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’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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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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…
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:…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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).…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Crafty Pint’s blind tasting panels are up and running for 2013. The first took place late last year with a panel focused mainly on premium lagers, after we were contacted by Hahn and Malt Shovel…
A week ago, Nick Rhodes from Holgate boarded a plane in Melbourne bound for Norway. Coming the other way was Norwegian brewer Ingrid Skistad from Nøgne Ø. We brought you the story behind their brewer…
The Crafty Pint is hanging with the big boys now⦠Good Beer Week has announced that its print and radio media partners for 2013 will be Time Out and 3RRR. For the first two years of the festival,…
Next month’s Fed Square Microbreweries Showcase will mark exactly two years since Melbourne’s Cavalier Brewing first announced themselves to the world. All being well, it will also mark the release…
It’s amazing what you can find down the back of the sofa. And even more amazing what you can find when you set fire to a sofa! A couple of years back, three mates who had been homebrewing together since…
Victoria’s summer of beer festivals continued at the weekend with the arrival of the inaugural Great Australian Beer Festival. Taking over much of the Geelong Racecourse, it brought together brewers…
The past year has seen a huge rise in the amount of Italian craft beer arriving in Australia. Where once there was just a handful of the country’s better beers available, since the team at Birra Italiana…