We'll be there from Sunday 20th July until Monday 4th August. Visiting Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
Hopefully, we'll get to meet some people and drink some beer. Any tips on good places to drink will be much appreciated.
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Brouwerijen in Amerongen
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Tot ver in de 18e eeuw had bijna ieder dorp wel een brouwerij. De
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I was there last year, the cost of a decent beer is pretty steep now.
I once read that supposedly there is a single pub somewhere in Australia that gets Foster’s Lager in a wooden cask. I doubt it exists, but you could try to look for it.
Fosters is almost dead in Australia and a limited amount is brewed as a "legacy" beer by Carlton United just to keep the trademark. Hard to find.
The cask you refer to is Castlemaine Perkins XXXX from the Milton brewery in Brisbane (Lion breweries). They run off some beer from the line before it gets pasteurised on the way to the metal kegs and it goes into wooden barrels that are pitch lined, much like the old USA, German and Czech method.
The beer is lightly carbed and served on gravity at the Breakfast Creek Hotel just down river from Brisbane's CBD from a chilled barrel on the bar.They have a unique "lift" that brings the casks up from the cold cellar.
It's not "real ale" but is refreshingly smooth and tasty compared to the keg version. They sell up to 20 casks a week and still maintain a cooperage program which trains coopers who are sought after in the wine and distillery industry in Australia.
Breakfast Creek Hotel in Brisbane.
https://drinksdigest.com/2020/10/02/xxxx-wooden-kegs-return-breakfast-creek-hotel/
It's a few years since I've been in Perth and Western Australia but the Swan Valley has some excellent breweries - Feral, Mash, Duckstein to name a few. I'm rather partial to Feral's Hop Hog (been there, got the T shirt). A trip to The Sail & Anchor in Fremantle is a must to sample what the region has to offer.
In Adelaide The Earl of Aberdeen has all of the Cooper range on tap and last time I was there there were 2 barrel aged brews too.
I've twice been to the beer festival in Geelong. There are dozens of small breweries in Victoria. Difficult to suggest one in particular but if you go the Little Creatures complex in Geelong the White Rabbit brewery do some interesting brews.
Agree White Rabbit is excellent - I've got the t-shirt!
I live on the mid coast of NSW now but get up to Brisbane a couple of times a year. If you are staying fairly central a good spot is Felon's Brewing down by the river. There's a cliff face lift to get you down and back up into Fortitude Valley which is home to Soapbox brewing and a short "city glider" bus ride to Green Beacon brewing. You'll need go-cards (tap on, tap off) to use public transport, quite cheap, go anywhere for 50 cents. Buy at airport or heaps of places in the city.
With limited time I'd avoid the actual CBD and concentrate on the Valley which is sort of the Chinatowny area with cheap eats. There's also a Brewdog bar opposite the train station which isn't too bad, with a limited range of their local Aus brews. Be sure to try Toohey's Old if you can find it in Bris, what Mild Ale would have been in the UK without the historical gravity reductions.
https://felonsbrewingco.com.au/pages/felons-brewing-co
https://www.soapbox.beer/
https://www.greenbeacon.com.au/
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