Feeling a little mischievous?

Altitude Brewing Studios' impish IPA

As is proved so popular before, we currently have Altitude Brewing Studios' Mischievous Kea on tap at Atlas Beer Cafe. The team at Altitude have refined the recipe a little so it's tasting even better than before. A different yeast has been used so that finished beer is a few points drier and the hops a little more pronounced. 

Taste wise you can expect a vibrant hop profile with a fragrant and tropical nose; a mouth-filling palette with mandarin and orange flavours and a toasty sweetness from the malts.

Also, the good folks at Altitude are still making a percentage donation to the Kea Conservation Trust from sales of the Mischievous Kea - so we're all winners!

Altitude Brewing Studios | Mischievous Kea IPA | $9.5 pint | 5.5%

Please enjoy responsibly.

Emerson's Brewers Reserve - Acid Trip

Psychedelic

We recently had Emerson's Nap in the Chair on one of our guest taps and and now we're pouring Acid Trip, the next in line in this Emerson's pale ale evolution.

Acid Trip has less hop bitterness than Nap as the Emerson's brew team backed off on the Centennial hops and "grooved" in a little more US Zythos and US Simcoe. A different hopping technique was also employed called fermenter hopping; adding hops to the fermenter (funnily enough) halfway through the fermenting process - rather than dry hopping, as was the case with Nap.

The result? A session ale with more of that signature Emerson's malt balance and softer, juicier hop flavours. 

Acid Trip is only available for a short space of time from limited outlets, so we're excited to have it on tap at Atlas. Apparently the third version in the is in the brew kettle right now. The name, we're sure, will be equally as inventive. There's certainly no denying that the Emerson's crew keep themselves entertained when thinking up names for their beers!

Emerson's Brewer's Reserve Acid Trip Pale Ale | 4.5% | 9 per pint

As always, please enjoy responsibly. 

Heartland Beer Festival

For a whole lot of hoppiness!

Heartland Beer Festival this weekend. Are you going? Atlas will be there in conjunction with Emerson's. So if you are at the festival sampling some choice brews call in at the Emerson's stand to say hi.

It's going to be an awesome day with tons of breweries having stalls there, loads of great food, beer seminars, live music and even an Oompah band! You can take the whole family as well as under 18s get in for free.

If you haven't got tickets yet check out the Heartland Beer Festival website for further details. The weather's looking awesome for the weekend, too. So we hope to see you there. 

Loving Atlas lunchtimes

We updated the lunch menu at Atlas recently and have some delicious new editions to the menu. It's the first time we've featured a calzone and it's been going down a treat. 

Calzones, for the initiated, are basically a folded pizza. In Italy sandwich size calzone are sold lunch counters and by street vendors as they make a easy-to-eat and portable lunchtime snack. There are also fried variations too.

Our calzone is filled with beef, bacon, sausage, cheese and onion jam and is served with a smoky tomato chutney and a side salad.  The onion jam and smoked tomato chutney are made at Atlas and we make our own salted dough too.

If you're after a beer match for the Atlas calzone we would recommend a pale ale or IPA, so you could try it with the Emerson's IPA. As our calzone is a particularly meaty offering it would totally stand up to heavier style like a porter also.

Calzone with beef, bacon, sausage, cheese, onion jam, smoked tomato chutney and side salad | $18.50

You can peruse the other tasty morsels on the Atlas lunch menu by checking out our food page.