Drinking In Style: Porter
After a rather lengthy break, we reconvened the Crafty Pint Blind Tasting Panel at the weekend for a look at porters. As ever, before publishing the results, here we have our Resident Beer Scholar, Chris…
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…
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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…
Man About Town
We catch up with Brisbane man about town Gavin Croft as he prepares to launch his first beers under the Croft Brewing banner. It comes after years working in and around the beer industry and sees him launch with the pink and fruity Saison Grenade.
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,…
