Monkey Pig Brewing
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If you've always wanted to have a micro brewery of your own & want to take over our equipment (from grain storage to canning line & tasting bar) contact us directly on [email protected] & let's talk turkey
Monkey Pig Brewing is the unique craft brewery & cordillery, located in Yeppoon on the Capricorn Coast in Central Qld, and not too far from Emu Park, Rockhampton, Woodbury, Byfield and Gladstone. Head Brewer, Reg Taylor, is a local with a passion for creating great beers suited to our relaxed & sometimes quirky CQ lifestyle.
With more than 12 Monkey Pig specialty beers, a unique range of Aussie wine-based fruit spritzers, and a great selection of house-made non-alcoholic cordials, you're sure to find the right drink for you, when you visit our cellar door & tasting bar at our brewery AKA “The Shed” in Jabiru Drive, Yeppoon. Takeaways & Growler fills are also available for you to enjoy at home, whether poolside, beachside, or couchside in the airconditioning.
Sister company Pigglettoes runs the cellar door cafe & providore where you can sample or takeaway their amazing growler platters while enjoying a Monkey Pig brew or two.
Head dishwasher extraordinaire, Kat Taylor, creates a range of dips, sauces, chutneys & marinades using local & Australian products, as well as selling products from other local & Australian food artisans.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ..... Monkey Pig Brewing is closing .... BUT ....
We still have a few events coming up for you to grab your refills.
Monkey Pig is closing on 31st March 2021












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Welcome to Monkey Pig
Monkey Pig Brewing
(& Pigglettoes Providore)
Yeppoon
are your locally owned and operated Craft Brewery - For Specialty Beers, Wine-based Fruit Spritzers, Growler Platters.
Filling & Re-filling Options
You can enjoy the fabulous flavours of your favourite specialty beers and wine-based fruit spritzers in the "Iso-cation" of your own home.
Phone ahead if you can, so we can have everything ready to go for you.


Growler Platters
PLATTERS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO RENOVATIONS
Collect your sensational Growler Platters - perfect to accompany your "At Home" Beverages.
You can order online. We will be in contact to confirm and arrange payment, & l have them ready to collect.
You can pick up your Specialty Beer, Wine-based Fruit Spritzer and Non-Alcoholic Fruit Cordial refills at the same time.
Craft, Crafty & Craftier Brews
Click below to see the full selection of Beers, Spritzers, and Non-alcoholic Cordials/Mixers.
All available to enjoy at home as souvenirs of your visit to 'The Shed'. Call for ordering & Pickup options.
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Piggle-licious Concoctions
Experiment with our innovative recipes for Cocktails, Mocktails, Beers and Providore options. Be sure to share your ideas, success and recipes too
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Events & Outlets
Keep up to date as we create new events with a difference! And see where you can find our beers in the community.
Definitely not your "ordinary" events ... We are renowned for our fun times and crazy antics.
Don't miss out on the next one.
Piggle-licious Concoctions
Sit back and enjoy a Monkey Pig themed Cocktail, Mocktail or other delight
Filling & Re-filling Options
Your Tasters Packs, Bottle Refills and Keg Refills are available to take home.
Piggle-licious
The perfect spot to enjoy your Growler Platters, Specialty Beers, Wine Spritzers and Fruit Cordials
Pick Up or Delivery
Collect your Refills and Platters from "The Shed" in Jabiru Drive, Yeppoon, or we can arrange delivery for you.
12 Monkey Pig Beers
Our Signature Product - we have more than 12 Monkey Pig Specialty Beers, and we are constantly developing new flavours and exciting varieties.
Frequently Asked Questions
A brewery is any manufacturing facility that produces beer. As the name suggests, a microbrewery, or craft brewery, is a small brewery. In Australia, micro-breweries are limited to producing no more than 40 million litres of beer per year. Monkey Pig Brewing is classified as a ‘Nano’ or ‘Artisanal’ brewery, producing less than 3 million litres of beer per year.
Due to falling sales of ‘regular’ beers, CUB/Fosters (owned by Asahi) & Lion Nathan (owned by Kirrin) have bought out many of the larger micro-breweries across Australia. Independent breweries like Monkey Pig Brewing, are micro-breweries which are not owned by a larger brewery (Ie a brewery producing more than 40 million litres of beer per year). Independent brewers generally live locally, employ locals and invest locally and are represented by a collective body called the IBA or Independent Brewers Association.
