Podcast ‘sode 25: Matt from Boatrocker

We spoke to Matt Houghton from Boatrocker Brewery in Braeside (Melbourne). We spoke about their beers both new and old, their barrel program, what goes into a sour beer and got great insight into starting a brewery. We also learned how Matt got started and discussed Belgian beers, Guinness, German beers and heaps of other interesting things.

http://www.boatrocker.com.au/

iTunes here.

Stream here.

We drank the Epicurian Coffee & Fig Stout from Epic (NZ). A 2011 bottle:

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/epic-epicurean-coffee-fig-oatmeal-stout/160632/

Matt mentioned he tried to base a beer on red-eye gravy (a smoked coffee porter):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eye_gravy

He also spoke about the barrels for the current batch of Ramjet:

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/boatrocker-ramjet-whisky-barrel-aged-imperial-stout/231840/

We talked about a lot of things but I was enjoying listening I forgot to take notes, so deal… butÁ

We mentioned Michael Jackson, the Beer Hunter.

http://www.beerhunter.com/

Dave mentioned the Samuel Smith Imperial Stout:

http://www.samuelsmithsbrewery.co.uk/imperialstout.html

We mentioned the CBIA awards:

http://www.australiancraftbeer.org.au/craft-beer-awards-2014/

And Modus Operandi brewing cleaned up:

https://www.facebook.com/ModusOperandiBrewing

Matt mentioned this video:

Theme music by Toehider:

http://toehider.bandcamp.com/

Our new mead blog:

http://australianmead.wordpress.com