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A visit to Red Bay Brewery in Cleveland, QLD Australia. A micro-brewery that allows you to brew up your own beer and bottle it. They offered a tour and tasting day on Groupon and my husband and I enjoyed getting to know our way around the brewery and then the tasting afterwards.
[ Red Bay Brewery – tasting area and bottling area ]
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[ Brew kettles ] |
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[ Lager – wheat – dark ] |
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[ Water lines – the water comes from Stradbroke Island ] |
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[ Crystal Malt ] |
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[Fridge full of ingredients ] |
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[ Ingredients ] |
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[ Belgian candi syrup ] |
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[ Yellow malt – Carra malt – black malt – chocolate malt ] |
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[ Orange ] |
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[ Barrels of customers who are brewing their beer ] |
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[ Beer brewing ] |
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[ Customer’s beer brewing ] |
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[ Finished result – the keg ] |
Now onto the tasting
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[ Pear cider ]
[ Wilder Heffe ]
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[ Wilder Heffe ] |
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[ Vanilla Pub Ale ] |
[ English Bitter ]
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[ Ginger Beer ] |
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[ Four men light ] |
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[ Six of the beers (and cider) we tasted ] |
And onto the bottling
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[ Bottles draining ] |
I didn’t take any photos of the bottling process. We washed bottles and put them on the drainers to dry. We then filled the bottles and capped them, placing them into a cardboard box to take home.
Red Bay Micro-Brewery
7/77 Shore st West
Cleveland Qld. 4163
Ph 07) 3488 2739
Fx 07) 3488 2740
mybeer@redbaybrewery.com.au
TRADING HOURS
Tuesday 11am — 6:30pm
Wednesday 11am — 6:30pm
Thursday 11am — 7pm
Friday 11am — 7pm
Saturday 8am — 3:30pm
CLOSED –Sunday and Monday
redbaybrewery.com.au
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