectations; after all, a lot of mid-strength beers are toothless. So it’s always nice to stumble on a session ale that still has some bite to it. Sabre pours a deep gold, and the richness of the colour comes through in the tropical fruits and slight honey sweetness on the palate. It’s light in body, but still carries character from the hops, malt, and even some light fruity esters. It’s difficult… Read more
Style
Session Ale
ABV
3.5%

All Inn Brewing Blind Axeman Amber Ale – RETIRED

OK. Let’s stop for a minute and talk about how irresponsible you’d have to be to continue your job as an axeman after losing your vision. Apart from the obvious dangers you’d pose to yourself and those around you - which should in itself be enough reason to find a new vocation - surely you’d struggle to land all of your swings in the same place, which I understand is an important part of wood chopping, both for efficiency’s sake and for preserving the integrity and aesthetic quality of… Read more
Style
Amber Ale
ABV
4.6%

All Inn Brewing Consequences Pale Lager – RETIRED

Here we see the common male hipster in his natural habitat - note the handlebar moustache and the unnecessary suspenders. At times when the hipster population booms and reaches unsustainable levels, a form of natural population control takes place. One variety of male hipsters increases the amount of beard oil used in an attempt to assert dominance over the others. But as history has shown us time and again, and as this beer label shows us now: beard oil and tobacco pipes don’t mix, and can result… Read more
Style
Lager
ABV
5.0%

All Inn Brewing Legbreaker American IPA – RETIRED

Legbreaker is at the lower alcohol end of the spectrum for IPAs, which means a couple of things. Firstly, it means those big flavours - the ripe burst of peach and nectarine, the cut grass and pine, the bright guava being lifted up alongside thick caramel and biscuity malt, the pronounced bitterness - are not just a blunt instrument. They’re not the result of metric tonne of malt and hops being thrown in to amp it up in every way imaginable, but of a careful crafting and balancing of ingredients… Read more
Style
American IPA
ABV
5.6%

All Inn Brewing Mutiny Red IPA – RETIRED

Full disclosure: I’m a sucker for a nice red IPA. It’s one of my favourite styles of beer. Does that make me more likely to be discerning, or more likely to be biased? I like to think the former. Probably sometimes the latter. But whichever it is, I still remember the first time I had a Mutiny and let out a two syllable: “Daay-um!” When I drink a red IPA, I want impressive malts, impressive hops, and solid booze… and Mutiny delivers on all three. The malts bring an intense ruby-rust colour… Read more
Style
Red IPA
ABV
7.2%

All Inn Brewing Clockwork Robust Porter – RETIRED

When a beer is dark, and sits at an alcohol level Australians would traditionally describe as “heavy”, it seems oxymoronic to describe it as “light”. But when comparing it to some of the belters out there, which may sit at seven percent or seventeen percent ABV, I feel it’s still an apt description in context. While it bears many of the hallmark flavours of a heavier stout, Clockwork Robust Porter is relatively light in body and dry in finish, making it easier to drink than many of its… Read more
Style
Robust Porter
ABV
4.8%

All Inn Brewing Writer's Block Milk Stout

As a writer, I can vouch for the reality of writer’s block, and the feeling that one’s head has been replaced with an inanimate object. But this Writer’s Block is full of life. With a rich tan head reminiscent of crema, this beer may look like espresso but it tastes more like iced mocha. Chocolate and coffee flavours come together in a dance; it’s sweet without being too sweet, delectably thick for 6.7 percent ABV, and leaves just a feathery brush of warmth in the back of the mouth. If you… Read more
Style
Milk Stout
ABV
6.7%

All Inn Brewing Citra Extra Hopped Pale Ale

It must be said: whoever introduced Citra hops to modern brewing is a genius and deserves some kind of award. And this Citra Hopped Extra Pale Ale’s as good as any to give drinkers a clear sense of what they can do in a beer. The malt bill is made up of mostly pilsner malt, with just a little wheat to give a smooth texture; it’s designed to be a clean canvas that allows the Citra to strut its stuff, and it does its job admirably. Bright aromas and flavours burst forth right from the get-go, which… Read more
Style
Pale Ale
ABV
5.0%

All Inn Brewing Full Harvest Rye IPA – Ekuanot

If the image on the label of the Grim Reaper throwing up the horns means nothing to you, please stop what you’re doing, travel back in time to the 90s and watch Bill & Ted. Done? Excellent. Full Harvest is a rye IPA, with each batch hopped with a different variety - in this case, Ekuanot - to take you on a bogus journey. In the glass, the shining copper colour is as appealing as the papaya and golden syrup on the nose. But once it enters your mouth, these become secondary to spice and dried… Read more
Style
Rye IPA
ABV
6.7%

All Inn Brewing Midnight Jackal Black IPA

Black and beastly, yet suave and sophisticated. For the dark malts, All Inn used Midnight Wheat instead of roast barley for a dialled back roast bitterness to ensure the flavours didn’t clash with the hops. Choc sweetness rounded out with dark berry notes and coffee would have this black beast bordering on imperial stout territory if it weren’t for the hoppy bitterness ruling the roost. One sip of this is like drinking a full moon during a thunderstorm. Mick Wust… Read more
Style
Black IPA
ABV
7.0%

All Inn Brewing Stronghold Assassin Double IPA

All Inn Brewing maintain a strong focus on their local community, and so understandably offer a lot of beers that are well-made versions of safe styles; it doesn’t do to frighten off your regulars in the pursuit of ever-escalating flavours. But Stronghold Assassin is sneaky and dangerous, and not at all a safe beer for an unsuspecting punter. A deep burnt orange makes this IIPA look like marmalade perhaps more than it should, because it’s tempting to have one for breakfast. The sizeable resinous… Read more
Style
Double IPA
ABV
9.4%

All Inn Brewing NEIPA

When it came to the haze craze, the brewers at All Inn hung back while others took part in trial and error. Then, at the end of 2019, they sailed in and made a tropical delight. All Inn’s NEIPA was never meant to be an opaque glass of orange juice, but the cloudiness is a like a golden sunrise on a misty morning. When it comes to haze in beer, gravity likes to make brewers’ jobs difficult. Luckily for All Inn, their centrifuge was the perfect tool for distributing the haze evenly throughout the… Read more
Style
NEIPA
ABV
6.6%