Australia is a land that has everything it needs to make world-class beer with hop farms in Tasmania, barley fields in Western Australia and a brewing history heavily influenced by British immigrants in the 19th century. While I’ve previously traveled to Tasmania, Melbourne and Sydney, this past December (2019) I made my first trip to Western Australia - home of the Margaret River wine region, a beautiful coastline, and other agriculture that has made it ripe to support an emerging craft beer scene. In this post I’ll touch on a few breweries I was able to visit in Margaret River, Fremantle, and the coast in-between. I’ll give you my general impression as well as a relative “grade” of the venue and the beer, and some justification for each.