ALL seven of the High Country Brewery Trail brewers will team up for a collaborative brew day in spring.
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Australia’s highest altitude brewery Blizzard Brewery, which opened at Easter, will host the celebratory event on September 21.
Three new microbreweries Social Bandit Brewing Company at Mansfield, Blizzard Brewery at Dinner Plain and the Rutherglen Brewery will join established High Country craft brewers, the Bright Brewery, Black Dog Brewery at Taminick, Bridge Road Brewers at Beechworth and Sweetwater Brewing Company in Mount Beauty on the project.
Blizzard Brewery owner Mark Hubbard said the brewers would team up for their annual collaboration, labelled Rule 47.
“Traditionally it’s made with North East Victorian brewers and this year is the first collaboration with all of the new players,” he said.
Mr Hubbard said they had jumped the queue to host the fourth collaboration, likely because of their unique location 1500 metres above sea level.
He said snowgoers had embraced the brewery during their first winter.
“We’ve had some good traction, some good brand recognition up there and people get it that we have the freshest water available to any brewer in Australia,” he said.
“We’ve had a very good response.”
Blizzard head brewer Alan Sheppard, co-founder of Barcelona’s Edge Brewing, which was voted the top new brewer in the world by Rate Beer in 2014, has kicked off Blizzard’s menu with seven brews including pale ale, amber ale, lager, IPA, kolsch, lavender lager and stout. Porter and saison are also in the pipeline.
Rule 47 would be available to the public from the seven participating breweries in early October.
The High Country Brewery Trail runs from Mansfield at the foot of Mount Buller through the Goulburn Valley to the foot of the Warby Ranges, along the King and Ovens valleys beyond, climbing the Alpine peaks to Dinner Plain, descending to the Kiewa Valley and across the Murray River plains to Rutherglen.
