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To celebrate the release of the first beer conceived by The Crafty Pint – the Auld Bulgin' Boysterous Bicep brewed in collaboration with Murray’s – we finally got our act together and created…
Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brews: The Big City Smackdown!
As we all know, the craft beer world is one warm, fuzzy, all-embracing bear hug of a thing. Everyone loves everyone else. We’re all united in our mission to create a better Earth for our children…
Hand Carved Stone
With distinguished titles like Chief Judge of the Australian International Beer Awards, Chairman of the Craft Beer Industry Association and Head Brewer at Stone & Wood, you might think Brad Rogers spends…
New, Improved Crafty
Just like the very best hair products and cleansing powders for your washing machine, changes to anything should be incremental. At least that’s what we’re telling ourselves here at Crafty…
Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brewers: Bodebrown
The third Good Beer Week has brewers travelling to Australia from Europe, Japan, New Zealand and North and South America. The representatives from the last of these are from Bodebrown in Brazil, who won…
Milling Vanilla
Every year for the past three years, female representatives of the Victoria brewing industry have gathered to make a special beer. And this year they’re brewing it for Good Beer Week. They come from…
Starting a Brewery: The Boatrocker Story Pt IV
Well, we were expecting to be running this article well before now – as the owners of Boatrocker Brewery would have been, no doubt. But, as seems to be the way with even the best planned brewery, it…
A Listing A Day
As the craft beer scene in Australia continues to evolve at a rate of knots, more and more bars and bottleshops are turning over their fridges and taps to the good stuff, while new breweries and brewing…
The Crafty Pint at Good Beer Week: The Mega Dega
The Crafty Pint’s founder is one of the co-founders of Good Beer Week, so it goes without saying that we’re heavily involved in pretty much every aspect of the festival. However, in 2013, The…
Making Noise Up North
It’s fair to say that what’s been going on in Queensland over the past couple of years has been little short of remarkable. Where once the beer lovers of Brisbane were worried as to whether they would…
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Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brewers: 961 Beer
Back in March, The Crafty Pint was lucky enough to be invited to a Melbourne Food & Wine Festival event at East Brunswick’s Rumi restaurant featuring Lebanese craft beer matched with owner Joseph…
Five Years. Seven Sheds
“It’s been a strange and savage journey,” says Willie Simpson as he marks five years at the helm of Seven Sheds. It’s one that’s seen him move from home brewer to commercial brewer and, as of…
Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brewers: Birra del Borgo
In the run up to the third Good Beer Week, The Crafty Pint is running a series of preview pieces focusing on some of the brewers you may not know much about, some of the more esoteric brews and events…
Getting Blind with Crafty: Saisons
There was an interesting build up to the most recent Crafty Pint Blind Tasting Panel. In our hunt to gather a solid collection of Australian and top international versions of the saison style, we found…
The Ultimate Beer Week
Here at Crafty Towers, we’re pretty spoiled when it comes to all things beer-related. The beer fridge is almost always overflowing with awesome beers, we get to attend a bunch of cool events around…
Beer Events: Bonkers Brewer Takes Over
We received a message from our newly anointed resident “beer dork” yesterday afternoon announcing he was thinking of calling into the Bacchus Brewing tap takeover at The Alehouse Project. Chris…
Drinking In Style: Saisons
Want to know a little more about the beers you love? Then read on, as Crafty’s resident “beer dork” Chris Brady (his words, not ours) kicks off what will be regular features looking at the beers of the world. Kicking it off is a look at saisons.
Drinking In Style
As long term readers of The Crafty Pint will know, we try and keep things as light and breezy as we can. Where possible, we avoid getting too technical or nerdy (although there are those that argue the…
Mashed On The Inside
The second beer from the Stone & Wood side project, The Mash Collective, is out and about on taps and in bottles. It brought together an eclectic collection of people to create the beer, Aureus Chrysalis:…
Good IPA Week
The original Good Beer Week was sparked by a desire to create a series of events for beer lovers around the 2011 Australian International Beer Awards Gala Dinner, which was bringing its annual influx of…
Beer Travel: Brothers In Beer
Beer reps and Beer Snobs Dan Hampton and Tim Fishwick recently embarked on a road trip from Sydney to Brisbane, calling in on breweries along the way. There, they gathered beers to be presented at an event…
Meet Beersine
Imagine a salt beef bagel; one made with beef that has been marinating for 12 hours in pale ale, chilli and malt. Sounds good, doesn't it?Now imagine bacon, but not just any bacon; this one is made from…
Enter The Pig Pen
To mark its 20th anniversary last year, the organisers of the Australian International Beer Awards commissioned a commemorative beer. The Collaborator from WA’s Feral and Victorian brewery 2 Brothers…
Judge For Yourself
What do Alistair Hook, Kjetil Jikiun (above), Luke Nicholas and Richard Emerson have in common? Apart from the fact they’re brewers at Meantime, Nøgne Ø, Epic and Emerson’s respectively, that is. The…
The Hangman Cometh
Beer news junkies might recall that midway through last year there was a little bit of press for the Rocks Brewing Company in one of Sydney’s major daily newspapers. And although it was a fairly brief…
