Subiaco, WA · Est. 2025
Hollywood
Mash Club
Your local nano brewery.
Sharing the art of craft brewing, making great beer, and enjoying it together.
Beneath the bowling club
A brewery nobody expects to find under a bowling green.
In early 2025, the Hollywood Mash Club established a 65-litre, computer-controlled nano-brewery beneath the Hollywood Subiaco Bowling Club. Every beer we brew is served fresh through the bowling club bar for members to enjoy.
We can brew almost any beer style, but our passion is creating craft beers our members genuinely love — recipes that constantly evolve through feedback from our community.
On tap this season
A few of our brews.
Kölsch
Crisp and clean, brewed with local malts and noble hops, fermented cool for exceptional drinkability.
Hazy IPA
Juicy tropical aromas, a creamy mouthfeel and modern hop varieties. Cloudy by design.
Oatmeal Stout
Smooth and sessionable, with deep roasted malt flavour despite its low ABV.
HERMS · Raspberry Pi controlled
Six steps, one basement, a lot of stainless steel.
Every batch runs through our custom three-vessel Heat Exchange Recirculating Mash System — monitored the whole way by a Raspberry Pi controller.
Discover Our ProcessFrom the club
What members are saying.
Want to learn how it's made?
Our Master Brewer is a certified Beer Judge and an award-winning amateur brewer. Members learn everything from beginner recipes to advanced technique.
Join Mash ClubOur story
From Garage to Basement
How a backyard hobby became a 65-litre nano-brewery underneath a bowling club.
Chapter One · The Spark
A hobby that outgrew the garage.
Sean's passion for brewing eventually outgrew the family garage. What started as a handful of home-brewed batches became something the whole street could smell on a Saturday — and something that needed a proper home.
Chapter Two · The Search
Together with Thor, the hunt for a permanent home began.
A custom-built nano-brewery needs somewhere real to live — power, plumbing, drainage, ventilation. Sean and Thor started looking for a space that could handle it.
Chapter Three · The Discovery
Andrew found it: an unused basement, right beneath the bowling green.
Dusty, forgotten, and completely unexpected — the basement beneath the Hollywood Subiaco Bowling Club turned out to be exactly what the team needed.
Chapter Four · The Build
Months of hard work turned dust into a working brewery.
New electrical systems. New plumbing. Drainage, ventilation, and a lot of painting. Every wall, pipe and switch in this basement was fitted by hand by the team who now brew here.
Chapter Five · Today
Fresh craft beer, served proudly upstairs.
Today the brewery proudly serves fresh craft beer directly upstairs to club members — brewed a few metres and one staircase from the glass it's poured into.
Come see the basement for yourself.
Visit UsThe lineup
Our Beers
Six house styles, brewed in small batches beneath the bowling club — plus something new always fermenting.
Kölsch
A crisp, clean German-style ale brewed using local malts and noble hops. Fermented cool for exceptional drinkability.
English Bitter
Balanced bitterness, caramel malt, earthy hops and traditional English character.
Hazy IPA
Juicy tropical aromas, a creamy mouthfeel and modern hop varieties.
Altbier
Traditional Düsseldorf-style ale with rich copper colour and smooth malt complexity.
Oatmeal Stout
Smooth, sessionable stout with deep roasted malt flavour despite only 3.9% ABV.
American Pale Ale (SNIPA)
Inspired by Sierra Nevada Pale Ale — Cascade hops, caramel malt and grapefruit citrus character.
Fermenting now
Something Special…
Ask the crew what's in tank three.
HERMS · Raspberry Pi controlled
Inside Our Nano Brewery
Visit our custom-built nano brewery and discover how each beer is crafted using our three-vessel Heat Exchange Recirculating Mash System, powered by a Raspberry Pi controller.
System status
Online · Brewing
The Brain
A Raspberry Pi controller monitors and drives our three-vessel HERMS rig in real time — mash temperature, recirculation, boil timing, all logged and adjusted batch to batch. It's a 65-litre brewery with the temperament of a lab instrument.
Batch size
65L
Vessels
03
Control
Pi
Step 01 / 06
Ingredients
Malt, hops, yeast and water — weighed and logged before anything hits the mash tun. Small batches mean every gram matters.
Step 02 / 06
Mash
Crushed grain steeps in precisely heated water, recirculated through the HERMS coil until starches convert to fermentable sugar.
Step 03 / 06
Boil
The wort hits a rolling boil, hops go in on schedule, and the Pi keeps a close eye on temperature and timing throughout.
Step 04 / 06
Fermentation
Yeast takes over, converting sugar into alcohol and character. Temperature-controlled and patiently watched, days at a time.
Step 05 / 06
Conditioning
The beer rests, clarifies and carbonates, settling into the flavour it was designed for before it ever reaches a glass.
Step 06 / 06
Pour
Straight from tank to tap, upstairs at the bowling club bar. The whole basement-to-glass trip is only a few metres.
Curious what's brewing right now?
See Our BeersCertified beer judge · Award-winning brewer
Learn the Art of Brewing
Our Master Brewer is both a certified Beer Judge and an award-winning amateur brewer. Members learn everything from beginner recipes to advanced brewing techniques — hands-on, in the same basement where the beer is made.
Before you join
To join Mash Club you must first become either a Full Member or Social Member of the Hollywood Subiaco Bowling Club.
What you'll pick up
From your first mash to reading your own gravity readings.
Beginner Recipes
Start with proven house styles and learn the fundamentals of mash, boil and ferment.
Judging & Tasting
Learn to evaluate beer the way a certified judge does — balance, aroma, mouthfeel, faults.
Advanced Technique
Push into original recipes, water chemistry and dialling in the HERMS rig yourself.
Get in touch
Come Say G'day
Questions? Suggestions? Want to know more? We're always happy to chat. Visit us after 4pm and ask for the Mash Club crew upstairs at the bowling club.
Address
Hollywood Subiaco Bowling Club
42 Smyth Road
Nedlands WA 6009
Opening Hours
Wednesday–Tuesday
10:00am – 10:30pm
Phone
(08) 6XXX XXXX