Red Hill Brewery Brewer
Dave and Karen Golding abandoned their former lives in the city to set up the Mornington Peninsula's first brewery. Just five minutes spent there and you'll be hurriedly scrawling 'Dear boss, I've had a revelation...' on the nearest napkin. Nestled among trees on the slopes of Red Hill South with…
Brewski VenueBottleshop
Not too long ago, Caxton Street in Brisbane was known colloquially to some as CaXXXXton Street. Every single one of the strip of bars, clubs and restaurants a short walk from the city’s Suncorp Stadium had a Lion contract. Had someone suggested it would become home to one of the easiest craft beer…
Henley's Bar & Kitchen Venue
In a district as buzzing and diverse as Darling Harbour, venues need to offer a serious array of goodies to get tourists, commuters and locals through the door. With an extensive drinks list, upmarket menu, and prime harbour position, Henley’s Bar & Kitchen manages that particular task with mouth-watering…
Hop Nation & Up In Smoke Red Haze Beer
The beer scene in Melbourne's west has been coming into its own in some style in the past few years. Two of the more recent additions are Hop Nation, the brewery opened by a pair of winemakers, and Up In Smoke, a venue combining craft beer with smoked meats. And now the two have come together to create…
Bright Topaz Mí¤rzen Beer
One of a rash of unique hop harvest beers to come out of Victoria's breweries this year, this saw Bright take the Topaz hop, a variety that's been around for years, and try something different with it. Traditionally used to make a beer bitter, here Bright decided to add it late in the brewing process…
King River Dortmunter Lager, My Ambrosia & Dubbel Or Nothing Beer
King River Brewing seem to be reaping the rewards of a brewing career focused, for the most part, on traditional styles, with one example being an invite to collaborate on the offical beer for Carwyn Cellars' 2023 Oktoberfest. The liquid of choice is another to play upon the brewery founders' surname:…
Moo Brew Barrel Aged Stout 2022 Beer
Given the state of play in parts of the beer world today, one in which there are seemingly no rules – at least none that can't be broken – it's not unusual to find brewers putting out high ABV and barrel-aged stouts whenever they feel like it. It's a sign of how far and fast things have moved over…
3 Ravens Methode Ravens 2019 & Heathcote Yellow Muscat 2020 Beer
It's as if 3 Ravens have go their own microcosm of the wider beer world going on at their Thornbury home. There's the CAW range, including the trophy-winning New World IPA that warrants more attention from lovers of hoppy beers, the Juicy series, the Shake series, the Wild Ravens series, the Nat Rav…
Working Title Prime Time, Gremlins & Ripe Beer
"Cali IPAs, dry and bitter, without the dank and resin, loaded with tropical hops. Is this the perfect beer or what?" So say Working Title. Personally, I have a skeptical scowl on my face at the whole concept of someone trying to remove dank and resin from West Coast IPAs because I love those flavours…
Reckless Brewing BX Old Beer
When they opened their Bathurst brewery in the second half of 2022, Reckless launched their BX Lager: a crisp knock-em-back lager that captures the spirit of traditional Aussie beer and is at home in a brewery pub out in regional NSW. Now they’ve launched this golden beer’s dark counterpart: BX…
Working Title Trial Run NZ Pilsner Beer
"We’re known for doing big beers, but we want to do everything. Literally every style… but done well. If we’re going to make a lager, we’re going to make a three-month lager." So began the thinking for Working Title’s first take on a lager. A well-made pilsner is pretty much the gold standard…
Red Hill Brewery Long Live The King Beer
It's been a big few weeks for the collaborators behind this beer. Red Hill founders Karen and Dave Golding announced they were [looking to sell the business](https://craftypint.com/news/3016/red-hill-brewery-goes-on-the-market) almost 25 years after they started hatching a plan to open a brewery, and…
Dainton Beer All Saaz Beer
They often brew some pretty unusual beers at Dainton but their April 2021 limited release is a bonafide classic, in style, look fit, design and shape. If that sounds more like how you’d describe a pair of shoes over a beer, well, there’s a good reason for that when it comes to All Saaz. Dainton…
Crafty Crawls: The 86 Tram Pt II News
When we launched our Crafty Crawl series with a trip along Melbourne's 86 tram route, we were able to just about squeeze all the bars and brewpubs we thought you should check out into the one article. But, such is Melbourne's growing appetite for craft beer, having one article for the country's…
Crafty Crawls: WA's South West Part II News
In part one of our guide to the beer-soaked delights to be found in the South West of Western Australia, we traversed the upper fringe of the Margaret River region. For part two, we head south into the heart of one of the most populous areas for breweries anywhere in Australia. It's a beautiful part…
Crafty Crawls: Richmond News
If Richmond had a nickname, it would 100 percent be “The Sporty Suburb”. This place has ties to practically every massive sporting event in Melbourne, from the AFL, rugby and soccer to the cricket, tennis and basically every other non-aquatic sport you can think of (although – fun fact: Richmond…
Crafty Crawls: Rozelle, Balmain and Barangaroo News
This crawl first takes you through the quiet leafy streets between pubs in Rozelle and Balmain and, as you find yourself gazing at pretty little terraces, you can almost smell the silk of the QCs and Scrooge McDuck style money silos of the merchant bankers who reside within. But it wasn’t always…
