Articles by Crafty Pint

Sylvanian Family Ties

There’s a minor obsession in the craft beer world with market share. Depending on who you believe, and which breweries you argue should be lumped in with the crafty crowd, in Australia the figure is…

Taking On The Taps

Such is the rapid growth rate of craft beer today, it is enough of a challenge trying to stay up-to-date with every new Australian beer release, let alone the hundreds arriving from overseas. Thus, while…

A Pint of Parma, Please

For the most part, the ever-growing band of people who have taken advantage of Cavalier’s “community brewery” is as you’d expect. The brewery based in Melbourne’s west, which allows others to…

Good Beer Week '15 Dates

The dates have been confirmed for next year’s Good Beer Week festival in Melbourne and Victoria. The organisers today announced that the fifth festival will run from May 16 to 24. Registrations for…

James Halliday Feature: The New Wave

Having just sent off our latest feature to James Halliday’s Wine Companion Magazine – this one looking at the rise of communal / community (whatever we’re going to call it) brewing in Australia,…

Moving Home

The Australian National Homebrewing Conference is on the move. As the fourth conference approaches, the baton has been passed from the organising team in Melbourne to a crew in Canberra, who will take…

Stone Cold Certainties

As an independent craft brewer, it’s fair to say that when you own a grain silo you’ve made it. So, when you’ve got two grain silos, well... Such is the situation these days for Stone & Wood,…

Mismatch Makers

At the start of last summer, the first beers went through the system at Big Shed Brewing. But not all of them were brewed by Big Shed’s founders Jason Harris and Craig Basford. The pair had always planned…

Crafting A Win

Several of Sydney’s craftiest venues were among the big winners at last night’s Time Out Sydney Pub Awards. It wasn’t too long ago that beer lovers were bemoaning the lack of quality…

Feathering Their Nest

The departure lounge at LAX airport in Los Angeles may not seem the most likely setting for the birthplace of an Australian brewery, but it was while awaiting a flight back from last year’s Craft Brewers…

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Sip & Savour in Sydney

The teams behind some of Australia’s biggest beer festivals are joining forces to bring Sydneysiders a major event to close out this year’s Sydney Craft Beer Week. Sip & Savour will bring…

Get Bent

For months now, many Canberrans have driven, walked or ridden agonisingly along the inner Northern suburb streets of hip Braddon, eagerly awaiting the opening of BentSpoke Brewing Co, Canberra’s newest…

A Spooning Spectacular

There can be little doubt that the past month saw more collaborations taking place across Australia than at any previous time. With so many international brewers flying into the country for Good Beer Week…

#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…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: GBW Presents Mega Dega II

At the 2013 festival, Good Beer Week introduced the Mega Dega as the headline event in its Foodie stream. The idea was to bring together chefs from a number of Melbourne’s top restaurants and pair…

From Cider To Rider

There are clear advantages to having a home brewery in a garage that faces onto the street. For one, there’s the opportunity for a spot of people watching while the boil does its thing. What’s more,…

Brew & A: 3 Ravens

Perhaps the most striking aspect at this year’s Australian International Beer Awards was the level of success enjoyed by many of Australia’s most established microbreweries. OK, two trophies for Korea’s…

Sounding La Sirène

For the second year running, the crowds that rocked up over three days to this year’s Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular during Good Beer Week proved themselves to be a sweet-toothed bunch. Last year,…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: Game of Cones

Good Beer Week 2014 saw craft beer enter new territories once more. Nothing was sacred, not even Victoria’s tourism icons. On the opening weekend, Hargreaves Hill took Oregon’s Deschutes on…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: Woods of the North

It was a pretty great Good Beer Week for the breweries operating out of Theobald Street in Thornbury. The brewery’s original inhabitants, 3 Ravens, were named Champion Small Australian Brewery and…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: De Vrolijke Boot

Short of unintended consumption when forced into cleaning out a horse’s stable once as a child or possible face plants into bales at music festivals, it is hard to recall hay having passed the Crafty…

Murray's Dark Beer Month

The Bicep is set to return! Despite Murray’s head brewer’s Shawn Sherlock’s insistence that last year’s release of the beer we initially created with the Port Stephens Brewery for…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: Boatrocker Palate Cleanser

Hmmm… Looks like there may be a bit of love for Boatrocker within the Crafty team. Here’s Pia “girlplusbeer / Crafty Pint WA” Poynton’s take on Sunday’s Good Beer Week…

AIBA 2014 Winners

The state that kickstarted Australia’s craft beer revival and the one that’s doing most to drive it forward are both celebrating following the results of the 2014 Australian International Beer Awards…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: GBW Presents Brew vs Cru

At the 2013 Good Beer Week, late into the evening at the Brooklyn Brewery Party at the Great Northern, the New York brewery’s GM Eric Ottaway said that if they could get their brewmaster to the 2014…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: Temple x Weihenstephan Brewligious Experience

The head brewer from the world’s oldest brewery, Frank Peifer of Weihenstephan, returned to Temple in Brunswick East for his second collaborative brew there. The Crafty Pint crew (VIC and WA) went…

