We went for a road trip through Victoria and out to South Australia last year, taking in the Barossa Valley of course. A stop to check out the local brewery, and a few conversations later, we ended up distributing beer for this brewery throughout NSW and Queensland.
For the past couple of years at hop harvest time, the BVB team head to the local Hills Hop Farm to pick hops for a wet hop beer. The brewing team stayed at the brewery this time to commence the brew, while others including family members harvested around 60kgs of cascade hop cones and rushed them back to the brewery. An hour after the picking finished, the hops were in the fermenter!
The end product is the Hazy Heaven NEIPA. Tropical fruit aromas burst from the glass, with tangerine, orange and passionfruit at the fore. There is a fruity sweetness to the beer with a fairly low level of bitterness. It makes for a really easy drinking, well balanced and tasty hazy IPA that belies its ABV.
A tropical, juicy IPA with a bunch of American hops and oat flakes for a softer mouthfeel
A session NEIPA full of tropical fruit aroma and flavour from the Simcoe, Cascade and Flaconer's Flight hops
A double dry hopped NEIPA featuring Citra and Mosaic hops
A NEIPA by De Molen with Cryo Citra, Lemondrop, Simcoe and Mosaic hops
A new version of Kees' hazy IPA featuring Citra, Mosaic and Loral hops for a soft, juicy IPA
A really juicy, and very intriguing, single hop IPA using experimental hop HBC472
A fruited NEIPA with Mosaic, Simcoe and Ekuanot hops plus the addition of passionfruit and mango
A soft and juicy NEIPA using Mosaic, Citra and Loral hops
A new version of Uiltje NEIPA series 'My Life Span', featuring experimental hops
Barossa's collab. with Bucket Boys is this passionfruit and mango gose
Barossa's GABS entry for 2019 was the Peanut Butter Chocolate Milkshake stout. The name says it all!
