Pact Beer Co. are making the jump from the pub to the bottleshop. Pact’s Mt Tennent Pale Ale, named after the Tharwa mountain and inspired by local bushranger John Tennant, is now available in bottles across the ACT.

“The day we launched I had punters coming up to me asking me: ‘when is it in bottles? ‘when can I take this home?’,” said Brewer and co-founder Kevin Hingston.

“We’d always planned to move into bottles this year, but we definitely ramped up the timeframes due to demand. Three months ago, these sort of volumes we’re moving seemed a far way off, and frankly a little scary, but now it’s just a natural response to how much people are enjoying the beer and getting behind the brand.”

Pact initially supplied a small run of hand labelled bottles to select bottle shops, restaurants and cafes.

“The response was huge.” says Kevin. “Cafes and Restaurants were all clamouring to get on board, and the bottle shops like Plonk and Ainslie cellars kept selling out and ordering more every few days.”

Pact is on tap and in bottles at:

Ostani Bar, Hotel Realm, Barton
Muse Café and Bookshop, Kingston
Wilburs Bar and Cafe, Hackett
Courgette Restaurant, Canberra City
A Baker, Acton
Rubicon Restaurant, Griffith
Transit Bar, Canberra City

Meating Room, Weston
The Durham Castle Arms, Kingston
Knightsbridge Penthouse, Braddon
The Pot Belly, Belconnen
The Cupping Room, Canberra City
The Old Canberra Inn, Lyneham
The Hive Bar, Erskineville, NSW

Take Pact home at the following bottle shops:

Plonk Bottleshop, Fyshwick, ACT. Ainslie Cellars, Ainslie
Friendly Grocer, Cook Cellarbrations, Gunghalin
The Bottle-O, Queanbeyan Urban Cellars, Curtin