Our Kolsch is designed as a thirst quencher.
It’s a light and bright handcrafted beer. Golden straw in colour and well balanced with subtle fruity characters from the hops. An all round firm favourite.
A mid-strength beer without sacrifcing flavour. It’s rich amber in colour, malt driven and moderately hopped with a light bitterness to finish. A very drinkable session ale.
Our Pale Ale is a refreshingly tasty brew. Featuring bold aromatics of citrus, stone fruit and pine needle from the hops, caramel, malty characters and drink-me more bitterness on the finish. Your go-to everyday ale.
Enjoy our locally loved lager, voted in by the fine folk of Western Australia. It’s flavourful yet refreshing with hints of spice and citrus. Clean, crisp and simply delicious.
This India Pale Lager is tasty beer paradise. It’s jam packed with tropical fruit aromatics, has the drinkability of a lager with a subtle malt base and moreish citrusy bitterness to finish.
Deep dark brown to black in appearance, our Black IPA hits the taste buds with rich and robust coffee, caramel and cacao nib characters thanks to the blend of dark malts. The hops pack a punch, with hints of citrus and pine upfront and a firm bitterness to finish.
Introducing our Brewer’s Series, which is made up of four handcrafted beers, once a year releases of small batch brews that have been inspired by the seasons of down south Western Australia.
Enjoy the autumn vibes of our Nut Brown Ale. A smooth and enjoyable dark ale with notes of chocolate and caramel featuring roasted hazelnuts. Well-balanced, medium bodied and designed for drinkability.
Please note – may contain traces of nuts.
Available for a limited time.
Each winter we get together with local chocolate makers Bahen and Co to create our Cacao Stout. Featuring the additional ingredient of Cacao husks, this stout is smooth with notes of bittersweet dark chocolate and coffee. Enjoy
Eagle Bay Brewing Co. and Old Bridge Cellars got together to create, Flounders Red, barrel aged Belgian Red ale.
The independently owned, family run businesses, have brought together elegant and intriguing styles from their respective worlds in a beer that playfully references the Flanders Red beer style and a peculiar fish from our seaside homes.
Flounders Red began with French oak barrels that previously held the Old Bridge Cellars’ Beeson family’s Cassiodorus wine. The unique Amarone style wine, pronounced ‘Ama· ro· ne’, is made from partially sun-dried Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, which concentrates the flavour, body and acidity, creating wine of exceptional presence, texture and length. This presented a rare collaboration opportunity as Old Bridge Cellars beer specialist Toby Beeson explains. “Usually, once empty, these French oak barrels would be used for other wine for many years after, so it’s really special that these were given to Eagle Bay for our collaboration”
For Eagle Bay, the chance to collaborate with such a bespoke wine was an opportunity to explore one of the world’s great beer styles, the Flanders Red ale. Named after the Dutch speaking region of Northern Belgium, the celebrated style is an oak-aged mixed-fermentation blended sour beer whose wine-like characters have inspired the ‘Burgundy of Belgium’ nickname. The most famous and awarded example is Rodenbach Grand Cru, once known as the best beer in the world.
