Gage Roads Brew Co
Gage Roads Brew Co takes its name from the stretch of ocean between Fremantle and Rottnest Island, and the coast runs through everything the brewery makes. Founded in 2002 by the Hoedemaker brothers and Peter Nolin with secondhand equipment in a former margarine factory, it grew into one of Australia's largest independent breweries. Production sits in Palmyra, south of Fremantle; a second brewhouse pours fresh beer at the A Shed brewpub on the Fremantle waterfront. Around 240 people work here, a fifth of the shares are employee owned.
Beers by Gage Roads Brew Co
11 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Gage Roads Brew Co brew across 4 style families.
Across these 11 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:
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.
Single Fin
Their beers place in the Top 40% of the catalogue on average, across 10 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Gage Roads Brew Co
Gage Roads Brew Co takes its name from the stretch of ocean between Fremantle and Rottnest Island, and the coast runs through everything the brewery makes. Founded in 2002 by the Hoedemaker brothers and Peter Nolin with secondhand equipment in a former margarine factory, it grew into one of Australia's largest independent breweries. Production sits in Palmyra, south of Fremantle; a second brewhouse pours fresh beer at the A Shed brewpub on the Fremantle waterfront. Around 240 people work here, a fifth of the shares are employee owned.
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