Five Barrel Brewing

Wollongong is a changing city. Built on the blue collars of smelting and heavy manufacturing, those industries that bought middle class prosperity are in decline, though hardly dead yet; you can still catch a whiff of them each time the open coal carriages roll through town or the smoke stacks of the steelworks begin to wheeze.

But they feel at odds with a newer energy helping power the local economy, one where health is the biggest drawcard and education not far behind – the University is of high repute and it brings youth, vibrancy, multiculturalism and bright minds. If the place is not yet outright progressive, the sensation is bubbling away.

Its attractiveness is not harmed by the region itself being quite beautiful, a thin sliver of civilisation hemmed in by the Tasman Sea to the east and a towering escarpment in the west that contains everything within; golden sand beaches, fertile soil for a small scale agrarian economy, lush bush to wander in and blue sky in which to dive.

Having all this close enough to commute to Sydney means a great many do, lured by the prospect of a life where home ownership and avocado on toast are not mutually exclusive – not yet, at least. With that great southern migration comes the inevitability of gentrification; the cafés, the small bars, the boutiques. Still, things tend to happen at a relatively slower pace here.

By way of example, compare the two cities through the prism of brewing and it’s been the harbour city sprinting away in recent years, with small breweries opening up at a rough rate of one every few weeks. For the best part of a decade Wollongong had a solitary one. But when it got its second, in 2016, it won Best New Brewery at the Sydney Craft Beer Week awards. Yes, amidst all that is good and great in Sydney, they claimed a Wollongong brewery as their favourite. Is that not the ultimate compliment?

The brewery in question was Five Barrel Brewing, which has changed much since – if not in terms of grounded ethos, quality of beer, dedication to supporting local, or those in charge, at least in terms of output and its place in the Gong's beer scene.

The brewery's location hasn't changed either: it still sits in the southern part of Keira Street, in inauspicious industrial surroundings, but has taken over far more of the building it calls home. Where once you'd walk into a small taproom to be faced by a bar straight ahead, now they've opened it up (courtesy of fresh council permission) to reveal the high ceilings, red brick walls, and fermenters that appear tall enough that one could probably have held their entire first six months' output.

There's a food truck installed permanently outside, the bar is a much grander (albeit still far from grandiose) affair, and there's fridges full of cans and merch on offer too. Peer around a corner, however, and you'll spy the original five barrel brewery still in place – now, they just have to work it harder to fill their biggest fermenters.

As the brewery, the venue, and their output has expanded, so has the team – not least with the hiring of brewer Brent Edwards from NZ brewery Good George in 2020 – yet it remains driven by founder Phil O'Shea, with his dad still on hand for shifts behind the bar, of course. No longer do Phil and Mike have to do everything here – brew beer, clean tanks, fill bottles, make deliveries, pour beer, run the bar, write emails, balance the books, and so on – but they do ensure the essence of Five Barrel remains as it always was.

While output has grown significantly since those early days and they put new beers into cans every month, distribution still isn't high on the agenda. They are content – proud, in fact – to be a local brewery, selling as much as they can within the community that in turn supports them most. Sustainability as a business, while retaining sanity and a work-life balance, remains key.

When it comes to beer, if there’s a direction to which the brewery is predisposed it is, you could reasonably argue, towards hoppy beers best drunk fresh. A pale ale and their flagship Hoppy Amber, or Navigator Red IPA as it became following a 2020 rebrand, plus subsequently added XPA and NEIPA represent this in the core range but there’s a perpetual cycle of one-offs and experiments; single hop beers, imperial stouts, quirky sours always worthy of attention. You'll also find artwork from the beers' labels lining the wall as you enter the venue, a neat means of showcasing the frequency of releases and the attention to detail with each.

From very early on Phil has been playing around with barrels in limited quantities – a chardonnay barrel-aged golden ale here, a Flanders style red ale there and a very fine imperial stout each and every year. None of these register highly on the industry hype-o-meter, but all have been splendid.

Sure, the place has changed over time, as inevitably as the city and the people around it will continue to do. But the more important thing is their roots have been firmly planted and they’re prepared for the long haul. They know that any change will be done on their own terms: slowly and incrementally, with local support and without compromising quality or integrity.

In an industry where authenticity is becoming increasingly important, the Five Barrel way feels increasingly like the right way.

