#PoO14 Winners

June 10, 2014, by Crafty Pint

#PoO14 Winners

As part of the biggest Pint of Origin yet, at this year’s Good Beer Week we ran our first PoO Comp. The ten participating venues were invited to put together a prize for punters that visited their venue, while we were offering a Mystery Prize for those that attended five or more PoO venues over the course of the week. With the festival done and dusted for another year, we finally got around to picking the winners from the metaphorical hat at the end of last week.

So thanks to everyone who PoO’d this year – we hear that participating venues enjoyed great weeks again and have some ideas on how to tweak things again for the future. In the meantime, the winners…

  • The Alehouse Project – Jacqueline van Zetten
    Golden Ticket to the Dark Side of Beer, which gets the winner and a friend a pot of every beer tapped over the course of the five-day mini-festival.
  • Brother Burger & The Marvellous Brew – Adam Noble
    Food and drink voucher for up to four people to the value of $120.
  • Village Melbourne – Baz Atkins, Martin Pal and Wayne Finkelde
    Three $100 bar vouchers
  • Royston – Alice Cleghorn
    $50 bar voucher and two invites to the forthcoming opening of Foresters Hall, Collingwood
  • Tramway Hotel – Kate Goodwin
    $100 bar voucher
  • Gertrude Hotel – Yvonne Blahodyr
    $200 bar voucher
  • Rainbow Hotel – Andrew Tierney
    $200 food and drink voucher
  • Two Row – Noel Kelso
    One of each beer on tap for the winner and a friend on the day they collect their prize.

You may notice that there are eight prizes above when there were ten venues. Well, it looks like the Great Northern was too busy getting ready to pour American beer and the GB’s mind was on its imminent move down the road to a new venue as they both forgot and didn’t put up the posters we dropped in. Ah well, next year…

As for The Crafty Pint Mystery PoO Prize, well, what could it be other than a collection of Aussie craft beer. It’s a lineup that features flavours of Champion Small Australian Brewery 3 Ravens, brewer of this year’s Champion Beer, Mash, plus Feral and Boatrocker. And the prize, which goes to one of the people who hit up at least five PoO venues, is on its way to… Sarah Trevarthen!

A huge thanks to all the venues that took part in Pint of Origin this year and who offered prizes for our merry revellers. And of course to all those merry revellers who made their way around the pubs sampling the best of Australia and beyond.

Don’t forget there are Good Beer Week surveys online for both punters and host venues right now. There’s a Golden Ticket – worth a ticket to one event each day at the 2015 Good Beer Week – for one lucky punter who completes the survey and $500 credit for one lucky venue when they come to register for the festival in October.

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