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Mountain Culture x Applejack
Applejack x Mountain Culture ‘Jack Of All Haze’ Beer
We partnered with our mates at Mountain Culture to create a citrus forward, highly sessionable beer that you can sip at all our venues!
About Mountain Culture –
In 2019, DJ and Harriet McCready founded Mountain Culture, the Blue Mountains’ first brewpub, with a simple vision: to craft exceptional beer for locals and tourists to enjoy after their adventures. Despite facing significant challenges, including the 2019 bushfires and multiple COVID lockdowns, they successfully adapted their business from a hospitality venue to e-commerce and retail. The brewery has since become a household name, with their flagship Status Quo Pale Ale winning the #1 spot in the GABS Hottest 100 People’s Choice Award in its debut year and again in January 2025.
Jack Of All Haze –
Applejack has such a diverse collection of venues, so we wanted to pay homage to them by creating something fun and approachable. You can expect fresh, citrus notes and a hazy beer style that Mountain Culture fans will know and love!
“I sipped a beer from Mountain Culture for the first time in 2020 and fell in love straight away. Fast forward to the present and here we are! We strengthened our partnership in 2023 and after a huge 2024 together– Jack Of All Haze is ready for drinking! Due to its sessionability (is that even a word?), I would enjoy this froth on pretty much any occasion. But put me surfside at Sandy’s with those blue waves any day” – Donovan Binks, Applejack Group Beverage Manager.
Jack Of All Haze is available across all our venues.
We chatted with Pat Thiering, Innovation & Brand Manager at Mountain Culture who and runs their limited release program…
Q. What sparked the collaboration between Mountain Culture and AJ?
A. We’ve been working with the legends at Applejack for a few years now, there’s so much synergy between the two businesses. We’re really aligned in our shared vision so we wanted to make something truly special together, led by the AJ team for their venues.
Q. How did you decide on the flavours?
A. We had a couple of great chats with the Applejack crew about the space in their tap lineup that they wanted to collab to fill and we quickly came to the agreement that the perfect beer would be something that all of the signature haze and juiciness of Mountain Culture beers but was also sessionable and something their patrons could enjoy throughout the afternoon.
Q. Can you tell us a bit about the process that went into brewing the beer?
A. We had the Applejack team up to our Katoomba brewpub for a fun and interactive brew day. After mashing in we sat down with our entire line up of hops and had a sniff as a group. The group then voted on a shortlist of hops that stood out and we started piecing together the flavour. What was clear is that we were all loving the citrus profile, particularly the orange notes. As a result we chose a mix of Citra, Idaho 7 and Amarillo hops to give the beer a likeness to freshly squeezed orange juice.
Q. How do you recommend enjoying this beer?
A. We designed this beer to be enjoyed anytime and to be enjoyed schooner after schooner. But I bet it’s going to taste pretty great after a surf.