Where Can You Get A Good Beer In Darwin?

[jayandcath]

Howdy All,

Well it looks like I'll be in Darwin in early July, and I'm curious to know if anybody has any tips on where I can get a good beer up there???
Or if there are any AHBer's in this neck of the woods that might be keen for a meet and greet over a few cold ones, let me know.

Jay

 

[Screwtop]

Howdy All,

Well it looks like I'll be in Darwin in early July, and I'm curious to know if anybody has any tips on where I can get a good beer up there???
Or if there are any AHBer's in this neck of the woods that might be keen for a meet and greet over a few cold ones, let me know.

Jay

Definitely make the Mindil Markets on the beach Thu and Sun, take a bagchair grab some Indo food and settle back with a good beer to watch the sunset. Also the Cullen Bay precinct and Schooners Bar, not sure of the beers available though. If you get time check out the WWII Oil Storage tunnels and Stokes Hill Wharf

Sent a text to son's mate who lives out at Palmerston, will let you know.

 

[schooey]

Wisdom Have a really good range of local and imported beers, dude. Everything from LCPA to Chimay Blue. worth a look...

edit: Definitely go check out the sunset at Mindil Beach, freaking awesome.... the stall food is excellent. If you want to go upmarket and you like asian food, give Hannamans a run. If you like your cow, there's a place called Char that do fantastic steaks. The last two are a bit on the pricier side, but not OTT. The Jetty does a cheapish seafood buffet, but last time I was there it was a little wanting...

Shenanigans and Disco are the late openers (and where 99% of the chicks are if that's your thing), but its all commercial beers, not range much at all

 

[Timmsy]

Darwin rocks. Yep the jetty has the most insain fish and chips and the markets are to die for. The best atmosphere. I remeber when i was there shenanigans and disco as schooey said was full off chicks. All hell alot of back packers. I had a great week up there but that when i was younger and i only ever drank megaswill so i really cant help if they have local craft brews up there. Also if you get the chance go have a few cold ones at Humpty Doo Also i stayed with a mate a Palmerston

 

[Fatgodzilla]

Darwin rocks. Yep the jetty has the most insain fish and chips and the markets are to die for. The best atmosphere. I remeber when i was there shenanigans and disco as schooey said was full off chicks. All hell alot of back packers. I had a great week up there but that when i was younger and i only ever drank megaswill so i really cant help if they have local craft brews up there. Also if you get the chance go have a few cold ones at Humpty Doo Also i stayed with a mate a Palmerston

Territorybrewer lives up there, send him a PM and see if he wants company for a few hours.

 

[schooey]

Just remembered a little place down at Cullen Bay called Buzz Cafe... Last time I was there they had a bit of a range of bottled local craft beers. Worth going just to check out the men's....the trough is a wall of one sided glass that you take a squirt on..

It's a little intimidating walking up for a slash and there's all theses people sitting there on the other side eating away merrily

 

[bonk]

Howdy All,

Well it looks like I'll be in Darwin in early July, and I'm curious to know if anybody has any tips on where I can get a good beer up there???
Or if there are any AHBer's in this neck of the woods that might be keen for a meet and greet over a few cold ones, let me know.

Jay

Hey,

Wisdom has a really good range in bottles and tap. We also have a vintage cellars for take-away stuff. The deck bar has a few but not many but other then that its all the usual range.

EDIT: also if you are staying in palmerston, then the arch rival has coopers on tap and a few bottles of imported stuff. humpty doo pub is a rough bloody place, but has an interesting atmosphere

if you're out palmerston way i might be able to sneak up and have a beer or two

 

[THE DRUNK ARAB]

I recognise that Wisdom joint. Did that used to be called Rourkes Drift or similar?
Pretty sure I had a beer or two there a number of years ago.

C&B
TDA

 

[bonk]

I recognise that Wisdom joint. Did that used to be called Rourkes Drift or similar?
Pretty sure I had a beer or two there a number of years ago.

C&B
TDA

yeah, its next door / part of the building that was rourkes. rourkes got turned into monsoon and wisdom took over the beer garden.

 

[Josh]

Darwin Trailer Boat Club is pretty hard to beat for surroundings and view. Can't comment on the bar list. Last time I was there I drank them out of XXXX Bitter.

