Beer boasts best of the tasting trail

By CAITLIN HEATHCOTEJan. 22, 2014, 10 p.m.

The brainchild of Seven Sheds, owner Willie Simpson said the recipe was cooked up to mark the anniversary of the microbrewery's 200th batch of beer.

CHEERS: The creators of Platypus 200 are (back from left) Anvers marketing manager Todd Ashdown, Seven Sheds brewer Willie Simpson, (front) ginseng farmer Siegfried Pyka ...

WHAT do quinoa, chocolate, beer and ginseng all have in common?

It sounds like a riddle but the answer is soon to be sold at the cellar door at Seven Sheds at Railton.

Platypus 200 is the latest dark ale offering from Seven Sheds and was officially launched yesterday as the microbrewery's 200th batch of beer.

Platypus 200 is a collaboration of several main players in the Cradle Coast Tasting Trail and Liberal MP for Braddon Jeremy Rockliff, who was invited to launch the beer, said it was a ``fine example in leadership'' of the type needed to promote agri-tourism into the future.

Mr Rockliff said agri-tourism was a growth area for the region and said collaboration like this would be the way of the future for both industries.

The brainchild of Seven Sheds, owner Willie Simpson said the recipe was cooked up to mark the anniversary of the microbrewery's 200th batch of beer.

``We have always done milestone beers so we were looking to do something because we knew the 200th was coming up,'' Mr Simpson said.

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