New Year’s resolutions can be tough. Really tough. We at Melbourne Brewery Tours have made plenty over the years: lose weight, gain height, spend more time in the garden, learn another language, read more and watch Seinfeld less. All in all, very few of them have been kept.
With 2016 now well and truly underway we have decided to commit to something we know we can actually complete; a different beer a week for every week of the year. To ensure we keep to this commitment we have compiled a list of 52 unique beers we want to enjoy each week. Some of these beers we’ve had before and just want to make sure we return to. Some we’ve heard great things about and have been meaning to get around to but have failed in our dedication. Some haven’t even been released yet but we remain hopeful that they will hit the shelves at the same time they do every year.
Melbourne Brewery Tours is an unashamedly biased company so most of those featured are Australian brews (Victoria also has better beer than all other states) but plenty of international beers also make an appearance.
If you want to join in on our commitment, then simply print the list off below and cross off each beer as you finish them week by week. Don’t like the list? Then make up your own and send it to us so we can compare.
- Hawkers IPA
- Moon Dog Jumping the Shark 2015
- Boatrocker Ramjet 2015
- Russia River Brewing Pliny the Elder (USA)
- Moon Dog Splice of Heaven
- Pirate Life Pale Ale
- Feral Brewing Hop Hog
- Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen (Germany)
- Red Hill Scotch Ale
- Victory Brewing Prima Pils (USA)
- Noisy Minor ANZUS IPA
- Big Shed Brewing Golden Stout Time
- Stone and Wood Pacific Ale
- Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin (USA)
- Hargreaves Hill The Phoenix
- 4 Hearts Brewing Coal Miners Stout
- Rodenbach Brewery Original (Belgium)
- La Sirene Saison
- 4 Pines Stout
- Venom Brewing Golden Ale
- Dainton Family Brewing Insane Uncle IPA
- Two Metre Tall Forester Pale Ale
- Stone Brewing Arrogant Bastard Ale (USA)
- Feral Brewing Tusk 2015
- Dupont Brewery Saison (Belgium)
- Brew Dog Punk IPA (UK)
- La Sirene Praline
- Napoleone Brewery and Ciderhouse Porter
- Young’s Double Chocolate Stout (UK)
- Temple Rye Hard IPA
- Anderson Valley The Kimmie, The Yink & The Holy Gose (USA)
- Sierra Nevada Hop Harvest (USA)
- Edge Project Cool Hops
- Mountain Goat Summer Ale
- Brew Cult Beer Geek Rage Quit
- Cantillon Kriek Lambic (Belgian)
- Mikkeller Beer Geek Stout (Denmark)
- 4 Pines India Summer Pale Ale
- 3 Ravens Black Stout
- Any IPA by Fixation Brewing
- Cantillon Zwanze
- Founders Brewing All Day IPA (USA)
- Mornington Peninsula Brown Ale
- Two Birds Taco Beer
- Tooborac Brewing Chocolate Shanchez
- Shenanigans Brewing Winston APA
- Holgate Brewhouse Beel-zebubs Jewels
- 961 Lebanese Pale Ale (Lebanon)
- Two Metre Tall 7 A Farmer’s Resilience & The Seven Year Itch
- Temple All Day IPA
- Dainton Family Brewing Samurye Lager
- Moon Dog Black Lung VI