Boatrocker Brewery Newsletter Spring 2013 View this email in your browser Spring is in the air and gee it's a great time to sit outside and have a few quiet ales! We've got some exciting limited releases hitting the shelves and more not too far away.

The month of October is a busy one with the Melbourne Festival and the Good Beer Showcase. November will see the Wiliamstown Beer Festival and the Bendigo Beer Festival....so get your diaries ready!! LIMITED RELEASES AVAILABLE NOW! Ramjet - a whopping 10.2% imperial stout aged in whisky barrels from the New World distillery. This is a fantastic beer to have after dinner or on a chilly spring night.



Sterk & Donker - this strong and dark Belgian has wonderful yeast notes, with our own Boatrocker candi syrup contributing aromas and flavours of figs and other dried fruits. It is drinking beautifully now but will age well if cellared carefully.



Misfit - this beer doesn't really belong to any style (hence the name), it is brewed with Belgian malts and a strain of yeast from the Ardennes. We then loaded it with old school hops (Saaz and Hallertau Mittelfrau). The beer is complex but very sessionable.

UPCOMING BEERS Keep an eye out for our yet to be named Berliner Weisse, this is a thirst quenching sour beer aged in chardonnay barrels and fermented with 2 strains of yeast and lactobacillus. Super refreshing on a hot and sunny day.



We have also got a Belgian summer stout aged on berries in Marsanne barrels. This is again a beautifully refreshing beer, although a fraction stronger at 6.2%. The raspberry aromatics and flavours really shine!



These beers will be released in the next month or so. MELBOURNE FESTIVAL The Melbourne Festival is almost here and the Foxtel Festival Hub bar almost complete on the banks of the Yarra.



Boatrocker will be giving away tickets to some shows over the next few weeks so tune into Facebook and Twitter to have a shot at winning. HOP RESEARCH PROJECT Boatrocker have embarked on our own hop breeding program. The aim will be to come up with new varieties of hops that we can use in our beers and hopefully provide us with new flavours and aromas. This will also give us a chance to do an array of wet hop ales at harvest time.



We are starting with 100 rhizomes and 10 different varieties. The male breeding stock will be grown at the brewery.

This is a long term project but we will keep you updated with progress and harvest events at the farm. THIS MONTH'S CHANCE TO WIN....... Boatrocker is giving away a mixed cube of Ramjet and Sterk & Donker. Get on Facebook and "like and share" the post to be in to win this seriously awesome and luscious prize. Facebook Twitter Website Share Tweet Forward to Friend