The Mill Brewery

POURING NOW 🖤 THE DARK LORD BLACK IPA 🔥 6.66%

At all your favourite local venues, and stocked at all the best bottleshops in town 🍻

Harbouring a heavy hop presence from Galaxy and Citra, combined with a toasty but clean malt backbone. The Dark Lord is a perfectly balanced, hoppy black IPA.

PUNTERS CLUB x THE MILL BREWERY ♣️💚 LIL’ LORD PUNTERS DARK ALE

To celebrate the epic return of we teamed up with the crew for a special collab brew 🍻

A spin on The Mill’s cult classic “The Dark Lord” - the Lil’ Lord is malty and rich, with a dry finish and firm bitterness. Perfect to perch up with in the pub to escape this wild Melbourne weather.

Get down to Punters to try it - this limited batch collab beer is exclusively pouring there now, and won’t last much longer!

CALLING LAST DRINKS TODAY AT SACKVILLE ST 🍻🍻🍻🍻

We’re open 12pm - 11pm.

See y’all here. Cheers!

Sometimes you forget that all good things must come to an end. Thankfully on this occasion, although the lease at our Sackville St site is ending, we’re lucky enough to move to a new location and embark on the next chapter for The Mill Brewery.

To clarify, the building The Mill resides in sold in 2021, and of course, the new owners have plans to knock it down and develop the area - forcing us and the 5 surrounding small businesses to pack up and move, which in the current climate is easier said than done.

I want everyone to know The Mill is not ending here. We have taken over the lease at the Bendigo Hotel on Johnston St, Collingwood. Although not operational immediately, the brew house will be set up at the Bendi, once we fit out and obtain the necessary permits. Our production brewery in Thomastown will continue to supply all your favourite pubs, bars, bottleshops and of course our new location.

Our final day of trade at Sackville St will be Saturday August 24th. Please come down and enjoy a beer, share a memory, and get excited about this opportunity for us to expand to a larger venue. Hope to see everyone there, if not, I’ll catch you at The Bendi (opening Saturday 31st August)

Cheers, Mirek.

Stoked to be included in 2024 GABS Festival Pack ❤️‍🔥🍫🍒

We teamed up with our friends and neighbours to create our Black Forest Gateaû Stout.

We collaborated on recipes, brew day - and finished by serving tarts infused with the stout alongside our beer at GABS this year (tarts by the tart lord himself 🔥) The flavour pairing was a want AND a need for 2024.

Packed full of dark cocoa and juicy cherries, plus a symphony of specialty malts from New Zealand, Australia and Germany. Limited stock available exclusively at Dan Murphys and BWS 🍻

📸 GABS 2024 Festival Pack photo by .2.review - absolutely slaps as always 🔥

THE DARK LORD RETURNS ⚔️ The beer that started it all for The Mill in July 2015.

Harbouring a heavy hop presence from Galaxy and Citra, combined with a toasty but clean malt backbone. The Dark Lord is a perfectly balanced, hoppy black IPA.

Pouring now at the taproom and at all your favourite local venues. Also available online and at the best bottle shops in town. Cheers 🍻

A GOOD DAY TO CRACK OPEN A COLD ONE 🔥

Here from Midday with all your Sunday sesh needs 🍻

THE MILL BREWERY TO RELOCATE AND REVIVE ICONIC BENDIGO HOTEL

We’re excited to announce our relocation and the reopening of the Bendigo Hotel on Johnston St. We’ll be moving everything over from our current site (which is planned for redevelopment) including the brewery.

Our long-time pals Dingo Ate My Taco will join us with an expanded menu, which we’re excited to share in the coming months.

The Bendi is a Collingwood icon and we’re pumped to revive it with great beer, great food and great live music. There’s plans for a venue refresh, brand new PA for the band room, and we’re keeping the Bendigo Hotel name, a legacy for 113 years.

It’s been an incredible run on Sackville St for the last 7 and a half years, and we hope to have your continued support in our new home.

