Little Creatures (brewery)

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Little Creatures
Little Creatures
Location Fremantle,
Western Australia
Year opened 2000
Active beers
Pale Ale Pale ale
Pilsener Pilsener
Rogers' Beer Amber ale
Bright Ale Ale

Little Creatures is a microbrewery in Fremantle, Western Australia established in 2000 by the original brewers of the Matilda Bay Brewing Company. The name "Little Creatures" is inspired by a Talking Heads song lyric and refers to the live yeast cells that turn the sugars in malt wort into alcohol.

The brewery building, which was formerly used as a boat shed and crocodile farm, is open to the public and contains a café/restaurant.[1]

The original Little Creatures ale was a pale ale brewed with Cascade (floral) and Chinook (bitter) whole hop flowers, self-propagated yeast with a secondary bottle fermentation, and Australian malts. They also bottle an amber ale and a pilsener.

The brewery has won a number of Australian International Beer Awards. It has been named Champion International Brewery (2002), Champion Australasian Brewery (2002) and the Pale Ale has been named Champion Ale (2002, 2007) and Champion Bottled Ale (2001).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Donald, Darroch; Katrina O'Brien, Andrew Swaffar (2002). Footprint Australia Handbook. Australia: Footprint Handbooks, 541. ISBN 9781903471425. 

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[edit] Further reading

  • Crossland, Vic. (2005) Little beer goes a long way. (local boutique brewery continues with Little Creatures Pale Ale now being exported to England.) West Australian, 15 Jan 2005, p. 14-17, West Magazine