Nick Oscilowski

Name
Five Barrel Brewing
Address

318 Keira Street
Wollongong
NSW 2500

Phone
(02) 4200 8881
Open Hours

Sun to Wed: midday to 6pm
Thurs to Sat: midday to 9pm


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Five Barrel Brewing Regulars

Five Barrel Night Cap Milk Stout

The black mark in the Five Barrel range is also the sweet spot, represented with distinction by the milk stout. This rich dark beer is notable for the addition of lactose which adds a degree of sweetness as well as a smooth and creamy character that serves to shave off the jagged edges of roasted bitterness you might expect from a straighter stout. From end to end it’s full of chocolate and coffee character, making it the kind of beer you could happily push in front of someone who says they don’t… Read more
Style
Milk Stout
ABV
6.0%

Five Barrel Navigator Red IPA (formerly Hoppy Amber)

There was a reason Five Barrel had no IPA in their regular range for years: they don’t need one. They had the Hoppy Amber. Of all the beers sampled when The Crafty Pint team first called into Five Barrel in the brewery’s early days and lined up some tasting paddles to sip on, this one was fully gulped down. In the intervening time it has gone on to become the brewery’s surprise hit – certainly the most popular amongst the beer cognoscenti – and flagship; you only need to try it once to… Read more
Style
Amber Ale
ABV
6.5%

Five Barrel Freefall Pale Ale

Inspired by America and built on Australian ingredients, Five Barrel’s pale ale finds a place of balance between the two influences to deliver a full serve of deliciousness. Flush with Cascade and Galaxy hops it’s indisputably fruity through a show of passionfruit and citrus characters, followed with a lick of pine. But it’s also a touch darker and a lot maltier than many New World pale ales, awash with luscious biscuit and caramel flavours that build with every mouthful and ends up leaving… Read more
Style
Pale Ale
ABV
5.3%

Five Barrel Brewing Pacific Peak XPA

I’ve drank beer up a water tower. I’ve drank beer in a bell tower. But I’ve never drank a beer in a lighthouse. When I spent a week in Wollongong, I took daily walks up to Flagstaff Point Lighthouse and down to the Breakwater Lighthouse… but I never got the chance to climb one and crack a tinnie. Since Breakwater Lighthouse features on the Pacific Peak XPA can, I like to think someone at some point has taken this beer and made my dream a reality. Looking over the fishing boats with the citrus… Read more
Style
XPA
ABV
4.5%

Five Barrel Brewing Lunchbox Lager

Wollongong is known for its sunny skies and sandy beaches, but somehow this beer gives vibes of a crisp and cold mountain stream birthed from melting snow. Ultra pale and clear as a well-made cider, Lunchbox Lager is clean, clean, clean. There’s a hint of grain on the nose alongside some citrusy notes from the Eclipse hops, but don’t come here for the flavour; drinking this beer is more akin to inhaling a huge lungful of fresh air. The head dissipates quickly, but interestingly the entire beer… Read more
Style
Lager
ABV
4.0%

Five Barrel Brewing Little Nipper Hazy IPA

Beer lovers have debated over the years how to pronounce the acronym "NEIPA", but Five Barrel have found a way to play off the word without turning mate against mate by calling theirs Little Nipper Hazy IPA. Calling it hazy is an understatement – it’s almost murky enough that the crab on the label could hide in your beer and you wouldn’t know it til it nipped your lip.† Between the blend of hops and the English yeast strain, aromas of tropical fruits and mango chutney fill the nose,… Read more
Style
NEIPA
ABV
5.8%

Five Barrel Brewing Specials

Five Barrel Spud Australian Sparkling Ale

Published May 5, 2023
Po-tay-toes! Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a beer! When Five Barrel were invited to pour their beers at the Robertson Potato Festival, they decided to go one step further and brew a potato beer. Because why wouldn’t you? The brewers boiled and mashed Sebago potatoes from Robertson’s Hill Family Farms, then added them into - you guessed it - the mash. While they knew the enzymes in the barley malt would help break the potato starches into fermentable sugars, they didn’t realise that… Read more
Style
Potato Beer
ABV
5.0%
Bitterness
30 IBU

Five Barrel Sticky Beak Australian Pilsner & Possum Paradise, Wild Russell & Checkmate IPAs

