Craft brewing expands in Western Australia
In the rest of Australia, craft brewers may be scarce and few in between. Not so in Western Australia, a state ten times the size of the United Kingdom with only 1.8 million inhabitants. There craft brewing is alive and well writes John Harvey from Adelaide. At Fremantle (the seaport for Perth, the state’s capital) the Little Creatures Brewing Co made a very successful debut last year under the guidance of Phil Sexton, one of the pioneers of the small brewery movement in Australia in the 1980s. Early this year he launched Rogers’ Beer, an amber ale style beer at 3.8% ABV which is notable for a distinct hop character and named for two semi-retired stalwarts of mainstream Australian brewing - Roger Bailey and Roger Bussell - who were persuaded to bring their experience to its production.e..
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