Queensland Beer Week 2016 Guide

Stepping into the wonderful world of beer

QUEENSLAND BEER WEEK

OFFICIAL GUIDE 3-11 December, 2016

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Welcome to Queensland Beer Week 2016 From the 3rd to the 11th of December we welcome you to join us and step into the wonderful world of craft beer.

Pubs, bars, venues, bottle shops and brewers are showcasing their favourite and finest brews this week, and there are events and special promotions around the whole of Queensland.

We have highlights of the week featured in this guide, and a comprehensive list of participating venues, bottle shops and brewers on our website.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the brewers, pubs, bars, bottle shops and businesses who have supported Queensland Beer Week, either as a partner or by celebrating with us.

We love the wonderful world of beer and we hope you have as much fun in the first week of December, as we have had organising this event!

Cheers!

Bec & Mark Founders of Queensland Beer Week

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7PM DECEMBER 3RD, 2016

QUEENSLAND BEER WEEK VIP OFFICIAL OPENING PARTY BOGGO ROAD GAOL Exclusive GHOST TOUR with BEER tastings in the gatehouse, the cell blocks, the gaol yard and the prisoner circle.

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Craft Beer in Queensland The craft beer revolution that’s been happening around the world is now well and truly underway in our Sunshine state. The past three years have seen a dramatic increase in the availability of locally produced craft beer.

Where there was just an ocean of the single choice of mass produced beers, bars, hotels, and restaurants are now offering a much wider choice, with craft beer increasingly appearing on more and more taps. Even the big companies are promoting the craft beer brands that they own such as James Squire, Kosciusko, Little Creatures, White Rabbit, and Matilda Bay. Our thirst for a more interesting and flavoursome beer that’s brewed locally has seen a rapid increase in the number of new bars that focus solely on selling craft beer. It often seems like a new craft beer bar opens in Brisbane every week. And the rest of the state is following fast, especially the Sunshine and Gold Coasts.

With its wider taste profile, more and more restaurants are also ensuring that craft beer is available on their bottle menus to compliment the food. Beer degustation events are now a common event alongside beer matching sessions.

Even the local bottlo’s now have fridges full of craft beer, with whole sections being devoted in the larger outlets.

To meet this increase in demand for craft beer, the number of breweries in Queensland has also seen a huge change. In the past three years over 30 new breweries have opened taking the total number of craft breweries in the state to over 50. Most of which you can visit and try a beer where it is brewed. And more often than not, talk to the brewer to learn more about the beer.

Using only the four ingredients: water, malt, hops and yeast, brewers can create a vast range of tastes from fresh passion fruit and banana to dark chocolate and coffee.

No longer the preserve of hipsters, craft beer is mainstream and it’s now normal to seek out and ask the bar staff for help on finding a craft beer that suits your taste, and matches the food you order. After all, there are more styles of beer than there are wines with a wider variety of tastes. written by John Elliott John is Chief Reviewer at Craft Beer Reviewer. - An online resource spreading the news about Australian Craft Beer and keeping a track on all the new breweries through The Brewery List.

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Stepping into the wonderful world of beer!

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Guide to Styles

by Laurie Strachan

from Beer Lovers Guide to Tasting Beer

Once upon a time, you went into a pub and asked for a beer. Nowadays you ask for the beer menu. Times have changed, and very much for the better, if you’re interested in beer as more than just a cold, fizzy drink that will quench your thirst on a hot day.

The world of beer in all its glory has arrived, bringing with it a myriad of choices. It can be confusing if you don’t know what these names mean but don’t worry, you’re about to learn a few of the basic terms Beer styles usually usual arose because they were the best way to brew with the techniques and ingredients available at that particular time and place. Or driven by some other innovation, like the sudden spread of glasses replacing stone jars. Now drinkers could see all the yeast haze and odd bits of unfltered stuff in the beer so they gravitated to beer that was clearer and eventually to beer that is filtered so finely that it sparkles, bow called ‘bright beer’.New ingredients meant new beers – the classic being the invention in the city of Plzen (Pilsen to German-speakers), in what is now the Czech Republic, of a technique of o roasting malt lightly so it barely turned pale beige. Now the local brewers could turn out a beer that was gold in colour and looked really good in a glass. The result was the Pilsner, a beer that swept the world inspiring countless imitations and variations.