Crafty Crawls: Abbotsford News
As the home of CUB, Abbotsford’s association with beer comfortably stretches back more than a century. The brewery has long been a part of the suburb's story but, more recently, the beer choices in the suburb have grown increasingly diverse. Small breweries have increased the amount of local beer…
Crafty Crawls: Preston News
As soaring housing prices continue to cripple anyone hoping to own their own home, Melburnians are putting their roots down further and further away from the CBD. It's leading to the transformation of many areas of the city – often transformations that involve more cafés, bars and restaurants. And…
Crafty Crawls: Footscray News
Depending on who you listen to, Footscray is either a dangerous suburb riddled with heroin and meth, held hostage by gangs, a soon-to-happen real estate boom, or an uber-trendy hipster hangout. Those that live there know it to be a tight knit community full of immigrants, families, and small business…
Crafty Crawls: Adelaide News
Of all the Australian capitals, Adelaide is arguably the most laid-back. Sure, there's the month between mid-February and mid-March into which the city crams enough festivals and major events to sustain thrill seekers well into winter. Yet, outside that period, things tend to be kept pretty simple and…
Crafty Crawls: The Breweries Of Marrickville News
For the Sydney craft beer lover, Marrickville is simply the happiest place on Earth. Nicknamed the Golden Triangle, it's home to the most breweries of any Australian suburb, making it crawlable in a possibly literal sense if you’re trying to make some beery, religious statement. Named after a Yorkshire…
Crafty Crawls: South West WA Part I News
The South West of Western Australia is increasingly fertile ground for beer lovers. With so many breweries and good beer venues to explore, we set off for a weekend break down the coast to put together an extended Crafty Crawl featuring much of the best the region has to offer. The article…
Crafty Crawls: Newcastle Part I News
Back in 2019, this intrepid explorer opened the door of the Grain Store pub in Newcastle's east end, jumped on the newly-opened light railway, and with the famous words "Go west, young man!" resonating in my head, began the Newy Crafty Crawl. At the time, this journey consisted of five main…
Crafty Crawls: Newtown News
The unfortunately and now incorrectly named suburb of Newtown is one of the few places in Sydney whose reputation precedes it. The area of Newtown was originally inhabited by the Cadigal tribe and set up for farming and residential estates during the early years of European colonisation. In…
Crafty Crawls: South Sydney News
These days, South Sydney is a hodgepodge of different people, industries and communities. From Waterloo to Botany, you'll find old pubs in various stages of gentrification dotting corners, serving neighbours who are fourth-gen working class as well as recent arrivals sipping over the sorrows brought…
Crafty Crawls: Milton & Paddington News
While not quite ground zero for Brisbane’s craft beer boom of the early 2010s, the Milton and Paddington suburbs were certainly ground zero adjacent. Craft beer was just finding its feet in those early years and it’s beneath the shadow of the monolith XXXX brewery where many of those early venues…
Crafty Crawls: Freo Beer-Ho! News
Footy aside, few Australian towns can boast as loudly as Fremantle. The historic port city was named in Lonely Planet’s Top 10 Destinations to Visit in 2016, Perth’s economic boom did nothing to dent its rustic charm (which really comes into its own under grey skies) and it famously kickstarted…
Crafty Crawls: Fitzroy News
As Melbourne’s oldest suburb, Fitzroy can likely lay claim to a history steeped in more beer than most other parts of Australia. From the moment the Gold Rush turned a British-controlled outpost into the wealthiest city in the world, Fitzroy became home to Melbourne’s working class for whom beer…
Crafty Crawls: Fortitude Valley News
Every city has a Fortitude Valley. It’s simultaneously the cultural hub of the city and the dodgy part of town your parents warned you about. It's pulsing with live music and street art and it's home to the greasiest kebabs you'll ever eat. The number of op shops is matched only by the number of…
Crafty Crawls: Redfern News
Much like the Oriental rat flea and pestilence, good beer and gentrification go hand in hand. While this analogy is perfect in almost every way, a bubonic plague epidemic is unlikely to push local house prices north of one and a half million bucks, which is how it goes in the inner Sydney suburb of…
Crafty Crawls: Brisbane's Suburban Bars I News
Brisbane isn’t the sleepy little country town it used to be. Oh no, this place is a classifiable metropolis now, its inhabitants endowed with our own suburbs, traffic jams, frustratingly limited parking and public transport that services the CBD at times most convenient for office workers. One of…
Crafty Crawls: Sydney's Northern Beaches News
Sydney’s Northern Beaches are about as classically Australian as areas go. The shores are sandy and surfable, the venues are beery and beachside, packed with the leathery locals who could never live anywhere else and struggle to see how anyone else does. Long branded "The Insular Peninsula", this idyllic…
Pint of Origin 2024 Event
Plenty of major events inside and outside the beer world have fallen over in the past 12 months but fear not: Pint of Origin lives on! The unique, choose-your-own-adventure festival that was born as part of Good Beer Week in 2012 before striking out on its own a couple of years back returns to…
