The Two Metre Tall Company

Microbrewery in New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia 🇦🇺
Associated Venue: Two Metre Tall Brewing Company

Established in 2008

Contact
PO Box 453, New Norfolk, 7140, Australia
Description
Way back in 2004 we chose to move our young family across the world from southern French vineyards to a 580 ha farm in the Derwent Valley in southern Tasmania with a dream of growing vines and making wine. Instead we discovered a rich hop growing history and embarked on a project of ale instead, using ingredients from our farm, this valley and from across Tasmania.

Our farm is integral to our business. The ales and cider we brew and ferment in the converted shearing shed would be a different beast should we have chosen instead an inner city warehouse. The farm gives us a sense of place, connected to land and to ingredients we grow ourselves and source from other Tasmanian farmers too.

The old shearing shed was converted to house our brewery in 2008. The brewhouse itself was originally the St. Ives brewery in Battery Point, Hobart, installed back in the late 1980s. Rehoused on our farm, the old kettle & tanks are lovingly nurtured to life to help us on our journey to find a unique estate brewed beer.

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7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
On tap at Gertrude Hotel, Melbourne: fruity aroma (hints of berry). Pours pale yellow. Very crisp mouthfeel with a sour spritz that is pleasing and surprising. Decent level of balance.
Tried from Draft on 19 May 2015 at 20:32

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Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a bubbly off-white head. The aroma has notes of brettanomyces, malt, lacto, and horseblanket. The flavor is sour with lemons, brettanomyces, lacto, straw, and funk, leading to a tart finish.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2015 at 10:24

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at Chriso’s mid-week lasting 03/07/14. Thanks to Colin / Big Dave. Translucent / hazed yellow / straw coloured pour with a halo of white head. Aroma is spicy hop, apricot, lychee, peach tropical fruit, slight tart acid and earthy notes. Flavour is sweet & sour, peach mango apricot fruits. Grainy wheat malts in the finish. Palate is tart and sharp, grainy.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Oct 2014 at 14:13

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Bottle at Chriso going Dutch tasting cash purchase via the Wingman 03/07/14. Hazed pale golden with a moderate off white swirl. Nose is tangy citrics, lemon rind, lychee, spice, citric sherbet, damp grass. Taste comprises lychee, lemon rind, spice, tangerine. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Not really sure what’s this meant to be, it’s a bit muddled, however it is drinkable and comes over akin to a Berliner Weisse!
Tried from Bottle on 06 Jul 2014 at 12:59

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3rd July 2014
Craig on Heat Tasting at ChrisO’s. Hazy gold beer, small white head. Palate is light and dry. Fine carbonation. Berlinner Weisse like sourness and seltzer. Little sherbet. Light dried fruits, light orange. Light dry finish. Pretty tasty but not at all clear!
Tried on 06 Jul 2014 at 06:23

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Bottle shared at chriso’s. Pours unclear yellow with a creamy white head. Nice tangy lime aroma, some straw, lemon. Light sweet flavor, slightly dusty, with some cereal, faint corn, lemon, salt. Light bodied with fine, slritzy carbonation. Pretty clean on the finish, some hay, lemon rind, slight acidity, more cereal. Fair.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Jul 2014 at 13:46

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Bottle at Craig on heat tasting. Hazy pale gold lasting white head. Lime hop. Salty. Some ok hop .fine. sour. Berliner weisse. Ok.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Jul 2014 at 13:34

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Bottle at chrisOs... Big hazy yellow amber... Sharp lemon... Sharp fruit funk nose... Tart sharp lemon... Zezty lemon... Zezty orange... Tart fruit
Tried from Bottle on 03 Jul 2014 at 13:20

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(Bottle) Amazing looking beer - clear deep red with dense pink head. Good sour beer aroma with brettanomyces barnyard and earthy, oaky, vinous notes. Medium body with great carbonation. Very well balanced flavour with sour fruitiness offset against complex barnyard brettanomyces, earthy, spicy and woody notes. This is reminiscent of a Belgian lambic but with added fruitiness. The cherry flavour is not as distinct as might be expected, but there is a good pervasive sour fruitiness. Fantastic beer.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2014 at 06:12

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Bottle @ Ungstrup. Pours a slightly hazy reddish color with a small white head. Has a fruity sour tart cherry aroma. Fruity sour tart cherry flavor. Has a fruity sour tart weak woody cherry finish.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Feb 2014 at 03:46