This Big Thing is still here, but public access is limited. Check the access notes for details before visiting.
A giant orange beer can in Marrickville that is also a functioning grain silo for The Grifter Brewing Co., deliberately launched in 2025 as an Inner West Big Thing.
Before you stop
Park at the attraction entrance rather than at the landmark itself.
Do not stop in the Enmore Road traffic lane; venue access follows current brewery opening hours.
Limited access
Check the access notes for details before visiting
Venue entrance
18 m walk
Private to your Passport.
PLAN YOUR VISIT
Recommended arrival available
Attraction entrance · 18 m walk
This takes you to the Big Thing itself. Do not stop at the landmark; use the recommended arrival if stopping.
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This pin marks the Big Thing itself. If stopping, choose a safe and legal place nearby.
33.90453° S, 151.16760° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
It is a working grain silo. It is also a ten-metre can of pale ale, and it was built to be a Big Thing on purpose.
The Grifter Brewing Co. expanded its Marrickville operation in 2025 and installed a large grain silo as part of it – necessary, unremarkable brewing infrastructure. Then the team painted it as a giant can of their Pale Ale, and the Big Orange Goblin came into existence.
What makes it notable is the deliberateness. Almost every object of this kind became a landmark by accident: a business put up a sign, decades passed, and the community adopted it. The Grifter skipped the decades. The brewery describes the silo openly as its new Big Thing, and Destination NSW picked it up as one – a piece of functional plant designed from the outset to enter a tradition it had not yet earned a place in.
That is either cheating or a perfectly honest evolution of the form, depending on how romantic you are about the genre. The argument for it is that the object is genuinely doing a job. This is not a fibreglass replica bolted to a roof; it is holding grain, and the paint is the only part that is decorative.
It also puts a Big Thing somewhere the tradition has rarely reached. These are overwhelmingly rural and highway objects; an inner-city Sydney suburb having one, on an operating industrial site on Enmore Road, is a genuine novelty.
Because it is brewery plant rather than public sculpture, access follows the brewery.
Photograph
This is a photograph, shown separately from the illustration artwork.
Destination NSW describes the Big Orange Goblin as a functioning grain silo transformed into a 10-metre can of Grifter Pale Ale. The brewery itself calls it its new iconic Big Thing and continues to operate at 1/391–397 Enmore Road.
ACCESS
The Big Orange Goblin is at The Grifter Brewing Co., 1/391–397 Enmore Road. Navigate to the mapped brewery venue and use lawful venue or nearby parking; the sculpture is about 20 metres from the venue point and access follows current brewery opening hours.
