James Squire
James Squire is the beer brand of the Malt Shovel Brewery in Camperdown, an inner-city suburb of Sydney. The site opened in 1988 as Chuck Hahn's Hahn Brewery and was relaunched under its present name in 1998, taken from the tavern kept by James Squire, a First Fleet convict who became the colony's first commercial brewer and the first person to grow hops in Australia. The brewery belongs to Lion and through it to the Kirin group. Its packaged beer range was cut back to four brews during the 2023 brand relaunch.
Beers by James Squire
12 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
James Squire brew a broad range 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:
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.
Jack of Spades
Their beers place in the Top 55% of the catalogue on average, across 11 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About James Squire
James Squire is the beer brand of the Malt Shovel Brewery in Camperdown, an inner-city suburb of Sydney. The site opened in 1988 as Chuck Hahn's Hahn Brewery and was relaunched under its present name in 1998, taken from the tavern kept by James Squire, a First Fleet convict who became the colony's first commercial brewer and the first person to grow hops in Australia. The brewery belongs to Lion and through it to the Kirin group. Its packaged beer range was cut back to four brews during the 2023 brand relaunch.
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