This was one of the two innovations that changed beer. The other was cold fermentation in which the yeast worked slowly then dropped to the bottom of the fermenter, which is why it is still often called bottom fermentation. The cities of Bavaria were often set on fortifed hills riddled with caves, and the beer was left in those caves for as long as several months to ferment fe and clarify. The German word for resting is lagern so beers brewed in this way became known as lagers. Until this point beer was fermented at higher temperatures and drunk after a week or so. This old style is now usually referred to as ale and this is the key point of difference between ales and lagers.

Contrary to popular belief, lagers don’t have to be pale gold in colour and ales don’t have to be dark. Nor are dark beers necessarily stronger than pale ones. Dark, almost black, lagers are also still brewed traditionally in Bavaria and in revivalist breweries throughout the world. Wheat beers can be considered a branch of the ale family but are so unusual that they almost deserve a category of their own. Stouts are firmly in the ale camp though some are brewed by bottom fermentation.

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What’s happening - highlights Official opening event at Boggo Rd Gaol - December 3rd @ 7pm To kick the week off we will be launching Queensland Beer Week with an exclusive event at the infamous Boggo Road Gaol. Each guest receives a ghost tour, where you will experience full size beer tastings in different areas around the gaol, including the Gatehouse, Cell Blocks, the Jail Yard and the Prisoner Circle. Various craft beers and canapés will be on offer. Tickets on sale through the Queensland Beer Week Website.

Cellarbrations and Bottle-O stores statewide Queensland Beer Week is thrilled to have the support of Cellarbrations and Bottle-O stores throughout the entire state of Queensland. They will be stepping into the wonderful world of craft beer with great promotions throughout the week. Be sure to take in your coupon from this guide for some crafty savings.

Brewers Choice “Duncan Goes Ballistic” - December 3rd @10am A unique hands-on brewing event where every participant leaves with their own craft beer that they’ve made from scratch. This event is a collaboration between the Brewers Choice Home Brew Stores and Ballistic Beer – Brisbane’s newest brewery. You’ll have guidance from some of the best home brewers and brewers in the industry and there will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions. We provide all the brewing equipment you need so that you can recreate your excellent beers at home. @ Ballistic Brewery Make a day of the launch with a Brewery tour finishing at Boggo Rd Gaol Brisbane - Hops and Brew Tours www.hopsandbrew.com.au Gold Coast - Hop on Brewery Tours www.hoponbrewerytours.com.au VIP Brewery tours that get you behind the scenes of some of your favorite breweries plus a seriously spooky ghost tour and beer tastings at the official Queensland Beer Week launch at Boggo Road Gaol.

Pig ‘N’ Whistle launching new Mountain Goat Ale Pig ’N’ Whistle are celebrating Queensland Beer Week in all six venues - Riverside, Brunswick Street, Queen Street Mall, King George Square, West End, and Indooroopilly. They are teaming up with Mountain Goat especially for the week to exclusively launch Mountain Goats new “Guv’nor’s English Summer Ale”. Mountain Goat is one of Australia’s leading craft brewers, and if you haven’t experienced it, get to a Pig ’N’ ’N Whistle and see what all the fuss is about.

PGA Golf Tour meets Yenda Brewing The best golfers in the world and the Yenda craft beer range are all on show at the PGA championship on the Gold Coast during Queensland Beer Week.Wanda the Yenda Caravan and Andy the Landie will be at the RACV Royal Pines resort, pouring the Yenda range and Pressman's 100% Aussie Apple Cider.Come along and enjoy some great craft brews and great golf. Established in December 2013, Australian Beer Company’s award-winning brewers brew quality craft beer and cider that celebrates Company Australian produce. Like so many other great local and independent brewers out there producing great beers, Yenda's three expert brewers are passionate about developing great tasting beers and ciders for your journey of beautiful beer discovery.

Regional pubs and bars celebrating beer We have had an overwhelming response to Queensland Beer Week with pubs and bars in almost every corner of the Sunshine State signing up to celebrate beer with us!

Be sure to check out the Queensland Beer Week website for a full list of regional pubs and bars which include venues at Mt Isa, Cairns, Airlie Beach, Toowoomba, Burleigh Heads, Lanesborough, Gympie, Nambour, and Ipswich.

