Stone & Wood X Afends Crop Circles Mango, Macadamia & Hemp Pale Ale

TASTING NOTES

Together, the brewers and style makers turned to crops that are making green waves in their industries: regenerated grain for beer and hemp for clothing. Crop Circles pours hazy and golden orange, with mango aromas and flavours, thanks to generous additions of mango puree, Mosaic and Citra hops. This is all balanced by creamy and nutty characteristics thanks to hemp and macadamias. All in all, Crop Circles is damn tasty and sessionable at 5% Alc/Vol, it’s the perfect refreshment for those warm summer nights.

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

Stone & Wood Brewing Company was established in 2008. The three boys – Brad, Jamie and Ross had spent many years working in the beer business. The dream was to quit ‘working for the man’, shed the corporate garbage and get back to basics. As the original brewers of the Northern Rivers, they built their first brewery at the eastern tip of Australia, in a part of the world where people enjoy having a beer when relaxing after catching a wave, catching a band at the pub or just catching up with friends. It’s that sort of place.

DID YOU KNOW?

Stone and Wood acknowledge the reliance they have on their Earth to enable them to produce good beer which inspired them to start their Green Feet program. Green Feet is a company wide program they’ve been working on for a couple of years now. It’s about minimising their footprint on the Earth through striving to not only reduce, reuse and recycle but also exploring innovative practices by reimagining the ecology of brewing.