Matilda Bay Brewing Company
Matilda Bay was founded in Fremantle in 1983 by Phil Sexton and partners and brewed its first beer in 1984 at the Sail and Anchor Hotel, the first new brewery opened in Australia since the Second World War. Redback followed as the country's first wheat beer. Carlton & United Breweries, now part of Asahi, took full control in 1990, and production moved to Melbourne and later to Cascade in Hobart. A brewpub in Healesville ran from 2019 to 2024; since then the beers, including the Yak range, are brewed at other Asahi breweries.
Beers by Matilda Bay Brewing Company
10 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Matilda Bay Brewing Company brew across 4 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:
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.
Fat Yak
Their beers place in the Top 57% of the catalogue on average, across 10 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Matilda Bay Brewing Company
Matilda Bay was founded in Fremantle in 1983 by Phil Sexton and partners and brewed its first beer in 1984 at the Sail and Anchor Hotel, the first new brewery opened in Australia since the Second World War. Redback followed as the country's first wheat beer. Carlton & United Breweries, now part of Asahi, took full control in 1990, and production moved to Melbourne and later to Cascade in Hobart. A brewpub in Healesville ran from 2019 to 2024; since then the beers, including the Yak range, are brewed at other Asahi breweries.
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