Wanna go to Camden Town?

Camden Town Brewery has hit our shores and we're showcasing their finest on tap, so come in for a few Britney Spears!

On tap:

* Hells Lager

* USA Hells (Unfiltered Lager)

* Pale Ale

* Gentlemen's Wit (Lemons & Bergamot)

* Camden Ink Stout (Nitro Sparkler)

Burleigh Brewing Co comes to St. Kilda Ale Stars

One of Queenland's great craft breweries, Burleigh Brewing Co is our guest this November Ale Stars. Join Brewmaster Brennan Fielding as we sample four of his delicious beers.

Date: Tue, Nov 19th
Time: 7pm
Cost: $40 includes beer & food
Tickets: Click here

The line up includes:

Hassle Hop Pale Ale
Figjam IPA
Hef - award winning beer at World Beer Cup 2012 "German Wheat Beer" category
My Wifes Bitter - English Bitter.

Looking forward to it - see you there!

 

Illawarra Brewing & The Local present Hawaiian Cookie Golden Ale

Illawarra Brewing Company & The Local Taphouse present the sophomore release in their collaboration series, and it is set to outshine the award-winning CHUCK NORRIS American Red Ale.

The HAWAIIAN COOKIE Golden Ale is a beer of summertime passion. The Pacific Rim hops deliver a tropical aroma that rings out like the song of a Polynesian siren, leading into a biscuity malt backbone reminiscent of your grandma’s Anzac bikkies, and finishes with a fresh mouth-feel that will no doubt blur the boundaries of platonic love like Blue Lagoon.

This is your excuse to bust out your Hawaiian shirt and in return we’ll give you a free pint and get you lei’d (excuse the pun..)

Sydney troubadours, Tropical Zombie will provide the entertainment in main bar from 9pm with their sun-kissed guitar licks, jungle-percussive bursts and dual lead vocals.

From 6pm the Rooftop Terrace will host the official launch and we’ll be turning it into a faux-tropical haven... so tropical in fact, you better start your Malaria meds now!!

DETAILS:

Thursday 17th October, 6pm

We set the table again for Brewers & Chewers

Our annual flagship event, Brewers & Chewers returns this year with an amazing lineup of guests from abroad and our own backyard. 

Hosted by the inimitable Professor Pilsner; the evening combines the elements of Meet the Brewer sessions, an intimate dinner party, and speed dating with musical chairs.  

This year we have invited 7 guest brewers to join 7 tables, and they rotate every 20 minutes. Lucky guests will be dining and chatting with brewing 'royalty', drinking delicious beers from said 'royalty', and enjoying a delicious 4 course menu around.

All beers on the night are included, and this is what we have:

Two Birds 'Taco'

Feral 'White Hog'

Nail 'Imperial Brown Ale'

Kooinda 'Mosaic Pale Ale'

Moon Dog 'Love Tap'

Bridge Road 'Umami Ale'

Nail 'Clout Stout'

Garage Project (Beer TBA)

DETAILS:

Thursday 24th October, 6:30pm

Tickets are still available, so book HERE and get in quick!

Ale Stars with Moon Dog

For this month we are hosting a special Ale Stars with the elusive Moon Dog Brewery from the rustic Abbotsford factory in back streets of inner-city Melbourne.

Moon Dog has been consistently unleashing a new breed of beer onto the Australian beer-loving public; blended styles, barrel aging, wild fermentation, while using some weird and wonderful ingredients. The beers are style-agnostic and irreverent with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek, and an attitude that says “Who cares? It’s only beer.”

We will be discussing (and drinking) the following beers; with dinner included:

Love Tap – Double Lager – 5.9%

Bock Naked – Dark German Lager with Chipotle – 7.7%

Mummy Have A Bite – Toffee Apple Amber Ale – 8.2%

Jumping the Shark – Cognac Barrel Aged truffled Imperial Stout – 15.5%

DETAILS:

Tuesday 22nd October, 7pm

Free entry for Ale Stars or BOOK ONLINE

UNCHAIN THE MOON DOG!!

St. Kilda celebrates Good Food Month this November with great events!

Bring on The Age Good Food Month this November!

We're thrilled to be involved with this fabulous month long event celebrating great food and beverages across 4 cities!

Each Sunday in November, we'll host a Spring Sunday Roast lunch on the terrace from 12-3pm.

Choose your meat and we'll do the rest! Only $38 and includes a drink on arrival and a delicious roast lunch with all the trimmings.

Bookings are essential from minimum 2 people to maximum 60 people. More information can be found here

Fancy learning more about matching your beers & food?

Join us on Thu, Nov 21st for "A Heavenly Pairing: An Introduction to Beer & Food Matching" where 5 great beers are paired with 5 food dishes. Learn about contrasting and complementary flavours and get more out of your food and beer experience. Open to novices right through to enthusiasts

Tickets are $65 and are available here

Download the full Good Food Month guide here and looking forward to enjoying a month of great food across Melbourne.

The SpecTAPular British & Irish Lions come to Darlo and show us a roaring good time!

Now that all the games are done, the bruises have their ice-packs and the sea of red are going home victorious it's time to reminisce...

This month, there was an event like no other. It united rival nations under the one roof. That's right. Britain against Australia, at the Local Taphouse's UK vs AUS SpecTAPular.

Featuring 10 amazing craft beers on tap from the UK, and 10 awesome Aussie beers on tap, as well as a handpump pulling an English-style Cask Conditioned Real Ale (brewed at The Australian Brewery), it was a beer event like no other.

Everyone here got involved in a big way, we were visited by The Queen herself as well as the Spice Girls, Lions and Braveheart. 

But the big question on everyone's lips was "Who won?"

It's hard to say, but I think we can all agree that Beer was the winner on the day.

 

  

VIDEO: Mark & Steve - An Ale in 2 Cities...

So I'm sitting here with Steve (of Steve and Mark Catsart fame) and he's just taught me how to embed a youtube vid.... it's of their recent experience of the two SpecTAPulars and the footage thereof. If you see Steve, ask him how he felt at around 4am in the morning. Let me know what he says.

So here goes...