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Sticky Nectar and Tequila Queen are back in the can!

All Stars Favourites Make A Comeback

Winners announced!

Sticky Nectar and Tequila Queen, two players in the craft beer game, are back to thrill and delight fans once more after taking out the Counter Culture All Stars MVBs.

Thousands of your votes lead to a neck-and-neck finish between these two titans of Counter Culture who are now gearing up for another round in the cans.

Hazy IPA, Sticky Nectar, made its debut almost two years ago, but time away from the game clearly hasn’t dulled the memory of its fruity glory. Bursting with hops and truckloads of mango, Sticky barnstormed the finish line, with only the Queen in close competition.

In her first season out, Oak Aged Margarita Sour, Tequila Queen, was such a deadly delight she had legions of drinkers heading for the sin bin just to knock one back. The Citrus Steamroller ploughed through her competitors to clinch the All Stars title, the Queen has once again claimed her crown.

Ready for their victory lap, Sticky and the Queen are heading back into the field at the end of the month, ready to dominate taps and beer fridges across the country for a very limited season.

Special mentions for the rest of the comp must go to Counter Culture original, Killer Kween, who put in an amazing effort despite being the oldest in the field and Reinvigam8 who never really got off the bench, but thanks for showing up anyway mate.

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Availability

Sticky Nectar and Tequila Queen will be on tour at venues and bottle shops across the country from Monday 24 May. Stay tuned to find out where.

In the meantime, be sure to sign up to the Counter Culture newsletter and follow @counterculturebeer to hear about each release first.

Festival of the Stone Returns This June

Join us for our biggest event of the year

A neighbourhood party of epic proportions, we’re thrilled to announce the return of Festival of The Stone to our Byron Brewery, Saturday 5 June!

With live music and food trucks on-site, our family-friendly festival is set to welcome in the colder months ahead, as our prized winter limited release, Stone Beer, waits for the pour behind the bar.

With our music line-up soon to be announced, a portion of every ticket sold will be going back into supporting the community via the inGrained Foundation, our charity organisation.

The pride of the festival, Stone Beer – a wood-fired porter – will be yours for the drinking alongside all of your other Stone & Wood favourites, Sunly Seltzers and new kid on the block, Little Dragon ginger beer.

For those who call the Northern Rivers home, it’s time to come for a dance and enjoy the good times. For those further afield, it’s time to make the beer pilgrimage east as the mighty Stone Beer makes its brief return.

An epic line-up of bands and DJs will be hitting the stage featuring:

JK-47 | SEASIDE | TAYA

The Hombres | The Booty Affair | Casimir 

Cashew | Club Raiders DJs | Richie Carter

Ticket sales contribute to the donation amount for the chosen local charity. Grab your tickets via Eventbrite.

BUY TICKETS

Stay tuned to our Event page or Instagram and Facebook for updates!

Festival of the Stone
Festival of the Stone
Russian Choir Dustyesky stealing the show – Festival of the Stone 2019

Introducing Little Dragon Ginger Beer

Alcoholic Ginger Beer Joins the Family.

A LITTLE SPICE, A LITTLE BITE, A LITTLE DRAGON.

For those parched for a drink with a little zing in its tail, say G’day to Little Dragon, a refreshing Aussie take on alcoholic ginger beer available nationally from today.

We think Little Dragon is the cheeky thirst-quencher this sunburnt country has been crying out for. Gluten-free, made with natural ginger and a 4% bite, this well-natured little sidekick is perfect for kicking back at home or spicing it up on a night out.

But filling your fridge is not the only thing Little Dragon is about. As the native dragon takes pride of place in everything we do, we thought it was only right to repay this little Aussie legend by supporting wildlife care and conservation organisations.

Before Little Dragon even made its escape from the brewery gates, we donated $10,000 to Australian Wildlife Conservancy. Moving forward, our aim is to donate 1% of all net revenue back to similar foundations and charities every financial year.

Good natured and loosely nurtured, Little Dragon is here.

Availability

You can wrap your laughing gear around a Little Dragon by heading to bottle shops and venues around the country which you can track down here, or by heading online to Little Dragon.

Visit Little Dragon

Stone Brew Day – Our annual tradition

Paying homage to the ancient ways of brewing

Due to the global events of last year, our annual tradition and brewing ritual, Stone Brew Day 2020 was wound back. Although we kept the fire burning last year…Just…It was very exciting to see the return of an event that brings our close friends from the beer community together, to help us prepare our annual Stone Beer for 2021 – a limited woodfired porter that we release every winter. 

At Stone Brew Day, we honour this tradition by heating stones on a woodfire and – while they’re glowing red – lowering them inside a metal cage into the wort (the pre-fermented liquid that later ferments into beer) inside the kettle, lending Stone Beer a rich, caramelly flavour that matches the hints of coffee and dark chocolate – a tradition we have upheld since our humble beginnings back in 2008.

This year we hosted a handful of our close mates and local venues including The Beach Hotel, Brunswick Heads Hotel, Eltham Hotel, Cellar Byron Bay, The Northern, Sun Bistro, The Rails, Nimbin Hotel and Beach Byron Bay. The small local crew enjoyed some beers & conversation, great food by 100 Mile Table and learned the process and history of Stone Beer. 