Published April 4, 2023
With the allure of a bin chicken on the label, it’s easy to be drawn to a can of Sticky Beak. This Australian pilsner brings that combination of refreshment and flavour that new world lagers do so well. Sticky Beak is a pretty thing, sparkling like a sprinkler oscillating on the lawn. But don’t expect a standard Aussie macro-style lager here; this is more like "New Zealand pilsner, but make it Australian.” With a dry-hopping of Aussie varieties Eclipse, Enigma, Ella and Galaxy, this beer… Read more
Style
Aussie Pilsner, White IPA, NZ IPA & American IPA
ABV
5.0% & 6.0% & 6.2% & 7.0%
Bitterness
39 & 11 & 58 & 70 IBU

Five Barrel Frostbite Cold IPA & Fowler’s Jam Raspberry Sour

Published January 11, 2023
If you prefer beers that aren’t too sweet but still give you a whiff of the sweet stuff, Five Barrel have a couple of brews just for you. In Frostbite Cold IPA, the aromas up front are sweet as anything – clean citrus interwoven with tutti frutti bubble gum – which had me expecting the taste to follow suit. But I found this beer to do a complete backflip in the mouth, bringing dry, earthy, bitter, resinous notes. These all his the back of the palate with the force of an old school West Coast… Read more
Style
Cold IPA & Raspberry Sour
ABV
6.8% & 4.4%

Five Barrel Flipside, Big Nipper & Norvell Belgian Christmas Ale

Published December 2, 2022
A koala*, a crab and a reindeer walk into a brewery… Flipside is a rush of fruit to the head. This hazy IPA is a showcase of Galaxy and Aussie Eclipse hops. It starts with aromas of peach and that fresh-but-sticky smell of rockmelon, and moves to lush citrus and tropical fruit flavours that come across dry in the mouth. But the beautiful full body is what really got my attention. You know those float tanks designed to be exactly the right softness so the sensation is gentle on your skin? It’s… Read more
Style
Hazy IPAs & Christmas Ale
ABV
6.5% & 8.0% & 7.3%
Bitterness
40 & 40 & 35 IBU

Five Barrel Peacock English IPA & Red Admiral Nazy NZ IPA

Published November 2, 2022
And, with that, Five Barrel fill out their butterfly series of IPAs with the third and fourth (and final) entry. The third is Peacock English IPA, named for the peacock butterflies that find their way into English and Welsh gardens in spring. It’s not hard to see how this butterfly got its name: check out the colourful eyespots on the tips of the wings. But the undersides of the peacock butterfly’s wings are dark brown in contrast, and it’s this colour that captures the essence of this beer. The… Read more
Style
English IPA & Hazy NZ IPA
ABV
Both 6.0%
Bitterness
55 & 30 IBU

Five Barrel Blue Triangle, Local Call & Servants Of The People 2022

Published September 2, 2022
We've reached the second release in Five Barrels’ butterfly series, and I’m surprised it took them even this long to name a butterfly I’ve never heard of. (I am not well-versed in butterfly varieties… I mean styles… I mean species.) The Blue Triangle butterfly apparently likes to live in tropical rainforests in the east of Australia, so this oat cream IPA is thick with Aussie hops bringing tropical notes. The hops (Ella, Eclipse and Galaxy) are buttressed on one side by lactose, and on… Read more
Style
Various Styles As Indicated
ABV
7.0% & 6.0% & 10.0% & 10.0%
Bitterness
25 & 55 & 60 & 60 IBU

Five Barrel Monarch IPA, Little Duck Coffee IPA, Apple Cider & Mango Seltzer

Published August 6, 2022
What a quaint quartet of tinnies we have here! Two contain beer but no fruit, and two contain fruit but no beer. There’s no way this gentle beer is starting a typhoon halfway around the world. Monarch American Session IPA glows with golden haze like morning mist. When it lands on the tongue it’s with a delicate flutter of orange and mango, alongside a soft taste of grain that slowly opens up into a honeyed character as you drink. Monarch is the first in Five Barrel's butterfly series, and the… Read more
Style
Various Styles As Indicated
ABV
4.0% & 6.2% & 4.0% & 4.0%
Bitterness
40 & 60 & 0 & 0 IBU