Set to open end of August, stay tuned for launch details 🍻

- Mirek and The Mill team

x 🔪🍐🍒 POURING NOW AT THE MILL TAPROOM! Two incredible 2024 festival collab beers 🍻

Plus, tonight only at The Mill!! has hooked us up with a few final slices to pair with the Black Forest Gateaû Stout. Get the beer, and it’ll come with the tart 👌 first in first served - we’re here from 4pm 🍻

🍒 FLAVOUR #1: BLACK FOREST GATEAÛ STOUT
Packed full of dark cocoa and juicy cherries, plus a symphony of specialty malts.

🍐 FLAVOUR #2: SPICED PEAR BELGIAN BROWN
Tangy, spicy, fresh fruit profile, from pears poached in the brew. Belgian yeast contributes flavours of caramel, raisins and figs.

If you missed the flavour pairing at GABS - make sure you get down to The Mill tonight for the Black Forest encore.

🍻🍻🍻 Cheers!

Come see us ! 🎉🎉🎉 We’ve got some amazing offerings on tap, including our collab beers with - which we’re serving alongside tarts they made with the beers!

🍒 FLAVOUR #1: BLACK FOREST GATEAÛ STOUT
Packed full of dark cocoa and juicy cherries, plus a symphony of specialty malts.

🍐 FLAVOUR #2: SPICED PEAR BELGIAN BROWN
Tangy, spicy, fresh fruit profile, from pears poached in the brew. Belgian yeast contributes flavours of caramel, raisins and figs.

See y’all here 🍻🍻🍻 Cheers!

🔮🦇 LUNAR FRUITS ~ BLACKBERRY & YUZU SOUR ~ LAUNCHING THIS WEEK! 🔮🦇

A bat out of heaven, Lunar Fruits swoops over your taste buds with a succulent blend of juicy blackberries and zesty, Victorian-grown yuzu. Savour the flavour of this nectarous fruit melody 🎶

Get it first online now, pouring at the taproom from this Wednesday 🍻

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🚨‼️ GIVEAWAY ‼️🚨 to celebrate our recent NZ duo brew release, we’ve teamed up with - the photographer behind the incredible can art - for a sweet giveaway 🔥🔥🔥 up for grabs:

💥 2x signed A3 Prints of the artwork (ONE OF A KIND!)
💥 Mixed case of Kauri IPA & Katipō Red IPA (16x 440ml cans)

TO ENTER:
✅ Like this post
✅ Follow and
✅ Tag two pals in the comments of this post
✅ Extra entry if you share this as a Story

Ends Friday 14th June at Midnight. The winner will be announced Saturday 15th June 🏆 - must be based in Australia to enter.

Get liking, get tagging 🍻 Cheers!

TONIGHT ‼️ 6/6 - 6PM 🔥 $6 CANS OF THE DARK OVERLORD! 💀

Drink in only, til sold out.

OG Dark Lord is returning this season 🍻 WATCH THIS SPACE.

📸 .2.review

🥇 CERTIFIED NITRO STOUT POURER, CHAMPION FIRE STARTER! Thank you Jerry for bringing the perfect Friday vibes 🫡

The Mill is toasty, the beers are cold, don’t miss happy hour ~ 4pm - 7pm

here with the goods for dinner 🌮

Cheers 🍻

Slap one of these on your dome ‼️

Preorder online now $40 a pop, shipped end of June.

If you order beer and other gear with the hat, it’ll be shipped all together. Free shipping for all orders over $50 🍻 Cheers!

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🍻🪵🔥 TIME TO SETTLE IN AT THE MILL!

See you here for Happy Hour 4-7pm - plus new BOILERMAKERS with our TWO barrel aged beers on tap 🤠

🦪 SKELETON CREW BARREL AGED OYSTER STOUT 🥃 paired with Talisker 10y

💀 DISGORGED BARREL AGED STOUT 🥃 paired with Starward Nova

Plus are here slinging the goods 🌮🌮🌮

SEE YOU HERE AT THE COSIEST PLACE IN COLLINGWOOD!

