Articles by Crafty Pint

Kiwi Beervana

Australia is blessed with many festivals dedicated to craft beer these days. But few, if any, do things as well as Beervana, the annual two-day festival in Wellington, as The Crafty Pint discovered when…

Hop Rockin'

Anyone who has paid even the slightest attention to Boatrocker since the brewery’s first beer appeared will be well aware that its founder, Matt Houghton, is pretty fond of hops. The first beer, Alpha…

Roast and Mash

Tasmania is blessed with an abundance of amazing produce. Obviously, there’s the beer, but on previous trips we’ve sampled fantastic wines, cheeses, chocolates, salmon, ginseng, whisky, gin, mussels……

Meet Crafty's Agony Aunt

One of the defining features of the Australian craft beer world – and one of its finest attributes – is its all encompassing warm embrace. As highlighted by the seemingly unstoppable run of collaborations,…

Stones & Woods

The Stone & Wood story is one of the most remarkable in Australian craft beer. It’s less than five years since three mates decided to turn their back on the corporate beer world and literally live the…

Great Beer. Fine Food

At this year’s Good Beer Week, there was a dazzling array of events pairing beer and food in every way imaginable. Beer and fondue, IPAs and curry, beer and chocolate and so on and so on. Beer went…

Crafty Pint Newsletter Archive

Ever since The Crafty Pint launched in September 2010, we’ve been sending out weekly newsletters (almost) every Friday. Designed to wrap up the events of the past week, look ahead to what’s…

Back A Brewer

He’s only 26 but already Evan Hunter has made whisky at Lark Distillery (as pictured above) and brewed with Moo Brew and Seven Sheds. And now he’s set on opening his own brewpub – with your help.…

More Ways To Join

The Craft Beer Industry Association is on a roll. Last month’s Craft Brewers Conference – Australia’s first – was deemed a success by those who attended and saw the national association…

The QHC Returns

The craft beer scene in Queensland has been enjoying welcome growth in the past couple of years, with a steady rise in the number of quality beer bars and new breweries. Its home brewing scene is equally…

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Brewing's Back In Bendigo

It’s more than 100 years since the last new brewery opened in Bendigo, according to Doug Brooke, and decades since the last one closed. But, thanks to him, the city only has to wait another couple of…

Blog of the Month: Two Brewers Abroad

Given it’s been rather more than a month since we last ran a feature on one of the many colourful blogs that exist in the world of Aussie craft beer, the series' name is becoming a little less than accurate.…

A Craftier Colony

At the risk of being castigated by the brewers, beer lovers and venue owners of our home state of Victoria, it’s been The Crafty Pint’s contention for some months now that there is currently no more…

Tell Us About It!

Back in April, Elwood teacher Torben Vedelsby left the classroom to find voicemails and emails awaiting him from the Good Beer Week team. Did he still live in Melbourne? Did he remember filling in a survey…

Good Beer Week 2013: The Bishop & The Pope vs Red Hill

Event: The Bishop & The Pope vs Red Hill Venue: Bishop of Ostia and Pope Joan, East Brunswick Date: May 22, 2013 Good Beer Week Stream: Foodie The Event: In 2012, the neighbouring East Brunswick venues…

Brew Am I

Having blown up Melbourne’s Cherry Bar on the last night of Good Beer Week with a night of hard rock, blues and craft beer, the original instigator of the Rockstar Brews concept in Oz is teaming up with…

Good Beer Week 2013: Birra Del Borgo Degustation Dinner at Grossi Florentino

Event: Birra del Borgo Degustation Dinner Venue: The Wynn Room at Grossi Florentino Date: May 21, 2013 Good Beer Week Stream: Foodie Preamble: There is an unwritten law in the craft beer world which states:…

Breaking New Territory

Darwin is set to host its first craft beer festival later this month. The Darwin Beer Festival takes over the city’s spectacular waterfront Convention Centre, with more than 80 craft beers and ciders…

What A Week!

The first Good Beer Week took us by surprise as it came out of nowhere. The second one took us by surprise as it went off so much more than the first one. This time around, the committee that runs the…

AIBA 2013 Winners

Back at the end of 2012, when compiling our 50 Beers of 2012 for James Halliday’s Wine Companion Magazine, we wrote: “The powers-that-be push stablemate Fat Yak but those in the know drink Matilda…

Good Beer Week 2013: Boilermaker at The Beaufort

Event: Boilermaker at the Beaufort Venue: The Beaufort Date: May 21, 2013 Good Beer Week Stream: Beer Geek The Event: Many people’s knowledge of a boilermaker probably extends so far as a shot of whisky…

South West At The Fest

Somewhere in south west WA there is a brewery tank full of hefeweizen made with cacao husks. A few kilometers away is another brewery tank, but this one is full of porter made with coconut and vanilla…

Good Beer Week 2013: Cavalier Creation Degustation

Event: Cavalier Creation Degustation Venue: Slowbeer Date: May 21, 2013 Good Beer Week Stream: Foodie The Event Collaboration and craft beer are no strangers; whether it’s between two breweries…

The NSW Invasion

The New South Wales craft beer scene has been bubbling away furiously in recent times and it’s finally spilling over into neighbouring Victoria for Good Beer Week 2013. It means that, this week, Melbourne…

Crafty Tales Launches

There are a lot of very talented people in the craft beer world. And not just the brewers either. In our relatively short lifetime, The Crafty Pint has been lucky enough to work with a number of filmmakers,…

Good Beer Week 2013: The Big Apple & The Goat

Event: The Big Apple & The Goat Venue: Mountain Goat Brewery Date: May 18, 2013 Good Beer Week Stream: Beer Geek The Event: Good Beer Week’s highlight Beer Geek event came in two parts. There…

Good Beer Week: Going, Going, Gone

The first event to sell out for this year’s Good Beer Week was gone in less than 12 hours. Others have been following with regularity ever since. So, as one of the festival’s media partners,…

ARE YOU READY!!!!!