Five Barrel Bière De Maison & Side Salad

Published May 30, 2022
Congratulations to Five Barrel on this beer – it’s good stuff before it even gets to your mouth. The brewery made Bière De Maison for GABS, but the environment of a beer festival – surrounded by other beers, with just a name or single sentence to describe the beer – doesn’t do it justice. For this, Five Barrel’s first farmhouse ale or beer featuring using wild yeast, the team worked with local producers to build Bière De Maison from the ground up. The organic grains – pilsner malt,… Read more
Style
Australian Farmhouse Ale & DDH Oat Cream IPA
ABV
6.0% & 7.5%
Bitterness
19 & 25 IBU

Five Barrel Pulp Wave, General Hazy IPA & Extension DIPA

Published May 4, 2022
Yikes. Pulp Wave is so easy to drink, I’m tempted to describe it as halfway between a fruited sour and a seltzer. Big passionfruit tartness up front, then a cruuuuuisy centre, with some residual notes of guava (minus the sweetness) sticking around at the end when all else has vanished into the ether. I know there are heaps of fruited sours that go down easy, but Pulp Wave sinks like a submarine with fly screens. When it comes to General Hazy IPA and Extension Double IPA, I have to give a huge hats… Read more
Style
Fruit Sour, Hazy IPA & Double IPA
ABV
4.0% & 7.2% & 8.2%
Bitterness
0 & 22 & 80 IBU

Five Barrel Ruru NZ Pilsner, Gnome Project NZ IPA & Checkmate American IPA

Published March 2, 2022
How do I order this trio? I considered pairing the two IPAs together to compare and contrast them, then finishing with Ruru. I even briefly considered taking Gnome Project separately to Checkmate and Ruru, since I have no urge to kick chess pieces or owls whenever I see them, unlike garden gnomes. But in the end I settled on: ascending ABV order and keeping the two New Zealand styles together.† Ruru is a great example of what I expected from a New Zealand pilsner. The pilsner malt aroma is sweet,… Read more
Style
NZ Pilsner & IPAs
ABV
5.0% & 6.8% & 7.0%
Bitterness
39 & 70 & 70 IBU

Five Barrel Brewing Pre-Prohibition Porter & Esuna Botanical Sour

Published January 27, 2022
I always love getting the opportunity to try an historical beer style, and Five Barrel’s Hot Take is just that: a snapshot of what English porters were like in America in days past. (Apparently George Washington was a big fan of porters like this, but I don’t subscribe to these trendy influencers.) To keep things authentic, Five Barrel brewed Hot Take with maize, dark wheat and blackstrap molasses (which is more bitter than molasses). The resulting porter smells very familiar – rich roast,… Read more
Style
English Porter & Botanical Sour
ABV
6.0% & 4.0%

Five Barrel Brewing High Water & Big Picture

Published October 13, 2021
So often when we’re talking about lagers in Australia, we’re thinking mid-strength Aussie lagers designed to be as unobtrusive as possible. But there are plenty of German-inspired lagers that are more of an experience in themselves, and High Water Helles fits this latter category. Hallertau Blanc hops bring a lemonade-y tang that reaches from first sniff to last sip. Munich malt shows off with a silky body and big grain flavours, letting a little syrupy sweetness and a sliver of herbal spice… Read more
Style
Helles Lager & Hazy IPA
ABV
5.8% & 6.8%
Bitterness
21 & 22 IBU

Five Barrel Brewing Hero Of The People 2021

Published October 10, 2021
No, you didn't have a stroke – this is a Soviet medal, and the name of the brewery and the names of the beer on these cans are written in Russian. Thus it seemed to me advisable to translate this review into Russian and back using Google Translate. Five Barrel Brewing are the heroes we need to produce four – no more, no less – imperial stouts by the end of winter. They sell them as a mixed pack of four-packs containing one original imperial stout and three with other ingredients added. First… Read more
Style
Imperial Stouts
ABV
10.0%
Bitterness
60 IBU

Five Barrel Brewing London Calling

Published October 1, 2021
A 440ml can of Five Barrel’s London Calling isn’t quite a pint of bitter, but it’s close enough. Bring together the malt sweetness, the hop spice and the yeast esters, and you’ve got a complex aroma – one that made me think of banana oat cookies fresh from the oven. But the big and bold aroma quietens down in the mouth to make this a supremely drinkable drop, with a pleasant dryness and a hint of bitter cocoa creeping in once you’ve patiently allowed the beer to warm up. Drink with fish… Read more
Style
ESB
ABV
4.3%

