Loophole Brewing Bang Lassi Sourloops Mango Passion Sour

TASTING NOTES

Tropical fruit can be messy. Sticky hands and juice running down to your elbow – not fun. But I’ll tell you what is fun: their re-released Sourloops range! To make it a little easier for you to get your tropical fruit hit, they jammed mango purée and the right amount of passion(fruit) into this can and added a convenient hole to drink from.

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

For nigh on 27 years, Des Hooper has been making booze on the edge of the Great Southern Ocean on the Limestone Coast. In close proximity to Robe and Kingston, the lifestyle here is as refreshing as the salt from the waves he’s surfed since settling here in ‘93.

His beer production began in 2014, when he, and a couple of mates played around with mash brewing in an old warehouse at the back of the Cape Jaffa Winery – Derek’s other booze company right next door. Dave Murdock, a mate of his, had built a three-vessel brew system which could crank out 50 litres of beer at a time. It was basic, but it did the trick and it whet his beer production appetite.