Today’s addition of The Grifter Brewing Co to the collection of Aussie breweries and craft beer-supporting venues we’ve got featured on the site heralds what we hope will be a couple of weeks in which we add new listings every day. All being well, we’ll get around to adding a veritable cavalcade of breweries and bars from Margaret River to Melbourne and from Ipswich to the Apple Isle.
Before we do, however, we figured it might be a good idea to round up the listings that have been added to the site in recent months in case you missed any. So, in no particular order…
Cellarbrations at Willagee – a bottleshop run by guys with decades in the business who decided to dip their toes into craftier waters and have never looked back.
Tippler’s Tap – one of the growing number of craft-friendly venues to have sprouted in Brisbane in recent years with one of the finest rotating selection of tap beers in the land.
Sydney Wine Merchants – a treasure trove of great beer in Sydney’s north run by people who have the handy habit of squirrelling away cases of the best stuff.
Gertrude Hotel – a Melbourne pub that’s been getting steadily more craft-focused for years and is now home to a long, long tap list, well stocked fridges and growlers too.
The Park Hotel – this Werribee pub is the “future of craft beer in Australia” according to one knowledgeable punter. And certainly any venue that can bring 16 taps of nothing-but-craft to a beer dessert like Werribee and smash it is worthy of such praise.
The Australian Hotel – a classic old hotel in The Rocks that has long had a wide selection of craft beers in its fridges has been paying even more attention to craft recently and hosts one of the country’s biggest annual beer festivals.
Royal Albert Hotel – seemingly from nowhere, this Surry Hills pub has burst onto the craft beer scene with a series of eye-catching tap takeovers featuring the best of Oz.
Grain Store – having cut his teeth at the Albion Hotel, Newcastle Craft Beer Week founder Corey Crook opened the Grain Store with his wife earlier this year with all 20 taps pouring nothing but Aussie craft beer.
The Mallow Hotel – the place to hunt down if you’re after a decent beer (and don’t mind top pub grub and good tunes too) in Ballarat, with 11 taps of Australian craft beer.
Palace Hotel – is the south of the Yarra finally waking up to better beer? Either way, the Palace in South Melbourne is the sort of awesome local every suburb and town in Oz deserves.
Earl of Leicester – the Earl of Leicester shifts more than 2,000 of what are regarded as possibly the best Parmis in SA every week. Better still, it has five rotating craft beer taps and a long, long bottle list too.
Australian Brewery – the first craft brewery in Australia to can its beer has its home in a venue that’s more than just a brewery. Head to Rouse Hill and you’ll find restaurant, cafe (and occasional coffee roaster), sports bar, kid’s activity centre, beer garden and nightclub too.
Indian Ocean Brewing – this brewery and bar on Perth’s most northern fringe brought in a new brewer a few months ago who revamped the beers and collected a haul of top medals at this year’s Australian International Beer Awards.
Boatrocker Brewery – readers of The Crafty Pint will have followed Matt and Andrea Houghton’s journey from contract brewers to owners of their own tanks via the series of features Matt wrote for us. Now they’re up and running and preparing to unleash one of the wildest arrays of beers onto the market.
Forrest Brewery – a gorgeous, rustic former General Store in the Otways is home to this Victorian brewer of traditional ales and quencher of the thirsts of riders returning from the region’s excellent mountain bike tracks.
Cavalier – few brewers have risen so far so fast as these Melburnian producers of full-flavoured beers who have gone from a 100 litre backyard set up to a brewery they share with a handful of other upcoming brewers in the city’s west.
Six String Brewing – few things go together as well as music and beer and at few places do they live as closely together as at Erina’s Six String, where top notch craft beers flow as live music plays from a stage right in front of the tanks.
BrewCult – one of the brewers sharing space with Cavalier is Steve “Hendo” Henderson’s BrewCult, creator of such unique drops as Acid Freaks, the balsamic vinegar porter created with his brother, a maker of barrel-aged artisanal vinegars.
Bellarine Brewing Company – the Victorian brewery best known for its Mussel Stout began introducing limited releases under the Two Wives label in 2012, with its oaked Chocolate Stout a palate-caressing delight.
Right then, back to the next lot…
