North-western brewing maestros, Matso's, produce some of Australia's premier craft beers. Their Mango Beer is based on a classic Belgium Blonde recipe with a fruit flavoured slant. Using a 100% natural mango blend the brewers have developed an easy drinking beer style with excellent fruit aroma and balancing sweet dryness.
The unique Stella Artois yeast strain (the very same yeast strain first used by the Artois brewmasters) adds a light to moderate fruity, cooked pineapple aroma and creates a clean, crisp medium bodied flavour with hints of cooked vegetable. The Saaz hop also produces a unique bitterness which is well balanced with the malted barley, giving Stella Artois a subtle but pleasant grainy, sweet finish.
A dark brew full of promise. Coopers Dark Ale is a journey in taste, starting fresh and creamy, and finishing with a lingering coffee flavour. Brewed with traditional top fermentation and then naturally conditioned, Coopers 'Dark' is made using roasted and chocolate malts, giving it a rich dark colour and unique flavour.
Mild Ale is brewed with a selection of barley and wheat malt, and with no added sugar. This traditional brewing approach provides the smooth malt character which is balanced by a triple hopping with Pride of Ringwood and Saaz hops. The brew is fermented similarly to its stablemates Pale and Sparkling Ale, with the customary secondary fermentation in the bottle.
This exceptionally rich and mellow Dark Bourbon from Hogs takes its unusually distinctive complexity from the finest Rye that is used together with a final maturation in charred oak barrels.
Peroni Nastro Azzuro is brewed to the authentic Italian recipe originating in Lombardia, Italy in the 19th century. Brewed under licence to produce a fresh and crisp taste, Peroni Nastro Azzurro can now be found in all good cafés and bars and is the perfect lager to quench a serious thirst.
Blonde and refreshing but with flavour and complexity, the Belgian Ale defines the strong Golden Ale. Made with Pilsner malts, Bohemian hops and a unique yeast strain, creating an intense, aromatic and beguiling Ale. Blonde and refreshing but with flavour and complexity, the Belgian Ale defines the strong Golden Ale.
Tooheys Old is a robustly flavoured Ale made with top fermentation Ale yeast. The beer is lightly hopped, and gets its darker colour from black malt. Fruity Ale-like esters blend well with subtle hoppiness, hints of coffee and chocolate to deliver a unique beer.
Tooheys Extra Dry is Australia's fifth highest selling beer (Nielsen April 2010) and is well known for its clean, crisp taste. Its dry finish is achieved by an extended fermentation, ensuring minimal residual fermentable sugars. Wonderful fruity, malty notes accompany a mellow middle palate, leaving a clean aftertaste.
Velvet smooth, Rogers weaves together the best whole hop flowers and toasted malts into a silky session Ale like no other. Light, citrus hop notes roll gently into roasted hazelnut, toffee and caramel malt flavours; Little Creature had created this easy-drinking Ale of flavour and finesse.