Headed to Surry Hills Festival? Don’t miss out on Flower Power – the official beer of the festival brewed by Yulli’s.

Yulli’s Brews have unveiled their latest beer: Flower Power Chamomile Pale Ale. An English pale in style, the 4.7% ABV tea beer is described as having a “light biscuity malt profile with a rounded bitterness before the Chamomile does all the work at the back end of the palette.”

Yulli’s Crown Street restaurant is located in the centre of bustling Surry Hills and has been a local favourite on the scene for years, serving delicious vegan and vegetarian fare alongside flavoursome, experimental beers.

Speaking of their close relationship with the area, Karl Cooney from Yulli’s said: “Us and the Surry Hills Festival are old friends. We brewed our first ever beer at our restaurant Yulli’s on Crown Street. Having a venue in the heart of Surry Hills meant that we were always an active part of the festival.”

A celebration of local arts and culture, the Surry Hills Festival will showcase the best in local and national talent with live music and art installations across Ward Park, Devonshire Street, Shannon Reserve and Crown Street with colourful laneway exhibitions, pop up creative spaces, and lots more.

Coffee beers and breakfast stouts have been a staple style for a while, with a range of tasty, caffeinated dark beers on the market to tempt the taste buds. Tea beer infusions have not always gone so hand in hand; but over the years, they have grown in popularity around the world, with notable brews turning the tide by adding a bit of earl grey to the mix. US brewery Left Hand Brewing Co. created a Chai Milk Stout version of their famous nitro stout, UK brewery Siren brewed the earl grey and lemon zesty Vermont Tea Party and New Zealand’s Yeastie Boys brewed their cult favourite Gunnamatta. In Australia, Merchant Brewery created the popular floral blonde Earl Pear.

Karl said: “We’ve brewed beers for previous festivals and so when we started chatting to the gang this year and they mentioned the flower theme, we got thinking. We’ve been enjoying messing round with teas, earl grey was always too perfume-y for us and we wanted a beer that had a greater flower vibe. We did a chamomile test brew and wanted to re explore and this felt right!”

You can try the beer for yourself at various venues across Surry Hills (full list below,) at the Yulli’s restaurant and at their new brewery space in Alexandria. Yulli’s will also be hosting a tap takeover after party at The Forresters pub on Crown Street, with vinyl DJs from 4 pm.

Surry Hills Festival Flower Power Venues:

The Shakespeare

The Horse

The Clock

Chin Chin

Cricketers Arms

Dove and Olive

Keg and Brew

Strawberry Hills Hotel

Still thirsty? Check out the Sydney Beer Week 2018 programme here.