Pale Ale

Pale ale is the light, crisp and refreshing beer that's easy on the eye and tasty on the tongue. Our range of pale ale includes all of your favourite breweries and all of your favourite producers, all at the lowest price available. We do our homework and search out the prices across our entire range of alcohol to deliver you the lowest prices that we can find. Whether it's on special somewhere or not, you'll find the same pale ale from Bottle Stop at the same lowest price every day of the year. That's guaranteed.

Our range of alcohol extends beyond the best pale ale and out into all of the biggest brands, boutique producers and microbreweries that you know and love. We also offer a range of wine and spirits from some of the finest makers here at home in Australia as well as from overseas. Shop our range our liqueurs for the best examples of the tastes that you love. Find vodka, brandy, gin, Australian gin, rum, tequila and mezcals,whiskey, cider, Scotch whisky, stout, Belgian beer, pilsner beer and sour beer all at the lowest prices and all delivered direct to your door. Our thing is making alcohol delivery the best it can be, and we start by offering the lowest prices. Your alcohol delivery Melbourne arrives in just a few business days and the same goes for the rest of our delivery locations around the country.

If you see any of our products in stock for a lower price somewhere else, then let us know. We will price match the advertisement you saw and sell you the same product for the same price. That's a guarantee. For the cheapest and the best drinks the world and Australia has to offer, buy with Bottle Stop, your mate with the best drinks.

What is pale ale?

Pale ale uses a pale malt and is a light and crisp version of the traditional rich and darker ales with a golden hue, lovely bubbles on the tongue and a tart, sharp taste. Wickedly good, these delightfully light tasting beers have been around since the early eighteenth century and got their name from their golden ale colour, a result of a different fuel used to roast the malts needed for the recipe.

In the early seventeenth century, coke was being used to fuel the large industrial fires of steel and iron factories rather than coal, wood and peat. This cleaner fuel burned with very little in the way of smoke and the flavour of the malt used for beer making began to change both in taste and in colour as a result. When woodfire and peat is used to heat the malting process of any alcohol production, the flavours generally infuse the final product which is why peated whiskies from Scotland choose to use this more ancient method. The story of pale ale, however, was the creation of a brand new lighter tasting and golden liquid that is still enjoyed around the world today.

In the early seventeenth century when pale ale was in full production, the flavours and the types numbered as a high as the number of breweries themselves. Having mostly been concentrated in England, the British Empire became responsible for transporting this new and interesting type around the world. As India, the Jewel of the British Empire', was a large a thriving outpost of colonial English society, there was a big market and call for British alcohol throughout the colony. However, ale doesn't traditionally travel very well as it's a warm, top fermenting beer which traditionally lasted only a few weeks after being made. Hops were notoriously difficult to ship as well, which meant that ale production in the far flung frontiers of the British Empire needed something new, an innovation that would allow beer to travel better over long sea voyages.

In the standard beer recipe, the addition of hops is primarily as a preservation measure and the taste of the tart and bitter plant was simply a by-product of its use to preserve the fermented drink. Alcohol is also a preservative as bacteria cannot live where alcohol is present. In the late seventeenth century, a brewer from London decided to fiddle with the pale ale recipe to produce a drink that would last the sea voyage to India. George Hogeson of the Bow Brewery upped his usual measure of hops and played with the yeast to increase the alcohol content of his final pale ale so that it was strong and hoppy enough to travel. The export casks that he used were also primed with a combination of sugar and then dry-hopped. Dry-hopping is the process where hops are added dry a second time to the beer.

When making beer, the malted barley is steeped in very hot water to make the wort. Hops are usually added wet in the wort and boiled but dry-hopping is adding more hops in again at the end to, initially, increase the preservative properties but is now standard practice in some ales to build the flavour profile of the final product.

By the end of his experiment, Hogeson had developed a very bitter tasting brew with a much higher alcohol content than any other type previously available. It travelled well to India and the India Pale Ale was therefore finally developed. IPAs are hugely popular and continue to develop in taste and profile, as well as being much stronger in alcohol than other pale ales. But that is only in relatively recent times. After modern brewing technology began to replace the need for IPAs, the market for them began to drop away. That was, of course, until American brewers stepped in to rescue the recipe in the 1970's. Developing their own IPA called Liberty Ale is largely considered the reason for the brewing renaissance in America and pale ale across the country began to take off.

Today, breweries around the world report their IPAs or the EPAs (English Pale Ales) to be their best selling products with a range of excellent examples brewing every day from countries all around the world including Germany, New Zealand, at home here in Australia, Irish and Scottish. The ABV is frequently also seen up to as much as 10%.

Find Australian, Coopers, Fat Yak, Little Creatures, and Sierra Nevada (US) as well as a whole range of pale ale and IPAs available from Bottle Stop . Start your own taste-testing odyssey and discover the citrus lightness offered by Cascade hops, the lip-smacking tartness of traditional English hops, as well as the full spectrum of flavours every pale ale recipe brings to the nose and tongue. We know our beer so if you're interested in exploring the world of pale ale with us, let us know in your Bottle Stop account preferences and we will curate a special list designed just for you. We'll let you know the classic tipples you should be trying as well as bring you the best and finest of the new and boutique makers from at home and around the world. Come taste the beer at Bottle Stop and build your pale ale appreciation with us.

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Whatever you love to drink, you'll find it available to order online at Bottle Stop and conveniently delivered to your door anywhere in Australia. If it's the best beer from your favourite producers or boutique operations carefully crafting their own signature tastes, you'll find it at Bottle Stop . If you're a wine drinker, browse our extensive selection of wineries, varietals and blends. Our selection of spirits and liqueurs include the big name producers that everybody knows as loves as well as tasty varieties sourced from the finest producing regions around the world.

Our entire range of alcohol is available to order online for the lowest prices. We guarantee it. We don't set our prices; we just match the lowest ones on offer found anywhere in Australia. If you find our stock listed for a lower price anywhere else, then we'll match it. We also offer online-only prices that no one else can match across all of your favourites.

We are home to Australia's largest collections of craft and boutique producers which means that our range of beer, wine, spirits and liqueurs include selections plucked from the finest producers tinkering away quietly, developing the best craft beers, the smoothest whisky, in both local and far-off places that the big name alcohol distributors have never heard of. If you let us know what you like to drink, then we can personalise your shopping experience on Bottle Stop . We'll suggest recommendations that we know you'll love based on what we're drinking and loving too.

We are always open so you can enjoy ordering online 24/7. Delivery covers all of Australia with expected arrivals in the capital cities like Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane within 3 to 5 business days. We are always looking to improve our delivery options and are constantly improving arrival times in more capital cities so you can get the best tasting beverages that you love delivered even faster.