Riverside Brewing was started 18 months ago by Head Brewer David Padden and his business partner Stephen Pan and began trading earlier this year. David started home brewing at 19, and has been involved with the Western Sydney Brewers (Homebrew ) Club since it was formed. With that sort of experience it seemed like a natural progression for David to go into commercial brewing.
Riverside Brewing offers six beers, all of which contain all natural ingredients, no preservatives, are unfiltered and bottle conditioned. The beers are offered in 330ml stubbies, 19L corny kegs, 50L kegs, and growlers coming soon. All sizes are available to the general public, which is a real boon for people with kegerators or keg set ups.
The beers are:
Sixty Nine – Summer Ale – 4.6% using all Australian barley, wheat and Galaxy hops thrown in near the end. Light gold in colour this is a very easy drinking beer and it’s no wonder that it’s their best seller.
Fifty Five – Pale Ale – 5.5% with a generous amount of Cascade thrown in, this deep amber Pale Ale is one to watch out for as it will really grow on you.
Seventy Seven – IPA – 7.7% an American styled IPA packed with Amarillo hops and a dry finish, this hop driven IPA is great with curries and spicy food.
Thirty Three – Golden Ale – 4.8% a blending of American and English Pale Ales available soon.
Forty Four – American Amber Ale – 6.5% full of crystal and roasted malts, and using Cascade and Centennial hops, this Amber Ale does not have the overt malt sweetness usually associated with using lots of crystal malts. A nicely balanced beer.
Eighty Eight – Robust Porter – 6% dark mahogany in colour and with subtle chocolate tastes to go with the roasted malts.
With a batch size of 2000L, David brews once a week at the moment - though this will increase as more fermentation tanks come online. David is still looking for farmers or schools who are interested in taking the spent grain away, so if you know of anyone send them over to him.
Future plans include opening a cellar door so they can have a point of sale for all of the beers (currently no one venue has all the beers available), and including a growler refill station. Later: having their own bar in the Parramatta area.
Currently the beers are available at: The Spooning Goat in Sydney, Courtney’s Brasserie in Parramatta, The Baron in Castle Hill, Dank’s St Depot in Newtown and the Beer Cartel in Artarmon.
Riverside Brewing will be at Trainworks Winter Beer Festival and the Willoughby Hotel Beer Festival so rock up and have a chat with David and try their beers, you won’t be disappointed.
So thanks to David for his time and we look forward to catching up with him soon.
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