Isuzu Australia, through its evolving truck range, has continued to provide support to the growing brewing company
Western Australian brewing company Outback Brewing has turned once again to Isuzu for its newest truck, trading its old Isuzu ute for a new NLR 45-150 AMT Traypack.
Founded by brothers Adam and Peter Watts, Outback Brewing has continued to deliver kegs of handcrafted brews to the WA town of Chittering since opening in 2018.
“I was working on cool rooms for breweries and doing home brewing myself back in 2005, when I started wondering if we could scale things up,” Adam says.
“We got to talking with people in the industry and decided to give it a go.”
Outback Brewing offers a core selection of lager, apple cider and ginger beer. Adam and Peter say that adding interesting beverages, such as alcoholic lemon squash and bubble-gum cider, has helped them at key events such as Beerfest Australia.
Isuzu says that with the burden of delivering these brews falling onto the brother’s shoulders, the duo went in search of a delivery solution to help tackle customer demand.
“When we opened the brewery, we quickly needed something that we thought could throw the kegs in and use as a run-around vehicle,” Adam says.
“We were originally using a 2006 Isuzu ute with a 3–litre turbo diesel engine from our old air conditioning company but were at 750,000 kilometres with it.
“I then thought that we needed to go with Isuzu again with that amount of mileage.”
After visiting Isuzu’s dealership in Forrestfield, they then became owners of the Traypack. Isuzu says that the new truck has helped to increase productivity and that it’s perfect for manoeuvring into any tight spot.
“Everything the ute could do, the Traypack does better,” Adam says.
“I used to tow a trailer with the ute, but now I don’t need a trailer. I can rock up to a beer fest with everything on the back and unload.”
Isuzu says Adam has applied previous knowledge of refrigerated systems into designing a mobile cool room unit which sits on the truck tray to keep the brews icy cold during transit.
“We plug it in for refrigeration when we’re going on long trips – the unit runs off solar so it’s energy efficient as well,” Adam says.