Beer Radar<\/p>\n
By John Kr\u00fcger<\/p>\n
Stone & Wood<\/p>\n
(First published by Wine Business Magazine in 2010)<\/p>\n
This month we\u2019re having a closer look at Stone & Wood<\/strong> from Byron Bay. A while back we looked at their Pale Lager, which is a very light, very soft quaffable Munich Helles style lager. We\u2019ve recently had the chance to try two more of their beers fresh on tap recently and can totally understand why there\u2019s so much excitement in the Aussie beer scene at the moment.<\/p>\n Apart from being a great bloke, Brad Rogers the chief brewer for Stone & Wood has a great attitude to making beer; it has to be drinkable. That doesn\u2019t sound like rocket science but so many modern brewers are getting carried away with mega imperial India Pale Ales and the like, they\u2019re hopped beyond belief and are verging on undrinkable. Sure they\u2019re different and powerful, but here in the Beer Radar office we like to have more than one beer before our taste buds have been paralysed and the enamel stripped from our teeth. Quite a few beers in succession over a yarn in a hospitable hotel is still one of life\u2019s simple luxuries.<\/p>\n This is where Stone & Wood have done things just right. Their simple draught ale has a wonderful prominent hop presence, but you could drink it for hours. In fact, we did! It\u2019s a wonderfully fruity ale with Galaxy hops bursting out of the glass thanks to some generous dry hopping. It\u2019s a beer with a delicious hop character and a cleansing dry finish. Perfect balance, yet still a bold modern beer.<\/p>\n The second beer we tried was their Stone Beer. We\u2019ve tried the bottled version before, which we loved, but draught beer is like meeting the movie star in person instead of just seeing them on a screen. Stone beer is a unique project where Brad and his crew go old-school in the beer making process, building a fire and getting appropriate rocks scalding hot before adding them to the unfermented beer wort. In the old days, it was a way of getting it to boil without having to heat a kettle. It sounds like a lot of hassle instead of just lighting a gas burner or turning on a heating element, but the wort caramelises around the hot rock, creating extra toffee flavours and complexity. It\u2019s another very drinkable beer.<\/p>\n The Stone & Wood beers are available at a surprising amount of locations around Australia. Check out their website for an ever growing list of pubs with their beers on tap. They\u2019re great in the bottle, but for us, nothing beats a fresh pint or three.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.stoneandwood.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beer Radar By John Kr\u00fcger Stone & Wood (First published by Wine Business Magazine in 2010) This month we\u2019re having a closer look at Stone & Wood from Byron Bay. A while back we looked at their Pale Lager, which is a very light, very soft quaffable Munich Helles style lager. We\u2019ve recently had the … Continue reading Stone & Wood 2010<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-craft-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}