Defining The Future

The second Australian Craft Brewers Conference kicked off at the Arts Centre in Melbourne this morning with a keynote speech from one of the country’s craft beer pioneers, Phil Sexton (above). The…

Good Beer Week 2014: Sold Out Events

Not long now until the fourth Good Beer Week kicks off and the number of sellouts is mounting. As in past years, as part of our role as the festival’s online media partner, we’re keeping an…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: Russian Imperial Banquet

Talk about putting the boss to shame… At some point, we plan to bring you write ups of the Masterclass of Madness and Brew vs Cru but already – within hours of the event finishing –…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: GBW Presents Masterclass of Madness

Event: Good Beer Week Presents the Masterclass of Madness Venue: Moon Dog Brewery and Rockwell & Sons Date: May 17 Good Beer Week Stream: Beer Geek The Event: This was the third Good Beer Week local/international…

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The Unholy Trinity's Back

Back in 2011, when Good Beer Week first started out, one of the festival’s founders had another spark of inspiration. As a means of bringing attention to the week and also to highlight the community…

Good Beer Week 2014 Preview: Daytime Offerings

With Good Beer Week in full swing and more visitors arriving in Melbourne by the day, for the final of our themed previews of this year’s festival we thought we would look at the daytime events on…

Good Beer Week Is GO!

To those of you about to embark on your good beer missions, we wish you well. The Good Beer Week team, which The Crafty Pint has been honoured to be a part of since day one, has worked overtime for the…

The Biggest PoO Yet!

Good Beer Week is so close you can sniff it. And that means the Pint of Origin is back too. Originally conceived for the second Good Beer Week back in 2012 as a means of allowing breweries from all over…

Good Beer Week 2014 Previews: Ale of a Time

We admitted when we posted the last of our Good Beer Week previews that, despite intentions to run them twice weekly on The Crafty Pint in the lead up to the festival, time – or, more specifically, a…

Take The First Exit

They grew up in the same neck of the woods and their mums played tennis at the same club, but it was their careers that first brought them together and beer that looks like changing their lives. Fraser…

Good Beer Week 2014 Preview: Quirky Stuff

Well, the intention was there at least… Yes, we planned to run weekly – even bi-weekly – themed previews for this year’s Good Beer Week Festival. But, low and behold, it turns out that being…

The Wheaty Goes Yeastie

Pretty much a year ago to the day, the staff at Adelaide’s The Wheaty were sweating it out in the hope that their recently purchased pilot brewery would be ready in time for their annual Good Beer…

Hops In The City

There are few breweries in Australia that have associated themselves as closely with hops as Little Creatures. The WA brewery’s first beer, Little Creatures Pale Ale (originally entitled Little Creatures…

No Axe To Grind

Brisbane’s craft beer scene is often referred to as burgeoning, flourishing and exploding. Whilst these terms are felicitous – and, without doubt, the love of good beer will continue to thrive –…

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Crafty's Picks: May 5 to May 11

Time for another perusal of the week ahead in craft beer as Nick O selects a few choice moments from the coming seven days… Volunbeer Featuring 250 beers from 150 breweries and pulling in around…

Crafty's Picks: May 12 to 18

Is there a bigger week of beer events in Australia than this one? Perhaps next week, but let’s not get bogged down in semantics. Let the feast of festivals begin! The Big One This Friday, the official…

The Hills Are On Fire

Regular readers of this site will be aware that much has been brewing in South Australia in the past year or two. Craft beer stalwarts such as Lobethal Bierhaus, Steam Exchange, Brewboys and Barossa Valley…

Hip Hop Cammeray

One of the few but frequent laments amidst an otherwise burgeoning Sydney beer scene is the lack of restaurants with a decent beer list. It’s a rather perplexing scenario: to be able to dine on some…

The Yeastie Noise

Brisbane is a city transformed. In the past couple of years, the growth in popularity of craft beer has been nothing short of phenomenal. Where once your choice of quality beer bars was pretty much limited…

Crafty's Picks: April 28 to May 4

Time for a new addition to the site. Nick O, aka Crafty Pint NSW, aka Mr Crafty Events Diary, has decided to cast his eyes over the week ahead and pick out a few highlights from the craft beer world. After…

Good Beer Week 2014 Preview: Brewery Action

The biggest week in the Australian beer calendar is looming large. In just 22 days, the Good Beer Week 2014 Opening Party at The Terminus will herald nine days of awesome beery action across Melbourne…

Up On The Hill

A few months ago, a spy got in touch to tell us he had seen what could only be brewery tanks being craned over a wall close to his house in Clifton Hill. It turned out his eyes were not deceiving him and…

Beer Travel: World Beer Cup / Craft Brewers Conference 2014

Every two years, the beer world gathers in the States for the World Beer Cup, the biggest beer awards of its kind, which runs alongside the annual US Brewers Association Craft Brewers Conference. And each…

Brew & A: The Monk Brewery & Kitchen

We bring back our Brew & A series by firing some questions at Craig Eulenstein, who recently moved from Mountain Goat to The Monk in Freo.