Get a rural fix and a beer at this farm-based craft brewery, featuring hand-pumped ales and ciders brewed in the old shearing shed beside the bar. Wood BBQs available (BYO meat). You'll find the brewery 12km northwest of New Norfolk, en route to Hamilton.


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