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Tasmanian Craft Beer Association

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Decentric

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We have a Craft Beer Association in Tas, called Tasmanian Craft Beer Association.

It is a perfect climate for hop growing, so we have a lot of craft breweries per capita head of population. There are 86 members of the TCBA on Facebook. There were 87. I just banned one.

About 50 of us know each other, are mates and drink together.

Of the 86 members, not enough of us are doing reviews! One mate is travelling outside the state, for a long time and isn't accessing much Tassie craft beer. He is our best reviewer. Another mate hates FB, and won't post anything on it. He is my most reliable drinking mate.

So if you like craft beer and access any Tassie craft beers, you are welcome to join up. We need a few new faces. A few too many in the beer review posts have grey hair, no hair, little hair and are male!

If you aren't sure you know enough about beer to review, get in touch with me, and I will have likely drunk the Tas craft beer on tap. There are about 6 - 700 Tas craft beers. I can add technical details to your post.

If you only like Golden Lager from the mainstream breweries, like Fosters, Tooheys, XXXX, Swan, VB, Cascade, then TCBA isn't for you!

If you like any of sour ale, Kolsch, Hefenweizen, Marzen, Brown Ale, Red Ale, Golden Ale, Porter, Stout, Pale Ale, IPAs, Black IPA, Dark Ale, Pilsner, Black Lager, Belgian Ale, Wiezenboch, Kottbusser, Hazy New England Pale Ale ( USA) even craft beer lagers, this is a good site for you.

If you are happy to post a beer shot of you, plus mates, or partner/wife, drinking a Tas craft beer - good! If you are drinking a non-Tas beer let me know prior. Unless you love Trump and the LNP, if you are down this way contact me and I'll take you to a few craft breweries.

This looks like a promotion to recruit G and G members elsewhere. I'm doing my bit recruiting bookreaders to G and G ATM. I still have a few football recruits in mind too.

PS. I'm not an alcoholic! I'm a health food freak and exercise freak. We all need a vice and hobby!
 
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Decentric said:
We have a Craft Beer Association in Tas, called Tasmanian Craft Beer Association.

It is a perfect climate for hop growing, so we have a lot of craft breweries per capita head of population. There are 86 members of the TCBA on Facebook. There were 87. I just banned one.

About 50 of us know each other, are mates and drink together.

Of the 86 members, not enough of us are doing reviews! One mate is travelling outside the state, for a long time and isn't accessing much Tassie craft beer. He is our best reviewer. Another mate hates FB, and won't post anything on it. He is my most reliable drinking mate.

So if you like craft beer and access any Tassie craft beers, you are welcome to join up. We need a few new faces. A few too many in the beer review posts have grey hair, no hair, little hair and are male!

If you aren't sure you know enough about beer to review, get in touch with me, and I will have likely drunk the Tas craft beer on tap. There are about 6 - 700 Tas craft beers. I can add technical details to your post.

If you only like Golden Lager from the mainstream breweries, like Fosters, Tooheys, XXXX, Swan, VB, Cascade, then TCBA isn't for you!

If you like any of sour ale, Kolsch, Hefenweizen, Marzen, Brown Ale, Red Ale, Golden Ale, Porter, Stout, Pale Ale, IPAs, Black IPA, Dark Ale, Pilsner, Black Lager, Belgian Ale, Wiezenboch, Kottbusser, Hazy New England Pale Ale ( USA) even craft beer lagers, this is a good site for you.

If you are happy to post a beer shot of you, plus mates, or partner/wife, drinking a Tas craft beer - good! If you are drinking a non-Tas beer let me know prior. Unless you love Trump and the LNP, if you are down this way contact me and I'll take you to a few craft breweries.

This looks like a promotion to recruit G and G members elsewhere. I'm doing my bit recruiting bookreaders to G and G ATM. I still have a few football recruits in mind too.

