🚜✨FARM JUICE ✨

Fresh from the paddock, even fresher from the hop field, and a little delayed off the packaging line (was meant to be keg only release), next week comes FARM JUICE, a wet-hopped Farmhouse IPA at 4.9% ABV that's been brewed straight out of the kiln with 2020 Estate Schooner barley, fresh Estate wet-hops, our own ‘Everton’ yeast strain & triple dry-hopped with fresh season estate hops.

Getting a Harvest beer right is a once a year challenge. Using ingredients with a somewhat unknown outcome can scare some brewers, but we relish the opportunity, especially when we’ve nurtured the ingredients across the past growing season. With the saddening hiatus of Saint John Craft Beers’ Fresh Hop Festival for 2020, it seems very few Tassie brewers have created a wet-hop beer for this year. We love making wet-hop beers, & will always strive to create one using our own estate hops, albeit this year I’d prefer to accurately describe it as a genuine Harvest beer.

Because this year we went one step further this year, in addition to fresh whole hops, we also wanted to pull new season malt from the kiln straight into the brewery, our first batch of 2020 harvest Schooner malt. Harvested in early January, & held in our silos until a week before hop harvest, this years Harvest beer truly as fresh as it can get!

We attacked the juice-charged hops the day after our annual hop harvest with a whipper snipper, because obviously this is how you showcase the gold-dust nature of the lupulin rich hops. This year's wet hops exhibited a huge drenching of lime marmalade and mango notes. We filled our mash tun to the brim with destroyed whole cones, and minimized contact time resulting in bounces of orange juice, papaya, and homemade lemon curd.

Hops that were lovely hand picked by an army of friends, family and beer lovers, were dried in our kiln, and utilized post brew for a triple dry hop addition that has resulted in epic aromas.

 A billowing white head launches aromas that explode with huge notes of juicy lemon zest, having used kilos of fresh lemons, hand picked from the farm, to compliment the lemon marmalade wet-hop blast. The nose of bright citrus & white pepper merges into a distinctive creamy, citrus pith mouthfeel that showcases the wet hops with aplomb. A yeast driven spice & crusty bread character show ahead of a spicy bitterness to finish, that ties it all together in one epically fresh package.

FARM JUICE is available for pre-order now at HERE

Make sure you put in an order now, since we all know that fresh is best, and we don’t expect this beer to stick around! A harvest beer in every essence of the word.

Cheers, Will

Founder, Brewer and Farmer⁣

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⁣*Available as

Case: 16x330ml

Carton: 24x330ml

Dispatching from 6th May.