Founded in 2008 as a 500-litre brewpub opposite Manly Wharf on Sydney's Northern Beaches, 4 Pines added a larger production brewery in nearby Brookvale in 2011. The original microbrewery still runs, turning out small-batch releases for the pub. AB InBev bought the company in 2017, and the brand now sits within Asahi's Australian business. The brewery is B Corp certified, runs its core beers under 1% for the Planet and operates its own bars across New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
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4 Pines Brewing Company brew across 5 style families.
Across these 12 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
Two thresholds are at work here:
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Their beers place in the Top 59% of the catalogue on average, across 11 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
Based on style overlap and flavor profile
Founded in 2008 as a 500-litre brewpub opposite Manly Wharf on Sydney's Northern Beaches, 4 Pines added a larger production brewery in nearby Brookvale in 2011. The original microbrewery still runs, turning out small-batch releases for the pub. AB InBev bought the company in 2017, and the brand now sits within Asahi's Australian business. The brewery is B Corp certified, runs its core beers under 1% for the Planet and operates its own bars across New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
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