It’s a new year, so time to add some new listings to The Crafty Pint. While in NSW for Sydney Craft Beer Week late last year, we headed out on the road to visit a few more breweries, bars and a bottleshop, all with the aim of improving our coverage of the state and populating the Beer Finder a little more. At the same time as adding them, we’re also filling a few of the gaps in Victoria too. New on the site today are:
Beer Cartel – a great little bottleshop in Artarmon that grew from an online business and has plans to create an onsite tasting room.
Schwartz Brewery – a well established microbrewery in the bowels of the former Macquarie Hotel, now renamed the Schwartz Brewery Hotel, in Sydney’s CBD.
Pumphouse Bar – a striking looking venue in Darling Harbour that’s undergone a seriously beery reinvention in the past year or so.
HopDog BeerWorks – one of Australia’s newest and smallest micros, this Nowra brewery has been creating some crazy concoctions in its short lifetime.
Little Brewing – the Port Macquarie based microbrewery with a reputation for full-flavoured, true to style beers.
The Albion Hotel – the pub that, along with the Warners at the Bay bottleshop, is leading the craft beer revolution in Newcastle.
Temple – the much-admired brewing company finally opened its brewery, bar and brasserie just in time for Christmas.
Woodlands Hotel – a truly unique venue, packed with Victorian beers and wines, excellent food and some seriously out there decor.
Goldmines Hotel – part of the sudden upsurge in craft beer appreciation in Bendigo and a darn pretty hotel to boot.
Next up we’ll be adding more venues from Tasmania and South Australia following recent trips, with yet more gaps to be filled in Victoria. Then, with WA on the agenda for later this week, look out for more listings from the home of craft beer in Australia in the near future.
Meanwhile, if you’re wondering why we’re not adding listings faster, it’s because our policy is to visit every brewery, bar or bottleshop first and spend time with the owners so we can offer what we hope is a genuine reflection of what to expect from an independent viewpoint. We write the copy and take pretty much all of the photos you see on these pages rather than asking brewers or venue owners to supply their own. It’s a time-consuming way of doing things but we believe it means you get a better experience.
Anyway, check out the new boys and girls and, as soon as you get the chance, go visit them and show your support for what they’re doing.
