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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 –…
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…
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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.
Strings 'N' Tins
It may have taken them an interminable length of time before they were able to construct their brewery and brew their first beer but, since Six String Brewing poured that first dark red IPA, they have…
Beer Travel: The Noisy Minor Shout 2014
OK, so we’re not 100 percent sure if what follows counts as beer travel. But there was a bus involved, there was beer and people moved around… The event in question was the second Noisy Minor…
The Rivers Overrunneth
Little Rivers is the first new brewery to open in Tasmania in a few years. Located in the state's beautiful northeast, it's headed by a former winemaker who learned the brewing trade at Burleigh Brewing on the Gold Coast.
Beyond Craft...
Had enough of craft beer? Then how about cult beer? Clearly, the owners of a new bar in Melbourne feel it’s time to take things a little further, with Two Row announcing itself as a home for “cult…
King Henrys
While they may not have enjoyed Australia’s brand of cricket, it seems that the Brits rather like Australian beer. Hot on the heels of the success of Redoak, Hawthorn and 4 Pines at last year’s International…
Nail On Tap
WA’s Nail Brewing has been at the forefront of the state’s craft beer industry for well over a decade now. Its founder, John Stallwood (pictured above), has also been instrumental in the rise of the…
Getting Noisier
One of Queensland’s newest brewing companies, Fortitude, celebrated its first birthday this month with its second annual Noisy Minor Shout, which saw the brewing team take invited guests on the tour…
The Happiest Decade
It began as a student teacher’s hunt for cheap jugs of beer in Melbourne, graduated to a simple online spreadsheet, slowly spread its tentacles across Australia, now also comes as an app with 75,000…
A Healthy Harvest
Even before the first beers produced with this year’s Bushy Park hops have arrived, it’s looking like a successful harvest for Hop Products Australia. An auction of the first 100kg bale of this year’s…
Craft Brewers Conference '14
The man who brewed the very first craft beer in Australia, founded the original Matilda Bay and was a founder of Little Creatures (as well as building BridgePort in the US) will give a keynote speech at…
Frankenstein of Bickley
Bottleshops with growler filling stations are wonderful things, and not just because they allow us to drink fresh, draught beer in the comfort of our own homes. They also offer an extra point of sale for…
Good Beer Week '14 Is Go!
Tickets are now on sale for Australia’s leading celebration of the best of the local and international beer world. The official program for Good Beer Week 2014 went live this morning. The fourth…
Fill Yer Boots
It takes little more than a cursory glance around the room at an industry event – or perhaps a quick game of "count the beards" – to realise the beer world is rather dominated by males. But, ever so…
150 Great Australian Beers: Your Guide to Craft Beer and Beyond
Crafty Pint founder James Smith has written a book on Australian beer. 150 Great Australian Beers: Your Guide to Craft Beer and Beyond is published by Hardie Grant and will be on shelves at good book…
The Circle Of Hops
The sense of community within the craft beer world, both in Australia and elsewhere, is one of its most remarkable aspects. There is a willingness among businesses within the industry to share knowledge…
Going Public
Almost a year ago to the day, we were sent a tweet from someone who had spotted a sign on the wall of a warehouse in Croydon. The sign read “The Public Brewery” and led to a few responses hoping that…
The 17
The addition of Barossa Valley Brewing, Cromer Cellars and Embassy Craft Beer Bar to The Crafty Pint’s directories of craft beer awesomeness in the past few days suggest it’s time we did another…
Turning Japanese
One of a growing number of new brewing companies to hit the ground running in Australia in the past 12 months was Melbourne-based Monster Mash. The beery wing of the enterprise that had previously launched…
Craft Beer Rising 2014
The first Craft Beer Rising is a wrap. And, if the feedback we’ve received directly and the noise on social media at the weekend is anything to go by, it seems the idea was embraced far and wide.…
Time To Rise Up!
With less than 24 hours to go until the first Craft Beer Rising kicks off across Australia, there’s little left to be said. Thanks to all of the brewers and venue owners across the country who have…
TransPacific Thunder Nuts
When he began exploring the idea of launching a microbrewery in Australia, Thunder Road founder Philip Withers spent several weeks on the road in the USA checking out a quite phenomenal number of breweries…
Here Come The Nomads
Over the past few years, Australia has welcomed an increasing number of guests from the international beer community. Whether it’s for celebrations like Good Beer Week or to judge in competitions like…
The Saint Comes Riding In
Anyone that has visited Hobart in the past year or two will be aware that the craft beer scene in the city has really come alive. Its annual Tasmanian International Beer Fest is one of the largest and…
Boomtime In Brewsvegas
The beer scene in Brisbane is unrecognisable from just a couple of years ago. First, a wave of new craft beer-supporting venues opened up to give locals an alternative, and more recently they have been…
Will Shoot For Beer
There’s little more than two weeks now until the inaugural Craft Beer Rising. Already, more than 70 events have been registered by breweries and venues across the country, with each of the six states…
Brewing Shenanigans
In the past few years, as the Australian craft beer movement has grown upward, outward and onward in every direction, one of the significant contributors to that growth has been the opening of more craft…
This Is Real
In next to no time, the Young Henrys crew has established itself as one of Australia’s most creative and exciting young breweries as well as ingratiating themselves with seemingly every drinker, venues,…
All Tonkers & Tweakers
After a successful warmup series against England this summer, the 2013 / 2014 cricket season is about to step up another notch or three. No, we’re not talking about the impending T20 internationals…
Brewing In Wine Country
Known for great wine, fine food and local produce, Clare Valley is the perfect region for a growing beer and brewing scene. The newest brewery in the region is the Clare Valley Brewing Company (CVBC),…
Hottest 100 Craft Beers of 2013: The Breakdown
So, for the third year running, the country’s three favourite craft beers, according to The Local Taphouse’s Hottest 100 poll, remain the same. And they’re in the same order as last year too with…
H100 Of 2013 Results
For the sixth year running, The Local Taphouse has run its annual poll to find out which Aussie craft beers have wooed drinkers. With the support of The Crafty Pint and Brews News, the number of votes…
Statement From Temple
TEMPLE: "It is with much regret that we announce the departure of Brewmaster and Co-Founder Ron Feruglio from Temple Brewing Company. Ron has had a huge impact on the brewing world, starting with his…
