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Australian International Beer Awards 2015 Winners

In its 18th year, Mountain Goat took home the Champion Beer Trophy for the biggest beer it has ever brewed at last night's Australian International Beer Awards.

Biting Back

Shark Island Brewing Co was one of the businesses badly affected by a failed equipment supplier. Months on from their intended launch, they finally have beer.

Podcast People : Brunswick Beer Collective

With Good Beer Week in full swing, we find out who's behind a new Melbourne-based beer podcast, Brunswick Beer Collective.

Craft Beer Heroes: Steve & Guy

In advance of the Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular hitting Melbourne and Sydney, we find out what drives its founders, who also run The Local Taphouses, to aim so high.

Time Out Melbourne Pub Awards Winners

The Last Jar took the top gong at the 2015 Time Out Pub Awards as many of the city's craftiest venues collected trophies too.

As Easy As Adelaide, Beer, Celebration

The beer lovers of Adelaide look set for a treat this winter as a major new beer festival comes to town: the Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival.

Crafty Six GBW Special #10: Gimme More More More

With the Opening Party tonight, it's time for our final Good Beer Week themed preview. This one highlights events offering loads of different beers under the one roof. Have a great week if you're joining the party!

Bring The Love

It's time for the Aussie beer world's biggest annual love fest. To all those coming to Good Beer Week, have a great week. To those who aren't, time to avoid social media for a week and start planning for 2016!

Boys n the Hub

For the fifth Good Beer Week, the Festival Hub is moving to Beer DeLuxe in Fed Square – the place where the initial conversation that sparked the festival took place in 2011.

Cali-borations

Three small Victorian microbreweries have been given the opportunity of a lifetime – collaborating with Californian breweries on new beers for Good Beer Week.

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Crafty Six GBW Special #9: Learn Stuff

Our penultimate themed preview for Good Beer Week 2015 looks at some of the events set to elevate your beer knowledge to new levels.

Getting Blind with Crafty: English Ales

We head to the land where The Crafty Pint's founder spent most of his formative years for this blind tasting, which features a range of English style ales.

Drinking In Style: English Ales

They may not have the sex appeal of many US-inspired contemporary beers, but classics are classics for a reason. Here our resident scholar looks at some of the most popular English ale styles.

Crafty Six GBW Special #8: Fun & Games

With just days to go until Good Beer Week 2015, time for another preview to help you pick your perfect event, this time looking at some of the fun times that lie ahead.

Prepare For #PoO15

Since launching in 2012, the Pint of Origin has grown into one of Good Beer Week's most popular features. Here's what to expect in 2015.

Sweet 'n' Sour Mash

Last year, sister breweries Mash and 3 Ravens picked up several major trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards. Much has changed since, as we discover.

Crafty Six GBW Special #7: Not Beer

Good Beer Week 2015 is less than two weeks away, so here's our seventh themed preview to help you find events. This one looks at events offering more than just beer.

Who Brews Steam Train?

For our latest Q&A with a young Aussie brewing company, we find out a little about two brothers from the Otways currently gypsy brewing as they plot their own Crowes Nest brewery.

Another Crafty Dozen

We've added 12 more breweries, bars and bottleshops to our Australian craft beer directory since the last roundup, which means it's time for another one.

Crafty Six GBW Special #6: Degustations with a Difference

As we reach the halfway point in our series of Good Beer Week previews, we highlight some of the quirkier degustations on the dega-heavy program.

Barrel Boys

Boatrocker Brewery is on the verge of opening a major barrel room and bar following investment from the group that previously launched Little Creatures.

Crafty Six GBW Special #5: Hit The Road

Time for our fifth themed Good Beer Week 2015 preview. For this one, we pluck out some adventures for those who fancy hitting the road.

Brew & A: Barossa Valley Brewing

Our latest Brew & A focuses on the new face heading up brewing at one of South Australia's longest-established micros, Barossa Valley Brewing.

G'day From SA

The buzz around the South Australian beer scene isn't confined to SA itself anymore. A number of the state's micros are now distributing interstate for the first time.

Crafty Six GBW Special #4: The Foreign Invasion

The fourth of our Crafty Six themed previews of this year's Good Beer Week focuses on the international brewers arriving in Melbourne next month.