PS. I'm not an alcoholic! I'm a health food freak and exercise freak. We all need a vice and hobby!
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FFS Decentric
 
Been alot of consolidation in the craft beer market in Sydney anyway the past few years. A lot of smaller breweries that rode the craft beer wave have gone under when the market finally determined that they were all churning out the same sweet, fruity shit.
 
erogenouszone said:
Been alot of consolidation in the craft beer market in Sydney anyway the past few years. A lot of smaller breweries that rode the craft beer wave have gone under when the market finally determined that they were all churning out the same sweet, fruity shit.
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The NSW average isn’t that good, despite some very good breweries.

I like fruity, citrusy IPAs, XPAs, Hazy Pales, but only occasionally sours.

People seem to love fruity flavour or detest it.

A few good local craft breweries have gone under too.

I like Endeavour in The Rocks area in Sydney - for a range of Beers. Took another G and G member in to it, who likes beer with very low hoppiness and bitterness. We got him drinking a malty, British style Amber Ale.
 
ashtongate said:
I don't know a single person who is remotely interested in craft beer,
Is this the new version of middle class wine snobbery?
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Intense flavours.

Craft Lager, Pilsners - breadish flavours, with a modicum of hops, sometimes notes if honey, but more taste than mainstream golden lagers.

Pale Ales, IPAs, Hazies - fruity/citrus front and middle palate, hoppy finish. No malt flavour.

Amber Ales, Brown Ales - malty, roasted malt grain, and often sweeter, caramel, biscuit, toffee flavours. No fruitiness or citrus.

Porters/ Stouts/ Dark Ales/ Dark Lagers/ Black IPAs - roasted malt grain, sometimes molasses flavour, coffee, chocolate, sometimes vanilla essence or lactos for a sweeter beer, sometimes a hoppier, bitter finish. Strong flavours!

Hefs, Kottbusser, Wiezenbochs- sweeter beers, banana, cloves type flavours, sometimes notes of honey, using wheat grain.

I know about 50 beer drinkers face to face, who love some of, or all of these flavours.

Mainstream golden lager tastes like water, with metallic chemicals from the preservatives. They use basically 1 hop. Designed not to offend beer drinkers. They offend me - no flavour!

About 50 different hops are used in craft beers - which have pronounced stronger flavours.
 
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Decentric said:
The NSW average isn’t that good, despite some very good breweries.

I like fruity, citrusy IPAs, XPAs, Hazy Pales, but only occasionally sours.

People seem to love fruity flavour or detest it.

A few good local craft breweries have gone under too.
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I'm definitely in the not like the sweet, fruity, hoppy, hazy nonsense which is not limited to NSW. If you have to infuse your beer with every flavour under the sun then your base ingredients are sub par & I question the brewer competency in general. However at the time that is what the market wanted for some reason so they got a quid whilst it was on and the free market determined that a fad was a fad. C'est la vie. The ones that are left survived for a reason however this fruity shyte ain't my cup of tea.
 
I know a guy, a friend of a friend who opened a boutique 'brewpub' in Brisbane, just over the road from the Gabba cricket ground in 2020.

It was called 'Easy Times Brewing Co' and along with his girlfriend and his brother they put everything they had into the start up including selling the couple's house...

Opening amidst the global pandemic with huge restrictions on the hospitality industry must have been quite a challenge for them but I went there a few times in the early days and it was great. I tend to stick with pilsners and lagers and maybe the occasional pale ale but they had quite a few different beers on tap and in loads in cans.

Unfortunately it went into administration in 2022 and from what I’ve been told they owed creditors the thick end of half a million bucks!!

After administration it was taken over by a new management team and they were able to keep it all going but with a much smaller product range. I think the original owners would have lost their shirt on this venture for sure...
 
Long live hazy IPAs and all sorts all sorts of weird and wonderful flavours.

Drinking dross like great northern your whole life like some blokes do is akin to only eating vanilla in a 40 flavour ice cream shop. Why would you?

Only been to Tasmania once. Had craft beers in some pub in Hobart with a bus in the beer garden and at a town called Deloraine. Can't remember the pub name. (Oh yeah and on Bruny Island.)

I will actively seek out craft breweries when travelling in Australia or overseas. Believe or not Vietnam has a rocking craft beer scene which I found out when I went there last year.

