March 20 & 21, 2020

Indie Beer Showcase will take over the Atrium at Fed Square this March.

Over three huge sessions from Friday to Saturday, 30 breweries from Australia will showcase their beers. With over 100 beers for you to choose from and create the ultimate tasting list.

TICKETING INFO

The Atrium at Federation Square (Next to Beer DeLuxe)

Friday 20 March and Saturday 21 March

$50pp + booking fee

Ticket price includes:

20 x 60ml beer tastings from a choice of more than 100 beers
$10 food voucher to spend with participating vendors
Good Beer Week limited edition souvenir tasting glass thanks to RASTAL
Access to masterclasses

Get your tickets before they get snapped up.

Session 1
Fri 20 March, 5pm-9pm $50^+bf Sold Out Session 2
Sat 21 March, 12pm-4pm $50^+bf Session 3
Sat 21 March, 5pm-9pm $50^+bf

View the 2020 Masterclass Schedule

Akasha Brewing

Ballistic Beer Co

BentSpoke Spoketactular

Blackmans Brewery

Boatrocker Brewers & Distillers

Bonehead Brewing

Bridge Road Brewers

Bright Brewery

Coconspirators Brewing Company

Colonial Brewing Co

Dainton Brewery

Dollar Bill Brewing

Exit Brewing

Forrest Brewing

Frexi Brewing

Fury and Son Brewing Co

Hawkers Beer

Hop Nation

Inner North Brewing

Modus Operandi

Molly Rose Brewing

Mr Banks

Prancing Pony

Red Hill Brewery

Sailors Grave

Stomping Ground Brewing Co

Tallboy and Moose

Urban Alley Brewery

Westside Ale Works

Wolf of the Willows

Beer	ABV	Style
Hopsmith	7.2%	WC IPA
Korben D	8.5%	IIPA
Freshwater	5.2%	American Pale
Mosaic	7.2%	Single Hop IPA
Strawberry Sour NEIPA	TBC	Fruit Beer

Beer	ABV	Style
Oaked Xpa	5.8%	XPA
Ballistic Pale Ale	5.2%	Pale
Revelation IPA	6.5%	IPA
Ballistic Twang	4.6%	Sour

Beer	ABV	Style
Hop Burst	5.6%	Hazy XPA	Brewed hoppy and hazy with flavour and aroma of toasted coconut, ripe paw paw and green mango.
Cluster 8	8.8%	Imperial IPA	Our award-winning imperial IPA, big and bold with lots and lots of hops! Tropical and citrus aromas, solid yet clean malty palate.
Crankshaft	5.8%	IPA	Love your hops? Then have a go at Cranky! Our orange IPA is bursting with hop flavours and aroma. Voted #1 IPA in Australia in 2019, for the second year running. Hops: Ekuanot, Simcoe, Citra, Centennial
Sprocket	7%	IPA	A big and hoppy summer IPA with raw tropical fruit sniffs and tastes. Hops: Mosaic, Amarillo, Fortnight
Red Nut	7%	Red IPA	A red IPA with a resiny hop and rich caramel malt character.
How's it Gosen	TBC	Gose	The perfect blend of sweet, sour and salt. Wall to wall with powerful flavour and aroma of mango and passion fruit
Barley Griffin	4.2%	Pale Ale	Nice herbal herbal mixed with stone fruit this is am easy drinking pale ale balanced with a fine malt character.
	TBC

Beer	ABV	Style
Juicy Juicy Bang Bang	7.5%	IPL	A cracking DOUBLE IPL based on our award winning Juicy Banger. DOUBLE THE JUICE, DOUBLE THE BANG!
Reginald IPA	6%	IPA	An IN YOUR FACE, fruity India Pale Ale. Prominent Citrus, Peach & Pine aromas jump from the glass and fill your nostrils with every sip. Followed by a medium malt body that's surprisingly smooth for such a big angry beer!
Peaches & Cream Sour	5%	Sour	A smooth & creamy Barrel Farm kettle sour with vanilla and homegrown peaches. With added seawater and French oak, it's a pleasure to drink!
Torquay XPA	4.4%	XPA	A new world Extra Pale Ale brewed in Torquay, with waves of citrus and tropical notes. It's got all the hoppiness with a crisp and easy finish!

