Brews cooked up by the crew at Murray's Brewery in Bobs Farm appear to have created liquid gold with two of its beers winning big at the 2019 Australian International Beer Awards.
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Fred IPA, one of Murray's core beers, and the seasonal Gardenia IIPA won gold in the annual awards. Murray's also won five bronze awards.
"It's a good, positive sign that we're heading in the right direction," Murray's Brewery head brewer Sean Costigan said of the wins.
"It's a good benchmark; of the beers against themselves because they're being judged just on their own merits as a beer, but then once the results are displayed and you see where other beers are that are on the market where placed, you get a good benchmark against the rest of the industry.
"It's exciting to get gold. Fred is one of our core range beers. For it to be considered of world class standard, that's just awesome.
"Gardenia is one of those beers at the pointy end of the scene. It's not a beer that everyone is going to be buying but it is the kind of beer that your real beer aficionados will be buying.
"To be considered of a world class standard in that category it's a nice recognition."
The AIBA is the largest annual beer competition in the world. This year's awards attracted 2594 entries from 402 breweries.
Fred won gold in the best international-style pale ale (draught) division while Gardenia won gold for best IPA - double IPA (packaged).
Murray's Angry Man Pale Ale, XPA, 262 Novocastria Brew and Gardenia IIPA won bronze in their draught divisions.
The 262 Novocastria Brew also won bronze in the packaged category.
This year's AIB gold awards rounds the brewery's total to three, with its Moon Boy Golden Ale winning gold in 2017.
The Murray's team is now working on creating a brute IPA and brews for Dark Beer Month in June.
"We're working on a lot of beers for the cellar door," Costigan said. "We'll have at lest six throughout June."