⛓️☠️ SKELETON CREW! Barrel Aged Oyster Stout - Launching this Friday 24th May ⛓️☠️

A smooth but powerful stout, aged for 12 months in ex-Rye Whiskey barrels. Our 2023 Skeleton Crew Oyster Stout created a rich and silky base - with a salty and savoury mineral character. The Whiskey barrels balance biscuity, fresh coffee flavours with notes of spicy grains and sweet oak.

Snap yours up early online now, at the taproom from Friday 🍻

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Thanks again for all the support yesterday with the break in that occurred early Sunday morning at The Mill. Thankfully no damage to the venue or brewery, security cam footage is with the police. Back to trading as usual this week ❤️

Open a little late today, we were broken into last night at The Mill 😢

🌟🍻 HAPPY HOUR 🌟🍻 Catch the last of the sun at The Mill with a bev & birria!

WEEKDAYS 4-7PM
✨ $7 Lager & Pale Schooners
✨ $10 Wines (everything on the list!)
✨ $12 Spritz

🌮 slinging the best Birria tacos in town.

See you here from 4pm 🍻

🍂🍺 LAUNCHING THIS SATURDAY! Brown Corduroy Ale 🍂🍺 & pals have teamed up for an incredible collab brew - launching at Otters Promise this Saturday 18th May.

Inspired to craft a perfect beer for the Autumn & Winter season, we’ve created this toasty, malty English Brown Ale - with a light toffee sweetness and silky mouthfeel. Delightful, easy drinking, tastes like.. settling in for a cosy session at the pub!

Brewed with a big blend of specialty malts, including Redback and Light Chocolate (on a base of Maris Otter 🦦 of course!)

Very limited and far too delicious to miss. Pouring exclusively at Otters Promise and The Mill from Saturday 18th May. See you there! 🍻

GIANT BEER + TACOS 🍻🌮
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COLD BEER, GOOD FOOD, BETTER COMPANY.
📍 40 Sackville St, Collingwood

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This is Jeremy, our neighbour at for the last 7 years. He was the only other small business in our little collection of warehouses on Sackville St when we moved in back in 2016. An absolute treasure to have shared the last 7 years with you Jeremy! You helped shape Sackville St into what it is today - but won’t be for much longer :(

Appreciate the chats, the knowledge and most of all, the tools you lent us over the years! It’s sad to see you leave 3066, but best of luck over in 3057!

Go support him at 1/155 Donald St, Brunswick. Cheers!

Tiny kegs, tiny dogs 🤏

Back at it next week - Wednesday from 4pm 🍻 Cheers!

🥀🕷️ LAUNCHING NEXT WEEK: KATIPŌ RED IPA 🥀🕷️Friday 26th April

DUO IPA RELEASE - BEER #2: Pouring crimson red, bursting with flavours of fresh orange juice, stewed plum and ripe mango. The line-up of all NZ hops are balanced by sharp caramel and a biscuity malt body, finishing dry with a zesty grapefruit bitterness. A tribute to New Zealand’s sole native venomous species, the Katipō spider - this Red IPA packs a serious punch.

Hops: Rakau, Nelson Sauvin, Nelson Sauvin SubZero Hop Kief
Malts: Lager, Aurora, Redback, Shepards Delight, Crystal

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Kuirau Park, Rotorua, New Zealand
Captured by Alex Meagher |

Alex Meagher is a photographic artist from Aotearoa now residing in Melbourne. Using a rare, discontinued infrared film, his practice achieves a surrealist quality - subverting natural hues to create rich, vivid scenes.

🍂🍻 KAURI IPA 🍂🍻 Launching Friday 26th April

DUO IPA RELEASE - BEER #1: Taking root on a strong foundation of premium Pilsner malt, this modern IPA delivers a robust flavour profile, with NZ-grown Riwaka hops and SubZero Hop Kief. Savour lush notes of exotic citrus, papaya, and gummy candy.

