Stone & Wood Stone Beer Beer
For a bunch of brewers on the cutting edge of the modern Australian brewing scene, the guys at Stone & Wood don't mind taking inspiration from Marsellus Wallace once in a while. Well, once in a year, to be precise. As that's when they invite friends and family to their Byron Bay and "get Medieval…
Hawkers Beer From Yeast To West Beer
Hawkers Beer have set their sights on all things yeast for their first Experimental Series release of 2024. In 2023, they dove deep into the impact time and place had on hops, which you can read more about [here](https://craftypint.com/beer/9463/hawkers-beer-sheer-terroir), [here](https://craftypint.com/beer/9910/hawkers-beer-fashionably-punctual)…
Hawkers Beer Fashionably Punctual Beer
Hawkers Beers are enjoying a cracking pace when it comes to their beer sagas in 2023. Straight after they dropped several barrel-aged and white stouts at once, they’ve returned to the Experimental Series they kicked off at the start of the year. [Sheer Terroir](https://craftypint.com/beer/9463/hawkers-beer-sheer-terroir)…
Hawkers Beer Old Chap, New Tricks Beer
The British may have made the first IPAs but when you buy one today, you probably don’t expect to find English hops inside. Instead, it’s American, Australian and New Zealand varieties that are the stars of hoppy beers and old English types are few and far between. But Hawkers Beer have approached…
Hawkers Beer Sheer Terroir Beer
Now, this is exciting. Sheer Terroir is a trio of beers that’s kicking off Hawkers Beer’s Experimental Series and their release follows a long journey. For years, brewery founder Mazen Hajjar has spoken passionately about hops and more specifically, where they're grown. Sure, Mosaic might be a single…
Stomping Ground Bearbrass Beer
There’s a fair bit of history to this limited release tin from Stomping Ground. For one, the name Bearbrass was among the first that European settlers knew Melbourne as, apparently due to a misunderstanding of Birrarung, the name of the Yarra River in the language of the Wurundjeri. Fast forward quite…
Stone & Wood & Afends Crop Circles Beer
A theme running through Stone & Wood's limited release beers from their early days has been a fondness for collaboration, but rarely with others from the beer industry. While there have been exceptions, for the most part those invited to join them on brew days have been drawn from elsewhere: artists,…
BentSpoke Brewing Co Descent 21 Beer
Rich and Tracy from BentSpoke were good enough to come along to The Crafty Pint's IPA Blind Tasting Championship as part of Pint of Origin at Good Beer Week 2021. Their reward, along with all the other guests – brewers and paying attendees – was to spend two weeks in quarantine after it turned out…
Bad Shepherd Peanut Butter Porter 2020 Beer
They've gradually been transitioning their beers into cans for quite some time now. And, as we move through 2020, they've been getting rather bolder with them too. Exhibit 1: the return of Peanut Butter Porter, which first appeared in black and tan cans as entry nine in their Brew Crew Series last summer…
Young Henrys & Collective Arts Rye IPA Beer
For this year’s Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival, Canadian brewery Collective Arts brewed collaboration beers with six breweries, and this Rye IPA brewed with Young Henry is Sydney’s contribution. In a sea of juicy IPAs, this beer is a drop of resin; the syrupy body brings West Coast flavours, along…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Little Hop Beers News
The title of this article may be a little misleading as the latest person to appear in our featured beer blogs series isn't an Aussie. Hannah Louise Grugel is a Brit who started writing about beer in the UK and has continued with her Little Hop Beers blog since landing in Sydney last year. Here she…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Schoonerversity News
When it comes down to it, for all the experimentation, history, science, artistry and so on that goes into making the beer world so fun and fascinating, it is, at the end of the day, all centred around a liquid that can make us feel pleasure. And that's pretty much the sole reason Mick Wust decided…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Sydney Beer News
More than 18 months ago, a British expat not long arrived in Sydney got in touch with The Crafty Pint's main Sydney writer. Tim Hodge was launching a new beer site he'd built from the ground up. It was called Sydney Beer and was conceived with the intention of telling people about and commenting on…
Aussie Beer Blogs: New South Ales News
In the worlds of literature and serious journalism, the use of puns tends to be frowned upon, if not outright forbidden. Yet in the beer world, whether it's beer or brewery names or beer writing, you'll find them welcomed and, for the most part, positively encouraged. We're certainly not afraid to head…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Brews & Bacon News
Once upon a time, we used to shine a spotlight on Aussie beer blogs pretty much monthly. The slot was called, rather innovatively, "Blog of the Month". Given it's almost two years since we last ran one, we feel the title has somewhat lost its relevance. But Aussie beer blogs continue to come and go so…
