Jindong

**Jindong, WA — we're the quiet dairy farm that somehow brews one of the country's best beers.**

Back in 2017, Hamish Coates and Mel Holland decided a working dairy farm owned by Coates's family was the perfect spot to start a brewery. The farm turned 100 this year — a century of cows, and now, a heap of liquid gold that's been cracking the GABS Hottest 100.

You know you've made it when your Jindong Juicy hazy pale ale is rubbing shoulders with Mountain Culture and Coopers. 2022? 77th. 2023? 21st. 2024? 16th. We're climbing the tinnie ladder like it's nobody's business, and the rest of the country is starting to take notice.

Our brewery has spread its wings — there's a taproom in Perth, another in WA opening soon, and a new outpost in an old Thunder Road Brewing site in Brunswick East. They took over the 1850s heritage-listed bluestone cottage, kept the Airstream trailer, and are serving CDMX tacos alongside 32 beers on tap. "We are suckers for taking on old buildings for our taphouses," Holland says, and honestly, we love that energy.

The whackier releases are where it's at. "Microwave Glowstick" — a neon green sour with edible glitter. A banoffee pie stout made with Perth bakery Butter Crumbs. A sour that riffs on fruit salad with kiwi, passionfruit and strawberry. These are the flavours that put our little patch of WA on the map.

**Who'd hate it here?** Anyone who thinks a dairy farm should just stick to milk. The smell. The flies. The fact that our most famous export comes in a can, not a bottle. If you need a city skyline to feel alive, Jindong will bore you senseless.

**Who'd love it?** Beer nerds on a pilgrimage. Farm-stay enthusiasts who appreciate a side of brewing history. And anyone who's ever cracked a Jindong Juicy and thought, *this is the best thing to come out of a cow paddock, ever.* "Everyone loves a cold beer," Lorimer says. And we're proving it, one GABS ranking at a time. 🍻