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TROPIC • CRAFT BEER
New brews Cairns definitely isn’t short on places to
enjoy a cold one (and even in ‘winter’, it
needs to be cold), but there isn’t anything
CRAFT BEER
quite like the new brewpub extravaganza Sauce is a really
With a new brewpub and a that is Sauce Brewing Co. progressive, on-trend
bold range of beverages, Sauce A long-vacant space on Lake Street – long brewery and Cairns has
ago home to Blue Sky Brewery – has
Brewing Co is shaking up the been transformed into a 400-capacity a growing appetite
local craft beer scene venue with all the trimmings; a 1000L
brew room out the back, full-service bar, for craft beer, so
Words: Annabel Bowles a massive restaurant and kitchen and a it’s really exciting
nifty bottle-o out the front aptly named
OutSauce Liquor. to see the two
Sauce started as a microbrewery in combine.
Marrickville in Sydney’s inner-west – Matt Kirkegaard,
otherwise known as the craft beer capital Australian Brews News
of Australia, with the highest number
of microbreweries per capita in the
country. Boss man and beer lover Mike big old warehouse and the taproom is
Clarke chose Cairns to open his second inside, so it’s very industrial and only
establishment largely because he wanted really focuses on Sauce beer. Up here, it’s
to spend more time here. He also thinks all about the venue and the experience;
Sauce’s signature style of super hoppy, more taps, guest beers, a full bar with a
quirky brews is a serendipitous match carefully curated wine and spirits list,
for the city and the “salt of the earth and a massive kitchen dishing up fresh
Australians” who call it home. and delicious gastro-pub style food. Oh,
“The people of Cairns are really and a bottle shop housing the best of
embracing craft beer and we’re stoked to independent craft liquor from around
bring a variety of big, bold flavours and Australia.”
creativity to the city,” Mike told Tropic. Sauce sets itself apart from other
“Marrickville (aka the Mothership) is breweries in the Tropical North with a
our production brewery and where focus on zingy, zesty and bold flavours.
we produce our kegs and cans for When asked to choose his favorite few
distribution around the state. It’s a brews, Mike told Tropic he doesn’t have
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