Stone & Wood takes a tour of the galaxy

Media Release: 19/03/15

Tour of the Galaxy

Stone & Wood’s Hop Harvest Pilgrimage

The smell of the fresh hops hits the nostrils before you reach the Bushy Park gates. Before the long vertical bines hanging from the trellises lining the fields that disappear into the distance are visible, you’re welcomed by a punchy, zesty aroma that lifts you above the previous evening’s haze and awakens the senses from the early morning mist.

For Stone & Wood Brewing, they’ve made it. Each year the regional brewery, located in the Northern Rivers of NSW, make the pilgrimage down to Tassie to check out the new season of hops that they’ll use in their beers for the year ahead. They call it the Tour of the Galaxy.

“The tour started with a need to get our young new brewers closer to the raw ingredients that make up our Stone & Wood beers. The tour has grown as the business has grown and now it’s just as important to get people from across the business to understand our hops — specifically Galaxy, and its imp

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