Capital Brewing Co
Capital Brewing Co was founded in Canberra in 2016 by Laurence Kain and Tom Hertel, who had run craft beer bars in the city and found independent Australian beer hard to source. The first batches were brewed under contract in Sydney; in September 2017 the brewery opened its own production site and taproom in the Dairy Road precinct in Fyshwick. Head brewer Wade Hurley came from San Diego, which shows in a range built around West Coast IPA and a California Common. The company is independently owned, B Corp certified and opened a second venue, Lager House, in 2026.
Beers by Capital Brewing Co
12 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Capital Brewing Co brew across 4 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.
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.
Good Drop
Their beers place in the Top 67% of the catalogue on average, across 11 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Capital Brewing Co
Capital Brewing Co was founded in Canberra in 2016 by Laurence Kain and Tom Hertel, who had run craft beer bars in the city and found independent Australian beer hard to source. The first batches were brewed under contract in Sydney; in September 2017 the brewery opened its own production site and taproom in the Dairy Road precinct in Fyshwick. Head brewer Wade Hurley came from San Diego, which shows in a range built around West Coast IPA and a California Common. The company is independently owned, B Corp certified and opened a second venue, Lager House, in 2026.
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