Official closing event at Riverlife - December 11th @ 12pm The official closing event for Queensland Beer Week will be held at the spectacular Riverlife venue. This event will showcase an exclusive range of gold medal winning beers, ciders, and ginger beer, perfectly complimented by authentic BBQ specialties.

There will be live entertainment and DJ’s to keep your ears happy and your feet tapping. Not often does a fancy beer festival come along, and this, like a cold craft beer on a hot day, da will hit the spot. Best of all it’s FREE entry.

for the full list go to www.queenslandbeerweek.com.au

Guide to tasting beer

by Ian Watson

Temperature Temperature has a strong effect on how we taste and identify many aspects of beer. It limits or encourages aroma, changes the awareness of mouthfeel and body and can enhance areas such as bitterness and malt sweetness.

Pour There are many different methods of pouring beer but the most important thing to remember is that th it is the end result that matters more than the method. The result is beer in the glass with appropriate foam for style served as soon as possible

Look We first drink with our eyes. We note the colour and clarity: is it red, brown, yellow, golden, black? Is it bright, hazy, cloudy, murky? Watch the level of carbonation, look at the size of the foam and assess the way that the foam might cling to the glass. th

Smell There is an extraordinary array of aromas that can be found in beer. These aromas are usually described as aroma metaphors. So if a beer reminds you of banana, then banana is the correct term to describe it. There is no right or wrong way to describe what you taste. A quick swirl can be useful for encouraging the release of aroma from the glass.

Taste Sip the beer (finally!) in order to gauge its flavour, body and mouth-feel.

Bitterness is perhaps both a flavour and a mouthfeel sensation. The body and sweetness or it’s dryness will swing the balance of how prominent that bitterness seems. We also experience astringency (e.g., a prickly, puckering effect on the palate), the alcohol heat, the body of the beer and the degree of carbonation. The body of the beer is the familiar fullness or dryness that we experience in the mouth and after we swallow. The degree of carbonation will also have an influence on how the body of the beer feels as well as contributing varying degrees of a prickling acidity that is felt on the palate. In general, when tasting/drinking beer we swallow rather than spit. We are after all civilised people, no need for spitting or wasting beer.

Queensland Brewer : Focus on the Good Beer Co. The Good Beer Co is Australia’s first social enterprise beer company.

Founder, James Grugeon describes their first venture: "We just made it easy to enjoy a good beer and give back to a cause you care about at the same time. Our first good beer that gives back is Great Barrier Beer, it’s brewed for us by Queensland craft brewers, Bargara Brewing Company.”

Tourism QLD ranked it as one of the best craft beers in Queensland. Beer and Brewer magazine described the beer as "Bright gold in appearance, with a medium white head and good clarity making this beer appealing on the eye.

Pale malt aroma with a hint of tropical fruit. The palate is clean and carries good residual malt sweetness. A mild, lightly dry finish adds to the beer's refreshment”.

At least 50 percent of the profits go to Good Beer Co.’s charity partner the Australian Marine Conservation Society.

So now you can save the reef one beer at a time.

Visit the website for updates on where to drink a cold one for the reef during Queensland Beer Week : www.thegoodbeerco.com.au

Beer & Food - Focus on Dominique Rizzo Dominique Rizzo is one of Queensland’s leading female chefs who creates purely delicious, healthy and real food recipes that inspire people to make a change for the better while still loving their food. “I love the essence of clean, simple whole food cooking”.

As a Chef, Author and Presenter Dominique’s aim is to inspire people to cook with fresh, seasonal and local produce.

“I am deeply passionate about creating innovative food using quality safe and clean fresh produce. My heart lies naturally within the pages of Italian cuisine, while my inspiration takes you on a culinary journey of world food flavours.”

Putia: Pure Food Kitchen, School, Pantry provides Dominique with a creative and welcoming space to teach healthy sustainable cooking and lifestyle changes. Putia is also an innovative space for lifestyle workshops, education, events, dining and a fantastic community hub showcasing local Queensland products and a selection of her own brand “Pure Food Cooking” all natural home and body products.

Putia Pure Food Kitchen in Banyo teams up with local brewery All Inn Brewing Co. to present an unforgettable night of beer and food. New head chef Simon Street and passionate foodie, chef and Putia Owner Dominique Rizzo are hard at work with All In bar manager and brewer Alan Blair to showcase a sexy line up of All Inn’s unique range of boutique beers and season specialities.