 

[Count Vorlauf]

Darwin Trailer Boat Club is pretty hard to beat for surroundings and view. Can't comment on the bar list. Last time I was there I drank them out of XXXX Bitter.

Coopers was making a big push when I was up there last August. You could get it at the Trailer Boat Club. Seconding Josh's recommendation for the views!

There was a boutique grocery in Parap with a bottle shop that carried some imports and craft beers. Can't remember the name. Parap Fine Foods maybe?

Bogart's, also in Parap, is owned by an Austrian or German fellow and I seem to recall that he had a good range of German beers. The interior is dark and a little daggy, but the food and booze was top notch.

 

[roger mellie]

Having lived here on project for the last 7 months I can report the following.

1. Darwin is in dire need of a Micro - the beer list in most pubs is identical - coldness and wetness seems to serve the needs of the minnions - flavour a distant last.
2. TAP is the best beer venue..
3. Wisdom has a couple of German's on tap - quality is low however.
4. Monsoons has Fat Yak on tap - which varies greatly from keg to keg but is still far and away the closest thing to a 'craftbrew' I have found up here.

With the exception of Hanuman - Darwin also really struggles on the restaurant front - in short and in my opinion - this place sucks.

I am over this place.

RM

 

[Bribie G]

Kanga Bitter ? h34r:

 

[Chad]

Just remembered a little place down at Cullen Bay called Buzz Cafe...

I was up there at the end of last year for work and went here. The beer selection wasn't all that great, but was the best I could find during my 1 week stay. The food there was also pretty good, with a good setting at the wharf.

The other good place I ate at was at the Stokes Hill Wharf, where they have quite a few restaurants. I ate at the very last restaurant on the jetty. Can't remember it's name.

 

[clatty]

1. Darwin is in dire need of a Micro - the beer list in most pubs is identical - coldness and wetness seems to serve the needs of the minnions - flavour a distant last.

They seem to be doing it tough up North.

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/12/3...371_ntnews.html

poor buggers

 

[Yeastie Beastie]

Just go to the Humpty Doo and drink for no other reason but to drink. Once you are there you will realize that all they do in NT is socialize....and drink a lot. It is fun though and a GREAT place to go.
Sieze the moment, drink a lot and with your spare few hours check out the Noonamah Taverns Thursday porn & prawn night....$10 for a plate of praws and strippers all night....
Watch out for my old man though, he had a 4m croc follow him in to the pub one day....escapee from a local park apparently.

Microbreweries..Mobil and Ampol.
NT's local beer....Leaded aka "Heavy" and Unleaded aka "Midstrength"....
Too far???

 

[Josh]

Coopers was making a big push when I was up there last August. You could get it at the Trailer Boat Club. Seconding Josh's recommendation for the views!

There was a boutique grocery in Parap with a bottle shop that carried some imports and craft beers. Can't remember the name. Parap Fine Foods maybe?

Bogart's, also in Parap, is owned by an Austrian or German fellow and I seem to recall that he had a good range of German beers. The interior is dark and a little daggy, but the food and booze was top notch.

Stayed across the road from that Parap Fine Foods shop in 2007. Not too bad a selection. The pub up the road had better opening hours from memory. It's a little out of town if you're staying in the city or at Cullen Bay. I wouldn't head to Parap just for the bottle shop but. Perhaps on a Saturday? for the markets.

 

[sinkas]

any new places of beer interest in darwin,
I off up there in a few weeks,
any additional info would be appreciated

 

[welly2]

Just to raise an old, old thread from the dead, there's basically one place in Darwin that sells craft beer - The Precident at the water front. There is one other option - The Tap on Mitchell Street which has a few different types of Little Creatures beers, some James Squires and a couple of other beers I forget the name of. But that's it. Everywhere else is Coopers (which is something, at least) and VB/Carlton/Tooheys piss. The Vintage Cellars and Woolworths bottle shops have a reasonable selection but I've had pretty much everything Vintage Cellars has in their craft section and I'm hesitant to resort to the gluten free beers.

Oh, I've just found out that The Deck Bar on Mitchell Street had something of a beer festival over February but as I've not really been drinking much other than my home brew this month, I didn't get to check it out. That's a shame.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Going to Darwin tomorrow, the only pub I could find was the Precinct on the water front I presume this is the one, though as far as craft beers go it isn't very far, but better than VB etc etc.