Kooinda Boutique Brewery

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yeah that's the foodies. next to bar fred.

[Fents]

Hi everyone....

Just wanted to give you all a quick update on Kooinda.

Some of you may already know this but we outgrew the "shed" and have leased a 500sqm factory in Heidelberg. We have had the factory since December 2009 and just completed our first brew at the new site last weekend September 2010 so its taken us 9 long months but we got there.

About two months ago (maybe more) we stopped brewing at our old residential brewery and started relocating. Trucks, Vans, Trailers and normal cars were loaded and driven day and night..

Our setup now consits of - 4 x 1000L fermenters, 1 x 1600L mash tun, 1 x 1000L Kettle (soon to be upgraded) and 1 x 1000L HWT with HERMS Coil. We also lashed out on a new 6 head MORI bottle filler to join our previous 4 head filler. Brand new water chiller and 5000L water tank to recirc back into to cool the beer post boil and control ferment temps (all fermenters have cooling jackets on them).

Everything seems to be going well, the first brew was a great success and we got to enjoy the new space, sounds and toys we got to play with.

We have launched a new website - http://www.kooinda.com.au/ - its got an updated list of stockist's, a news page and even some pictures on the new brewery in the gallery.

Once we have some Pale Ale back in stock we will be making a new beer....its still undecided and no way we would tell even if we did know!

If your chasing a kooinda recently it may have been hard to come by, we ran out of stcok about a month ago so any beer out there in shops is pretty rare at the moment. Please stick with us, first batch should hit the shelve's in about 2-3 weeks and it will be better and BIGGER than ever.

Thanks

Fenton - Posting On behalf of Trav. Mick, Rob, Jamie and myself.

[Feigan]

when I read this I picture the lab under the laundry in breaking bad.

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awesome fents im jealous. maybe we could do a little mule brew down the track!? huhu

[Fents]

awesome fents im jealous. maybe we could do a little mule brew down the track!? huhu

thats a wicked idea!

Brew up a massive beer - like a big 10% belgian ale or a russian imerial 9% stout - our slogan? "kicks like a mule!"

[JAMESSSS]

Then sell bikes that come with it in the bottle holder

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yer rad as. our headbadge design would look great on a beer bottle

[Fents]

koo's a big boy now?

check it - http://craftypint.com/

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[CoB]

sheet nice one

[Fents]

VOTES CREW!

Local Taphouse's Hottest 100 Aussie beer's! Last year we came 23rd.....get onto it!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7NJZTGF

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[Lizkins]

VOTES CREW!

Local Taphouse's Hottest 100 Aussie beer's! Last year we came 23rd.....get onto it!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7NJZTGF

Done Fentomas

[Direkt]

Sordid.

[deviant]

can you get kooinda on tap anywhere?

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fents house

[Fents]

can you get kooinda on tap anywhere?

lol huge

yes dan our first ever kegs went out last weekend, currently on tap at Mrs Parma's (Top of Lt Bourke St) and Penny Blue (Driver Lane, CBD), probably only service these two venues with kegs till we can meet demand.

[gnat]

go fents!

[deviant]

so, I went to Penny Blue

awesome bar, great selection... they were totally bigging up Kooinda too, they love it!

gunna be a summer regular for me me thinks

[Fents]

such a great little tucked away bar innit.

probably going to have a kooi xmas laneway party there, live band in the lane then me on the decks later. cheap entry, nibbles and cheap kooi.

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yer do like that bar. been a few times!

[Fents]

VOTES CREW!

Local Taphouse's Hottest 100 Aussie beer's! Last year we came 23rd.....get onto it!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7NJZTGF

Alright, six days left can anyone who hasnt voted, vote now in the hottest 100 aussie beers

Kooinda should be your first pick but i'll leave that up to you

Thanks guys means alot to us, we get mad exposure if we are in the top 10.

Vote here - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7NJZTGF

THANKYOU!

[gnat]

done and done

good luck fents!

[andy_hoffman]

Got my vote mate! Good luck

[Feigan]

voted.

well done fents

[deviant]

done!

[Fents]

THANKYOU!

So the results are in and you can check them here :

http://craftypint.com/features/post/hot ... l-rundown/

#5 is alive! its is huge, im still reeling with shock! biggup.

[DBoy]

That is massive. Well deserved!

[Direkt]

great work bloke!

[Direkt]

Hang on. WTF is with Fat Yak at #6?

Hightail all the way down at #13???

[Lizkins]

Congrats again Fents!!!

[Feigan]

Well done Fents!!

awesome news.

I had a Murray's Whale Ale on the weekend. very nice.

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nice one fents!! do you know how many votes there were all up?

[Fents]

nah i dont mate but there was about three times as many voters than last year, not that that tells us much

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??????

[Feigan]

Tried the Rasberry wit bier last week at the Local in Sydney.

Nice & fruity.

Not an all nighter as I thought at first but very enjoyable.

[Direkt]

Was an interesting drop indeed Feigs.

As was that coffee infused ale we finished the night on... full on!