Hops: Riwaka, Nelson Sauvin, Riwaka SubZero Hop Kief
Malt: Pilsner, Wheat, Oats, Chit, Dextrose

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown, New Zealand
Captured by Alex Meagher |

Alex Meagher is a photographic artist from Aotearoa now residing in Melbourne. Using a rare, discontinued infrared film, his practice achieves a surrealist quality - subverting natural hues to create rich, vivid scenes.

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Stay tuned for details of beer #2 - details drop tomorrow night!

That’s a wrap on our Fresh Hop Tap Takeover ‘24! 🍃🍻

Huge thanks to all the breweries involved and everyone who came by The Mill over the weekend to try some (or all) of the amazing wet-hop beers we had on show.

And a big thanks to and for the next level cook up on Saturday night 🌮

If you didn’t get a chance to try some of the fresh hop beers but still want to, we have just a few left that will be pouring next week. There’s not many - get down on Wednesday from 4pm to help us finish them off! 🍻

WE’RE OPEN FOR EASTER AT THE MILL ‼️

Trading hours:
💥 Friday: 12pm - 10pm
💥 Saturday: 12pm - 10pm
💥 Sunday: 12pm - 7pm

Swing by for an EASTER TREAT 🪺 We’ll be serving up drink specials and our..

🌶️🐇 SPICY BUNNY 🌶️🐇 Chocolate & Hazelnut Spiced Milk Stout - the perfect Easter beer! A silky smooth milk stout with cacao nibs, hazelnuts, vanilla, spices and habanero chilli’s! A super limited brew, only pouring at The Mill.

See y’all there! 🍻

🕯💀 THE DARK OVERLORD: COLD BLACK IPA 🕯💀

Get ready for the flavour reign of “The Dark Overlord.” Born from the legendary lineage of our revered “Dark Lord,” this latest creation ascends the throne with a chilling twist.

Jet black and enticing, The Dark Overlord surprises with a bright aroma of fresh orange and mango, and a hint of coffee. The flavour begins with a roasted, ice-cold brew coffee sensation, evolving into savoury notes of cocoa. Fermented with a lager yeast, you’ll find citrus and juicy passionfruit emerge, leading to a dry, quenching finish.

Launching next week at our 7th birthday party on Saturday 23rd March.

🖤 FREE KEG pouring from midday
🖤 NEW BEER RELEASE! THE DARK OVERLORD
🖤 THE BEST will host and DJ
🖤 GIVEAWAYS AND PRIZES every hour
🖤 SPECIAL MENU by that you simply cannot miss!
🖤 PERFORMANCES BY .riffs (7pm) + (8pm)

We’ll be slinging good vibes all day, great bevs all night. Can’t wait - see ya’ll then! 🍻

🌿 IT’S FRESH HOP SEASON 🌿 - our favourite time of the year!

Huge thanks to for the epic farm tour this week!

Extremely delicious beers are brewing. Our annual Fresh Hop mini-festival is next month - stay tuned for all the details next week 💥

🕯️💀 SATURDAY 23RD MARCH - OUR 7TH BIRTHDAY PARTY! 🕯️💀

Featuring riffs from doom lords .riffs and on the brewery stage:

🎸 7PM - NON
A heavy blend of instrumental psych, face melting solos and endless grooves to leave you in a riff filled haze.

🎸 8PM - GIANT
4 piece stoner doom filled with explosive riffs, walls of fuzz and psychedelic jams.

A very sick line-up and an epic show not to be missed. Make a day of it at The Mill - the party kicks off at 12pm on Saturday 23rd March.

🖤 FREE KEG pouring from midday
🖤 NEW BEER RELEASE! Stay tuned for announcement next week
🖤 THE BEST will host and DJ
🖤 GIVEAWAYS AND PRIZES every hour
🖤 SPECIAL MENU by that you simply cannot miss!
🖤 PERFORMANCES BY .riffs +

See y’all there 🍻