I hope you’re getting excited! November 8 is the day, the former transport depot in Kingston is the place and beer day out’s second annual festival is the event set to shake and excite Canberra’s beer loving public.

A brewery who I am really excited to see at the beer day out is Western Australia’s very own benchmark brewery, Feral Brewing. Of course, the beer drinking public are in love with Feral Brewing and in particular, the Feral Brewing Hop Hog IPA. It’s less hoppy than a traditional American style IPA, but, for that, we just abbreviate it to a become a sessionable IPA; that is, an IPA which, for want of a better term, is an IPA you can drink a bunch of!

But the hop hog isn’t the only beer that this Swan Valley brewery does well, as a recent Feral Brewing tap takeover at the Transit Bar can attest to. The Sly Fox is a delicious, summer ale, with bursts of fruit, an easy drinking style and a higher carbonation, making for a great, refreshing drink, whilst their watermelon warhead is testament to what magic can still be made to get taste, flavour and aroma out of a low alcohol drop.

Their fantastically named Barrique O’karma is another perfect example of this brewery’s ability to transgress all styles of beer. Their take on Australia’s newest and most popular style of ale, the Black India Pale Ale (black IPA) is done to an absolute tee. This style of beer is very quickly taking Australia by storm, with popular incarnations done by Victorian breweries Kooinda and Prickly Moses. Expect rich, deep chocolate and coffee flavours, synonymous with a porter style of beer, but front loaded with a bag full of piney aroma and fruity tasting hops. It will be an absolute treat if the team at Feral Brewing are able to provide a couple of kegs of this beauty for the festivities on the 8th of November.

Of course, with the popularity of Feral Brewing (with the Hop Hog winning first prize in the hottest 100 beers of 2014 and 2013), their beers are becoming more and more readily available but suffice to say, the home of Feral Brewing still must be the Transit Bar (the first bar to really get behind the brewery in Canberra). Expect the lines to be long for Feral’s beers, but the wait to be worth it.

Adrian Moran has been pouring beers for over nine years and runs a weekly podcast devoted to craft beer
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