Our beers are what you’ll want to drink. Big flavour and aroma, bold new takes on traditional styles and a few new inventions of our own. Always changing and always unique and distinctive. Always fresh and straight from the tank. Only the best – no compromise.
We have 16 beers on tap, including one hand pump, and cider.
All of the beers currently on tap are available in takeaway containers. Refillable Growlers and Squealers are 1.89 litres (Growlers) or 946ml (Squealers). We fill them up straight from the tap while you wait, and you can bring the bottles back to refill. Find out more >
These beers are currently on tap at our Newcastle location. Check back as these change regularly.
Date First Tapped: 10th May 2018
Newy Pale Ale is a celebration of this great city. Fresh, aromatic hop driven Pale Ale, brewed in the ‘HopBurst’ style with all hops added as late as possible in the brewing process. This maxes out the fruity hop flavour and aroma without maxing out the bitterness. Great Australian and German malts and our house British ale yeast blend ensures a great blend of full flavour and drinkability.
Renew with a Newy!
DATE FIRST TAPPED: 16TH June 2015
Sligo Extra Stout was awarded the Champion Stout at the 2015 Australian Craft Beer Industry Awards. It is a big, dark, roast beer as it should be – brewed in tribute to the Export Stouts of old but with a modern craft approach. Layers of dark chocolate and roast coffee character with a strong hop bite. Clean and drinkable for its size but a good winter warmer just the same. Named after the great west coast Irish County Sligo, Sligo Extra Stout is for the lovers of all things dark…
DATE FIRST TAPPED: 2nd February 2017
Dads with Prams is a hoppy Pale Ale with a difference. Brewed with the best malts and the intensely fruity NZ grown Riwaka hop, Dads with Prams packs plenty of flavour and aroma into a tiny ABV package. At 2.4% it is the lightest alcohol brew FogHorn has released – and one of the lightest Craft Beers in Australia. Light bodied, crisp and very drinkable but still with good aroma and flavour Dads with Prams is perfect for when you need all the flavour but less of the booze. Perfect warm weather drinking.
Malts: Gladfield Pale Malt (NZ), Weyermann Carapils (Germany), Weyermann Carahell (Germany), Baird’s Medium Crystal (UK)
Hops: Riwaka NZ
Date First Tapped: 11 January 2017
4 Saisons in One Day is our modern take on a traditional Saison style beer. 4 Saisons is brewed with a blend of the best barley malts, as well as a high percentage of malted and unmalted wheat. The real hero of the brew however is the French Saison yeast that contributes earthy, fruity esters and a cracking dry finish. The perfect beer for the hot Australian summer, this is the driest finishing beer we’ve ever released – light bodied, dry and refreshing. Lemon, citrus and almost black pepper notes from the blend of the yeast and the NZ Pacifica hops makes 4 Saisons in One Day perfect for pairing with oysters, squid and white fleshed fish – a better match than any dry white wine with seafood. Light bodied, dry and complex.
Date First Tapped: 2 November 2016
Time for something a little different… FogHorn’s first Pumpkin Ale will hit the taps in time for Thanksgiving in the States. Inspired by the US craft brews that appear around this time of year, FogHorn’s Pumpkin Ale is basically pumpkin pie in a glass. Finally you can tell your Mum you are getting your vegetables while drinking beer. Everyone’s a winner! Over 50kg of fresh Jap pumpkin, lovingly peeled, chopped and dry roasted by our Apprentice Chef Josh in our King St kitchen (he loves his job!), is then mashed while hot and added to the grain at the start of the brewday. The pumpkin adds colour, flavour and aroma to the brew but it also adds some fermentable sugars and body as well – it really is an integral part of the beer. Rounding out the flavours are the best British caramel malts and classic pumpkin pie spices – Cinnamon, Nutmeg and All Spice. It all comes together in a sweet and savoury beer that is unlike anything else on our beer list. Even if (like our brewer Shawn) you hate pumpkin give it a try – it’s beer and dessert all in one.
Date First Tapped: 14 June 2016
The Greatest is our newest India Pale Ale here at FogHorn. It is a little different to the others – light on its feet, cracking dry finish, just enough bitterness to pack a punch and waves of fruity hop aroma and flavour dominating all before it. Our small tribute to Ali. The Greatest.
DATE FIRST TAPPED: 20th May 2015
An Australian style pale ale with a twist. Citrus US late hop character, plenty of flavour and body, but still with great drinkability.
As crisp & dry as an ale gets.
A beer of many parts.
An ideas beer!
Date First Tapped: 20 May 2016
Luscious dark burnt caramel malt bordering on high cocoa dark chocolate. But this beer isn’t all about the malt. It has a bracing but not astringent bitterness, and against the choc background, cascades wave after wave of citrus and passionfruit US and Kiwi hop aroma. An IPA. But Black.
Date First Tapped: 28 January 2016
Gold Medal Winner at the 2017 Australian International Beer Awards.
Mash hopped, first wort hopped, whirlpool hopped, fresh hop flowers in the hopback, dry hopped… You get the picture. All about the hops! US Simcoe & Citra and NZ Wakatu flowers… Enough malt to balance, hazy and unfiltered US Craft inspired hop juice. Dedicated to the late, great David Bowie. “All night! She wants the Young American”.
Date First Tapped: 10 August 2015
Roaring Forties Best Bitter blends the best of the Old World with the New. Traditional rich British Malts provide a toffee and caramel backbone to support a cleansing bitterness and fruity New World late hop character. At 4.5% ABV and with a medium body and dry finish the Roaring 40s Best Bitter is at its best served direct from our traditional Hand Pump. Even better by the pint!
Date First Tapped: 24 June 2015
Edmund Fitzgerald Imperial IPA is the biggest, hoppiest FogHorn beer yet. A biscuity German malt base is the setting for an explosion of hop character. Bitterness, flavour, aroma and that long lasting resinous mouthfeel only fresh whole cone hop flowers can provide. At 10.2% ABV it is strong, but the alcohol is smooth and well integrated for a beer of this size. Bigger isn’t always better but sometimes it just is… An indulgent beer to sip and savour across the winter months for all the hop lovers out there.
Date First Tapped: 05 June 2015
Pivo is FogHorn’s first Bohemian Pilsner. Brewed true to style, Pivo displays rich biscuity Euro malt character and loads of classic noble Saaz hops from the home of Pilsner, the Czech Republic. Crisp, balanced, hoppy and interesting but very sessional. Pivo, it’s Czech for beer!
Date First Tapped: 03 June 2015
It’s back, one of the early favourites: Session IPA. Solid bitterness, citrus and pine whole cone hop flavour and aroma. Bitter but insanely drinkable. The beer you always wanted to be.
Date First Tapped: 16 May 2015
Our take on the classic (US) West Coast style IPA. Featuring the best of US and NZ hops, it is a showcase for hop flavour and aroma, with a strong malt balance. Bitter but insanely drinkable. Rise Up!
Date First Tapped: 09 May 2015
Fruity US late hop aroma and just enough German pilsner malt to balance. Good drinking, cleansing bitterness and dry finish. A great place to start your voyage.
Date First Tapped: 11th March 2015
Currently on the hand pump.
Like the Godfather of Soul himself, a pocket dynamo of a beer. Don’t let the ABV fool you – big American Brown Ale flavour and aroma. A touch of caramel, a little bitter chocolate and big whole cone hop flavour and aroma. A great beer by the pint.
