Equilibrium Hotel - Sydney

[Doc]

Hearing rumours of the new(ish) Equilibrium Hotel at World Square.
Apparently they have 52 beers on tap.
Anyone been, and got any details ?

Beers,
Doc

 

[Malnourished]

I'm gonna be out on it in Sydney tomorrow night, so might check it out. From what I could Google it looks pretty nightclubby though. I've got a mate who works in that kind of industry in Sydney so maybe he'll have more info...

 

[Malnourished]

I checked this place out briefly yesterday, and I'd say it looks like they do have that many taps. It's a rather corporate kinda place, so not necessarily my thing, but they had quite a few interesting beers amongst the masses of megalager.
They had all three Little Creatures beers on tap (I've never seen Rogers on tap on the east coast before), a Grimbergen beer and Chimay White! I've definitely never seen that on tap in Aus before...
I'd say it's worth checking out.

 

[Gough]

Any easy directions for out of towners?? Gough's annual beer tasting trip to Sydney is coming up again soon and I might add this place to the list. Is it just a pub/bar or do you need a secret handshake/suit to get in??

Thanks in advance for any tips,

Shawn.

 

[RichLum]

World Square is a couple of blocks from Town Hall station.
Walk down George St and it's just past the cinemas on the left hand side of the road as you walk toward Central/China Town.

I might try and check it out some time next week during my week off work.

Do they have a website? (Did a google and couldn't find one... just a lot of pub review type sites and a lot of slalsa ones as apparently they host slasa nights there...)

Rich

 

[warrenlw63]

Is it just a pub/bar or do you need a secret handshake/suit to get in??

Thanks in advance for any tips,

Shawn.

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LOL! Reminds me of the Marx Bros. film "Horse Feathers". Who can forget Chico's famous line... :beerbang:

BARAVELLI: Hey, what'sa matter? You no understand English? You can't come in here unless you say "swordfish". Now, I give you one more guess.

Classic!

Warren -

 

[Gough]

Thanks Rich, I'll find it nice and easily now I did some googling without much luck, so any tips on the place still more than welcome.

Shawn.

 

[redbeard]

its basically opposite scruffy murphys and upstairs. its half way between town hall & central, closest to goulburn & george st corner. from memory it was about $5 or 6 for a schooner like glass of lcpa. definitely a suit bar, thou may change over time. its interesting in that the (main) bar is L shaped, around 2 sides of the coolroom, and you can see the kegs thru a window at about head height. all the taps are on the 2 walls. i tried the lcpa but missed the Chimay White on tap

 

[Darren]

Never been there I imagime it would be an interseting place to visit

 

[mikem108]

Beers Range there is :

Entire St Arnou range
All the James Squire Range
All the Bluetounge beers
Crakenback Ale
Chimay Cinq Cent
Gambrinas
All the Little Creatures Beers
Boddingtons Pub Ale
Stella Artois
Coopers Sparkling and Pale
Kirin Ichiban Ale !
All the usual suspects-Tooheys etc

 

[Ross]

Beers Range there is :

Entire St Arnou range
All the James Squire Range
All the Bluetounge beers
Crakenback Ale
Chimay Cinq Cent
Gambrinas
All the Little Creatures Beers
Boddingtons Pub Ale
Stella Artois
Coopers Sparkling and Pale
All the usual suspects-Tooheys etc

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All on draught?...

 

[mikem108]

Yes I should have qualified, these are the draught beers only!

 

[KoNG]

YUM......

now, where's my suit.?

 

[Gough]

Yep, time to get with the suits I reckon with a beer listlike that :beerbang: Thanks for that Mike.

Shawn.

 

[mikem108]

I just wore jeans a scruffy shirt and trainers weren't too many suits there on Australia Day.

 

[Screwtop]

Any volunteer to be nominated driver for a trip from QLD. Wish we had something similar here - minus the suits in QLD of course.

 

[PostModern]

Went there today (yesterday?) has 65 beers on tap now.

I was disappointed with Boddington's Pub Draught. Grimbergen Pale Ale was OK. From everyone's raving here, I thought the LC Pilsner would be great but I was underwhelmed. I had it right on the tail of St Arnou Pilsner and actually prefered the St Arnou! The LC had a huge diacetyl aroma.

The St Arnou Kildara that a friend bought was a dark brown, almost robust porter colour and was almost flat. I recommended it believing it to be an irish red... somthing changed at St Arnou recently?

The Crackenback Pale was nice. A good thick bitterness and the aroma of American hops. I was pleasantly surprised.

It was a great venue to roll into after lunch when we had the place almost to ourselves but I think the cellarman needs to get into his suppliers about consistency.

 

[WillM]

You can go there for Salsa dancing on a Sunday night! How many beers does it take to get you moving?

Haven't checked it out yet, but plan to.

 

[THE DRUNK ARAB]

Went there today (yesterday?) has 65 beers on tap now.

I was disappointed with Boddington's Pub Draught. Grimbergen Pale Ale was OK. From everyone's raving here, I thought the LC Pilsner would be great but I was underwhelmed. I had it right on the tail of St Arnou Pilsner and actually prefered the St Arnou! The LC had a huge diacetyl aroma.

The St Arnou Kildara that a friend bought was a dark brown, almost robust porter colour and was almost flat. I recommended it believing it to be an irish red... somthing changed at St Arnou recently?

The Crackenback Pale was nice. A good thick bitterness and the aroma of American hops. I was pleasantly surprised.

It was a great venue to roll into after lunch when we had the place almost to ourselves but I think the cellarman needs to get into his suppliers about consistency.

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PoMo, agree there on the St Arnou pils, bloody top drop on tap from my experience at the Daniel O'Connell in North Adelaide.
LC pils has a way to go to match that beer IMHO.

C&B
TDA

 

[Josh]

I'll go along with those sentiments. Had the St Arnou Pils at The Orient where we all met before our Christmas Party at the BBC Heritage.

Top drop IMO too.