Beer	ABV	Style
PHAZE OUT/IN	6.5%	NEIPA	Hazy New England IPA with the aroma of tropical melon, pineapple and stone fruit. A flavour balance of juicy sweet fruit, melon, pineapple and stone fruit balanced with a little bitterness.
CRANBERRY GOSE	4.5%	GOSE	Our limited release fruited Gose, with a sour Cranberry front palate with a hint of saline at the rear.
SWEET PEA MDL	4.8%	DARK LAGER	This Dark Lager was designed to be enjoyed with Melbourne's inclement weather in mind. With notes of malty toasted brown bread, with coffee bean and dark chocolate. Sweet natural cola, bitter chocolate and coffee. Lingering finish on the palate.
WEST COAST IPA	4.7%	AMERICAN RED	Art for Boneheads is an annual series where we showcase local artists by providing a distributed medium and exhibition space. For our first series, we’ve gone for a vibrant expression of a classic Westcoast IPA blending Citra and Cascade Cryo hops with a Simcoe back bone.

Beer	ABV	Style
B2 Bomber Mach 9.0	12%	Imperial Stout	The big, smooth malt profile and the use of new world hops provide the base for this 12% Belgian Dark Ale. Fruity yeast-derived esters and vanilla balance beautifully with the tropical fruit and resinous hop aromas. The mid-palate is big, chocolatey and smooth with hints of candied fruit. The alcohol warms the palate to finish with a pronounced bitterness
The Creek : Barrel-Aged Cherry Sour	6.5%	Lambic	The Creek is Bridge Road's take on a traditional Belgian Lambic beer style "Kriek". The rich red color and sweeter cherry flavour of this beer is balanced with a sour finish. We added approx 800g/L of cherries to the barrel ahead of a 12 month secondary fermentation.
Nitro Easter Unicorn	6%	Chocolate Ale	With the discovery of the 4th magical pillar of our universe, Chocolate Eggs, it is yet again the only beer that can harness the full potential of its power.
James & the Giant Peach Emoji	3.9%	Berliner Weisse	This beer brings together the tart, refreshing characteristics of a traditional Berliner Weisse with the unmistakable flavours of fresh, ripe peaches. This beer has been made by first brewing a light bodied Berliner Weisse using traditional brewing techniques. After primary fermentation it was transferred onto fresh, local peaches.
Fruit Salad Gose	4.3%	Gose	This light bodied sour farmhouse ale showcases the aroma and flavour of a tropical fruit salad with mango, passionfruit, peach and pineapple all jumping from the glass. These tropical fruits all continue through the palate melded perfectly with the unmistakable tartness and mineral content of a gose.
Beechworth Pale Ale	4.8%	New World Pale Ale	Aromatic. Balanced. Sessionable. Classic.

Beer	ABV	Style
Kiwi Sweetart Sour Ale	4.3%	Sour
The Orchard NEIPA	6.7%	Hazy
Red XPA	6.5%	Red
Stubborn Russian 2019	12%

Beer	ABV	Style
Colonial Pale Ale	4.4%	Pale Ale	Every Day Pale Ale
Colonial South West Sour	4.6%	Sour	Margaret River's thirst quenching Sour.
Colonial Project Sour	4.5%	Sour	A limited release Sour Ale.
Pink Boots American Wheat Ale	5%	Hoppy	A limited release American Wheat, in collaboration with Pink Boots society.

