Old Wives Ales Hair of the Dog XPA

TASTING NOTES

Extra hoppy and extra dry, Hair of the Dog is a Pale Ale that wears a size thirteen shoe. Its big tropical aroma invites you to party at Copacabana, before hints of citrus and pine give you your first clue that some seriously well-dressed flavour is about to arrive.

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

Starting out as home brewers, the boys at Old Wives Ales commandeered soup pots for kit brews and watched on as plastic tubs of murky liquid burped and bubbled in their sheds. It was yellow, it was fizzy, but it wasn’t good. Not in the beginning but they were learning. They have each earned a first rate home brewing education in exploding bottles, dead yeast and beer that tasted more like cardboard than malt, taking heart from the fact that slowly but surely, the beer was getting better.

DID YOU KNOW?

Justin Spicer, co-founder of Old Wives Ales and also the Merri Mashers, discovered his interest in home brewing when a friend invited him to a “brew on premise” venue. He learnt the basics in brewing that night which ignited his passion for craft beer and brewing. Justin soon learned that there were several home brew clubs around Melbourne, however, there were not any in the Northern Suburbs. It was this realisation that inspired him to become the inaugural president of a new home brew club two years ago. Merri Mashers now has over 75 members and is one of Victoria’s biggest home brew clubs today.