2011 Beer Awards

The Hunter Beer Co. team have picked up 4 Silver & 3 Bronze medals at the 2011 Australian International Beer Awards!

Every beer entered picked up a medal which makes us in the brewery very happy campers.

For the record Silver medals were won by our Bock, Pale Ale, Banana Beer & Chocolate Porter!

For a complete set of results you can visit www.beerawards.com/results.asp

Happy tasting,

Keith
ps. a big congrats to Craig who was part of the team for two years before leaving to open his own brewery, the Thirsty Crow in Wagga. In his first year out he has won the Champion Hybrid Beer with his Vanilla Milk Stout - we can't wait to see what comes next!

Trainee wanted for the brewery

The Hunter Beer Co. is searching for a trainee.

This is an entry level position that would suit someone who enjoys sharing their passion about beer, has great communication skills and is unafraid of working long hours for very little money.

If you think this might be you send your resume to:

brewer@pottershbr.com.au.

Keith

Summer time

It's been a crazy summer this year and we wish a speedy recovery to all those affected by floods, fires or a cyclone.

We are brewing enthusiastically at the moment and will have a hefeweizen, brown porter and a chilli flavoured robust porter on tap by the end of the month.

The new bar is getting there and with fingers crossed it will be open by the end of the month.

Happy tasting,

Keith

Merry Christmas

It's December and that means Christmas beer.

Jess has brewed another batch of a delicious christmas pudding in a glass.

That the beer is completely unsuited to the warm weather this time of the year doesn't slow us down one bit.

In this year's brew the spices are a tiny bit more restrained which allows the malt complexity to add more depth to a quite big beer.

Merry Christmas to all,

Keith

Free postage deal

If you purchase 6 or more champagne sized bottles of Hunter Beer we will ship it anywhere in Australia for free.

This offer is valid for the month of August.

Use the discount code "FREIGHT" when you place the order on-line at www.hunterbeer.com.au

Champion Porter

1 Gold, 5 Silvers, 1 Bronze and the Champion Porter Trophy - that's the haul from our trip to this years' Australian International Beer Awards held in Mebourne.

And let me say - wowie kazowie! The brewery team are buzzing from the results and a big hats off to Jess for her Chocolate Porter. It will be some time before you can wipe the grins off our faces.

Our regulars also did well with the Kolsch, Pale & Bock picking up Silver medals and a Bronze went to our Lager.

On a personal note from me, many thanks both to the local homebrewing fraternity for their support, inspiration and assistance as well as to my friends in the craft brewing industry who have never hesitated to offer assistance, and the chance to share a beer, whenever the need arose.

Cheers and happy tasting,

Keith

HUB Brew Day

Just has the boys from the Hunter United Brewers (HUB) up for a brew day.

Was a pretty relaxed day and the guys had some fun & ended up walking away with their cubes of AIPA (Centennial and Amarillo earlier in the piece and Citra at flame out).

We will post some pics from the day on our web site.

I am looking forward to the next one.

Cheers,

Keith