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HopDog BeerWorks Brewery

With a smiling face, thin goatee ripe for thoughtful stroking, sparse tattoos and wavy hair reaching halfway down his back, Tim Thomas appears as though he’s just walked off stage from the halcyon days of death metal rather than a family man who runs a small brewery in rural New South Wales. But as it is with books and covers, judging brewers by their coiffure is nothing but folly.

It was in 2011 that Tim and his wife, Tess, started HopDog BeerWorks in her home of Nowra, a small town on the South Coast which serves as something of an industrial hub for the many pretty hamlets around the Shoalhaven River.

From the time the brewery opened, and for several years afterwards, HopDogteams up with a brewer best suited to creating a collaborative beer as accompaniment. The first time was an American stock ale brewed with Nowra’s HopDog BeerWorks to pour at a showing of True Grit, the second was the Bah’sdin Irish stout with Shenanigans which premiered with American mob movie The Departed. For this third effort, ···
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Tapped Wed Sep 23 2015

It's hardly the most HopDog name, is it? The brewery that releases beers such as SuperBeast, Children of Darkness, Horns Up and An American Werewolf in Belgium releasing one that puns on a show aimed at tweeny girls. Whatever next? Still, when a pun's too good to resist, what's a man to do other than take off his Metallica t-shirt, don hot pants and a boob tube