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Your Guide to Australian Craft Beer / Sunday 29 January 2012

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Congratulations Stone & Wood on adding this year’s Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers title to the Critic’s Choice award they picked up last year. Is there no stopping the Pacific Ale juggernaut? And why would anyone want to? The Byron Bay brewed cracker won by a huge margin, picking up 11.5 per cent of total votes; one in eight of all voters included the beer in their top five. As a result, there was a big gap between first and second, then a pretty tight spread covering two to ten.

The Pacific Ale (whose creator...

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24.01.12: Nailed On Funk

Australia is to get its first ever dedicated sour beer brewery, after two of WA’s top brewers finalised plans to move into a...

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23.01.12: Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

If it’s as much of a mouthful as its name, then a new beer brewed especially for Australia Day should be worth hunting down...

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18.01.12: Biggest Hottest 100 Yet

Each year that the Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers poll has been run, it has doubled the number of votes of the previous year...

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Ballarat Beer Fest 2012

Like most regional cities in Australia, Ballarat has been slow to catch on to the craft beer revolution that has swept the...

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Hottest 100 Australian Craft Beers of 2011: Vote Here!

It was the biggest and best year yet for craft beer in Australia. Hundreds of beers from scores of breweries enjoyed in...

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Tracks Of My Beers

If there’s one things we enjoy more than quality beer at Crafty Towers (yes – more!), it’s quality tunes. The only thing...

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Bridge Road Summer IPA

The Bridge Road crew are getting together a nice line in single Aussie hop IPAs, with the Summer following the hugely popular Galaxy and relative newcomer Stella off the rank - and with the unlikel...

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BeerFun at Belgian Beer Cafe Eureka: Introduction to Victorian Craft Beer: BeerFun sessions are regular beer appreciation sessions d...

9 February

Australia vs New Zealand Third Test: Beer In Judgement: Back in December, the Micro Beer Club held an Aussie vs K...

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