Gurley Gold Hefeweizen

This is a traditional Bavarian beer in which a significant proportion of malted barley is replaced with malted wheat. It is top-fermented and a specialised strain of yeast is used which produces overtones of banana and cloves as a by-product of fermentation. A perfect beer for a hot summer day. Story behind the name: Way, way back, on the sunburnt plains of northwestern NSW, near that great village of Gurley, three men powered by beer toiled long hours bringing in the harvest, trucking it in bulk to the nearest silo. At the end of the harvest a very special wheat was collected in bags before sunup, sewn securely by a Kamilaroi elder and secreted away before dawn. Those bags contained the DNA of what would become Sow and Piglets wheat beer (plus a few of the local sheilas). This special wheat DNA of Gurley Gold that you are about to taste pays homage in thanks to those who nurtured it - shake gently, it still has a headache.…and that’s where it ended up.