Starting life sometime around the "turn of the century", Little Creatures Brewing was born out of the love of great beer shared by some friends that had all worked together in breweries at some time or other in the past.

Taking the shell of an old boat yard on the water in Fremantle (which had just been given up as a crocodile farm!) a modest brew house and packaging line was designed and built from scratch. Putting the collective ideas of the founders together, the brewery was designed with ales in mind and introduced a number of cutting edge and innovative technologies that would help make a beer unique to the taste buds of Australian drinkers.

A main feature of the brew house design was the introduction of a "hop back", basically something like a giant tea bag that would enable the infusion of all the goodness of whole hop flowers into the beer - a process rarely ever seen in Australian brewing.

After a heap of trials and experimentations and a little relief, Little Creatures Pale Ale was created and proudly presented to the Australian market just in time for the summer of 2000 / 2001.

It was fair to say that they were doing things a little differently in the early days (and they like to think that we still are) with a new beer style in a new brewery but what was also different, is that just like a winery, they wanted the public to come and visit and experience the brewery.