Beer	ABV	Style
Blood Orange NERIPA	6%	NEIPA
Dainton Draught	4.5%	Pilsner
Luplin Daze	8%	Double Hazy
White chocolate Cadbury Dream (Easter Beer)	6%	NIEPA
Choctail Espresso	9%	Mocha Stout
Squid Ink Gose (Balcome Gin Collab)	4.5%	Gose

Beer	ABV	Style
Forrest Silvertop	4.1%	Lager
Forrest Pale Ale	4.8%	American
Forrest IPAIDO	5.4%	IPA
Forrest Untamed Turkey	7.5%	IPA
Forrest Everyday Stout	4.5%	Stout
Forrest Strawberry Smacker	4.5%	Strawberry

Beer	ABV	Style
Golden IPA	5.6%	Golden IPA	Perfect balance between the sweetness of the Golden and bitterness of the IPA. Aroma of pineapple, passion fruit and stone fruit.
Refreshing Porter	5.1%	American Porter	Lighter in body than a regular Porter, strong coffee notes with a hint of caramel and hops
Tropical XPA	5%	XPA	Bowl of refreshing fruits in a beer, Spicy mango, pineapple and passion fruit are the mix of this easy drinking beer
Smokey Sour	4.3%	Sour	Inspired from a Mexican cocktail made of Mezcal and Tamarind. Subtle touch of smoked well balance with sourness and a pinch of salt.

Beer	ABV	Style
Pilsner	4.8%	New World
Pale Ale	5.2%	American
IPA	6.8%	American
Long Hot Days	TBC	Summer Ale
Kiwifruit Sour	4%	Sour
Passionfruit Lemon Zest	3.8.5%	Sour
Gin Sour	4.54.5%	Sour	1 Keg brewed especially for Showcase

Beer	ABV	Style
Late to the party	7.1%	NEIPA
Westcoast	7.2%	IPA
XPA	4.6%	Pale
2020 Imperial Stout	TBC	Stout
St Hildegard	3.5%	Session Ale	made with Pink Boots blend
Jacki	TBC		Collab with 3 Weavers
Stout	TBC	Stout	On Nitro
Bo & Luke Dowunder	TBC		collab with Against the Grain - Launch

Beer	ABV	Style
Seven Clouds	6.3%	NEIPA
Mystery IPA	6.5%	IPA
Site Fermentation Project Strawberry Sour Blonde	6%	Sour Blonde
Site Fermentation Project La Jeunesse	5.3%	Barrel aged red

Beer	ABV	Style
WTFPA	5.5%	Hoppy Pale	XPA, APA, IPA, DDH IPA, OZPA?! Look, call it whatever the f**k you like - it's a pale ale, and it's hoppy. The WTFPA keeps things simple with a significant Australian hop presence, uncomplicated malt backbone and a clean finish. It's a single hop beer that showcases the full range of enigmatic qualities of Aussie hop Enigma. Earlier boil additions bring out dank red currant vibes, whirlpool addition conjure up some rockmelon and grass vibes and finally dry hopping delivers a tropical fruit salad bouquet to the ol' schnoz. Juicy start leads to gritty finish and hoppy burps. This is our head brewer's go-to pale ale.
When life gives you lemongrass...	4.3%	Rice ale	This super-dry refreshing ale made with lemongrass, a touch of ginger and 20% rice has attracted a cult following at our brewery bar. It is best when paired with a summer of festivals, spicy food and epic thirsty adventures.
We're Jammin'!	5.4%	Hazy IPA	A triple dry-hopped juicy and hazy IPA with strawberry and apricot vibes.
Drink, Pray, Love	5.4%	Mango Pale	Beer inspired by mango sticky rice. Brewed with rice and lots of mango and coconut. Very refreshing and not too sweet. Our brewery received a blessing from Thai forest monks the day we first brewed this beer.

