Overview
Peach Gose. Märzen. White Stout. If you're unfamiliar with these particular beer styles, don't feel like you're alone. Craft beer aficionados Stockade Brew Co. relaunched late last year, with the Sydney-based brewery turning out seriously different and delicious bevs ever since. Their first creation, for example, was a fourteenth century Germany saison-style beer, brewed with 200 kilograms of peaches. So yeah, not the sort of thing you'll find at your average local pub.
Since then, Stockade has continued to set themselves apart from the pack. The brewery has a huge year coming up, with a new beer to be released each month. This will include a Märzen, another traditional German style beer, that is usually aged from March until September when it is released for Oktoberfest.
Their core range is receiving accolades as well, with the imperial stout winning big at the World Beer Awards last year. "When we relaunched, we wanted to make cool beers that we were excited to drink," says head of marketing Sascha Percuoco.
The upcoming Sydney's GABS Festival will be the right opportunity to try the new line, with six taps and six bottled beers on offer, including their special GABS beer – a white stout with cacao, big coffee notes and a bit of chilli and vanilla bean. "GABS is all about creating something different and kind of pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable for a beer," says Percuoco. Considering you can count the number of white stouts in the world on one-hand, we'd say they're heading down the right path.
Still to come in 2016 is a smoked jalapeño porter and next month's Red Light Robot IPA, the latter of which comes in a bottle whose graphics Percuoco describes as "too risqué for mainstream bottle shops." Now that we can't wait to see. They've also lined up a series of tap takeovers, tastings, and Instagram merch competitions – with a new line of hand-painted Stockade Converse and a series of skateboards up for grabs.