Day-in-day out, night-in-night out Cookie lives, breathes and drinks its mantra ‘Beer Hall’. Seven days a week beer lovers can visit Cookie and work their way through our 26 taps or 200 bottled beers along the 16 metre marble bar.
Over the last few months Cookie have sourced the finest beers from around Australia and the world, giving its collection it’s biggest revival in ten years or so.
The beer list features a huge collection of the world’s best beers, sorted into categories of Rotating Regulars, Brewed Locally, Imported Draught, Ales, Golden Ales, Wheat Beers, Belgian Wit Biers, German Weiss Biers – Hefe Weizen, Kristalweizen, Dunkelweizens, Farro or Spelt Beers, English Style Pale Ales, Indian Pale Ales, Amber & Red Ales, Brown Ales, Smoked Ales, Scotch Ales, Porters, Stout, Farmhouse Ales, Abbey Ales,Bengian Blondes, Bubbels & Brunes, Tripels, Holy Beers, Trappist Ales, The Devil’s Ales, Spiced & Fruit Beers, Lagers, Pilsners, Low Carb Lagers, Bocks Doppelbocks, Maibocks & Eisbocks, Ciders, Organic Beers, Lite & Mid Strength, Champagne Beer, Imperial Beers and Barrel Ages Beers.
Additionally there is a dedicated Victorian list. Some of the finest local beers are featured from breweries including 2 Brothers Beer Brewery, Boatrocker Brewery, Boneyard Brewing, Bright Brewery, Buckleys Bock, Hargreaves Hill Brewing Company, Holgate Brewhouse, Killer Sprocket, Matilda Bay Brewing Company, Mildura Brewery, Moon Dog Brewing, Mountain Goat Beer, Prickly Moses Handcrafted Beer, Southern Bay Brewing Co, Three Troupers and Toobaroc Brewery.
Some of the Victorian based brewers were at the launch to talk about their wares that included a double brewed lager that packed a punch at 1.8 standard drinks and dark ale brewed like a lager so it have the heaviness of a Guinness but still the rich coffee-like flavours.
Beer Sundays will continue every Sunday afternoon from 3pm with a featured beer event, paying special attention to the local microbrew market.
What the afternoon will entail will vary from week to week. From further visits from craft brewers divulging their brewing secrets, one off samples of limited run beers to matchings of specialty beers to items from the Thai menu.