Win A Good Beer Weekend

Good Beer Week has launched a competition with Tourism Victoria that will see two people flown to Melbourne for a $3,000 plus Good Beer Weekend prize.

Crafty Six GBW Special #3: Country Life

Our third preview of the forthcoming Good Beer Week festival sees us take to the road to shine a light on some of the sweet events taking place in regional Victoria.

Crafty Six GBW Special #2: Something Completely Different

For our second Good Beer Week 2015 preview, we look at some of the more unusual events to have been concocted for this year's festival.

Seeking Council

Local councils might not seem the coolest brewing collaborators but two new projects in Sydney feature just that, highlighting, perhaps, the growing understanding between small brewers and local government.

Crafty Six GBW Special #1: Da Funk

With four weeks to go until Good Beer Week 2015 kicks off, we're starting a series of previews to help you navigate the program and find the perfect event for you.

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Brewer Beware

Australian brewers are urged to be extra vigilant when choosing equipment suppliers by a number of small businesses who fear they have lost tens of thousands of dollars.

Creating Waves

Four of Australia's top surfers – Joel Parkinson, Bede Durbidge, Mick Fanning and Josh Kerr – and a couple of mates are launching a brewery on the Gold Coast.

Going 'Steady

It's been an impressive first six months in business for WA's Homestead Brewery, with crowds packing the venue and brewer Ron Feruglio with 12 beers under his belt already.

Stone, Cold

As Stone Brewing's official Aussie launch approaches, we look at the long tale of its eventual arrival and the impact the brewery's beers and approach could have locally.

It's In The Can

Adelaide's Pirate Life Brewing have launched a world first, using their cans to tell the story of how the beers inside are brewed via pictures and words.

Time For A Paddlin'

Former Masterchef Australia contestant turned brewing company owner Chris Badenoch has turned his hands to a new venture: bespoke beer paddles.

Beer Travel: NZ Hops

With the Southern Hemisphere hop harvest coming to a close and fresh hop beers on their way, we chat to the man heading up NZ Hops.

Getting Blind With Crafty: How We Judge

Approximately every couple of months, we host a blind tasting of beers – usually matching the season or a current hot topic. Here's how we carry out the judging and the thinking behind our methods.

On The Road Again. And Again.

We join Dave's Brewery Tours for one of its jaunts around Sydney's breweries to see what it's all about and hear founder Dave Phillip's future plans.

Going Public

The Public Brewery has enjoyed huge success since opening its multifaceted venue last year. We find out why and also offer some tips to anyone considering opening their own brewery.

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Who Brews "Mancrafted" Beer?

We get the lowdown on Gang of Four, one of the youngest brewing companies in Sydney, in the latest of our Who Brews...? features.

Adelaide Catches The Craft Beer Wave II

In part two of his roundup, Matt King highlights more of the beer bars and pubs helping Adelaide finally catch the craft beer wave.

Adelaide Catches The Craft Beer Wave

First the state's brewing scene began exploding into life and now Adelaide's bar scene is gathering a head of momentum too, as Matt King discovers.

Big Names Head Australian Craft Brewers Conference

Brooklyn Brewery founder Steve Hindy heads a big-hitting lineup of speakers for the third Australian Craft Brewers Conference during Good Beer Week in May.

Beer Nuts: The Beer Tragic

Time to shine a light on another Aussie beer lover who takes their passion to the extreme. Our third Beer Nut is John "Beer Tragic" Black.

So Much Pink

International Women's Day was also the day of the second International Women's Collaboration Brew Day. It saw five separate all-female brews take place across Australia.

Good Beer Week 2015 Program Out March 13

The Official 2015 Good Beer Week program will be launched online at 9am AEST on March 13. The first chance to grab physical copies will be at the Gala Showcase.

Heaps More Hops

Australia's largest hop producer has announced a major expansion of its farms, meaning more Galaxy, Enigma and their peers for your beers.

Turning The Handles

One of the many marvellous things about Canberra's Bentspoke is its unique tap handles. We chatted with the retired cartographer behind them.

Craft Beer Heroes: The Scratch

The Brisbane beer scene has exploded into life in recent years and can lay claim to being the funnest in Australia. And much of that is down to the guys at The Scratch.