The wait is almost over – the third Good Beer Week kicks off in less than 24 hours. The Crafty Pint will be there at 8.30am tomorrow morning for the start of the very first event, The Big Apple &…

The Bicep's Back

It started as a bit of fun. Challenged with brewing an unusual beer for the Media Brew beer competition at Beervana, The Crafty Pint approached Murray’s to be its partner. They agreed and were soon afterwards…

Get Ready for Good Beer Week - The Brewers: Kiwi Invasion

New Zealand has a craft beer scene that sparked into life earlier than ours and, dare we say it, has a greater strength in depth than Australia (for now at least). We’ve been lucky enough to have…

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Getting Blind With Crafty: Pint of Origin Pale-Off

The latest Crafty Pint Blind Tasting Panel was one with a touch of Good Beer Week about it. With the festival imminent – and amongst its attractions the expanded Pint of Origin state-by-state showcase…

Up For GABS

Where do you go after scaling up an event you’d previously run for a few hundred people at your pubs to an epic featuring almost 60 brand new beers in a heritage listed building that attracted around…

Statement On Temple's Liquidation

A little over a week ago, word reached The Crafty Pint that Temple Brewery & Brasserie had gone into voluntary liquidation. This sad news was leavened by a conversation with one of the owners who assured…

Drinking in Style: American Pale Ales

With Good Beer Week imminent, we figured we should do a Pint of Origin style face-off for the next Crafty Pint Blind Tasting Panel. So later today, the motley crew of brewers (amateur and professional),…

Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brews: Rockstars!

Sometimes you just know you should probably have said no to the question: “Just one more?” But sometimes inspiration can strike… It was late in the evening at last year’s Newcastle…

Good Beer Wheaty

“Blame the Yeastie Boys!” Could this be the craft beer world’s equivalent of the Monopoly “Get Out Of Jail Free” card? Certainly, it’s a cry we expect to hear a lot…

Brew Oyster Cult

The Crafty Pint has only been around for 30 months, yet in that time we’ve seen one of Australia’s craft beer characters crop up in a number of guises. Steve “Hendo” Henderson once landed at Prickly…

Crafty Pint Merchandise

To celebrate the release of the first beer conceived by The Crafty Pint – the Auld Bulgin' Boysterous Bicep brewed in collaboration with Murray’s – we finally got our act together and created…

Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brews: The Big City Smackdown!

As we all know, the craft beer world is one warm, fuzzy, all-embracing bear hug of a thing. Everyone loves everyone else. We’re all united in our mission to create a better Earth for our children…

Hand Carved Stone

With distinguished titles like Chief Judge of the Australian International Beer Awards, Chairman of the Craft Beer Industry Association and Head Brewer at Stone & Wood, you might think Brad Rogers spends…

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New, Improved Crafty

Just like the very best hair products and cleansing powders for your washing machine, changes to anything should be incremental. At least that’s what we’re telling ourselves here at Crafty…

Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brewers: Bodebrown

The third Good Beer Week has brewers travelling to Australia from Europe, Japan, New Zealand and North and South America. The representatives from the last of these are from Bodebrown in Brazil, who won…

Milling Vanilla

Every year for the past three years, female representatives of the Victoria brewing industry have gathered to make a special beer. And this year they’re brewing it for Good Beer Week. They come from…

Starting a Brewery: The Boatrocker Story Pt IV

Well, we were expecting to be running this article well before now – as the owners of Boatrocker Brewery would have been, no doubt. But, as seems to be the way with even the best planned brewery, it…

A Listing A Day

As the craft beer scene in Australia continues to evolve at a rate of knots, more and more bars and bottleshops are turning over their fridges and taps to the good stuff, while new breweries and brewing…

The Crafty Pint at Good Beer Week: The Mega Dega

The Crafty Pint’s founder is one of the co-founders of Good Beer Week, so it goes without saying that we’re heavily involved in pretty much every aspect of the festival. However, in 2013, The…

Making Noise Up North

It’s fair to say that what’s been going on in Queensland over the past couple of years has been little short of remarkable. Where once the beer lovers of Brisbane were worried as to whether they would…

Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brewers: 961 Beer

Back in March, The Crafty Pint was lucky enough to be invited to a Melbourne Food & Wine Festival event at East Brunswick’s Rumi restaurant featuring Lebanese craft beer matched with owner Joseph…

Five Years. Seven Sheds

“It’s been a strange and savage journey,” says Willie Simpson as he marks five years at the helm of Seven Sheds. It’s one that’s seen him move from home brewer to commercial brewer and, as of…

Get Ready For Good Beer Week - The Brewers: Birra del Borgo

In the run up to the third Good Beer Week, The Crafty Pint is running a series of preview pieces focusing on some of the brewers you may not know much about, some of the more esoteric brews and events…