The Beers
Original Recipes
Kiss Me I'm Irish
Irish Red Ale5.7%
A malty, full bodied St. Patrick's Day special, featuring high-quality Maris Otter, red malts and traditional roasted barley. Sláinte!
VICE Draught
Low Alcohol Beer1.05%
A light, smashable traditional Australian beer with a smoky umami finish. It's like snogging the weird uncle who's done nothing but smoke meats and ciggies all arvo - and going back for seconds. Also available in full strength.
Galloper Pacific IPA
India Pale Ale6.6%
This pleasantly gentle IPA pairs Vic Secret with experimental CIP-076 hops from New Zealand for a tropical fruity flavour with an almost candy sweetness and a sharp finish.
Recliner
Australian Sparkling Ale4.7%
The one that started it all! A simple, super-clear beer with a lime flavour courtesy of Motueka hops. Perfect for throwing back on a hot day. Kick your feet up with one!
Reindeer Games
Spiced Milk Stout4.7%
Add a little Christmas to your day with this English-style stout, spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and sweetened with lactose. The next best thing to eggnog to give you that festive fireside cosiness!
Turn Around
Pale Ale5.1%
Eclipse and Wai-iti hops from both sides of the pond team up for a lime, lemon, mandarin hoppy delight. While I haven't perfected the Pale Ale here, this is close to the mildly zingy citrus that the Recliner originally envisioned: just hoppier and more bitter at 45 IBUs.
I Don't Like Cricket
Tropical Stout5.9%
Tropical Stout is an easy drinking Caribbean favourite that's mostly for brewing nerds elsewhere. Yet with no roasty malts and an intriguing hint of licorice, I can see this smooth operator being a popular drop in Winter and Summer alike. Big fan of this one.
Stocktake
West Coast IPA5.3%
Has your freezer ever seemed like it's full of leftovers? By clearing out the punchy New World hops on hand, plus a healthy addition of fresh Amarillo, this hop bonanza brings big West Coast flavour and pushes the high end of bitterness and flagrant hoppiness. As was the style at the time.
Community Recipes
Miffy
Cascadian Dark Ale (Black IPA)5.8%
This White Rabbit Dark Ale clone is unsurprisingly a dark ale, but more surprisingly has a West Coast hop kick to it as well. Very authentic to the original. This first beer I ever brewed at my place was based off Sundowner kid's recipe on Brewers Friend.
Bear Territory
Pale Ale5.6%
This clone of one of the greatest beers of all-time - Sierra Nevada Pale Ale - didn't turn out as hoppy as I'd liked due to a leaky fermenter lid, but it sure had a lot of malty sweetness to enjoy. This was based off Robert Mallard's recipe on Brewers Friend, but Sierra Nevada suggest an all-Cascade recipe of their own.
Borker XPA
XPA5.6%
Balter XPA is one of the past decade's most successful Australian craft beers, and also became my unofficial "balcony beer" while holidaying in QLD. But they sold out to a multi-national, so there's no harm in brewing our own from Lethal's recipe on Brewers Friend. It was ok. I could do better to bring out those juicy hop flavours next time.
Easter Porter
Choc Mint Porter6.8%
A rich, viscous and boozy dark beer with a generous cocoa addition, accented by mint from peppermint tea bags. Originally made by Brad from Grain to Glass, one of my favourite brewing YouTube channels.
Simply The Fest
Festbier5.2%
A wonderful take on the Weihenstephaner Festbier. Festively German, fresh, balanced and very drinkable. For my first time using lager yeast, I couldn't be happier recreating something this authentic half a world away. Recipe is courtesy of Bottoms_Up on Homebrew Talk forum.
Alanis
Maple Cream Ale5.7%
To celebrate Canada Day on July 1st, I took a Cream Ale recipe with the decidedly North American addition of maize (corn), added maple syrup and primed with ... more maple syrup. The yeast hogged most of that sweet sap for itself, but this easy drinker brings a different flavour to the repertoire.
Suds
Czech Lager5.7%
With Radek the Czech's recipe, traditional floor-malted pilsner malt and nothin' but Saaz, this Budějovický Budvar clone tastes a lot like the bottle I had last month. Yet I hoped it would be even better, fresher, like it would be on the continent. Possibly your thing though.
Double Doink
Munich Dunkel4.5%
It's time to go to brown town! A splash of chocolatey Carafa II among 91% Munich malts make this an eye-catching stein filler. Hat tip to Homebrew Academy for steering the ship on this recipe.