New Zealand was miles ahead of us 2 decades ago but fortunately we're catching up.

Anything over 6.5% alcohol can get in the bin though. Very difficult to make a decent very alcoholic beer.

Im also a huge fan of German Weissbeers. Delish.

Buggered if I know why this is coming in sideways. It's fine on my device.

Heart of darkness. Saigon.

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I can join, not sure if what I drink counts as craft. I'm a bit of a sweet tooth (I have ice cream in my morning coffee :-D)

so I tend to like fairly sweet beers. Traditional ales (not IPAs) in England, Milk stouts, Bavarian Hells, Belgium blondes, Anything on tap at an Izakaya because Japanese beer is pretty awesome on top (but weirdly terrible in a supermarket)
 
If I'm going to Dan Murphy I'm tending to buy a cartoon of a mainstream European beer around the $60 mark. Maybe Stella, Peroni or sometime's I've been getting Estrella Damm the Barcelona beer. I like European pilsners.

If I'm buying an Australian beer it's usually James Boag's Premium, James Squire's Broken Shackles or one of the Cooper's....

Admittedly I'm not particularly sophisticated in my beer tastes but I'm happy with that . If I'm in a bar or pub I'll be a bit more adventurous and often try something different.
 
I'm no massive beer fan all my time to date.
I don't know how some can consume so much beer, bloats my guts, 1/2 beers at the max for me and in warm weather bugga when its cold temps.
Beers to my liking is light coloured and fresh, bugga the dark or crafts always find the tastes meh.
CCD is another regular beverage and as the marketing goes when you don't like beer.
I grew up with vino and far prefer that poison - my general go to to wash down dinner is a general table red with a dash of sprite/lemonade :)
Have a good wine cellar for the serious times no mixing.
D - I'd sooner knock back the many good Pinots Tassie harvest, have hit a few of your wineries.
Ports, luv ports and stickys.
 
Muz said:
Long live hazy IPAs and all sorts all sorts of weird and wonderful flavours.

Drinking dross like great northern your whole life like some blokes do is akin to only eating vanilla in a 40 flavour ice cream shop. Why would you?

Only been to Tasmania once. Had craft beers in some pub in Hobart with a bus in the beer garden and at a town called Deloraine. Can't remember the pub name. (Oh yeah and on Bruny Island.)

I will actively seek out craft breweries when travelling in Australia or overseas. Believe or not Vietnam has a rocking craft beer scene which I found out when I went there last year.

New Zealand was miles ahead of us 2 decades ago but fortunately we're catching up.

Anything over 6.5% alcohol can get in the bin though. Very difficult to make a decent very alcoholic beer.

Im also a huge fan of German Weissbeers. Delish.

Buggered if I know why this is coming in sideways. It's fine on my device.

Heart of darkness. Saigon.

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Join up, Muz!

Love New England Hazies! Combination of wheat, barley, and in this style oat grains, devoid of any malt flavour. Nectar from the Gods!

Some Tassie hops, Galaxy, Tassie grown Cascade, Eclipse, Enigma, and the NZ hop, Nectaron, are even starting to supplant Mosaic, Amarillo Cintra from the US for this style.

Next time you are down here I’ll take you to a few CBs.
 
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LFC said:
I'm no massive beer fan all my time to date.
I don't know how some can consume so much beer, bloats my guts, 1/2 beers at the max for me and in warm weather bugga when its cold temps.
Beers to my liking is light coloured and fresh, bugga the dark or crafts always find the tastes meh.
CCD is another regular beverage and as the marketing goes when you don't like beer.
I grew up with vino and far prefer that poison - my general go to to wash down dinner is a general table red with a dash of sprite/lemonade :)
Have a good wine cellar for the serious times no mixing.
D - I'd sooner knock back the many good Pinots Tassie harvest, have hit a few of your wineries.
Ports, luv ports and stickys.
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I like Pinots too - Noir and Gris.

I note you like Lagers, Pilsners and sometimes Pales. A bit to work with there, LFC!
 
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