Visiting Australia

[boss brew]

Well, my wife and I will be in Perth this July. We'll be working at a trade show, but will have a few extra days there, as well as a few days in the Sydney area. Any favorite pubs or homebrew things to see or do? Or maybe some must have beers to look for. Oh yeah, 1st time to Australia, and we're coming from northern California.

Thanks,
Dave

 

[bum]

Can't speak for Perth or Sydney but as a regular visitor to LA and the Bay area I'd suggest you not expect too much that will challenge what you find at home in the way of micro/craft beers.

Talking quantity so get your hackles down, boys.

Enjoy your visit, Dave!

 

[boss brew]

Ah, but we enjoy beers of all types...not just the US west coast, high hopped ones! We enjoy drinking local beers as much as we can. I will however, miss my own black IPA while I'm gone! Are any brewers or homebrewers making those?

Dave

 

[Josh]

In Sydney I can recommend:

The Local Taphouse: Beer bar in Darlinghurst a short cab ride from the middle of town. Good Local Laughs comedy on a Sunday night.

Rocks Brewing @ Harts Pub: Craft brewery in Sydney with their own and other local craft beer on tap.

Lord Nelson: Pub and brewery in The Rocks with some very tasty ales.

All can be done in a day pub crawl. Check out the 2010 AHB Sydney Pub Crawl Thread to see what the locals think.

 

[Josh]

Oh and the Schwartz Brewery at the Macquarie Hotel. Not far from Central Station.

 

[boss brew]

Thanks Josh, but what is barls Wurtenberger Ale?

Dave

 

[Josh]

Thanks Josh, but what is barls Wurtenberger Ale?

Dave

barls is a member of ahb.

His Wurtenburger Ale is a beer brewed by barls, late hopped with his home-grown Wurtenburger hops added to the cube. Then swapped in the ISB Cube Swap.

Very tasty Pale Ale fermented with Wyeast Pacman.

 

[glennheinzel]

Ah, but we enjoy beers of all types...not just the US west coast, high hopped ones! We enjoy drinking local beers as much as we can. I will however, miss my own black IPA while I'm gone! Are any brewers or homebrewers making those?

Dave

Black IPA's are fairly rare here at the moment. You'll only find a handful of references in this forum, although I'm sure that we'd all be interested to see your recipe.

Commercially speaking, Murray's brewery made one as part of their monthly seasonal releases.

Overall, I think that you'll have to bring your own to share with us! (Hills Brewers have a pizza night in NW Sydney on the last Tuesday of the month. One of our brewers has made a couple of black American ales so you may even be in luck)

 

[boss brew]

Thanks Rukh, I'll post the recipe soon.

I'll try to bring a little homebrew with us, but those weight limits make it tough!

Dave

 

[RetsamHsam]

The date hasn't been decided yet but the NSW July Case Swap will be on at some point in July as the title suggests

 

[mckenry]

Well, my wife and I will be in Perth this July. We'll be working at a trade show, but will have a few extra days there, as well as a few days in the Sydney area. Any favorite pubs or homebrew things to see or do? Or maybe some must have beers to look for. Oh yeah, 1st time to Australia, and we're coming from northern California.

Thanks,
Dave

Make sure you seek out Tooheys New whilst in Sydney. Very rare beer, but well worth it if you can get your hands on some.

 

[petesbrew]

Make sure you seek out Tooheys New whilst in Sydney. Very rare beer, but well worth it if you can get your hands on some.

There's always a funny bugger somewhere.
But actually try Tooheys Old.... one of the only megaswills here with real flavour.
+1 for Ruhk's Hills Brewers invite. I'm sure we can make an exception for an OS guest!

 

[jiesu]

+1 for tooheys spew ( I think you intentionally spelt it wrong mckenry?)

 

[cdbrown]

There's a few micros in the swan valley to the east of perth - Feral, Elmars, Duckstein, Ironbark and Mash

Little Creatures in Fremantle. Stop in at Clancys Fish Pub as well for a variety of beers.

 

[KillerRx4]

There's always a funny bugger somewhere.
But actually try Tooheys Old.... one of the only megaswills here with real flavour.
+1 for Ruhk's Hills Brewers invite. I'm sure we can make an exception for an OS guest!

