Welcome to Jarrah Jack's Brewery

Jarrah Jacks Brewery also includes Woodsmoke Winery, so there is something here for both beer or wine drinkers. We enjoyed their oaked semillon with lunch, after tasting 5 of their wines - they have a sample tray for $10 for which you get samples of 5 wines or 6 beers.

We sat outside on a grassed area overlooking the (very steep) vineyard - I would hate to be driving the tractor up some of those rows! There is also an indoor dining area or verandah options.

The menu contains some interesting options - Sue opted for a vegetarian curry, while I went for a crumbed chicken dish which included limes and an avocado salad. Both dishes included a mound (or mould? as it appeared to have come out of one) or rice, which was a useful accompaniment. Sue couldn't finish her curry, but I made sure of the chicken and salad. The avocado formed part of a creamy dressing for the salad greens, rather than being presented in chinks, while the fresh limes squeezed over the chicken pieces made for a lip-smacking dish.

Especially if you enjoy a beer, this is a good place to go in Pemberton. We weren't all that impressed with the wines, but the food and the views made up for that. Service was competent, without being superb. A good casual lunching place.

This place is pretty damn good and very needed in Pemberton as I think it’s actually the only brewery there (and it's set on a vineyard - Woodsmoke Wines).

We stopped in here to try the beers (my partner was a fan of the dark ale) but it was too late for food (after 3pm) so I had to come back as I had spied the tapas menu :-)

We came back and tried: Marinated olives & Nannup sheep’s milk fetta cheese, the Provincial duck sausage with French mustard and the Pemberton trout dip with crusty bread.

The olives/fetta combo was good (maybe a bit too much oil), the duck sausage was absolutely delicious as was the mustard it came with; we were drooling. Come to think of it the bread that came with the sausage and also the trout dip was brilliant too - oh so crusty yet oh so soft! I had never tried trout before and I absolutely loved this dip.

The service was very good, nothing was too much trouble and the view down the hill is lovely. I will definitely go back next time we are in Pemberton and have a proper lunch.

The only area that I found a let down was the Woodsmoke wines. I didn’t find them to my taste.

Wine tasting was free - beer tasting costs $10 for a rack of six beers.