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FROTH FRIENDS A new brewery - complete with garden - is drawing in beer fans to Hay Street. Gail Williams meets the team behind the Golden West Brewing Company.
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SUBIACO: EAT SHOP LIVE
TEACHERS AT CHRISTCHURCH Grammar are wondering just what was in the water at their prestigious boys’ school in 2002. The reason? A healthy smattering of the graduates from that year are using their expensive educations to turn H2O into ... not wine, but beer. Subiaco residents are the winners. They’re slaking their summertime thirsts with paddles of Fresh India Pale Ale, Smooth Bourbon Vanilla Porter and Classic Golden Ale at Golden West Brewing Company, the suburb’s first brewery, which opened on the old Ricarda site on Hay Street in December. Five of the founders of the company which rejuvenated a 120-year-old Western Australian soft drink brand name to become Golden West Brewing Co. are former Christchurch boys – Daniel Gammell, Daniel Burt, Jai Tulsi, Thomas Luke and Stuart Nicholls. Having graduated in 2002 they forged careers in oil and gas, engineering, finance and psychology, but kept in touch through their common interest in home brewing. After a particularly enthusiastic tasting one of them mused: “I wonder how this beer would go in the actual marketplace.” Not long after they joined forces with Cristobal and Rafael Moreno and were brewing beer in Leederville, not