Aussie Beer Blogs: The Craft Beer King News
A slightly different entry into our Aussie Beer Blogs series here. Regular readers of the site will already be familiar with Matt King as he has been providing most of our coverage of the beer scene in South Australia for the past few years. Recently, he launched (or, technically, relaunched) his…
Aussie Beer Blogs: The Year of Beer News
Sometimes it's best to keep things simple. And that's a reasonable way to describe the idea that got Tim Smith into writing about beer. A fairly recent convert to the world of craft beer, the Port Macquarie resident decided to make his exploration of the wider beer world something of a challenge: a…
Aussie Beer Blogs: offthetap News
He loves beer. He loves travel. And he loves to hunt down new beers when he travels. So, following a suggestion from a mate in the pub, Matt Johnson decided to start capturing his passions via another one: photography, creating offthetap and attracting Instagram followers in the thousands. He…
Aussie Beer Blogs: What's Mashing WA News
Having resurrected our focus on Australian beer bloggers last month with Brisbane-based Brews and Bacon, we're switching our gaze to the west. What's Mashing WA is a blog that focuses predominantly on the state's beer scene: its beers, brewers, events and venues. It's written by home brewing Jono Outred…
Aussie Beer Blogs: The Beer Healer News
In the middle of 2015, we received an email from a chap in Hobart asking for advice as he embarked on starting a beer blog. Chris Lukianenko had just left a job in marketing for Lion but was keen not to lose touch with the beer world for which he had so much passion. Thus he launched The Beer Healer,…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Food Grog Blog News
It was only supposed to be a means of sharing recipes with his mates, but his report on a beer filled trip to Wellington saw one Brisbane beer geek's blog become morph into something else entirely. A year on from its launch, we ask Jamie Brocket to tell us all about Food Grog Blog. Name: Jamie…
Aussie Beer Blogs: Brewed, Crude & Bitter News
It's time to shine a spotlight on another Aussie beer blog: a transglobal double header, no less (well, sorta). Brewed, Crude & Bitter was started by two mates, Judd Owen (above left and right) and Brad Gellert when they both inhabited Brisbane's beer scene but has since spread its…
Beer & Food: Cheese News
In recent weeks, we’ve noticed a rash of beer and cheese matching events appearing in the Crafty diary. Heck, when we popped into a London pub to meet a fellow beer writer recently, it wasn’t long before some goat’s cheese appeared to accompany the Sorachi Ace IPA being launched that night. What’s…
Beer Is Your Friend News
Glen Humphries occupies a rare position. And not because he's one of just three winners of the Australian International Beer Awards Beer Media trophy to date. It's because he writes a regular newspaper column on beer. Despite the phenomenal growth of craft beer in Australia in recent years…
Beer Nuts: Rosemarie Ensink News
The beer world is full of colourful characters. We all know the charismatic brewmaster, the bartender whose knowledge knows no bounds, the homebrewer who'll be brewing commercially some day and the passionate beer devotee sitting across the bar. Indeed, perhaps the most beautiful aspect of the…
Ten Years Of Crafty: Beer In The Media News
In part six (or seven, depending how you're counting) of our look back at the decade in beer since The Crafty Pint launched, we turn our focus onto the medium in which we operate: media. How has the way people write, talk and discuss beer changed? And how has the way in which we consume information…
Two Brewers Abroad: The Great American Beer Festival News
A few months ago, two WA brewers who are enjoying the adventure of a lifetime through the American craft beer industry featured in our Blog of the Month series. Steve Brockman (formerly of The Monk) and Steph Cope (formerly at Gage Roads) (both pictured above) are documenting their travels at their Two…
The Big Issue: Weird Beers News
Belly button fluff. Whale vomit. Carrots. Not three things you'd expect to see in a sentence together. Or, indeed, in a beer. Yet, in the past couple of years, it's beers featuring those ingredients that have garnered media attention across the world – far more than pretty much any other beers released…
Beers Out Back News
It's not just beer that's becoming ever more diverse in this era of adventure. Businesses involved in the craft beer world are becoming increasingly multifaceted too. For some time, there have been bottleshops that allow you to drink in (often paying a corkage fee to do so), some of which have since…
Australian Craft Beer Survey Results 2017 News
Pirate Life is Australia's best brewery, according to the results of the biggest ever survey of the country's craft beer drinkers. The Adelaide-based brewery replaced Feral in the number one spot in Beer Cartel's second annual Australian Craft Beer Survey. And, in news that will be cherished by the…