Beer	ABV	Style
Wippa Snippa	3.8%	Session Pale	Fuelled with fistfuls of the best hops. It’s big on flavour, light bodied and low abv. Citra, Chinook and Motueka give this beer the tropical, citrus and drinkability of a much bigger beer. Clean & easy drinking.
Modus XPA	4.2%	XPA	We’ve thrown a hefty amount of hops but at this tropical thirst quencher. We’ve mixed up the profile with Azacca, Amarillo and Citra hops giving a tropical fruit aroma with grapefruit peel favour and clean, crisp finish.
Modus Pale	5.2%	Pale	A golden coloured pale ale, with a rich malt symphony then dry hopped with Yakima Valley's favourite heavy hitting hop, Simcoe. This brings with it big aromatics of pine and citrus followed by a crisp finish.
Sonic Prayer	6%	IPA	A psychedelic conglomeration of the holiest of ingredients including additions of mind-altering amounts of New World hops; resulting in aromatic reverberations of citrus, peach, passionfruit and pine. All followed by an unstinting malt body and bitterness.
Former Tenant	7.8%	Red IPA	This beer is bursting with aromas of passionfruit and mango due to a heavy hand on the Mosaic and Galaxy dry hops, this ruby red IPA has a complex blend of citrusy hops & savoury caramel malt favour followed by a slightly sweet finish.
Modus GBW Beer	???%	TBD	A new beer by Modus being previewed at this showcase! We will be sharing our GBW 2020 release in advance of it's launch for GBW. When this list was finalised we hadn't even made the beer. This will be the follow up to the Vanilla Mocha Stout and Born To Rum Porter that were so popular in '18 & '19.
Silent Knight	5.6%	Porter	Aromas of rich chocolate and roast in the nose, we brewed our Porter with the idea of a session version of a Russian Imperial stout in mind. A complex blend of 9 types of malt form a blend of chocolate, roast and caramel flavour while still finishing on the light and dry side.

Beer	ABV	Style
Tilly	5.5%	Saison	Tilly is the keg version of our house saison and is our crack at paying homage to a few of our favourite belgian beers. Pouring with stunning foam this lively beer shows herbal and lemon hop aromas and is crisp and clean across the palate like a good saison should do. Freshly tapped just for this event!
Spotlight	6%	IPA	A spotlight on a single and interesting hop variety. The clean, dry, bitter beer base gives plenty of room for the spotlight to shine right on the hop of choice!
Gaterale	4.8%	Lemon Juniper Gose	Tart, a bit salty, a little spicy and a bunch of lemon refreshment GaterAle has been a summer favourite at our taproom
Peachy Skies	5.2%	Peach Farmhouse Ale	The beautiful blend of peaches, farmhouse yeast and a little dose of mosaic hops makes this beer scream of summer sunshine!
Oh Honey Honey	6%	Honey Saison	This barrel fermented and bottle conditioned beauty combines floral, orange blossom honey with jasmine tea and our house saison yeasts to make a lovely complex beer that just keeps getting better. Limited number of bottles opened at the start of each session*

Beer	ABV	Style
West Coast IPA	6.2%	IPA
Hazy IPA	7.0%	IPA
Double IPA	8.0%
Fruited Sour	4.2%	Sour

Beer	ABV	Style
India Red Ale	TBC

Beer	ABV	Style
East Coast Session IPA	5.5%	IPA
Scotch Ale	5.8%	Scotch Ale

Beer	ABV	Style
Biru - Sake Kasu & Satsuma plum	TBC	hybrid	Biru is a pale sour beer 100% fermented on Sake Kasu and finished with Satsuma Plum
Rhubarb harvest ale	5%		Farmhouse ale brewed with Rhubarb, strawberry & fennel pollen and 100% fermented on chardonnay lees.
Embers	6.1%	red	Our reflection on the devastating bush season that hit East Gippsland inspired a red IPA with chewy malt & toffee notes and a firm backbone. Dry hopped for dank and citrusy punch.
Lemon Meringue Cream Sour	3.5%	cream sour	tart & creamy brewed with local lemons, lactose and vanilla

Beer	ABV	Style
Gipps St	5.2%	Pale Ale	An ale named after the street in Melbourne we call home, this has a deliciously big, tropical fruit American hop character.
Hop Stomper	6%	IPA	Named after a traditional hop baling technique, this juicy West Coast IPA is ripe with pineapple, citrus and grapefruit notes, and balanced with a strong backbone of pine and resin.
Key Lime Smash	4.2%	Fruit Gose	This limited edition smash is packed with real lime and a splash of lactose to give it a creamy mouthfeel reminiscent of key lime pie. Yum!
Fresh Hop Kveik	5.5%	IPA	The team up at Ellerslie Hop Farm invited us to come for a day of hop picking and with these fresh Melba and Astra varieties we brewed this Wet Hop IPA with Norwegian ale Yeast, Kveik The result, a fresh IPA bursting with citrus, passionfruit and a subtle spiciness. Happy Harvest.
Beerlini Peach IPA	6.5%	Brut IPA	This Peach Bellini cocktail inspired IPA is classy, modern brew packed with loads of fresh peach juice, citrus and tropical hop notes, and a crisp, dry finish. Brunch has never been so good!
Watermelon Smash	4.2%	Fruit Gose	Juicy, briney, and approachably sour, this watermelon gose-style beer is a perfect introduction to the Smash series.

