This seems to be right up my alley.
My selection for last Sunday was the Food Truck Market at Red Square at the Hobart Brewing Company site at Macquarie Point. The brewery is situated in a large shed excellent range of local beer, cider and spirits and a collection of Hobart's best food trucks and local producers providing quality food and produce are situated in a square outside. Available is an assortment of street snacks such as loaded fries, flammkuchen (German pizza), kimchi and icecream. The square is full of old pallets for seats. With plenty of safe places for young kids to run around.
In the main, patrons seem to be those in their late 20s and early 30s, mostly with young families, who haven't quite given up on their misspent youth. The typical conversation to be heard went something like this, "I went to a Sunday sesh with Bae and it was totes awks when he tried to take a selfie". WTF? Excuse my grumpy old women moment but is there any reason why the new fashion in speaking is to not finish your words?
I procured a basic steak sandwich for $6 which was quite tasty. To wash it down I thought that I would give the Harbour Master Tasmanian Ale a try. The excellent staff let me know that it was a golden ale with a strong malt influence. And malty it was - quite tasty. It was pretty good with the steak and onion.
The best part of the day was the entertainment - Billy Whitton and the Swingin' Hepcats featuring Jamie Taylor. Very smooth blues, jazz and a bit of funk. Jamie Taylor is a brilliant singer. She usually sings with her own group Lazer Baby. I am looking forward to hearing them in a couple of weeks at the End of the Earth Music Festival at Lake Pedder.
I hope to be back at the brewery to try a few of their other brews. I will probably give their Friday night events a go they seem to be more my style. I don't think the Sunday Sesh for me but just to be sure though I think that I might give it a second chance.
From Hobart Brewing Company website
Harbour Master is a uniquely Tasmanian Ale that blends three distinct hop varieties grown right here in the Derwent Valley. This copper ale is tightly balanced and highly sessionable.
Brewer's comments: "With this beer we wanted to showcase some of Tassie's finest hops. While there are now many great examples of American pales, as well as English, German and Belgian-style beers, there hasn't been a distinct Tasmanian style. We created Harbour Master as a beer that we imagined to be a distinctive Tasmanian Ale.
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