Time for a shout out. As readers of our weekly newsletter will be aware, The Crafty Pint’s founder has been commissioned to write a book on Aussie beer for the publishers of James Halliday’s wine writing. The process is already well underway with deadlines rather tight.
Much of the book will be focused on the best beers available in Australia today. For this, we have taken the decision – both for availability and photography purposes – to concentrate this on beers available, either regularly or seasonally, in packaged form. There will be parts of the book that look at beers not available in bottle and breweries that don’t package their product, but for now the focus is on those that need to be photographed by the publishers.
The vast majority of the lineup is locked down, but there is still a handful of guernseys up for grabs. And this is where you come in. Although we spend 24 hours a day, seven days a week immersed in the Aussie beer world, there’s still a few breweries we haven’t made it to and there will be beers that haven’t come our way, so if you brew one of these and reckon it’s a chance of making a list of great Aussie beers, then we need to get our hands (and mouth) onto it. So…
- If you’re a brewer with packaged beer you don’t think The Crafty Pint has sampled and would like us to do so, please email crafty@craftypint.com ASAP so we can arrange getting hold of some.
- If you’re a beer drinker and have a local Aussie brewers whose beers you love that you’ve never seen mentions on this site, then please ask the brewer to get in touch via the above email (or forward them this story.
Those brewers who have beers on the list will hear from us in the coming days with instructions on where the bottles need to be sent.
Cheers!
