News & Feature Stories
Your Local Bottleshop
Their two bars already turn over 200 different beers on tap every year and now the Local Taphouse empire is to expand into the realm of take home beers. The team behind the St Kilda bar has already been telling people about their plans to knock through into the building on one side of the current si…
Beer & Bites
The local market is always a good place to sample tasty produce: a little cheese, the odd pickle or two – and now beer. Matilda Bay will be setting up shop in Melbourne’s Prahran Market and Sydney’s Eveleigh Market next month (October) to offer shoppers the chance to try their beer…
Mornington Opens Friday
Australia’s newest brewery will open its doors to the public for the first time this Friday. The Mornington Peninsula Brewery will be pouring an American Pale Ale, English Brown Ale and Belgian Witbier from 3pm, accompanied by woodfired pizzas. As reported on The Crafty Pint earlier this mont…
Grand Final - Great Beer
Want to know how multi-talented Aussie beer people are? Then check out the Grand Final Breakfast on Channel 7 this morning. At some point, a comedy duo called Elbowskin will perform a song about the game. Anyone who’s ever enjoyed a pint at the Courthouse Hotel in North Melbourne might recogni…
Taphouse Retains Title
The Local Taphouse has been named Best Specialty Beer Venue for the second year running at the Australian Bar Awards. It picked up the award at Bartender Magazine’s glitzy award ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Sydney’s Hilton Hotel – the event that marks the culmination of Bar Sh…
Grand Final Beers
When Geelong and Hawthorn met in the 2008 Grand Final, the fridge and sinks where The Crafty Pint watched the match were filled with Cooper’s and Mountain Goat. Twelve months later and the vastly different beer lineup in 2009 was a pretty fair reflection of how fast the Aussie beer scene was c…
Brew & A: Bridge Road's Nardia McGrath
Whatever the current VB ads might have you believe, beer is anything but an exclusively male world. Look around the bars and breweries of Australia and you’ll find female brewers and bar owners, Beer Diva-hosted beer dinners, female beer bloggers and an audience at beer appreciation nights lik…
How Beer Is Made 2
It’s been around for millennia and takes on all manner of guises, yet making good beer’s really all about understanding how to use four simple ingredients in harmony: water, grain, yeast and hops. In the second and final part of his feature “How Beer Is Made”, Holgate brewer…
Koo's A Big Boy Now?
Theirs is one of the best stories among a multitude of good ones in the Australian craft beer revolution: a bunch of mates who liked good beer and spent every spare moment over several years pulling in favours from friends and family to build a tiny brewery in a backyard shed. The Kooinda tale encap…
Who Invited Brett?
Brett. A good Aussie name. One you could imagine belonging to a larrikin. The sort of larrikin who’s generally a pretty good sort but might gatecrash the odd party. And when he does, it’s 50/50 if he’ll prove the life and soul or turn it into a disaster. Which is pretty much how F…
Featured Events
Two Birds Bar Shout At Fishers Craft Bar (VIC)
Head into Fishers Craft Bar on Thursday to check out a range of beers from Two Birds,…
Coming Events
Tomorrow,
Two Birds Bar Shout At Fishers Craft Bar (VIC)
Tomorrow,
Battle Of The Brews At Indian Ocean Brewing (WA)
October 25th, 2019,
Small Batch Dinner At Indian Ocean Brewing (WA)
October 26th, 2019,
5Zero - Trail Ride To Protect The Trails At Bright Brewery (VIC)
October 26th, 2019,
The Third Beer & Food Truck Festival At Willie The Boatman (NSW)
October 26th, 2019,
Revision Brewing Tap Takeover At Bitter Phew (NSW)
