Struck early by the goodwill of the holiday season, we’ve bundled up a collection of our favourite products for a bargain price. Only for a limited time, you get three bottles of Pacific Ale, three bottles of Lager, an Ingredients t-shirt, a Stone & Wood glass, booklet and iron-on patch. That’s over $80 worth of stuff, sent to your front door for just $65. The perfect gift pack for someone else or maybe even yourself? Please allow between five to seven working days for shipping within Australia. Offer only available until December 11, otherwise we might not be able to get everything to you before Xmas. Ordering is easy, just head over to our Shop page and click the link.

We’re proud to say that our Pacific Ale has been voted as Australia’s best beer by a panel of respected industry members in The Critics Choice: Australia’s Best Beers, the latest beer book to hit the shelves.

We don’t enter our beer into competitions or awards because our brews don’t fit into the tightly defined pigeon holes that are used to judge them and we just aren’t driven by them anyway. So for our Pacific Ale to be voted the number one beer in the country by thirty nine brewers, beer writers, and bar and bottle shop operators is just a bit overwhelming really, especially given the quality and diversity of the beers that made the top 100.

It’s been five years this week that we have been working on building Stone & Wood and nearly two and a half years since we started brewing. We now have our beers in a lot of the good bars and bottle shops around the country, and continue to work hard at producing beer of a consistent quality that is simply good to drink. We were struggling to keep up with demand over summer so we recently pushed the button on another upgrade to the brewery, which will give us an increase of about 40% in our production capacity.

September 2008 - new toys in the shed

Our Pacific Ale is an example of our philosophy of letting the best ingredients shine through in our beers. Galaxy is a new world hop that produces those renowned tropical fruit characters and Pacific Ale really takes those flavours and puts them out on the stage for all to see.

Getting this type of endorsement from our peers in the industry certainly puts a bit of a spring in our step and we really want to thank the members of the panel for their recognition and the huge number of people who have congratulated us on the win for their kind words of encouragement.

But this accolade and all that we have achieved so far could not have been possible without the support of our small team at Stone & Wood, family, friends, good customers and the many people who have been buying our beer, so to you guys (and you know who you are) a massive thanks for all the help on the ride so far.

Anyway, we need to get back to brewing and introducing people to craft beer, so take it easy and we’ll catch you later.

Cheers

Jamie, Brad and Ross

Here’s your chance to get caught red handed and win a carton of beer. It’s time to roll out our latest brew which we have put together to raise funds for our northern brothers in Queensland who have been belted by mother nature over the last few months.

The dark red ale called Red Relief will make its debut tomorrow (12th Feb) at the Great Australian Beer Spectapular at The Local Taphouses in Melbourne and Sydney, and then flow across the bars of good beer pubs around the country next weekend.

So get involved and help out by simply drinking a Red Relief!

Don’t forget to take a pic of yourself drinking a glass of our latest, post it and tag Stone & Wood Brewing on facebook for your chance to win a carton of our beer.

Check the where to get it page of our website next week to see where it will be flowing.

Cheers