Crafty Pint Films: Craft Beer In Australia
By the time this article appears on The Crafty Pint, the site’s founder will have delivered his seminar to the Craft Brewers Conference in Washington DC. The presentation that the guys running the…
The First Crusade
A few months ago, The Crafty Pint caught up with two guys who were in the initial stages of embarking on what they hoped would become a beer-themed TV show for Channel 31. Dan Hanna and Mark Iscaro had…
Beer Travel: Hops Spring Eternal
Big brewer: bad; craft brewer: good. It's a hoary old perception and one to which no thoughtful beer drinker would give any credence. Just because beer brand X is ultimately owned by brewing giant Y, it…
House Of Cards
People have tried various means of educating people about beer. You’ll find tasting notes on the bars of breweries, menus with suggested food and beer pairings, posters outlining the various beer families,…
Coming To America
Towards the end of last year, The Crafty Pint’s founder received an email from the guys responsible for the US Brewers Association Export Development Program. Those who attended Good Beer Week last…
Growing The Grain
When we spoke to Corey Crooks he was amidst a marathon session with a heat gun and scraper, peeling what he reckons was "about 200 layers of paint" off some enormous wooden columns at an old grain store…
GBW 2013 On Sale Now
The full program for Good Beer Week 2013 is live and online now. You can head here to check out what lies in store from May 18 to 26 and also, from 9am, purchase tickets to your chosen events. With more…
Brewer Abroad! Nick at Nøgne Ø Pt II
A few weeks back we ran an article by Holgate brewer Nick Rhodes, who had not long touched down in Norway to commence a brewing internship with Nøgne Ø. It was part of a brewer exchange that has seen…
Biggest Awards Yet
The Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA) was already the second largest awards of its kind in the world, and this year has become bigger still with a new record number of entries. Reflecting beer’s…
Getting Blind With Crafty: IPAs
After a couple of lager-centric panels to kick off what are now monthly Blind Tasting Panels, the third showdown saw a sharp shift in direction into the beer style that is probably closest to the hearts…
GBW 2013: See The Light
Nine weeks tomorrow, the third Good Beer Week will kick off with a series of awesome events that herald nine days of dinners, tastings, tours, masterclasses, new brews, live brews, interstate guests, international…
Edging Ahead
A few weeks ago we brought you news of the collaborative brewing venture that had been kickstarted by Australia’s Northdown Craft Beer and Danish gypsy brewer Christian Skovdal Andersen of Beer Here.…
Show Us Yer Hops
As regular readers of this site will be well aware, the Australian hop industry has been going through very exciting times in the past few years. In particular, Hop Products Australia has been sending…
Bendigo's Beer Boom
Back in June 2011, The Crafty Pint ran a story about the launch of a new group dedicated to promoting craft beer in its hometown. Bendigo Beer was the brainchild of a pair of beer loving locals, who had…
Back Where It All Began
There are some interesting back stories in the Australian craft beer world. We’ve got a classical pianist, former winemakers, a history professor, a stack of corporates that saw the light and even one…
Are You Enthusiastic?
Two politicians who have been actively promoting the cause of small brewers in Australia in recent years have thrown their weight behind a new campaign from the Craft Beer Industry Association (CBIA).…
Crafty Snaps: Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2013 Artisan Market at Como House
On its opening weekend, the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival took over the rather spectacular grounds of Melbourne’s Como House. It was the site for the 2013 Put Victoria on Your Table Artisan…
Joker In The Pack
A few weeks ago, we noted a little hubbub in the online beer world about a new release from a brewing company we’d not heard of before. Our lack of knowledge was excusable, however, as it turned out…
James Halliday Article: On The Hop
This week sees the launch of the eighth edition of James Halliday’s Wine Companion Magazine, in which we have an article looking at the Australian craft beer industry’s position in the wider world.…
Plucky Brewers
There's a strange wind about to blow across the land. But this isn't some bluster conjured up by Mother Nature. This is manmade, born of years of frustration finally being released in an almighty sigh…
Keep On Dropping
Across Australia, recent months have seen some of the best-known craft breweries celebrate significant milestones. Feral turned 10. Mountain Goat reached 15. Holgate is about to release its 1000th brew,…
Beer Travel: The South West Craft Beer Festival
It was a very beery weekend here in the South West, more so than usual for an area with more microbreweries than anywhere else in the country, as thousands of craft beer drinkers descended on 3 Oceans…
Old and New
It’s a coming together of old and new – not to mention a little bit of old dog learning new tricks – as we get around to expanding the Crafty Pint family once more. Today sees us add nine more brewery…
Bring On The Brits
As the Australian craft beer scene has caught fire and we’ve seen incredible and innovative beers landing here from the US, Scandinavia, Italy, Japan and New Zealand, there’s been a temptation to feel…
GABS Goes Global
When the concept was first launched two years and one day ago, the Great Australian Beer Spectapular (as it was back then) featured 20 new, unique beers being tapped for the first time at The Local Taphouses…
