BONUS POUR - 5 Must Try Craft Beers (Bev’s Picks)

Looking for your next great beer? In this bonus episode of Tapped In, Bev shares five must-try craft beers that are easy to find, full of character, and perfect whether you're just getting into craft or deep in the game. From creamy stouts to hazy IPAs and even a wild sour bonus pick this is your cheat sheet for what to drink next. 

•  Why Batch Elsie Milk Stout stands out as an all-time favourite (nitro, creamy, chocolatey) 
•  A discussion on how West Coast IPAs are evolving and why Akasha’s Corbin D still hits old-school 
•  Why Seeker Mystic is one of the most drinkable hazies in Australia right now 
•  The divisive but fun world of peanut butter beers (and why temperature matters) 
•  The underrated brilliance of a well-made lager with Chuck & Son’s 
•  Bonus: A gateway into modern smoothie sours with One Drop 

🍺 Beers & Breweries: Here’s your full hit list 👇

• Batch Brewing Co. – Elsie Milk Stout
  Instagram: @batchbrewingco 
• Akasha Brewing Company – Corbin D IPA
  Instagram: @akashabrewing 
• Seeker Brewing – Mystic Hazy IPA
  Instagram: @seekerbrewing 
• Bad Shepherd Brewing Co. – Peanut Butter Porter
  Instagram: @badshepherdbrewingco 
• Chuck & Son’s Brewing Co. – Old World Lager
  Instagram: @chuckandsonsbrewing 
• One Drop Brewing Co. – We Jammin’ (Smoothie Sour)
  Instagram: @onedropbrewingco

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Bev's suggestions.

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Beers were. Right. Okay, so I I I thought about this a little bit after we spoke. And uh I came up with five craft beers that I think everyone should at least try once. Okay. And they're all readily available. I didn't I didn't pick anything that's a weird, wonderful, released once and you'll never see it again.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

First and foremost is Batch LC the milk stout.

SPEAKER_01 0:29

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Good choice. Amazing beer. Both mine and my wife's favourite, probably one of our favourite stouts of all time. Yeah. I think when I very, very first tried it, and I might be wrong, but I have a feeling when I first tried it many years ago, it wasn't on nitro. But now it is. Even in the can it's on nitro, and it is just so creamy and chocolate coffee, little hint of bitterness, just almost like that. You know that when you get that really 70% dark chocolate, that little bitterness at the back of that chocolate. That's what you get in this beer. Awesome. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Are we going in reverse order? Was that five, four, three, two, one? Are we going one, two, three, four, five? No particular order.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

No particular order.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

Okay, second one.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Uh a Kasha Corbin D. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:21

It's not the one I expected you to say from Kasha, but.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

Yeah, see, it's always been a favourite. And one of the one of the beers, again, when I started to get into craft beer, uh, a very, very good friend of mine now, but was a friend of my wife, Warren. He actually this this is actually quite amazing. So we used to have a place down south in Jaroa. He went to a car sha, got a growler of Corbin D the day they kegged it, drove two hours just so I could have it as fresh as you possibly can without being at the brewery.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

That's a good mate.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

It hit yes, and it was phenomenal. But it's just such a good, it's I know it's not all year round, but you can usually get it around twice a year. It's a really good West Coast. I think I've found, and this is just a personal opinion, I think the West Coast style has changed slightly lately. I'm seeing a lot of hazy's well, they're not hazy in style, but they're calling them West Coast, but you can't see through it. As far as I'm concerned, a West Coast is clear crystal clear.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

Okay, yeah. I mean, if you if you hate if you don't follow my channel and tap Instagram page, do so, and then go check out the uh the uncertainty idea because I looked at something and went, that's a bit hazy, and had a guess, and it was the Batch West Coast IPA. Now, even that I remember, and we love Batch, I mean that was your first suggestion, and then one of my favourite. I think I remember that being not so hazy as the time I had it, so I don't know what had changed. But it was I was perplexed to see afterwards to be like, oh, no wonder I was nowhere near it, because it it didn't. In fact, I've got vision of me drinking their hazy in a video.

