“Lone Gum just felt like the most exciting development in the South Australia beer scene at the time—it just so happens that some obstacles have meant that [most] are still yet to try Ryan’s stuff.” In a way, you get the sense that sharing his beers with the world is not necessarily even the first consideration for Bickley. “The [first] Sours that I liked were outside of my uni student budget, and the local ones were not that enjoyable for me, but I had a few from over the ditch [in New Zealand] that changed my mind a bit,” he recalls. “There weren’t many available when I started out, and I enjoyed them.