Eagle Bay Head Brewer Keegan Steinbacher explains more. “The intention was to go back to the classics with this beer collaboration which appealed to me because I like a lot of Belgian stuff. Traditionally, it’s a three-year process to make this style of beer but we’ve now got New World methods that mimic those techniques in a shorter time. This combination of traditional and New World brewing is very exciting”
“We used a Flanders yeast and lactobacillus, which soured the beer, before putting it into ex-Cassiodorus barrels to let it chill out for three months. The result is amazingly complex for a relatively simple process compared to its inspiration. It’s sophisticated rather than aggressively barrel aged, with a predominantly red wine and cherry character and barrel dryness mid to late palate. It’s one of my favourite beers that I’ve made to date and it also means that we have another barrel to add to our ever-expanding fleet of funky barrels. It’s a bit of fun to call it Flounders Red because we wanted to pay respect to the inspiration without using the exact style name. We’ve called it a Belgian sour Red style but actually it’s ended up closer to Flanders style than I expected, albeit without the heavy funk”
Expect aromas of booze-soaked cherries, French oak and hints of grapefruit. Bright sour acidity leads the palate which softens as Flounders Red warms, opening up notes of cherry pie, red wine, maple syrup, dried fruit and chocolate. The mouthfeel remains full with barrel tannins providing dryness through the lengthy and refreshing conclusion, or as Keegan says “It’s rich, velvety and elegant”
Local artist Ian Mutch collaborated on the label, which includes our favourite things from the communities and supporters of North Fremantle and Eagle Bay as Toby Beeson explains. “The beer is based on an old style but it’s super fun. It’s quirky and so is the label” “On brew day we wrote down a list of the stuff that we wanted on the label and then we decided to put it all in there. That’s a true collaboration!” Look out for pets, lighthouses, sheep, coffee, dhufish, Dingo Flour, post codes, smiles and more that reflect where we live and celebrate with family and friends.
Our Flounders Red collaboration represents the marriage of Italian inspired, intense Cabernet Sauvignon imbued oak barrels with a classic Belgian sour beer style, made with friends in our West Australian home. Cheers
A little more info about the brew:
Booze: 6.4% ABV
Yeast: Flanders ale & lactobacillus plantarum
Hops: Saphir
Other fun stuff: Three months barrel aged in ex-Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon Amarone French oak barrels.
The lowdown: Barrel aged, lightly sour, rich and elegant.
Flounder’s Red Goodie Box – 2 x bottles of Flounder’s Red
We created this punchy dry hopped sour ipa with our mates and mane liquor for enjoying. lemon sherbet vibes with a bright sourness make this beer super smashable. a dry hop of cryo citra and simcoe bring zesty citrus and passionfruit. kick back, relax and imagine being on a yacht listening to 80s power ballads.
Meet our Chardonnay Sparkling Ale, a beer wine hybrid creation inspired by the 2019 vintage of our Chardonnay grapes for Eagle Bay Vineyard and our handcrafted beer – intertwining these ingredients together.
Our Chardonnay grapes are sourced from a vineyard south of Witchcliffe, within the Margaret River wine region. We united 400 litres of freshly pressed Chardonnay juice and 2,000 litres of wort. The two were combined and co-fermented with our house yeast and wild yeast found naturally on the Chardonnay grapes. We followed with dry-hopping using Galaxy hops, known for their bright passion-fruit aromas – which also meshed nicely with the peach and nectarine characters from the Chardonnay fruit.
Twenty five percent of the brew was racked into Chardonnay barrels and left to rest for two months, whilst the remainder of the beer was filtered and cold conditioned. After barrel-aging the barrel portion was blended back with the main batch, which lends to some soft notes of oak, white chocolate and vanilla – also creating a mouthfeel more typical of a wine than beer. This is followed by carbonation lifts the fruit flavours, compliment the acidity and bringing lovely layers of brightness to the brew.
Artwork for this project was created by Perth based artist Chris Nixon. It’s an expression of the elements of growing grapes and creating wine and beer by the sea of where we live in down south WA.
We love super fresh beer, handcrafted and brewed in Eagle Bay for you all to sip, enjoy and repeat. Grab one of our growlers (or we are happy to fill up growlers from any of our beery friends) and fill it up with two litres of handcrafted happiness.
It's the perfect way to seal the freshness of your favourite pint or something you haven't tried before or one of our unique Single Series draught only brews. Take it away and share with your fine self or some good friends or a little bit of both.
We really love good beer and we love making a freshly brewed beer for you. Take your growler out on tour and enjoy at any time and any place.
Once the last drop of beer has been poured give your growler a good rinse and head back to our place to re-fill, any day of the week from 11am to 5pm.
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Want some for you local bar, restaurant or bottle shop based in Western Australia (sorry we only share our handcrafted brew with our home state) we will get you or your favourite local all sorted.
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