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What do you do when bushfires hand you smoke-tainted grapes? For winemaker Bryan Martin and brewer Topher Boehm, you make smoky, wild, fruit-forward beer.
The friends launched their Bright Side brews at the weekend, made with organic grapes smoke-tainted by the 2020 bushfires at Martin s Ravensworth Wines vineyard in Murrumbateman, near Canberra. Bryan puts so much energy into growing his fruit every year, for an entire vintage to be cast out as cow feed or compost would have been heartbreaking, says Boehm, co-owner of Wildflower Brewing & Blending in Marrickville. Wildflower s smoky, wild, fruit-forward Bright Side beers.
Photo: James Brickwood