I would say if you are going down the path of trying local mega brewery beers, Obvious choices for me would be Coopers range. Also take a Sheaf Stout instead of the Tooheys Old.

But on the otherwise steer clear & get your hands on some local craft beers!

When in Sydney, if you find yourself near Homebush you could drop into Paddy's Brewery @ Flemington for a beer & a feed.

 

[Pennywise]

Little Creatures in Freemantle, not far from Perth. It's a must

 

[churchy]

Dave maybe us Perthies can organize a piss up and BBQ at someones house! It will be winter over here in July so a bit on the cool side.


Cheers Andrew

 

[sinkas]

A pub crawl in freo would be better

 

[Snowdog]

Dave maybe us Perthies can organize a piss up and BBQ at someones house! It will be winter over here in July so a bit on the cool side.


Cheers Andrew

A bit on the cool side? What do you consider cool? 10? Just curious.



And you can actually get Tooheys New in the states as well as Cooper's Pale. No Tooheys Old or Little Creatures Pale though.

 

[boss brew]

Wow! Great advice! So, here's my recipe for a Black IPA (but it's closer to a black pale ale). It scored very well in a local Homebrew to Probrew contest, but got beat out by an amazing double pale ale (not a double IPA). If you can't get the German Saphir hops, any good citrus hop will work, and you can sub chocolate malt for the carafa II. This is not as intense as some Black IPAs, but it's very easy to drink.
sorry about the pounds and quarts!

Black IPA

A ProMash Recipe Report

Recipe Specifics
Batch Size (Gal): 10.00 Wort Size (Gal): 10.00
Total Grain (Lbs): 26.38
Anticipated OG: 1.070 Plato: 16.95
Anticipated SRM: 27.2
Anticipated IBU: 63.7
Brewhouse Efficiency: 74 %
Wort Boil Time: 65 Minutes


Pre-Boil Amounts
Evaporation Rate: 1.65 Gallons Per Hour
Pre-Boil Wort Size: 11.79 Gal
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.059 SG 14.51 Plato

Color Formula Used: Morey
Hop IBU Formula Used: TinsethTinseth Concentration Factor: 1.25

Additional Utilization Used For Pellet Hops: 10 %

Grain/Extract/Sugar
% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
5.7 1.50 lbs. Crystal 60L America 1.034 60
5.7 1.50 lbs. Munich Malt Great Britain 1.037 6
83.4 22.00 lbs. Pale Malt - Gambrinus Canada 1.036 2
5.2 1.38 lbs. Carafa ll Germany 1.030 400

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.

Hops
Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
1.00 oz. Centennial Pellet 9.50 17.2 60 min
2.00 oz. Hallertauer NZ Organic Whole 7.40 24.3 60 min
1.20 oz. Amarillo Gold Whole 8.00 15.8 60 min
1.00 oz. Saphir, German Pellet 5.50 6.0 20 min
1.00 oz. Saphir, German Pellet 5.50 0.4 1 min


Extras
Amount Name Type Time
1.00 Unit(s) WhirlFloc Irish Moss tablets Fining 10 Min.(boil)


Yeast
Lallemand Nottingham

Mash Schedule
Mash Name: Batch sparge
Total Grain Lbs: 26.38
Total Water Qts: 26.38 Before Additional Infusions
Total Water Gal: 6.59 Before Additional Infusions
Tun Thermal Mass: 0.03
Grain Temp: 63.00 F


Step Name Step
Time Rest
Time Start
Temp Stop
Temp Heat
Type Infuse
Temp Infuse
Amount Infuse
Ratio
sugar rest 5 60 152 151 Infuse 169 26.38 1.00
mashout 5 10 170 169 Infuse 207 16.26 1.62

Total Water Qts: 42.64 After Additional Infusions
Total Water Gal: 10.66 After Additional Infusions
Total Mash Volume Gal: 12.77 After Additional Infusions

All temperature measurements are degrees Fahrenheit.
All infusion amounts are in Quarts.
All infusion ratios are Quarts/Lbs.

By the way...nice forum!