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Brewer's Choice Witbier Release  March 2007
The latest in our brewer's choice range of beers, a belgian-style witbier brewed with unmalted wheat grown nearby in the Ovens valley, will be released on-tap at the brewery at 6pm, Wed 28th March.

Bright Brewery Now Open and Brewing  June 2006

After lots of hard work and preparation, the brewery is now open daily! Drop in and join us for a beer any afternoon of the week. Our official opening was Queen's Birthday weekend, and we haven't looked back. The equipment is fully installed and we're in brewing heaven... our own beautiful brewhouse to play with, whenever we want! The early batches of Hellfire are looking good, and the first Blowhard is now underway too. Warm thanks to Jamieson Brewery for helping us out over the last 18 months of brewing.

Gold, Bronze, Bronze  May 2006
Bright Brewery beers picked up a Gold and 2 Bronze awards at the Australian International Beer Awards. We're quite pleased that in our first ever entry the judges gave the Blowhard Pale and the Hellfire Ale each a bronze, and a gold for our eye-catching retail packaging. These are the second largest beer awards in the world, with almost 1000 entries from 31 countries.

Blowhard Pale Award February 2006

Bright Brewery's Blowhard Pale took out the People's Choice Award for Best Pale Ale at Federation Square's Victorian Microbreweries Showcase, February 2006. It was a great event, with 16 of Victoria's best microbreweries providing refreshment to 1200 people over 2 evenings. The Hellfire also stacked up well and we had lots of interest in it at the stand. We love our beers but it's nice to get feedback now and then that others don't mind them too!

Brewery Arrival November 2005

After a minor delay in customs due to recent freight backlogs, our brewery has finally arrived in Bright! Two semi-trailers manoeuvred the road works in Bright, a crane and forklift carefully unloaded it into our temporary premises, and the brewery team celebrated with a bottle of bubbly. Plenty of work still to be done with the Brasso rag on the brewhouse, and scratching of heads over what connects where using Japanese instructions! Good thing we have Julia to interpret them for us.

Release the Blowhard October 2005

The next Bright Brewery beer is now out there, quenching thirsts and bringing smiles to faces. The Blowhard Pale is an American style pale ale with refreshing citrus aromas and a crisp Cascade hop character. Match this one up with spicy dishes, or with fish (including fish and chips).

Brewphoria September 2005

We are stoked to be the recipients of Federal Government funding in the new Food Processing in Regional Australia Program. With the grant we have bought some BEAUTIFUL brewing equipment - bigger and better than we would have bought without the extra funds.

The grant program aims to support food and beverage production in regional areas, rather than having all the raw inputs trucked to capital cities for processing. Bright Brewery's application was backed by a ground swell of local support - huge thanks to all the organisations and individuals who wrote letters on our behalf.

Our brewery equipment is currently somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, being shipped to Australia from Japan. The system is a German engineered copper clad 12hL Biering Brewhouse with plenty of fermenters, unitanks, and other goodies. We are muttering prayers to the Beer Gods for its arrival safe and with no dings.

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