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The words ‘Froth’ and ‘Frothing’, and their plethora of uses in modern day language, have crossed generations and state borders to have firmly entrenched themselves into an Australian’s vernacular.

 

EXMOUTH 

OPENED 23 FEB 2017

Froth Craft Brewery is Exmouth, W.A’s award winning family-friendly restaurant/micro-brewery/live music venue with a kitchen serving up delicious local produce, bar pouring artisan craft beer brewed on-site and a welcoming and rustic atmosphere between the eclectic areas: beer garden, bar, verandah, street side alfresco area and sky lounge.

Froth opened its doors in February of 2017 with a goal to bring hand-crafted beer, creative food pairings, culture and Arts to the World Heritage Listed Ningaloo Reef region. Being the first micro-brewery in the Gascoyne and Pilbara, they wanted to set the bar consistently high across the venue, service, atmosphere, entertainment as well as the essential food & beverages. Continually growing and learning as a business has been of the upmost importance to the three owners of Froth.

 

Froth Craft Brewery has been at the forefront of fostering the Arts, Creativity and Entertainment in Exmouth – consistent live music, comedy, movie/doco screenings, workshops, exhibitions, community presentations, beergustations, charity fundraisers & environmental awareness events, (beer) yoga and community markets. We pride ourselves on being highly engaged with the community, both locals and tourists alike.

2019 winner of Australian Hotels Association & AON Hospitality Awards for Excellence: Best Boutique Brewery, Best Regional Venue & Best Outdoor Area.

2018 winner of Best Cafe, Restaurant, Pub at the Gascoyne Regional Business Awards. 2018 winner of Tourism Initiative award at the Australian Hotels Association & AON Hospitality Awards for Excellence.

2017 Best Start-Up Business award winner at the Western Australian Regional Business awards.

 

BUNBURY

OPENED 8 JULY 2022

The Exmouth lads have moved south & froth-chising with their second venue that again incorporates brewery/live music venue, family friendly restaurant, vibe focus. South-West W.A’s newest venue, lovingly titled ‘Froth Craft Bunbrewery’ & Bunbury’s inaugural microbrewery, set to open in July 2022!

The three owner operators Phil Gray, Tyler Little and Pete Firth are proud to announce their new pioneering venture with expansion plans in to the southwest and the first purpose-built family friendly brewpub/restaurant/ live entertainment venue in the centre of Bunbury, appropriately titled Froth Craft Bunbrewery. The development is centrally located on the prime corner lot of Carey St and busy Victoria St, on the grounds that once stood the iconic Reef Hotel, and previously Captain Bunbury, Pier Hotel and Gordon’s Hotel.

With a ‘Spark’ steam 25hL capacity brewhouse system, Bunbrewery’s brewery will be able to produce in one day what their Exmouth facility produces in one month. Froth Craft Bunbrewery’s pint of difference will boil down to creating memorable experiences that cater to all. It will be a ‘part’ place.

 

Part brewery, part restaurant, part cultural hub, part family venue, part theatre, part beer garden, part function venue, part local meeting spot, part employer. A progressive venue that takes an active part in the community and one you want to be ‘a part of’. Innovative design will mean walking into the

City of Bunbury’s first brewery is like walking into an old friend’s house, but that old friend just happens to brew a huge range of artisan craft beers and cook you a delectable meal in their commercial kitchen. It will be warm, rustic and inviting and hard to walk out of.

Incorporating solar power and sustainable operations that focus on reducing environmental and carbon footprints, this conscientious development has its heart in the right place.

 

The Bunbrewery tap offerings will feature new recipes across a wide range of styles plus rotating seasonal experiments. Plans are to package selected beers and venture into distribution. The food menu will also be seasonal. Focusing on local produce, dishes will cater to all diets and span from lighter share plates to healthy and hearty, to dude food. The venue will host regular live entertainment and draw on local artists and touring performers across music, comedy, exhibitions, and the performing Arts.

EDGE4DESIGN is the studio of Brian Borshoff, a West Australian trained architect with a foundation of overseas experience including waterfront projects in Sydney (Merlin Street, Darling Harbour), large scale heritage projects (The Battersea, London) and work with leading international design practices. Brian’s expertise also includes exhibition projects in Singapore and Sydney which have given a unique take on building design, resulting in experience-based architecture that engages the public. Froth offered EDGE4DESIGN a very unique site in the heart of Bunbury and the challenge of creating an iconic landmark for the second of their award winning destination breweries.

