It was a homebrew competition between DJ and his flat mate, Josh, that kicked off DJ’s brewing career - his passion to beat Josh led him to volunteer at a local brewery to learn the craft from their head brewer.

DJ wound up taking over from that head brewer, and then moving on to be the head of the experimental program at one of USA’s biggest breweries, Oskar Blues.

Seeking a new challenge, DJ moved to Australia where he met Harriet. She was not the challenge. But this pic was on their third date when DJ won some beer awards and she realised he might actually be pretty good at brewing.

While travelling and climbing mountains in Europe and visiting iconic German breweries such as Pilsner Urquell and Augustiner Brewery, DJ and Harriet start daydreaming about opening a brewery themselves...

After months of tossing up where to set up their brewery, they settled on the Blue Mountains, NSW - a location that resonated with their outdoorsy, adventure lifestyle.

DJ and Harriet get to work renovating an old Civic Video store into a fully operational brewery, whilst keeping costs down by living in what is now the mezzanine seating area.

Our first 12 hec brewhouse was installed (which is still used in Katoomba today) and we brewed we our first batch of beer - American Pale Ale.

Mountain Culture’s doors finally open to the public!

The Black Summer fires of 2019/2020 saw the beautiful Blue Mountains catch alight in the worst bushfires in history. The locals evacuate. The tourists steer clear.

With barely any customers, we decided to experiment and play around with some new beer styles and we brewed our first limited release beer, Cult Juice, which has gone on to become a core range NEIPA.

COVID-19 forced us to close the doors of our brewpub. In one week, we changed production from keg to can, and launch a new website in order to start posting our beers all around Australia.

We re-opened the brewpub and affectionately dubbed it ‘Factory Fusion’ where, on a Sunday night we would pack away all the tables and chairs, bring in all the raw materials and equipment, ready to brew Monday morning.

Just two weeks later, DJ and Harriet welcomed their first child, Dorothy.

We celebrated our first birthday with our team of 20 staff. We needed a party to reflect on what a whirlwind of a year it had been!

Our beers officially became available at independent bars and bottle shops nationwide.

We were voted Australia’s #1 Best New Brewery by Beer & Brewer.

We picked up the keys to our new production facility in Emu Plains with the goal to increase our production capacity from 60,000L per year to 8 million litres per year.

We brewed our first Wet Hop IPA using freshly harvested Galaxy hops.

COVID-19 strikes again reinstating lockdown regulations and making online distribution more crucial than ever.

We brewed our 100th beer which was an Imperial Raspberry Stout.

Just two years after brewing our first beer in Katoomba, we completed our second expansion and brew our first beer on our new 25hl brewhouse in Emu Plains.

We hosted our first ever beer festival inviting some of the best breweries in Australia to the Blue Mountains for the ultimate beer showcase.

Our Emu Plains taproom opened to the public.

Our new Krones canning line was commissioned increasing our canning speed from 50 cans per minute to 250 cans per minute.

Our flagship beer Status Quo Pale Ale was voted the #1 beer in Australia in the GABS Hottest 100 People’s Choice Award in its debut year. We had a big party to celebrate!

Our beloved Katoomba Brewpub was voted the #1 brewery venue in New South Wales.

We completed our third expansion and brewed our first beer on our new state-of-the-art 50hl brewhouse custom designed and manufactured by GEA in Germany. We can now brew in a day what would have taken us a year to brew on our original Katoomba kit!

We brewed a collaboration Pale Ale with DJ’s life-long brewing heroes, Sierra Nevada. They don’t do many collabs making the experience extra special.

Status Quo Pale Ale was voted Australia’s #1 beer once again in the GABS Hottest 100 People’s Choice Award. We had another big party to celebrate!

We launched our new core range lager, APL, which has become our second most popular beer behind Status Quo. Using Australian ingredients, this beer has seen the most R&D put into the recipe design of any beer of ours.