Beer O'Clock Australia

Episode 4

 Show Notes

 

News Items (0:30)

• Boatrocker's New Can Releases
• Molly Rose's new home in Collingwood
• Fermentum's new venture: Forest For The Trees
• Flagged shortfall in Malt
• Great Barrier Beer 2.0
• Stomping Ground Movember Donation
• Garage Project - New Hop Development

Scouting Report (8:36)

• Brendale Brewing Co.
  • 2/62 Kremzow Rd, Brendale, QLD, 4500

What We're Brewing (11:37)

• • ESB 
  • Maris Otter, Two-Row, Dark Crystal, Light Crystal, Belgian Biscuit Malt
  • 5.3-5.5%
  • EKG, Fuggles
  • Batch split 4 ways; Staight, Barossa Shiraz Oak Chips, Johnnie Walker Double Black Oak Chips, Raspberry & Cherry (replacing the Tea discussed) 

Matilda Bay Redback Original - A Tribute (14:58)

• Firstly a huge thanks to listener Tim who sent these in for us.
  • Redback is a Kristallweizen that is over 30 years old!
  • This beer should be more widely available & respected.
  • AIBA Grand Champion Beer in 1993.
• This merged into quite an interesting wider discussion on Matilda Bay and its history/downfall

What We're Drinking (28:34)

• May Day Hills Tasting
  • Beer Deluxe Event - $30
  • 7 Beers with matching canapes
    • Apple, Yuzu, Sour Amber, Grape, Breakfast, Elderflower, Jam
• James Squire The Wreck Preservation
  • 200 year old yeast reportedly cultured from a ship wreck
• Carwyn NYC Cold Freight Showcase
  • Cold Freighted NEIPA Tasting
  • Finback, Interboro, Sand City, LIC Beer Project, Equilibrium
    • Equilibrium Straight Out of the Laboratory
• Chur/Behemoth Hop Diggity Dog
  • Best New World NEIPA that I've ever had!
  • 100% Citra Hops
• Pike's Choc Hazelnut Porter

Desert Island 6-pack (45:34)

• Australian Brewed IPA's.
  • Straight IPA
    • No Red, Black, White, Brown IPA's etc. 
  • 4.0-7.5% ABV
  • No Fruit
• There were NO cross overs this month!
• Dylan's individuals;
  • • Modus Operandi Sonic Prayer, Mornington Peninsula IPA, Pirate Life IPA, Mountain Goat The Zymurgist, Bruny Island Cloudy Bay IPA, Kaiju Robohop    
• Noz's individuals;
  • • Fixation IPA, Hawkers West Coast IPA, Feral War Hog, Pirate Life Mosaic IPA, Moon Dog Sun Cat, BrewBoys Hoppapotamus  
• Honourable Mentions
  • • Noisy Minor ANZUS, Feral Hop Hog, Green Beacon Scrimshaw, Hop Nation The Chop, Big Shed Fresh Hop Californicator, Fixation Obsession, Brewcult Thanks Captain Obvious

Noz's Cellar (1:08:23)

• Rulles La Grande 10 (2013)
  • Their 10th Anniversary beer, which has been rebrewed multiple times
  • Belgian Strong Golden Ale - 10%
  • Bought in Belgium and lovingly cellared since 2015. 

So there we have it guys, we may have gone a little over time but (I think at least) it was was areally good episode. As usual flick any questions, comments, suggestions etc. through to gus.norris7@gmail.com and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. In the meantime there will be a few new posts up on the blog in the coming days so stay tuned!

 

Remember it's always Beer O'Clock somewhere in the world!

Episode 3

Show Notes

News Items

• New Zealand Brewers Guild Awards - A Downturn in Results
• The Downfall of Australian Wheat Beer - An Equipment Issue?
• The Black Hops "Incident"
• Willie Smith wins Awards
• Rocks Brewery has bought & re-branded

Scouting Report

• The Incubator - Fixation's Collingwood Taproom
  • 414 Smith St, Collingwood, VIC, 3066

What We're Drinking

• Cantillon Zwanze Day
  • Carwyn Cellars
  • Manneken Pisse + (6 Cantillon regulars) 
  • 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvée Armand & Gaston
• Noz's Vietnam Trip
  • South East Asian Macro Lager
  • More Craft Beers than expected

Feral Hop Hog - A Tribute

• 10 Years of Hop Hog
  • A really important beer in the history of Australian beer.
  • "An Australian Sculpin" - Dylan Toune

Desert Island 6-pack

• Saison - The rider this month was that almost anything funky counts - we only ruled out the La Sirene Farmhouse Red.
• The cross overs this month were:
  •  Saison Du Pont
  •  Hill Farmstead Arthur (despite Noz saying Anna - he meant Arthur!)
  •  Exit Saison
• Dylan's X individuals;
  • • La Sirene Saison, To Øl Sur Germs Are Coming Eating Our Pomegranate And Redcurrant!, Brasserie de Blaugies/Hill Farmstead Le Vermontoise, 
• Noz's X individuals;
  • • La Sirene Super Saison, To Øl Roses Are Brett, Almanac Saison de Brettaville
• Honourable Mentions
  • Boatrocker Gaston, Bridge Road Chevalier, Moon Dog Saison Du Punt, Almanac Mandarina, Goose Island Sofie, Brew by Numbers 18|05, Crooked Stave Colorado Wild Sage, Hawkers Saison, Boatrocker Saison, Stomping Ground BA Saison, Brasserie Thiriez La Petite Princess, Trois Dames La Joyeuse

Noz's Cellar

• Stone Old Guardian (2012)

There we have it guys, hope you enjoy Episode 3 of the Beer O'Clock Australia podcast. As usual send any questions, feedback or comments to gus.norris7@gmail.com. We took on board the couple of emails we received last time around and thank you guys for taking the time to give us some feedback. Please let us know if you think we've improved in this episode. The next episode will hopefully be up in mid-November. With any luck I'll have a few more posts up before then! In the meantime...

