Fermentation with imagination

Imagination isn't necessarily something that you find on the list of many brewers' ingredients but it is something we love to dabble with a lot....

Imagination helps us to expand our minds and think beyond the norm and create products that are proud to be different, different in the expression of tradition and different in the world of conformity.

Brewing with open fermenters isn't exactly normal practise now days either but both are key tools in our creative process.

Our beers are born out of fermenting with creativity, delivering unique and complex characters and aromas from a process that was created centuries ago from brewer's imagination.....

White Ale

The White Ale product story starts in medieval times with brewers’ experimentation with wheat & spice as the predominant ingredients of flavour. The Belgian monks played with coriander, orange peel and other oddball additions, and suspended the yeast to create a cloudy white appearance...hence the description.

With our “monkish” use of a specially selected belgian yeast strain and voracious appetite to create intriguing and delicious styles, we couldn't resist the idea of tackling the invention of a great Australian White.

White Rabbit White Ale delivers refreshing hints of coriander, juniper berry and bitter orange, with fresh fruity aromas and only a gentle amount of bitterness. A small touch of additional yeast at bottling naturally conditions the ale, with a final abv of 4.5%.

Imagine Belgians snuggling out of the cold in wonderful little ale houses dreaming of places like Australia to drink such a beer.

Dark Ale

An intriguing dark ale that moves to it's own beat, our minds set about creating a beer that contradicted itself....rich dark and flavoursome but at the same time ever refreshing....malt driven but with the aromatic lift of generous doses of hops.

Raisin like ester characters derived through its open fermentation bind a balancing act of flavour with a malt bill that rewards the parched palette with a rich, dark colour without losing any sessionabilty qualities, which we love so much in a beer.

Passed through a hop back generously laden with whole hop flowers and then dry hoped in the open fermenters, at 4.9% abv this is a dark ale with plenty of reassuring bitterness.....