Melbourne beer doyens Stomping Ground have this week opened their all-new permanent brewery and beer hall in Terminal 3 of Melbourne Airport.
The new site is the first working brewery inside an airport in Australia, and the evolution of the team’s pop-up beer garden, which it has operated inside Melbourne Airport over the past two summers.
Up to 20 different beers will be served, alongside full foodservice and bar menus and murals by local artist Justine McAllister. Takeaway beer can also be purchased by passengers, on incoming or outgoing flights.
Most beers will continue to be produced in the company’s main facility in Collingwood, but it is anticipated a lot of recipes will be created each year at the new brewpub.
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“Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to help us make this day happen,” expressed the Stomping Ground founders, Guy Greenstone, Steve Jeffares and Justin Joiner.
The new site is another collaboration with Studio Y, which worked with SG on the Collingwood brewpub. Trading hours are 5am to 9:30pm every day.
Stomping Ground Melbourne Airport comes ahead of the brewery’s anticipated new premise at Morris Moor – the 6.27-Ha redevelopment of Moorabbin’s old Phillip Morris manufacturing site.
Over 1,000 square metres of Morris Moor will become a brand new 12-hectolitre Stomping Ground brewery and venue, which Jeffares reports is expected to open in June.
