This cosy brewhouse in the Blue Mountains crafts epic beers that are exactingly filtered and frothing with exotic hops, malts and yeasts from all over the globe.
The brewhouse arm of Mountain Culture Beer Co began backwards. It was slated to open in October 2019, right before the bushfires that ravaged New South Wales and then, of course, the pandemic. So its owners DJ and Harriet McCready quickly reversed course, packed the contents of their kegs into cans and began selling online. Then, when they were finally able to open the doors to their brewery at the end of 2021, they had amassed a built-in audience devoted to their enormous range of craft beers. And it is enormous – thanks to DJ’s personal mission of brewing a beer a week, there’s been more than 150 in the range since inception.
Every detail in this cosy double-storey heritage building is done well. The 15 or so rotating beers on tap are wildly creative, the food list is short, but it’s all a beer’s best friend, and the renovation is exactly right for its location. Banging beers and burgers in a cosy, comfy space? This is mountain culture exactly as it should be.
