Akasha Brewing Company
Akasha was founded in 2015 by Dave Padden in Five Dock, in Sydney's inner west. The first release, Freshwater Pale Ale, appeared that April while Padden was still renting capacity at other breweries; by October the brewery had a site of its own. The focus has stayed narrow ever since: hop-forward beers along US lines, with IPAs at the centre of the range. Akasha joined forces with Wayward in 2025, and both brands were acquired by the Powder Monkey Group the same year.
Beers by Akasha Brewing Company
8 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Akasha Brewing Company brew across 3 style families.
Across these 8 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.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Canada Bay XPA
Their beers place in the Top 60% of the catalogue on average, across 8 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Akasha Brewing Company
Akasha was founded in 2015 by Dave Padden in Five Dock, in Sydney's inner west. The first release, Freshwater Pale Ale, appeared that April while Padden was still renting capacity at other breweries; by October the brewery had a site of its own. The focus has stayed narrow ever since: hop-forward beers along US lines, with IPAs at the centre of the range. Akasha joined forces with Wayward in 2025, and both brands were acquired by the Powder Monkey Group the same year.
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