The Rocks Brewery in Alexandria

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Rocks Brewery

Newtown & the Inner West


You know you're in Alexandria when you're sitting in the middle of an industrial estate, staring at a tall corrugated metal wall, but there are plants and hipsters and expensive burgers and pints of craft beer. This is where the excellent Rocks selection is brewed, and it's well worth the traipse down here to see what's on tap.


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