Matching Beer and Food with Bonnington

Here at Bonnington Brewery, we put a lot of thought into the matching of our handcrafted ales, lagers, porters and stouts with the large array of wonderful food available in this great brown land (or little green island as the case may be).

Tonight's combination, as recommended by Head Brewer and Chef, Larry Lowroader is Bonnington "Old Peculiarish" Ruby Ale with lamb chops and Silverbeet Spanikopita. Perfect for a summer's night when the wife's gone out for a DVD with friends.

Bonnington. It's Beer. With Food.

Not rain nor sleet nor.........

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........SNOW will stop the water getting through to Bonnington Brewery.

Bonnington CIDER is go

Andrew, Bonnington's contract Orchardist, loads the raw juice into the Brewery's dray.

In a new adjunct to beer brewing operations, Bonnington Brewery and associated entities today commissioned the fermentation of it's first batch of apple cider.

The Huon Valley orchards from where the juice is sourced. Click for full size.

With a secret mix of varieties sourced from the Huon Valley, south of Hobart, an initial quantity of 250 litres is now fermenting in locations scattered around the capital. Ready for drinking around Christmas 2009, we're anticipating a medium dry scrumpy of around 7% abv. Watch this space for progress.

There's an album of photos right here.

Bonnington. It's Beer. And Cider

Another Bonnington Batch hits the Bottle

Bonnington Brewery's batch #8, 26 bottles of Thomas Cooper's Sparkling Ale was run through the Brewery's Bottling and Packaging Unit today:

The batch has now been transferred for five days to our temperature-controlled Secondary Fermentation Unit
(Winter):

After which it will be moved to the Brewery's FIFO Maturation/Dispatch Unit:

Where it will stay until ready for drinking in about a month. In about a month, because here at Bonnington, we don't release a new batch until the last one's been drunk.

Bonnington. It's Beer.

The Bonnington Brewery Story: #1 - The Source

"At Bonnington Brewery we only source the water for our handcrafted beers from the pristine environment of Hobart's Mt Wellington."
Larry Lowroader, Founder, CEO, Head Brewer, Bottle Washer, Quality Tester, End User.

The Brewery's Mazda multi use tanker/dray at the filling point:

The Brewery's twin 25,000 mL tanks are filled with pure mountain water:

The filling point is at The Chalet, 270m underneath the mountain's summit:

and about 500m higher than our main competitor:



Bonnington. It's Beer.