Like all micro-breweries, independent brewers, produce smaller batch sizes & have a larger range of beers on tap than bigger brewers. However, unlike the micro-breweries owned by the big multinationals, independent brewers still have a choice of what they brew, how much they brew & where they can source their ingredients from. This means that they produce a wide variety of styles and specialty beers, often employing unique ingredients and producing distinctive flavours. A nano brewery like Monkey Pig can take this one step further, producing not only seasonal beers but one off event beers & custom beers quickly & easily, without having to churn out the same beers over & over again. At Monkey Pig Brewing you will still get your favourite flavours & styles but there will always be something different & unique to try.
In layman's terms, craft beer is a beer that is not brewed by one of the big corporate breweries- CUB/Fosters (owned by Asahi) & Lion Nathan (owned by Kirrin). It doesn’t matter if the beer comes from an independent brewery or a micro-brewery owned by one of the big multinationals, if its brewed in a micro-brewery, in Australia it is called a craft beer. This is a little bit of sneaky marketing by the big corporations with many ‘craft’ beers on the market no longer being produced locally, by locals, for locals or with the same small batch playfulness of an independently brewed beer.
However don’t despair, independent breweries are still the real deal. We still make craft beer in a brewery you can visit. You can still talk to the brewer & find out why they make the style of beer they do. And most importantly you can still taste the difference.
People often ask: Which is better- Craft beer or regular (mass produced) beer?
We take that further & ask: Which is better- Independently brewed or regular craft beer?
Without a doubt craft beer has more flavour than regular mass produced beer, which is produced for price, consistency & quantity rather than for flavour. The smaller batch sizes & wider variety produced by micro-brewers can’t be matched in mass produced beer. In a blind taste test, 9 out of 10 people choose the craft beer over the mass produced beer simply because it tastes the way people expect great beer should taste. However, is there a difference between an independently brewed beer & regular craft beer from the bottle shop?
Yes.
Just as craft beer tastes better than mass produced beer, independently brewed beer tastes better than regular craft beer. It all comes back to styles & flavour. Smaller batches & a wider choice of ingredients & suppliers means that independent brewers can be more experimental & brew beers that wouldn’t be successful in international or even national markets. We brew for local tastes & local conditions not corporate bottom lines.
Mass produced beer is brewed to produce a consistent product at a consistently low price. Craft, or smaller batch beers, can never match the economy of scale achieved by the big brewers. When you buy an independently brewed beer you are purchasing a bespoke product from an artisan producer who brews for local tastes & local conditions not corporate bottom lines using mass production & efficiency schedules.
So yes great craft beer costs more, BUT when you spend a little more on an independently brewed beer the money you spend stays in your local economy and supports individuals and local families. When you purchase mass produced beers, even if they sport an iconic Aussie brand name, the profits go to the overseas, effectively reducing the wealth in our community and our ability to employ locals.
We know you want to hear this!
Health benefits of drinking a Monkey Pig Beer or Spritz
There are very few drinks more refreshing than a cold beer or sparkling spritzer on a hot day. But we all need to be careful of how much alcohol we drink. At Monkey Pig we deliberately brew our beers & make our spritzers to suit our hot tropical climate, with ABV’s of 2.7% upto 5.2%, so you can still enjoy a drink (& sometimes 2 depending on the ABV) without consuming more alcohol (& calories) than you should.
Note: Drinking more than four standard alcoholic drinks a day is considered excessive drinking and is not recommended.
Health benefits of drinking a Monkey Pig Beer or Spritz
We only use quality whole ingredients with few or no additives so you are getting those great tastes as naturally & as cleanly as possible. And, our lower sugar fruit cordial recipes also mean you are not drinking soft drink levels of sugar when you have one of our spritzers, mixing a cocktail or enjoying one of our sparkling drinks, so that got to be better for you as well.
And the greatest news is ... our bottles will last for a long time in the fridge & are re-sealable, so you can buy a Tasters-pack & savour it to your heart's content.
Beer Types
It can be quite overwhelming when trying to learn all the different kinds of beer which is why we have condensed a list of bitesize information for you to understand about the drink. This list will help you have a better idea of what you can order on your next order from Monkey Pig Brewery, or any of our outlets.
Hover over the images below to learn a bit more.
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