Be there or B square !
Still life with Opera House
Merv was overjoyed to discover, just around the back, opposite the Enmore Theatre, a micro brewery. THE MICRO BREWERY !
Name of Young Henrys.
The Young Henrys have been battling the bureaucracy for an eternity to get their wonderful industry up and running and have made a brilliant start. Adding a real brewery to a cyber pub has left mere watering holes in the Inner West reeling. Some 14 to date have seen the light and now stock the Young Henrys’ delightful products.
Look closely at the label – see the homage to la maison de porc ?
A growler waiting to wing its way homeward for a quiet evening of Letters and Numbers (yeah, right !)
It’s possible to sample a few jars and take home a growler (just under 2 litres) in a recyclable flagon-like receptacle. Bring it back fresh and clean and the lads will top it up for a modest fee.
Ah, that foamy, amber / black / red / pale ale hoppy goodness. Hmmmmm.
The discovery was courtesy of running into Oscar – brewer extraordinaire at Merv’s escape coffee and Tex Mex deep south bolt hole – Silverbean Saloon ……
Catch a great vibe and and look out for Ry Cooder, Red Stick ramblers and Delta bluesmen on close rotation and a delicious jambalaya, corn bread, home made muffins, freshly-squeezed OJ and hair raising coffee. Lowan may even be persuaded to put on the New Lost City Ramblers……
Chef Lowan and Concierge George, Props, Silverbean Saloon http://www.silverbean.co/index.html
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
We have a similar small brewery at the bay, called Murray’s. If you see their ‘Whale Ale’, or ‘Angry Man Pale Ale’ about, give them a go.
As for ‘growlers’, the temptation is to buy one, then drink it in one afternoon, because ‘it might go off!’
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That’s it exactly, Big. So I gratefully accept assistance because the last thing i want to do is have any leftover beer go off. That would surely be a crime. I’ll keep an eye out for the Murray’s fine products. The thing that bedevils micro breweries is distribution; that and keeping up supply one small batch at a time.
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I’ll share a virtual growler with you, then it won’t go orff.
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Looks like a mighty fine drop there Emm. And little piggies to boot.
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It’s always a surprise, Algy. When FM and I go there, they ask “What would you like ?” and I always reply “Two glasses of your wonderful product”. They seem to make a range of beers – all of them wonderful and every batch seemingly different in colour, texture, taste and sparkle.
By and large, their beers have a delicacy and a lack of aggressiveness missing in the main brands. HIghly recommended and a joy to savour.
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Gez and rented a house in a little town/village in Languedoc, France, where they produce a lot of cheap red table wine, vin de pays….we used to go to the local co-op and buy a plastic container (ten litres?) full of the stuff, it used to go off before it was drunk… we were pining for Oz wines…
Even the more expensive ones were not to our liking 🙂
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Interesting, H, despite these folks being small scale in comparison with the main brands, they really take their art seriously and unlike the small French Winemakers – who can really create turps if they they try, the micro – and nano-brewers in Australia do a really good job.
The head at Young Henrys – Richard, is a microbologist who cut his teeth with one of the major brewers and then decided to invest – quite a lot, I imagine – look a all that stainless steel, refrigeration and stuff – in doing things his own way.
Some of their brews are pretty experimental and often spectacular – one had coffee in it as well – major flavour and another was decanted into old oak barrels that had held rum before. Spectacular, rich and very more-ish.
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I get a thirst just looking at those brown flagons and it is 9.30 am. Am I getting towards being a client for the ‘early opener’, knocking on the door, trembling with anticipation of the first mouthful of the amber gold.
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I know how you feel, Gez. I worried about it for a while and then slowly realised that the best cure was a schooner of foamy amber delight. As David Ireland’s character Meatman said in the Glass Canoe “Beer is the great Golden God that has no voice and must speak through us !”
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I found David Ireland’s book in our cottage before moving from the farm, I put in the box ‘to-be-read’ books but can’t find it anywhere, must have gotten lost in the transport.
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Email me your address privately and I’ll see if I have a spare copy. I think I might.
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You are too kind, Therese, many thanks. I found The Glass Canoe in the box of books to be retuned to Daughter, found three of my own missing ones among hers…
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MMMMMmmm….
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Ah, that looks great.
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Next time you’re in the Inner West, Lehan, we’ll have to move from the virtual pub to the actual brewery and get a bit wet !
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