Our first BRISBANE container tasting!
A massive thank you to Luke from Soapbox Beer for making this night possible, offering up an area of the bar for us to enjoy this tasting.
We welcomed our most recent container just before Easter. With this container we introduce two new Polish breweries to the Australian market - Funky Fluid and Piwne Podziemie (Beer Underground). The spate of long weekends allowed time to taste a few of these new beers, and I can happily say they are awesome!
We always have new beers from De Molen and Uiltje, and I had to squeeze a couple of Belgians in just to stay true to our roots.
We've got so many new beers on this container it was tricky to decide on just 10, but here goes.
1. Funky Fluid Free Gelato: Mango Sticky Rice (0.5%) non-ABV ice cream sour with mango and coconut
2. Uiltje Red Shirt Rodeo Riding (5.7%) red IPA
3. Fantome Forte d'HIver (8.5%) strong winter saison with dark and pale malts, Challenger hops, white candi sugar and pepper
4. Beer Underground Double Ego (8.2%) double New England IPA
5. Funky Fluid Florida Vibes: Vibin' (7.2%) Florida weisse w/ white guava, mango and passionfruit
6. Uiltje Do Not Eat The Yellow Snow (8.9%) double IPA powered by Amarillo CGX hops
7. Funky Fluid Gelato XTREME: Verde (8.0%) turbo-fruited ice cream sour w/ banana, mango, white guava and kiwi
8. Beer Underground Katastorfa 2024 (6.0%) heavyweight peated dark ale
9. Dubuisson Bush Noel (12.0%) classic Belgian Christmas beer
10. De Molen Balcones 2024 Imperial Dopplebock (10.9%) an imperial dopplebock aged in Balcones whisky barrels
How's that for a night out?
When: Friday 16th May 2025
Arrive: from 6pm for a 6.15pm start to the tasting (or come in earlier and have a Soapbox warm up)
Where: Soapbox Beer - 89/101 Gipps Street, Fortitude Valley
Format: 10 x 100ml (approx) tasters of the above beers
Cost: $60.00 members, with a limited number of non-member tickets available for $70.00
Luke's kitchen is open so I'll organise some suitably tasty snacks to sustain you through the tasting.
Hoping to finally meet a few of our Brisbane members on the night!