Australia’s hottest craft beer topped

Almost two thousand completely different beers from over 4 hundred Australian craft breweries attracted votes within the sixteenth annual GABS hottest 100 Craft Beer ballot. After tens of 1000’s of votes had been counted, Mountain Tradition Beer Co’s Standing Quo Pale Ale has been topped Australia’s favorite craft beer for the second 12 months operating.

The brewery was based in 2019 in NSW’s Blue Mountains area by husband-and-wife staff DJ and Harriet McCready. It has skilled a fast rise within the native craft beer scene in only a few years, with a well-liked core vary and frequent limited-release brews interesting to drinkers throughout the nation.

Two earlier champions took the second and third positions on the rostrum: Mick Fanning’s Gold Coast’s Balter XPA received silver and Canberra’s BentSpoke Crankshaft IPA received bronze. It’s only the third time within the historical past of the ballot the highest three positions have been repeated in the identical order because the earlier 12 months.

The Prime 10 had two new entrants in WA’s Gage Roads Brewing Co Single Fin and SA’s Pirate Life Brewing’s South Coast Pale Ale, becoming a member of Victoria’s Bridge Roads Beechworth Pale Ale, SA’s Coopers Brewery Authentic Pale Ale together with NSW’s Stone & Wooden Brewing Co’s Pacific Ale and Younger Henrys Newtowner.

63 completely different breweries have been represented within the Prime 100, with 28 new contenders making the listing.

NSW breweries took out the bragging rights of most beers showing on the Hottest 100 listing with 27 beers on the listing and Queensland had 24. A robust resurgence from Victoria noticed them shut the hole with 22, WA took out 11 spots with ACT and SA each taking eight positions.

In response to the award organisers, the preferred new beer launched in 2023 was Balter Brewing Co’s Cerveza, which made the listing forward of Mountain Tradition’s 2023 Summer time Pale Ale collaboration beer with USA’s Sierra Nevada and Heads of Noosa’s Black Japanese Lager.