DJ and Harriet McCready opened Mountain Culture Brewery in 2018 as the first brew pub in the Blue Mountains, they have since amassed a cult following. Their beers are fun, complex, and something craft beer lovers get excited about, with many single release and small batches notoriously hard to get hold of!

During the brew day at our Factory in Emu Plains for this special collab with our friends Cloudburst (Seattle, WA) and Wildflower (Marrickville, NSW), we were discussing how, logically, we should call the beer ‘umbrella’ because:

– Cloudburst = rain

– We used wet hops from HPA

– The wet hops are called Ella (-ella, eh eh eh) …

And then Steve announced that in his native tongue (American), umbrellas are called ‘bumbershoots’. That’s the moment we realised we weren’t just working with an inimitable wet-hop brewer but also someone who could probably smash us at Scrabble, too. – Notes from Mountain Culture Beer Co.