Five Barrel Brewing Finger Trap Hazy Pale

Published September 15, 2021
Serendipitous (adjective): occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way. Example sentence: It was serendipitous that I was tasting Finger Trap Hazy Pale Ale on the same evening we were having Vietnamese vermicelli bowls for dinner, as the flavours complemented each other wonderfully. The smell of orange juice and sweet mango tied in with the aromatic chopped mint; the less sweet – but no less juicy – tropical flavours balanced out the vinegary dressing; the citrusy tang cut… Read more
Style
Hazy Pale
ABV
4.3%

Five Barrel Brewing Puddle Jumper & Always Greener

Published August 25, 2021
When brewer Brent Edwards moved from New Zealand to Wollongong in 2020 and joined the Five Barrel team, he was bound to bring some of his homeland with him. And now Puddle Jumper NZ Pilsner gives Brent the opportunity to share one of his favourite styles with us. In a previous feature, Brent told us how Emerson’s Organic Pilsner was his epiphany beer, and in Puddle Jumper he takes the fresh crispness of a pilsner and injects Riwaka, Nelson Sauvin and Motueka hops to bring a vibrant zing to the… Read more
Style
NZ Pilsner & NZ Hazy DIPA
ABV
5.0% & 8.0%

Five Barrel Brewing Ghost Creek Collection

Published August 29, 2019
Five Barrel founder Phil O’Shea comes from a homebrewing background and hasn't forgotten his roots, as made abundantly apparent by this quartet of releases. Created in partnership with Marcus, a Wollongong homebrewer and friend of Five Barrel, it features the homebrewer’s sour culture in combination with an English ale yeast. The sat in a 500-litre barrel for about a year and, upon leaving the barrel, was split four ways; there’s a straight version, one that was dry-hopped, another that made… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Sour Ales
ABV
6.0%
Stockists

Launching at the brewery on August 30, 2019

Five Barrel Brewing Barrel-Aged Imperial Stouts 2019

Published August 13, 2019
Over the past few years, when the weather gets colder it’s time for Five Barrel to roll out the big, dark imperial stout Phil O’Shea has been hiding away in barrels for months. Each year the beer is made in the old school high gravity style, with two mashes going into making the one brew. In 2017 and 2018 it was stored in shiraz wine barrels and came out measuring 9.6 percent ABV. For 2019, Phil opted for something a little different: the shiraz barrel version is back, albeit bigger at 10.5… Read more
Style
Barrel-Aged Imperial Stouts
ABV
10.5%

Five Barrel Brewing Spiced Ginger Sour

Published May 30, 2019
A food processor was the quiet hero behind this beer. Brewer Phil O’Shea put 20kg into the 350 litre batch - all of which had to be chopped up by the food processor first. But, says Phil, he’s had to tackle more difficult ingredients before. “The ginger wasn’t too bad,” he says. “It was easier than some of the other things we’ve done. Shucking oysters was worse and zesting lemons was worse again." Cardamom and tea leaves (for some earthiness) were also chucked into the beer, which… Read more
Style
Spiced Ginger Sour
ABV
4.5%

Five Barrel Brewing Pastry Stout

Published May 30, 2019
The pastry stout is a style more popular in the United States than Australia, where it started out as a bit of a derogatory term for sweeter dark beers. For Five Barrel, where they have a fondness for stouts, having a crack at a pastry stout was only a matter of time. They just needed to wait for the cooler weather to arrive. For this beer, Phil O'Shea uses the base of the milk stout from his core range, adding more lactose, more malt and throwing in some vanilla to come up with some “super chocolaty,… Read more
Style
Pastry Stout
ABV
7.5%

Five Barrel Brewing Raspberry Pastry Stout

Published May 30, 2019
Phil O’Shea brewed a big (for his Wollongong operation) 700 litre batch of his supercharged milk stout then left half as is for his straight Pastry Stout. With the other half, he went and threw in a load of raspberry purée. “Raspberry and chocolate always work well together,” he says. “We really like the raspberry sour that we do so it was a no-brainer to jump to this to start with.” The key phrase there is “to start with”; Phil has plans for a few other pastry stout flavours before… Read more
Style
Raspberry Pastry Stout
ABV
7.5%

