Foggy Morning - Batch #5

Foggy Morning is a golden barrel aged ale wholly fermented by a diversity of yeasts and bacteria collected from native flowers in NSW made with 100% smoked malt by Voyager Craft Malt.   

Foggy Morning makes use of Stu and Brad's smoked malt from their smoker during the kilning process. Not wanting to play with beechwood smoked or other imported wood-smoked barleys, like all our beers, it is important to us that this product is uniquely Australian. In contrast to our normal operations of restraint, we look to the icons of this style, the smoked beers from Bamburg Germany and decided to make this beer entirely with smoked malt instead of adding it in as a percentage of the grist.

This batch (blend) is a small composition of only 500 litres made using Mountain Ash smoked Malt. It was brewed in early 2025, fermented using wild yeast and bacterial wholly foraged from native wildflowers in NSW and then transferred to a single 500 litre puncheon for ageing. There it rested for four months, a new process for Foggy Morning for us, which softened the spice of the fresh smoke character and rounded the beer. On 7 May 2025 it was put to bottle to naturally carbonate and condition for three months before release.

240 bottles available online.

FOR FULL PRODUCTION AND TASTING NOTES, PLEASE SEE OUR CORRESPONDING BLOG POST.