Guess who’s back… back again… Hopheads are back, tell a friend…

Originally a very small, keg-only collaboration with the flower-power pioneers at Hopheads, the moment this beer was tapped was like the reveal of some mysterious artefact from an adventure movie or Sci Fi flick we’d seen as kids: we knew it held within it a strange power, as though something from another time or world had intersected ours…

So when the opportunity came around last year to can some of this bad boy up, of course we said yes. This time around, in a year when we could all do with a bit more of the good stuff, we reckon we’ve brewed it better than ever – but don’t take our word for it, just grab a can at your earliest opportunity and decide for yourself.

Triple dry-hopped with an extraordinary trifecta featuring Azacca (named for the Haitian god of agriculture, no less), the dual-natured dynamism of El Dorado, and good old Citra, this shapely beer really exemplifies the love of hops we share with our fellow ‘heads.

Tropical but not sweet, at 6.5% ABV this is one to sip on as you contemplate the mysteries in the park beneath some majestic tree, or the sheer beauty of a sky full of clouds over the beach, or “what even is going on in the world right now what stage of lockdown is this when will it all end goddamn I need another beer Jerry.”

Close your eyes and picture it: citrus, mango, pineapple and pear dance passionately on the tongue… as oats soften the body in a supple counterstep… and all the while, a gentle tapestry of pine is woven in the background, furnishing the scene and setting of this most tasty trip.

It’s ripe. It’s pillowy on its lingering, beautiful finish. Yep, it’s tasty as, and just the ticket for kicking back with now the weather’s trending spring-ward.

In short, it’s a classic Hazy style, refreshing as all get out and brewed to bloody perfection. Get around it, and get your glimpse of the Shape of Hops to Come with Akasha and Hopheads.

NSW STOCKISTS

Bondi Beach Cellars, Bondi
Bucket Boys, Marrickville
Camperdown Cellars, Darlinghurst
Charlie's Liquor, Tahmoor
Charlie's Liquor, Warilla
Coledale Fine Wine, Coledale
Gladstone Hotel, Dulwich Hill
Liquor Legends, Ashfield
Little Bay Cellars, Little Bay
Loftus Liquor, Loftus
Mr Liquor, Cronulla
Mr Liquor, Ramsgate
Page Bottler, Page ACT
Plaza Cellars, Narooma
Plonk, Fyshwick ACT
Red Bottle, Redfern
Sapphire Cellars, Merimbula
Charlie's Liquor, Panania
Spot Cellars, Randwick
Stanmore Cellars, Stanmore
The Bottlo, Crown West
The Bottlo, Glen Alpine
The Bottlo, Narellan Vale
The Mill Hotel, Milperra
Thirroul Cellars, Thirroul
Thirsty Cellars, Bowral
Thirsty Cellars, Lake Illawarra
Thirsty Cellars, Picton
Union Hotel, Newtown

Blaxland Bottlemart, Blaxland
Blue Gum Hotel, Waitara
Craft Cartel, Wentworthville
David's Cellars, Annandale
East Village Hotel, Balmain
Georgetown Cellarbrations, Georgetown
Lane Cellars, Orange
Lock Stock & Bottle, Abbotsford
Oldfield Cellars, West Gosford
Porters Liquor, Balgowlah
Sackville Hotel Bottle Shop, Balmain
Warners at the Bay Bottle Shop, Warners Bay
Winston Hills Bottle Shop, Winston Hills
D'vine Cellars, Wentworth Falls
Tighes Hill Cellars, Tighes Hill

QLD STOCKISTS

Cellarbrations Treetops Tavern, Burleigh Waters
Craft Wine Store, Red Hill
Craft Wine Store, Coorparoo
Cellarbrations Buderim, Buderim
Cellarbrations, Birtinya
Saccharomyces Bottle shop, Taringa
Cellarbrations, Camp Hill
Yandina Hotel, Yandina
Liquor Legends Stafford Tavern, Stafford
Liquor legends, Vienna Road, Alexandra Hills
Murwillumbah Cellars, Murwillumbah
Cellarbrations NVT, Narangba
Moto Bar, Noosa Heads
Liquor Legends Carina

VIC STOCKISTS

A Point of Difference Liquor, Mitcham
Blackhearts & Sparrows, various stores
Grape & Grain, Moorabbin
Hop Supply Co, Bendigo
Hopheads, Altona
Hopheads, Point Cook
Hopheads, Yarraville
McCoppins, Abbotsford
Ritchies IGA Liquor, Carrum Downs
Swords Wine, South Melb Market
The Fat Goat, Upwey
Village Vineyard, Fitzroy North
Wine Republic, Northcote