Balter Brewing Company
Balter started brewing in Currumbin on the Gold Coast in March 2016, set up by a group of eight founders that includes the professional surfers Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, Bede Durbidge and Josh Kerr. The name comes from a verb for dancing without skill but with enjoyment. A taproom sits directly alongside the brewhouse, and the reputation rests on a hop-forward core range headed by the XPA, which has placed in the GABS Hottest 100 every year since 2016.
Beers by Balter Brewing Company
10 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Balter Brewing Company brew across 3 style families.
Across these 10 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.
Balter Hazy
Their beers place in the Top 22% of the catalogue on average, across 10 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Balter Brewing Company
Balter started brewing in Currumbin on the Gold Coast in March 2016, set up by a group of eight founders that includes the professional surfers Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, Bede Durbidge and Josh Kerr. The name comes from a verb for dancing without skill but with enjoyment. A taproom sits directly alongside the brewhouse, and the reputation rests on a hop-forward core range headed by the XPA, which has placed in the GABS Hottest 100 every year since 2016.
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