The Sunshine Coast is proving its place as Australia’s craft beer capital with a new offering promising ‘better beer’, and delicious food while helping the environment.
4 Pines Mooloolaba is the latest brewery to open on the Coast, bringing its range of popular beers to a pub-meets-café venue on Mooloolaba Esplanade.
The menu includes a range of Aussie classics and Mexican-inspired favourites.
“Essentially, it’s a cafe pub, so a modern Australian pub with a Mexican twist,” said 4 Pines Mooloolaba general manager Dan Burton.
“We have pub classics like beef burgers and chicken parmis, and also tacos and nachos.”
Designed as a “home away from home” for locals and visitors, it is one of a slew of venues Australia-wide under the 4 Pines banner.
With six beers on tap and a selection of premium drinks – plus a breakfast, lunch and dinner menu – the venue has brought a new flavour to the popular beach strip.
The brewery’s core range of beers include a fruity Pacific Ale, crisp Pale Ale and a tropical Hazy Pale Ale. There is also a selection of wines, cocktails, ginger beer and seltzers.
Beginning in the Sydney suburb of Manly in 2006, 4 Pines prides itself on brewing beer without leaving an environmental footprint.
The company is B-Corp certified and a member of the 1% for the Planet initiative that so far has seen them plant 44,444 trees in partnership with Landcare Australia.
Mr Burton said the company ethos fitted perfectly with the Sunshine Coast lifestyle.
He said the venue was unlike anything else offered in the area and it had been well received since opening in June.
“Mooloolaba really has that community focused ethos,” he said. “We have a really good following of locals and regulars that come in.
“For me it’s really about focussing on the locals and creating that home away from home.
“You are creating a place where you are not just coming to a venue, but the people behind the bar are your mates.
“We love tourists coming through and they are absolutely loving it too.
“We had a couple who had been here for a month and came here every day. It was like saying goodbye to family when they left.”
Mr Burton has more than 20 years’ experience in the hospitality industry, beginning as a dish hand at age 14 and advancing to in fine-dining restaurants including Matt Moran’s Aria in Sydney.
The venue itself includes a relaxed beer garden with keg-style seating just 100 metres from the beach.
4 Pine Mooloolaba is at 105 Mooloolaba Esplanade and open from 6.30am until late Wednesday to Sunday. Walk-ins welcome, but bookings are required for groups of eight or more.
Visit 4pinesbeer.com.au