Complimented with a menu bursting with flavours and unique combinations that will have you wanting more.

Learn all there is and more about food and beer matching, tasting and behind the scenes brewing, this is a night not to miss.

Dominique’s life and work centres around her philosophy; “Through the sharing of food we share life and one is never lonely or hungry.”

Check out Putias website for more details. www.putiapurefood.com.au

Australia’s Best Beers - Critics’ Choice - Top 10 This years best beers voted by a panel of beer enthusiasts

1.

Pirate Life Brewing - Imperial IPA - 8.8% abv Simplistically, to achieve a big flavourful IIPA you need: Big Malt + Big Hops + Big Fermentation. Pirate Life IIPA is a big beer with big delicious fresh flavours that we hope you will enjoy by sticking it in your big mouth. Peace.

2.

Feral Brewing - Hop Hog - 5.7% abv Get a good whiff of the Feral Brewing Co. beast that explodes with citrusy avours and hop aromas, rounded out with a solid malt backbone. A farmload of American hops makes Hop Hog a uniquely Feral brew and just a little fruity.

3.

Pirate Life Brewing - Pale Ale - 5.4% abv The brief we gave ourselves for our flagship beer was that it should be able to be sent to any bar in San Diego and to stand proudly alongside the many great Pales produced in, and around, the west coast of the US. The schematic for a West Coast Pale Ale is bucket loads of big US hops, full malty backbone and a characterful yeast. That is what this Pale Ale is all about. Enjoy as fresh as possible.

4.

Boatrocker Brewing Co. - Ramjet - 11.4% abv Ramjet is an English style imperial stout that has been aged for almost 5 months in ex-Starward whisky barrels. Rich dark chocolate, roasted coffee flavours are supported by spicy whisky aromas and notes as the beer warms up. This year’s version spent the longest time in barrel out of all vintages so the whisky notes are more pronounced. We left it in bottle for over 7 months to ensure any rough edges and heat from f the whisky were rounded out, making the beer very smooth and drinkable..

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Mountain Goat - Barrel Breed Barley Wine - 12.9% abv As we age our beer in these barrels, the heavily oaked whisky is drawn into the beer, imparting distinct vanilla/whisky sweetness to both the nose and palate.

It also lifts the alcohol content of the beer. We sent this barley wine in at around 11% abv, and it came out at a muscular 12.9%.

6.

Feral Brewing - Karma Citra - 5.8% abv A relatively new beer style sees a high proportion of dark malts combined with resinous and floral new world American hops. The dark malt adds chocolate and toffee undertones whilst American city hops add a tropical and citrus hop aroma.

7.

Pirate Life Brewing - Throwback IPA - 3.5% abv Designed for intelligent and sexy humans who'd like to be able to throw back a few cans of a zealously hopped ale, endowed with an ample malt chassis, and still get on with their day.

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Modus Operandi Brewing Co. - Former Tenant Red IPA - 7.8% abv The Former Tenant is named for the former tenant of the site where the brewery now sits, a slightly unfortunate marijuana grower who was caught out when police were pursuing another criminal down the alley next to the brewery only for the police dog to pick up the weedy scent coming through the extractor. With hops and marijuana being famously close in botanical terms, the reference is apt as the Mosaic and Galaxy hops in this beer stink out your glass like a dealer's den.

But the aggressive hopping regime doesn't forsake balance at all, with strong malts adding a touch of caramel sweetness. This is a delightful red IPA and as good a local version as you’d hope to find.

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Stone and Wood - Pacific Ale - 4.4% abv Inspired by our home on the edge of the Pacific Ocean and brewed using all Australian barley, wheat and Galaxy hops, Pacific Ale is cloudy and golden with a big fruity aroma and a refreshing finish.

After being dry hopped at the end of fermentation, it is drawn straight from the storage tank into kegs and bottles.

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BrewCult - Milk and Two Sugars - 7.2% abv Yes! Take that face hole! Who doesn't say "Where's my damn coffee" every morning? But then again, you may also want a beer. Well now you can have both! This is a smooth imperial milk stout blended with espresso and cold steep coffee from our awesome friends at Axil Coffee Roasters in Melbourne.

Thanks to australiasbestbeers.com.au

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