Loophole Brewing Salt Water Stout Porter

TASTING NOTES

Drink it in. Big, dark and spicy throughout. Banana and dark chocolate tones that add texture and grip. An addition of salt water from Cape Jaffa in the kettle adds a moreish dimension to harmonise with the sweeter caramel malts. Good to go or bury in your cellar for another hard time ahead.

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.