Five Barrel Brewing Black IPA

Published May 30, 2019
There are typically three sorts of black IPA. One sees the roasty, coffee flavours of the “black” side of the equation take centre stage. Another sees the reverse, where the hops are king. Then there’s the third version, where the beer combines the best bits of both sides of the fence. That’s where the Five Barrel black IPA sits; the citrus notes and flavours meld in with the coffee notes, with neither overpowering things here. That’s just the way Phil O’Shea wants it. “I always really… Read more
Style
Black IPA
ABV
6.0%

Five Barrel Brewing New England IPA

Published April 14, 2019
This is either the third or fourth iteration of the New England IPA from Five Barrel Brewing - brewer Phil O’Shea has kind of lost count. This time around it features El Dorado and Galaxy hops. And plenty them; Phil decided that two bouts of dry-hopping weren’t enough so he held the release date back a few days to get an extra load into the tank. Holding the release back a few days is no small thing. The New England IPA is a big performer for Five Barrels. The last three (or four) times it was… Read more
Style
New England IPA
ABV
5.3%

Five Barrel Brewing Brut Rosé IPA

Published March 31, 2019
Sometimes inspiration can strike from the most unusual places. For a while, Five Barrel founder Phil O'Shea had been trying to get a change approves at the brewery bar to allow him to serve proper glasses of beer rather than “tasters”, and start selling wine as well. He finally got his wish not long before the brewery’s third birthday. One of the wines he chose to stock was a rosé from a Canberra area winery, which he thought was exceptional and inspired him to make a beer version as a birthday… Read more
Style
Brut IPA with Hibuscus
ABV
6.0%

Five Barrel Brewing Barrel Aged Sours 2018

Published August 31, 2018
It’s difficult to say this without sounding ungracious, so let’s just get it said: these are not the kinds of beers you expect to be coming out of Wollongong. They scream a sense of place, just not this one. A barn in a field in Flanders, perhaps? Definitely somewhere foreign. Somewhere more exotic. That's one of the quirks, though, of the modern beer world. Ideas travel fast and boundaries constraining styles have been obliterated. What was pale is now black. What was clear is now hazy. A farmhouse… Read more
Style
Barrel Aged Sour Ales
ABV
5.0% to 6.0%

Five Barrel Brewing Sour Ale Variety Pack

Published August 20, 2018
There are four-in-one additional reasons to poke your head into the Five Barrel tap room as the Wollongong brewery has ventured for the first time into the world of exploratory variety packs. And, as far as experiments go, it’s an interesting one as they’ve essentially taken one sour style ale and presenting it four different ways: unbastardised, hopped, berried and fruited. The logical starting point on the tasting trip is the unadulterated Berliner Weisse, which dishes up lots of lemon character… Read more
Style
Sour Ale Series
ABV
3.5% to 4.5%

Five Barrel Brewing Milkshake IPA

Published June 29, 2018
Five Barrel has toyed with New England style IPAs occasionally over the last year or so, but they’ve never muddied the metaphorical waters quite like this. Milkshake IPA is hazy and hoppy but also creamy and smooth – a NEIPA made with lactose. The aroma here is pungent with pineapple, mango and other punchy fruits of the tropical variety, which combine in a manner reminiscent of some forgotten fruity soft drink from your childhood. On the palate it’s just as full on the fruit front, lots of… Read more
Style
Lactose IPA
ABV
6.0%

Five Barrel Brewing Imperial Stout 2018

Published June 29, 2018
Winter. Some shiver and swear at the mere mention of the word. Others take a more holistic view of the year’s natural divisions and just get on with making the most of whatever weather gets served up. As if you don’t enjoy hunkering down beneath a blanket, rain on the roof, eyes on a film, one hand resting on your lover’s thigh and the other cupping a goblet of some rich, dark beer. Magic. Those that choose to embrace snuggle season in Wollongong will be pleased to know that Five Barrel has… Read more
Style
Imperial Stout
ABV
9.6%

Five Barrel Golden Ale – RETIRED

In the relatively restrained craft beer market of Wollongong, if you want to encourage the bulk of locals to ditch the mainstream brands and give your local drop a go, you want to help them make that first step. You want to give them something they can relate to and the golden ale is that beer. It’s an inherently simple but well balanced drop, made with just pale malt and Galaxy hops to render it lightly fruity with a gentle bitterness. While it’s approachable enough to appeal to the everyman,… Read more
Style
Golden Ale
ABV
4.5%