150 Great Australian Beers: Your guide to craft beer and beyond
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: B00MHV32D2
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Do you know your porters from your pales and your stouts from your saisons? Are you a home-brewing legend or a draught devotee? Or do you think dubbels and tripels are just spelling mistakes? Regardless of how much you know about beer or what you like to drink, 150 Great Australian Beers is sure to have something to please your palate.
Join beer expert James Smith in his quest to discover 150 of Australia’s greatest beers, whether they are incredibly ‘sessionable’, perfect examples of their style, off-the-wall with flavour or quirky and experimental.
Complete with the fascinating history of beer in Australia, a breakdown of the brewing process, style spotlights and guides on how to store, serve, enjoy and match beer, 150 Great Australian Beers is perfect for anyone who has ever enjoyed a pint.
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‘lip-smacking’ and ‘mouth-puckering’ when creating sours, the Hedgerow does it with elegance. This highly effervescent amber ale with a pinkish hue has some spritzy malt sweetness up front before a soft, lactic sourness comes in. The fruity, plummy character from the pinot noir that once inhabited the barrels is prominent too, making for a wonderful beer. THE STORY Van Dieman founder Will Tatchell learned his brewing trade creating real ales in the UK before returning to his family farm in
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based on traditional European ales and lagers, although it is garnering quite a reputation in its home state for a Honey Porter brewed with distinctive leatherwood honey. BULLANT BREWERY 46 MAIN STREET, BRUTHEN, VIC For many years, it was possible to do a loop from Melbourne back to Melbourne that would take in the High Country without you ever needing to be too far from a brewery cellar door. Well, almost. Once you moved on from the tiny Sweetwater Brewery in Mount Beauty there was a hefty