Froth’s design ‘bends’ Victoria Street through the building and then reconnects it with Carey Street. This internal ‘street’, Back Reef Lane, presents the opportunity of weekend markets, stalls, buskers, street performers, art + craft exhibitions, live music and so much more! Back Reef Lane is brick paved, sun-lit and visually connects through an overhead conservatory style roof with Bunbury’s blue skies and Froth’s tower! The tower will be a visual landmark identifying Froth and connecting the intersecting axis of the Bunbury Light House, the pedestrian bridge and Jetty Road – Froth becomes an integral player in the City of Bunbury’s innovative and aspirational planning initiatives.

Froth Bunbury will generate energy, create experience and regenerate (and revitalise) the city. The design approach has incorporated strong ‘green engineering’ principles and the core ideals of sustainability and human health – this has been affected through design, materials and finishes chosen and is inherent in Froth’s approach to the delivery of their unique brand of product and service.

Recycled bricks, steel and shiplap style horizontal plank cladding will contribute to a visually strong and easily identified ‘waterfront’ or ‘pier style’ architecture. The result will suggest to the visitor a destination working brewery that appears to have been part of the Bunbury water-front history and fabric for a very long time.

The Café, Pier Stage, Kybra Boat Bar (a wooden boat built in 1949) and Brewery will engage with Back Reef Lane and our ‘street’ will engage with the visitor. The boundary between building and street has been blurred with the street fronts on both Carey and Victoria activating or enticing the pedestrian through the building to become part of the Froth experience.

 

 

NORTH BEACH

OPENED 14 DEC 2023

MEDIA RELEASE

FROTH CRAFT BEACH TAPHOUSE IN NORTH BEACH OFFICIALLY OPENS

 

The beers are now pouring at the Northern Suburbs’ most anticipated summer venue opening. 

Thursday, December 14, 2023

(Perth, Western Australia) Froth Craft Brewery is proud to announce the official opening of ‘Froth Craft Beach’, their 120-capacity craft beer taphouse/pizzeria in Perth’s North Beach, marking the brand’s third outpost in Western Australia. Occupying a prime position on West Coast Drive, at 1 North Beach Road, with expansive sea view, the venue is directly adjacent to the beach and in front of the North Beach Shops precinct.

 

The North Beach taphouse is the third venture (and first Perth metro venue) from froth-preneurs Pete Firth, Phillip Grey and Tyler Little. You can tell they’re keen: works began only on 18 September and they’re opening their doors less than three months later. The trio initially made a name for themselves in W.A’s north-west back in 2017, when they pioneered the first ever micro-brewpub between Perth and Broome, ‘Froth Craft Brewery’ in Exmouth. In July 2022 the trio expanded to the South West, opening ‘Froth Craft Bunbrewery’, a venue that again made history as the City of Bunbury’s first ever brewpub. In just over a year of operation, the Froth team have already taken out the ‘New Venue Award’ for their Bunbury venue at this year’s Australian Hotels Association Awards. 

 

Froth Craft Beach has a laid-back and welcoming atmosphere, open to all ages, families, kids (with a play area on site) and dogs. As a “pint of difference” to other bars and pubs in the northern suburbs, Froth will begin by serving 100% its own in-house beers and seltzer, that are brewed at Froth’s own 25hL brewery in Bunbury, with rotating guest tap to debut down the track, plus a permanent cider tap from Froth’s friends at FUNK Cider in the Swan Valley. Froth North Beach offers 17 of its craft brews on tap; a selection where there’s something for all beer palates; from lagers, rice lagers, I.P.As, ales, sours, stouts, mids, ginger beer and seltzer. With the warm weather and proximity to the adjacent ocean; Froth is predicting in terms of popularity that the North Beach venue will be pouring a lot of the Captain Lager, a light, bright, crisp, and clean lager ideal for sessions at only 4% A.B.V. Mid-strength popular picks are froth-casted to be the Golden Hour West Oz Summer Ale, an easy drinking mid-strength beer created with a light grain, a tropical aroma and a crisp aftertaste, or the Half-Baked Hazy Mid Pale Ale, a warm weather winner that embraces the “haze craze” currently in craft beer and doesn’t compromise on summer tropical fruit flavours.