Remember it's always Beer O'Clock somewhere in the world!

Episode 2

Show Notes

News Items

• Barrow Boys Closure
• Grand Ridge relaunching West City
• Stone & Wood's new brewpub in Brisbane
• The Pacific Ale trademark dispute is over!
• Matso's purchased by Gage Roads
• Mornington purchased by Tribe
• Boozebud purchased by AB-Inbev
• Sydney Royal Beer & Cider Show Awards
• Holgate's New Brewery & Visitors Centre. 
• Brewers Association of the United States Report
• Garage Project's Monthly Cellar-Door Only IPA

What We've Been Drinking

• Our Tallboy & Moose Collaboration Berried Alive
• New English & U.S.A imports 
  • Toppling Goliath 
  • Against the Grain 
  • North Brewing 
  • Northern Monk
• Dylan's Malaysia Trip
  • Guinness Bright
• Little Creatures The Fuggle is Real
• North Brewing & Verdant Brewing Triple Fruited Gose

What Are We Brewing?

• New Batch of The Reiffel
  • Our American Blonde Ale
  • American Ale Malt & Wheat
  • Mosaic, Mandarina Bavaria & Galaxy
  • White Labs Kolsch Yeast (WLP029)

Desert Island 6-pack

• Red Ales - The definition was hard here to define here. We stumped for anything that isn't sour. From Irish Red Ales to Imperial Red IPA's were permissible.
• This month we only had one cross over
  •  Mismatch Evil Archie
• Dylan's 5 individuals;
  • • Exit Amber Ale, Mountain Goat Fancy Pants, Barrow Boys India Amber Ale, Hargreaves Hill The Phoenix & Two Birds Sunset Ale
• Noz's 5 individuals;
  • • Modus Operandi Former Tenant, Prancing Pony India Red Ale, Noisy Minor Admiral Ackbar, Epic Hop Dozer & Nøgne Ø x Holgate Half a World Away

Noz's Cellar

• Jolly Pumpkin x La Sirene Costa Dei Villa

Remember it's always Beer O'Clock somewhere in the world!

Episode 1

The new venture I was being very vague about in my post a few days ago was Beer O'Clock Australia's first foray into a new medium; audio. Dylan & I are going to give this podcast a go for a while and see how it goes. It's going to give us the opportunity to discuss beer in a way that the blog doesn't really allow us to.

 

We're going to rotate some segments in and out, especially early on while we get into the swing of things - so if there is anything you love or hate, please let us know! The idea at the moment is that the podcast will be monthly, and we'll try and keep that pretty regular - at least more so than I've kept the blog up to date recently... Basically every month we'll discuss some of the latest news from the beer world, we'll talk about some beers that we've been enjoying over the last month & we'll crack something interesting from my cellar.

 

This month we also discuss the hottest new style in craft beer; the Brut IPA. We also speak about a bright green licorice flavoured Gose from Red Button Brew in Moscow & discuss which Pilsner's we would each take in a bottomless mixed 6-pack to a desert island. The show is embedded below & hopefully we'll have it up on a few more podcast sites in the near future.

 

Show Notes

 

News Items

• Royal Perth Beer Awards
• Australian Brewery & Fourpure Takeovers
• Coopers Pale Ale in Cans
• Crisp Malting's Australian Distribution deal
• Canned Beer Sales to Overtake Bottled Beer Sales 
• Bridge Road's New Hopped Cola

What We've Been Drinking

• Red Button POiMA
• Noz's Russia Trip
• Noz & Dylan - Tallboy & Moose Berried Alive Brew Day

What's in Style?

 

• Brut IPA's
  • Wolf of the Willows, Tallboy & Moose, Mr Banks

 

Desert Island 6-pack

• We both pick 6 Pilsner's - 3 of which made both our lists
  • Pilsner Urquell, Emerson's NZ Pilsner, Bridge Road Enigma, 
  • Victory Prima Pils, Panhead Port Road Pils, Balter Pilsner, Hop Nation The Damned, Weihenstephaner Pilsner, Mikkeller American Dream  

Noz's Cellar

• Mikkeller x Lindeman's SpontanBasil

So there we have it guys. Hope you liked the first episode of the Beer O'Clock podcast. We'd both love to hear any feedback you've got. We'll be tweaking a couple of things for the next episode, which we'll aim to have out in late-August/early-September. As usual send any questions or comments to gus.norris7@gmail.com.

 

Remember it's always Beer O'Clock somewhere in the world!