Bottoms up for the Barrier Reef

A collaboration will champion First Nations custodianship of the Great Barrier Reef… through beer. Cheers! 

Here’s something to raise a glass to.

Award winning Aussie social enterprise beer brewers Sobah and The Good Beer Co, have joined forces to create a Tropical Lager Coral’ation (TLC) beer to champion First Nations custodianship of the Great Barrier Reef.

Sobah, Australia’s first non-alcoholic craft beer company and the only Aboriginal-owned and led beer company, is brewing a limited edition non-alcoholic craft lager that will help fund First Nations women to take part in the Coral Sea Foundation’s Sea Women of the Great Barrier Reef marine biology training program.

The program develops women’s skills to act as guardians for the Great Barrier Reef in their local communities.

Dr Clinton Schultz, a Gamilaraay man and founder and director of Sobah, said it was a beer that drinkers could feel good about.

“Of course it’s a deadly and delicious beer, but it’s also a brew that all Australians can get behind and feel good about because it’s going to help the Sea Women of the Great Barrier Reef program to launch and to grow and grow,” he said.

Kulkalaig woman, manager of First Nations engagement for the Coral Sea Foundation and Sea Women of the Great Barrier Reef lead trainer Tishiko King, said the organisation was pleased to have support for its program.

“We’re excited that TLC will support us to launch and to grow Sea Women of the Great Barrier Reef, working with women who are already using traditional skills and knowledge to protect sea country and the Reef from the impacts of global warming,” she said.

James Grugeon, founder of The Good Beer Co, said the Great Barrier Reef was in need of some TLC.

“As well as raising funds for the Sea Women of the Great Barrier Reef our Tropical Lager Coral’ation aims to showcase the work of the Coral Sea Foundation and to underline how important First Nations science and knowledge is to Australia’s response to climate change, ocean and Reef conservation,” he said.

TLC has been launched on the Pozible crowdfund platform.