Another time-honoured summer hit is the Paint The Town Red Raspberry Berliner Weisse, a German-style wheat sour, packed full of refreshing raspberry to balance the sour-ness. The crowd favourite, however, is the Yeah Baby! Ginger Beer. Also pouring is the Stoned Over Hazy Pale Ale, Nor’ Esther Pale Ale, Sukoshi Japanese Rice Lager and from the fuller flavoured and hoppier IPA end of the range, they’ll be pouring three versions: Dr’s Chronic West Coast I.P.A, The Catcher Red Rye I.P.A and one of their original beers from 2017: the You’re Drivin I.P.A. There’s also a wide selection of WA wines on offer from the Great Southern, Ferguson Valley, Margaret River and the Swan Valley; plus Tasmanian Pinot and Sparkling. The wines match the coastal, easy drinking nature of the establishment. Cocktails, frozen slushies and a selection of fine booze rounds out the offering to cater to all drinkers’ palates.

The menu is made up of easy-going, affordable and simple people-pleasing offerings: delectable pizzas served up on wooden boards, perfect hunger busters after a day out in the surf.  The food offering is expanded with a collaborative effort from popular adjacent eatery 96 Express. QR codes on the tables allow guests to order a wider variety of food, including share plates, succulent corn ribs, fish and chips plus burgers from their menu and you can conveniently collect food from the neighbour’s serving window while remaining in Froth’s licensed area. 

Taking design notes from its sister venues, Froth Craft Beach’s decor is also characterised by a down-to-earth aesthetic; masterminded by Eryk from Viking Concepts, out of Witchcliffe: recycled brick walls, shipyard rope ceilings, and an upcycled centrepiece in the bar, that was a former seven-metre-long jarrah boat built in 1948, the “Surfleet”, originally owned and used by Busselton Scouts, and used to sail between Busselton and Marmion. The boat’s prop, keel and every conceivable piece has been repurposed throughout the venue; even a swinging bench was made from it. The architect is Brian Borshoff, from Edge 4 Design, who also designed Froth’s award-winning Bunbury venue. A design highlight is a two-tiered terraced deck, with rustic, handmade wooden slab recessed benches and tables under sunshades, that open out onto a spectacular 180 degree view of the Indian Ocean. The venue’s foldable glass doors will allow for a protected indoor area on days when the breeze is on the heavier side, or for those looking for respite from the sun.

For the North Beach community, the taphouse fills a much-needed gap geographically for an F & B venue. Mid-way between a long stretch of mostly residential area along West Coast Hwy between Scarborough’s hospitality precinct and Hillary’s, Froth is perfectly positioned as a pitstop between the two. Locals in the North Beach and Trigg area are elated to have a new meeting place for their coastal community, with coastal Facebook groups abuzz with excitement.

Pete Firth, Froth co-owner, said: “The entire Froth team is proud to be opening its third outpost in Western Australia, seven years on since opening our first brewery in Exmouth and a year and a half on from Bunbury. You could say we’re officially ‘Froth-chising’!  A metro Perth taphouse has always been a dream for our team; we never imagined we’d be able to score such a beautiful waterfront location; as ocean-lovers ourselves, we’re still pinching ourselves that we get to cheers beers with everyone as the sun sinks over that endless blue Indian Ocean horizon. We’ve put a lot of effort into creating a space that is both inviting and exciting for locals and visitors alike – we can’t wait to share it with everyone.”

Firth explains that the venue will act as a further platform to showcase their range: “When we designed our Bunbury venue, there was sufficient production capacity planned to supply itself and numerous Froth venues; as well as small scale distribution, so now that we have a metro taphouse in North Beach, it’s a huge opportunity for us to showcase our core range and diversity of seasonal and experimental beer; all washed down with a healthy dose of Froth vibe and atmosphere.”

Already, the Froth team are planning some exciting new releases that will flow through the taps at Froth Craft Beach. Firth shares their plans: “As soon as next week, we will release a refreshing, blood orange wheat beer, and just in time for Christmas, North Beach revelers will get to sip on a new, oat cream I.P.A (that Santa would definitely prefer over a glass of milk!) plus a lip-smacking New Zealand Pilsner out early in 2024.” 

 

Pete Firth, co-owner at Froth, is available for radio, print and digital interviews to discuss all things Froth: pete@frothcraft.com

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EXMOUTH

5 KENNEDY STREET, EXMOUTH,
WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 6707

CALL US: (08) 9949 1451

BUNBURY

12 VICTORIA STREET, BUNBURY,
WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 6230

 CALL US: 0407 718 751

NORTH BEACH

1 NORTH BEACH ROAD, NORTH BEACH
WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 6020

CALL US: 04 29 93 65 72

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We acknowledge the Baiyungu, Thalanyji and Yinikutira traditional custodians of the Ningaloo coast, & the Wadandi of the Bunbury area & pay our respects to their past, Elders past, present and emerging