These new craft brews from some of Australia’s top breweries were released earlier this month and are now available to trade to order.
Barrel Breed Plum Sour Ale
RRP: $25 (750ml bottle)
Distributor: Asahi Premium Beverages
Mountain Goat Beer has created another brew under its Barrel Breed program and with a little help from Lark Distillery in Tasmania this time around. The first beer in the program won Champion Beer of Show at the 2015 Australian International Beer Awards. This new beer is a plum sour ale, made with Tasmanian plums and aged for a year in Lark Distillery barrels. It has a purple haze and an aroma of plum and oak. The flavour is refreshingly tart with some residual sweetness from the plums. There are extremely limited numbers of this beer available – only 250 bottles.
Rosie’s Summer Punch
RRP: $21 (six-pack)
Distributor: Nomad Brewing Company
The popular crew at Nomad Brewing has added native Rosella hibiscus flowers to a sour berliner weisse to create a new Summer Punch. The hibiscus flowers give the beer a pinkish colour and citrus aroma. It’s refreshing, and has an interesting tangy flavour and finishes quite dry.
Fury & Son Grapefruit Session Ale
RRP: $21 (six-pack)
Distributor: Fury & Son Brewing Company
This new Melbourne boutique craft brewery has taken its version of a lightly hopped session ale and added freshly squeeze grapefruit juice from Mildura, Victoria. The Grapefruit Session Ale is the perfect thirst-quencher and demonstrates the delicate balance between sweet and tart flavours. There are only 27 kegs and 100 cases available.
Mosaic’s Beard XPA
RRP: $15
Distributor: Northbridge Brewing Company
Punters can now take-away Beerland Brewing’s new XPA from its Northbridge brewery bar in Perth. The Canimals range showcases the brewery’s beers in cans and already features a pale ale, kolsch, wheat beer, lager and IPA. Mosaic’s Beard XPA is an American strong pale ale and bridges between the flavour profiles of the existing pale ale and IPA. It’s fuller flavoured with heavy hops and has bright stone fruit and citrus aromas, plus sweet resinous pine flavours. At this stage, the beer is only available over the bar.
