Good Beer Week Is GO!

March 16, 2012, by Crafty Pint

Good Beer Week Is GO!

As anyone who attended this week’s Fed Square Microbreweries Showcase or has been paying attention on Twitter will know, the Good Beer Week 2012 program is out. That means it’s time to get ready for what may well be the biggest celebration of beer that Australia has seen, with more than 90 events taking place at venues across Melbourne and Victoria. There are showcases, dinners, tours, tastings, plus events pairing beer with chocolate, sweets, sorbets, music and comedy – even a beer hunt. There are visiting brewers from all over Australia as well as New Zealand, the US and Europe. And there are events ranging from those you can rock up to at any time free of charge right through to masterclasses and courses aimed at hardcore beer lovers and home brewers.

The Good Beer Week team is particularly delighted to reveal that the 2010 and 2011 Australian International Beer Awards champion brewers – Kjetil Jikiun, from Norway’s Ní¸gne í˜, and Brendan Moylan, founder of US brewery Moylan’s – are coming to Melbourne for the week. While here they’ll be appearing at a number of events, including the Good Beer Week Masterclass of Champions. This will see them come together at Hargreaves Hill brewery in Yarra Valley to create a one-off Good Beer Week collaborative brew while conducting an all-day masterclass. Tickets on sale very soon.

Other international guests include a number of Kiwi brewers, including those from the Yeastie Boys, Tuatara, and Renaissance, plus representatives from Sierra Nevada, Brooklyn Brewery, Weltenburg. Meanwhile, the best of Australia will be on show as five Melbourne pubs turn over their taps to interstate brewers in the Pint of Origin series.

Elsewhere, there is the 20th anniversary Australian International Beer Awards Presentation Dinner on May 17, with a menu designed by Josie Bones’ Chris Badenoch, and the Great Australasian Beer Spectapular at the Royal Exhibition Building. There are plenty of varied breakfasts, lunches and dinners, beer swaps and the launch of unique brews, including the second Abbotsford Collabbotsford brew between Mountain Goat, Moon Dog and Matilda Bay plus The People’s Pint, the beer conceived by one of you, voted for by you and brewed by Temple Brewery & Brasserie.

If you’d like your beer to be chosen by the nation to be the first People’s Pint, you’ve got until the end of this weekend to get your ideas in – full details on the competition here. All we need is a name and a great idea for a beer. We’re closing submissions at midnight on Sunday so head here to enter yours. The beer will be launched at an event at Temple on May 14, where you can be the first to sample it alongside food created specially for the beer while enjoying musical comedy from Beer Song writers ElbowSkin. Sierra Nevada will be in the house, with Temple making a special announcement on the night.

The Good Beer Week Team along with GRAM magazine is distributing 60,000 print versions of the program across Melbourne and Victoria right now, while the full program – including a few events not in the print program – can also be accessed online here. You can search by day, target audience or using the map, with all week long events listed on the first day in the calendar (May 12). You can also sign up to the Good Beer Week newsletter through the site and keep up to date with the latest news. So, check out the lineup, book your spots before they’re gone, and ask yourself, are you ready?

GOOD BEER WEEK promo clip from GOOD BEER WEEK on Vimeo.

Good Beer Week is a not-for-profit organisation. The festival has been created and the program compiled by a dedicated team of volunteers, of which The Crafty Pint’s founder is a member.

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