SAVE THE DATE – FESTIVAL OF THE STONE

As Stone Beer sits in tank now, we’re getting excited, as Festival of the Stone is also making a return this year! Festival of the Stone will be held on Saturday 5th June at Stone & Wood Brewery in Byron Bay. Tickets will go on sale on Friday 7th May. Stone Beer will be flowing alongside all of our Stone & Wood beers, Sunly Seltzer, Little Dragon Ginger Beer, Treehouse Cider and Fixation. A full line up of local bands will be bringing the vibes PLUS DJ sets, Malt Disney for the kids and much more! Profits from the festival will go to local non-for-profits. Get in quick, as tickets always sell out before the night!

Our winter Stone Beer will be available to pre-order 31 May. Stay tune for updates.

The hot rocks ready to drop into the brew
Sully and Timmy up on the brew deck

Our Hazy East Point Beer

Responsible drinking starts with our East Point Low-Alcohol Beer

It’s no secret that hazy beers are the go-to choice for craft beer lovers these days. Made from malted barley, wheat and hops, there is no shortage of flavour in here. What you get instead is a pale ale that packs more tropical flavours than you know what to do with.

Best of all, you don’t even have to be a keen beer fan to enjoy one.

What makes a hazy beer?

Hazy beers get their name from the ‘cloudy hue produced by the type of yeast used. High-protein malts are added, and the beer is dry-hopped during the brewing process to produce a hazy-look.

This results in a beer that is fuller, smoother, and fruitier tasting than your average Indian Pale Ale or lager. You can easily tell a hazy apart from the clear, sparkling finish of your old man’s favourite beer.

The hazy beer’s roots can be traced back to a fairly recent subclass of IPAs known as New England IPAs (NEIPAs). As the name suggests, the origin story begins in the New England region in the North East of the USA (Vermont to be exact) where beers in this category are known for their juicy scents and tangy flavour.

Over time, the “haze craze” took over the local craft beer scene doing the rounds, before eventually making its way over to our shores in the early part of the last decade.

Introducing the first low-alc hazy

Our East Point hazy beer is the first low-alcohol beer on the market, coming in at just 2.7% alc/vol. When less is more, this lightly soured refreshment quenches the thirst without skimping out. We like to think of it like when salt spray lifts off the wave, hits your face and lingers in the air
Inspired by Australia’s most easterly point, near which our Byron Bay brewery is located, the low-alc hazy beer is perfect for long afternoons, midday sessions or anything else that calls for a responsible approach.

Hazy Brewing Notes

We brew the East Point onsite, using the protein and polyphenols from malts and hops to form a colloidal haze in the beer. The particular type of haze is considered non-biological due to the lack of bacteria and yeast agents here.

The combination of fresh ingredients and a distinctive brewing process gives it that zesty bomb and subtle sourness that you love, without the unintended “after-effects” (you know what we’re talking about).

Availability

Pick up the East Point online in 16x 375ml cartons. You can also grab a four-pack from our Byron bay Tasting Room and our brewery in Brisbane and online. This smaller sampler pack is ideal for getting your first taste of this unique low alcohol hazy beer!

Peachy Cheeks Now Available

Our Peach Bellini Sour is ready to get down

Attention party people! Mx Cheeks has arrived.

With her bubbly nature and fruity asides, Peachy may seem sweeter than a Kylie float in Mardi Gras, but party guest beware, she also has a refreshing zing that will come at you like a salty slap. Mx Cheeks is from Byron after all.

The brainchild of Counter Culture and Northern Rivers LGBTQIA+ organisation, Queer Family Inc, Peachy is a sassy Bellini sour, that pours sweet layers of peach, mango and apricot puree over a pale and wheat malt, Blue Lake rolled wheat base, rounded out with a lactic sour pitch and ready to roll at 6.69% ABV.

Aiden Gentle (they/them), Managing Director at Queer Family said about Peachy, “Peachy Cheeks is a perfect representation of a queer character, particularly a local queer character. When we were imagining her, she was fun, she was summery, she was local and timely. She’s running down the beach, she wears heels if she wants to. She’s fun, she’s lively, she’s queer.”

Watch our latest Counter Culture video

Get to know Nina Hurr, our Counter Culture collab artist and designer of the Peachy Cheeks can art.

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Availability

Peachy Cheeks is now available at vibing bottle shops and venues around the country. You can jump on the Beer Finder to discover your local stockists, as well as seek out the select venues Peachy will be on tap. Be sure to check with them before heading out to make sure it’s in stock!

Mx Cheeks is also taking up residency on our official online store and at our Byron Tasting Room and Brisbane brewery, so you can also catch her at the source.

NEW limited edition Peachy Cheeks T-Shirt

Vibrant, playful and diverse, the 100% Organic Cotton Peachy Cheeks Tee is a celebration of the Northern Rivers Queer community and the brainchild of local artist Nina Hurr. Out on a limited release, Mx Cheeks is here for a good time not a long time, so get in fast party people.

In the meantime, be sure to sign up to the Counter Culture newsletter and follow @counterculturebeer to hear about each release first.

To find out more about the excellent work Queer Family do within the Northern Rivers region, please head to their website and for more on the collaboration with Stone & Wood, please check out our video here.

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