St Kilda Ale Stars - annual Road Trip locked in for Sat April 18!!!

Calling all St Kilda Ale Stars (and anyone else interested)!

The first annual Road Trip has been locked in for Saturday April 18th. It's going to be blast as we coach it down to the Yarra Valley and visit Coldstream Brewery, Hargreaves Hill restaurant/bar and the yet-to-be-opened and innovative White Rabbit Brewery.

The day costs only $70 which includes the coach trip, lunch and samples of beers at all three stops. The only other costs will be any additional beers you want to purchase. We may look at making a t-shirt for the occasion which you can order on the day at extra cost.

To book, you MUST prepay via our website blog (top right corner) via Paypal or credit card and remember that numbers are limited to just 45 so don't wait around!

Invite your friends, family, lovers, husbands, wives!

Here's the itinerary:

10am (sharp: Depart The Local Taphouse for Coldstream (75 mins)

11.15am – 12.30pm: Coldstream Brewery – sample their lager, bitter, porter and cider (4 x 120ml samples). Optional tour brewery and chat with brewer Rod. Purchase any more drinks if desired.

12.30pm – 1pm: Travel from Coldstream to Yarra Glen

1pm – 2.30pm: Lunch @ Hargreaves Hill restaurant in Yarra Glen (brewery burnt down in Victorian bushfires). Also sample their ESB, Pilsner, Hefeweizen and new Dunkelweizen (6 samples in total). Meet brewer Simon Walkenhorst

2.30pm: Travel from Yarra Glen to Healesville

2.45pm: White Rabbit Brewery in Healesville. Sample their beer and have tour of brewery (and open fermenters!) by brewer Dean McLeod

4.30pm: Depart White Rabbit Brewery for St Kilda

6pm: Arrive at The Local Taphouse

Menu for lunch @ HH (you choose 1!):

• Burger with a herbed beef patty, housemade caramelized onion jam, bacon, tomato and baby cos
• Pale Ale battered fish with chips, rocket salad and lemon aioli
• Salad of char grilled asparagus, avocado, pine nut, with oregano and ash goats cheese
• Spring Bay mussels pan tossed with pomodoro tomato sauce, garlic and chilli.