Brewing Process
From grains to glass
Microbrewery
Little Island Brewing Co. prides itself on selling only our own beer, made at our very own microbrewery that’s also housed within the restaurant itself. Brewmaster Steve Spinney believes in using more manual and traditional methods of brewing, as this creates more flexibility in creating and changing recipes, while making sure every batch is brewed to perfection. If it’s not good enough we’re not selling it!
Process
Without much machinery or automation, the brewing process is long and tough. The brewers come in very early in the morning on brewing days, starting with boiling the malt. Once the malt is ready, the hops and other flavours are added according to our recipes.
After the wort is prepared and cooled, it’s ready for fermentation. The wort is moved to our fermenter tanks and yeast is added. After fermentation, the beer is left to sit for a few weeks (depending on recipe) before it is ready to be served.
All our beers are served unfiltered and unpasteurised, and fresh from the serving tanks!
Stars & Bars
IPA
Full of fruity hop flavour up front with sweeter caramel malt that balance the aggressive hop flavours of stonefruit, plums and mixed berries.
6.8% ABV
Sister Golden Ale
Golden Ale
A golden beer with a European character. Big malt and fruit in the mouth with a distinctive hoppy nose. A lovely round finish.
5.0% ABV
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Pale Ale
A pale ale which is deceptively light but bursting with flavour. Citrus and malt in the mouth with a long, dry, happy finish.
4.6% ABV
Naked Lager
Extra Pale Lager
A bouquet of soft malt and hop flowers, multi layered balance of malt, vanilla and hops. A dry finish with hop character and honey notes.
5.2% ABV
That Old Black Magic
Dry Irish Stout
Dark, creamy and full of promise, this beer is complexity to the limits. Eight different malts and three types of hops to give a perfect bitter sweet balance. Chocolate and coffee in the mouth and a long satisfying dry finish.
5.45% ABV
Black Milk
Nitro Chocolate Milk Stout
Because just plain stout isn’t enough.
4.5% ABV
Four Letter Worts
Light Ale
An easy to drink session beer, light on malt with ripe fruit in the mouth and an elegant finish.
4.2% ABV
Double Trouble
American Double IPA
Double the trouble, double the fun.
8.0% ABV
Old King Kolsch
Beer type: Kolsch
Brewed like an ale, stored like a lager. Refreshing and light beer for those hot summer days.
5.0% ABV
White Light
Hefeweizen
A Bavarian style cloudy wheat beer with fruity aromas of bananas & cloves coupled with a light malty finish.
4.5% ABV
19th Nervous Breakdown
Oak Stocked Ale
A big and complex old ale straw coloured with bouquet of molasses and malty sweetness, boudon oak, raisins and dark fruit notes.
7.8% ABV
The Secret Saison
Blood Orange Saison
A refreshing French style farmhouse beer with a clean malt profile, packed full of fresh blood orange peel & spices.
6.6% ABV
Ale Yeah
SPA Singapore Pale Ale
An oak matured IPA. A mild flowery and woody aroma, piney resin and raisin notes, slightly malty with a long bitter and dry finish.
7.79% ABV
Queen of Tarts
Sour Ale
A refreshingly quaffable American sour ale with hints of lemon, sour grape and calamansi lime
5.1% ABV
Ruby Tuesday
Red Ale
A beautiful full bodied red ale with real depth and intense flavour. An explosion of sweet malts and a wonderful balance of European hops sets this beer apart from others.
5.0% ABV
Flaming Lips
Ginger Beer
Malt and spice and all things nice, that’s what this alcoholic laden ginger beer is made of.
5.5% ABV
Flowery Maori
NZ Pale Ale
Citrus and passionfruit in the mouth. An easy drink pale ale.
4.5% ABV
Russian Roulette
Imperial Stout
Big, complex aroma of dark fruit, peppery hops and roasted malt. Rich fruit and malt in the mouth and a long finish dominated by dark roasted malts, raisins and oak.
7.5% ABV