SPEAKER_00 3:21

Yeah. I'm just I'm just finding lately that it's more about the West Coast flavor than maybe appearance and aroma. Yeah. So a few West Coasts I've had lately are definitely a little bit hazy, and I'm I was I love those old school resinous hoppy piny West Coast IPAs that almost strip the enamel off your teeth, you know what I mean? I love those old school IPAs. Yeah. And and the styles changed a little bit. So when Corbin D comes out, I'm always jumping onto that because that's one of those things I love.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Is that particularly hazy, do you think? Oh, that's not too bad. I'm gonna I'm gonna compare them. Compare the pair. I don't know. For the YouTube watchers, here is the pair being compared. Oh, I don't know what to make of that because I can't see it until post-production. Alright, what's um what do we else we got?

SPEAKER_00 4:32

Okay, so number three, and this one will definitely keep George and Dave and Max happy is Seeker Mystic.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Yes, hazy IPA, which was their push for the Gabs. It was. Yep, this is a Wollongong brewery as well, if Seeker.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

It is, and um, but they're doing amazing things, they really are. They're the again another brewery where I find it hard to try a beer from them that is bad. Yeah, and I'm the kind of person that tries to find the good in everything, and I don't even have to try with these guys, it's just each one is good, you know. Um but Mystic is a really good, yeah, hazy IPA, run of the mill, super fruity, a little bit bitter at the back end, you can get it all year round. The boys have just done such a good job with it. A little bit lower in bitterness than some of the hazy IPAs, but I think that just adds to the drinkability of it, the sessionable nature of that beer, but uh that's definitely on my sort of five to look out for. So the next one is Bad Shepherd Peanut Butter Porter. Oh this is just a personal favorite.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

I love peanut butter personally. So I mean I love peanut butter as a as an item, but you and I differ here. I've had it twice in my life, years apart, and disliked it immensely both times. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

Yeah, no, but I love it, I really do, and and it's not because it's a an amazing style or anything, it's just one of those quirky things that I personally like. I love peanut butter, it smells like peanut butter, it does. It doesn't taste as much of peanut butter as it smells, because it's a little bit of uh sort of bitterness at the back end that kind of cuts through that peanut butter um sweetness, but it's always a fun drink for me.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

Because it was one of my uncertainties where I did the blind guessing, uh-huh. And I remember the the day I filmed it, I was trying to clear out the fridge because we were away for three weeks going to the US.

SPEAKER_00 7:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

So I was doing the last two or three cans to get through them and I didn't I didn't like it initially, but I was like, this is the last beer I have in my fridge for today before I go on holidays. So while I was packing and cleaning up the house and whatever, I continued to drink it and I did actually I settled into it. I think that was the thing.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

I had a bit another thing I'll say, I've found if you let it sit, I pour it in a glass, let it sit for 20 minutes, then drink it as well. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

If it's a bit too cold, you don't get that sort of I don't know, that sweetness and that that because I did sit on it because I knew it was two standard drinks in the in the 355 can or whatever it was. So anyway, um there must be one more left.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

There is Chuck and Sunts. Yes. Old World Lager. This is my favourite beer. Wow. I wouldn't say favourite beer of all time. No, no, but it's definitely my spots right now. It's my favourite beer to drink often. It's just that it's slightly malty sweet up front, but it still has those lager characteristics from the lager yeast. It's light, it's easy drinking. There's a complexity there that keeps it interesting. Some lagas can get a bit it's a lager, I drink it, you know what I mean. But there's something about this. I love it, I really do. So that's my number five pick. And I have a bonus if you're interested. Always sours. Not everyone loves sours. One drop, we jammin. It's a smoothie, double fruited smoothie sour. Wow. But it's pretty much accessible all year round. Such a good beer. It's thick and creamy, it's one of those almost looks like you're pouring paint into a glimpse. Yes, there are um sours, but it's not, it's actually not overly sour. And it's not overly sleet sweet, so it doesn't get cloying or like oh too much. It's kind of got that real nice middle ground, super fruity, it's got a bit of banana, tropical fruits, it's just it's a really nice one. Right. If you want to try a sour that's a little bit left field, fuck it, be adventurous, be adventurous.