Beer	ABV	Style
DDH Nebula	5.9%	Stong Pale ale
DDH Nebula - Double Fruit Edition	5.8%	Strong Pale Ale
Lemon Mertyl Sour	3.6%	Kettle Sour
Pink Peppercorn and Hibiscus Grisette	4.5%	Grisette
American Brown	5.4%	American Brown

Beer	ABV	Style
Urban Lager	4.7%	Munich Helles	With nothing to hide behind, this classic German-style pale lager is clean, malty, and slightly bitter, with a subtle, slightly spicy and floral aroma. A truly refreshing, every-day premium lager.
Urban Ale	4.5%	Pale Ale	Our Urban Ale is brewed with a combination of American and Australian hops. Vienna Malt brings honey and graham cracker notes while Australian wheat provides a more relaxed mouthfeel. We ferment it colder than a typical ale, resulting in a crisp, clean finish.

Beer	ABV	Style
XXXXPA	9.2%	Imperial IPA	If you're looking to step it up a bit, this tall tinnie is for you. Triple hopped with Mosaic, Galaxy, Kahatu and Nelson Sauvin, it's indulgently big, with eXXXtra hefty hops notes full of passionfruit, citrus and tropical fruits yet a light malt backbone. Triple XXX - Triple hopped - Triple your enjoyment.
Lark Barrel Aged Imperial JSP	13.9%	Barrel Aged Porter	Mark II of the Barrel Exchange Project with Lark Distillery see’s the release of the 2019 version of the Lark Barrel Aged Imperial Johnny Smoke Porter (JSP). This Imperial Smoke Porter was aged in 100L Lark barrels for an average of 9 months. The result is an Imperial Smoke Porter rich with whisky barrel aged flavours of vanilla, mocha, peat, dark chocolate, molasses, truffles and espresso.
XPA - Extra Pale Ale	4.7%	XPA	Extra Pale in colour with Extra hop aroma and flavour, Marris Otter and wheat malts in this XPA provide a sublte, biscuity malt background, supported by a a soft rounded bitterness. Mosaic, Centennial and Galaxy hops provide a firm hop aroma of passionfruit, citrus and tropical fruits. Clean and easy drinking for the hop lover.
Pacific Sour	4.1%	Tropical Sour	Bursting with lush tropical fruit flavours of pineapple, passionfruit, mango and guava, and finishing with a quenching tang from the kettle souring, this 4.1% session sour has your thirst covered. It's easy on the booze yet uncompromising in tropical hop aroma and juicy flavour. Take this Wolf to the Island Bar!
Homage India Pale Ale	6.0%	IPA	Sit down and savour with a meal or on its own, this solid IPA is indulgent and refreshingly 'big' - for those moments when you want to step it up a bit. Their name sake, Lupus Salictarius, pays homage to the humble hop, so only fitting that their heavy hop hitting IPA does as well. Paying homage to their love of West Coast India Pale Ales, this IPA bursts with resinous, tropical hops, a solid malt backbone and a firm bitterness.
PILS - Australian Pilsner	4.5%	Pilsner	Perfect for those days outdoors, getting active or socialising with friends, this Australian Pilsner is the 'Go to, No Fuss' Beer. Using Aussie Enigma hops and all Australian malts, this Pilsner is lagered to perfection. It displays clean stonefruit and floral aromas, a full mouthfeel, a dry crisp finish and a rounded bitterness. Refreshingly easy drinking.

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