Redhill Brewery (vic) To Close Bar And Cellar Door

[fawnroux]

Hopefully they'll now start selling their beer north of Wodonga.

I'll be happy if the sell their beer IN Wodonga.

 

[fawnroux]

The bar and restaurant may not have even been making money, and even if it was, the opportunity cost of spending time and money on it rather than growing the core beer business may have been too great.

It's quite a nice place down there, and as someone said, maybe they will open up again in the future. Good luck to them, I can't wait to see their beers in more places around the country.

 

[RedHillBrewers]

Hi All, Karen & Dave here.
Yep, sad but true. Due to planning limitation and green wedge zoning, there are no pemittable expansions on this site. It is not possible to make more parking, more buildings or more patrons. So we are right now as big as we can ever be.

However running both parts of the business requires wearing a lot of different hats in a day, and not always doing the best we can at either. By closing the bar, we can add extra tanks into the coolroom areas and use our new Maheen bottling line to put out more beer, more consistent beer, and hopefully more styles than ever. And our workload actually decreases!

On the personal side, we have a young family and the cafe operations is only a metre from our house, so having staff and customers here all day, every day in our home is quite restrictive on our privacy and our ability to do stuff around our home and with our kids.
We have been seeking alternative options, and still have a few ideas about other venues or partnerships with local businesses. But for now, we need to get our privacy back, get brewing, and think about what the future holds with a clear head.

We have new styles, new packaging.... maybe even t-shirts coming, so as far as beer goes, the future looks awesome to us! But it is a loss for us to not have amazing beer people around that love what you do.

We hope everyone will keep drinking Red Hill and stay in touch via our newsletter, we do plan to have many special events and perhaps open a few days over summer and for things like Secret Stash weekends, Good Beer Week, maybe even Fathers Day and things like that.

Thanks for caring, Karen & Dave Golding

 

[chunckious]

Been to many a crafty pub and never seen their beers anywhere up here in Brissy. :unsure:

 

[fawnroux]

Good luck with all guys! Family is very important.

Don't worry, if you keep brewing great beer, we'll keep drinking it

 

[fawnroux]

Been to many a crafty pub and never seen their beers anywhere up here in Brissy. :unsure:

Best get onto management of those places and see what they can arrange then

 

[Phoney]

We hope everyone will keep drinking Red Hill

I drink Red Hill when I'm Victoria, though I cant find it anywhere in NSW either.

Will this be addressed?

 

[Truman42]

Thanks for keeping us informed Dave. Good luck with it all and I look forward to your future brews.

 

[fikuss]

Hi All, Karen & Dave here.
Yep, sad but true. Due to planning limitation and green wedge zoning, there are no pemittable expansions on this site. It is not possible to make more parking, more buildings or more patrons. So we are right now as big as we can ever be.

However running both parts of the business requires wearing a lot of different hats in a day, and not always doing the best we can at either. By closing the bar, we can add extra tanks into the coolroom areas and use our new Maheen bottling line to put out more beer, more consistent beer, and hopefully more styles than ever. And our workload actually decreases!

On the personal side, we have a young family and the cafe operations is only a metre from our house, so having staff and customers here all day, every day in our home is quite restrictive on our privacy and our ability to do stuff around our home and with our kids.
We have been seeking alternative options, and still have a few ideas about other venues or partnerships with local businesses. But for now, we need to get our privacy back, get brewing, and think about what the future holds with a clear head.

We have new styles, new packaging.... maybe even t-shirts coming, so as far as beer goes, the future looks awesome to us! But it is a loss for us to not have amazing beer people around that love what you do.

We hope everyone will keep drinking Red Hill and stay in touch via our newsletter, we do plan to have many special events and perhaps open a few days over summer and for things like Secret Stash weekends, Good Beer Week, maybe even Fathers Day and things like that.

Thanks for caring, Karen & Dave Golding

Well said.

Looking forward to tasting the stash!

 

[Truman42]

Last chance this weekend gents to get down to Red Hill Brewery before they close the bar and cafe.

Im going Saturday with the missus and bro in law and wife. Looking forward to it, especially as the sis in law is driving. :drinks: :icon_cheers:

SECRET STASH WEEKEND | WEIZENBOCK RELEASED | LAST WEEKEND TO VISIT THE CAFE


SECRET STASH ~ Saturday 21st / Sunday 22nd of July, 11am to 6pm

Get your hands on the Brewer's secret stash of seasonal and rare beers at our annual beerfest and final weekend the cafe / cellar door will be open.

We will have 9 taps serving all our seasonal beers, including:

Imperial Stout 2011 & 2012
Christmas Ale 2010 & 2011
Bohemian Pilsner
Weizenbock
Hop Harvest Ale
India Black Ale
Sticke Alt
Belgian Blonde
Jubilee IPA on the handpump

Double Barrel (Oak Aged Beers):
Christmas Ale (Brandy Soaked Pinot Barrel)
Temptation (Gin Soaked Chardonay Barrel)
Imperial Stout (Whisky Soaked Shiraz Barrel)

This will be the last weekend the cellar door is opening for a while, come and celebrate beer and the 7 years we have been drinking great beer at Red Hill Brewery.

At the time of writing there were just 4 seats remaing on the Aussie Brewery Tours bus for Sunday, departing from St Kilda.

We are close to fully booked for lunch both days, but do drop by for a pint.

 

[Fents]

i'll be there as well for lunch sat. going to smash plenty of red hill beers.

 

[Truman42]

A great day at Red Hill yesterday. Plenty of great beers and we really enjoyed the food. Here are some pics I took.

David Golding pouring a beer.




Sample Paddle



Imperial Stout



Taps



Brew Kettle