Brew & A: 3 Ravens

Perhaps the most striking aspect at this year’s Australian International Beer Awards was the level of success enjoyed by many of Australia’s most established microbreweries. OK, two trophies for Korea’s…

Sounding La Sirène

For the second year running, the crowds that rocked up over three days to this year’s Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular during Good Beer Week proved themselves to be a sweet-toothed bunch. Last year,…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: Game of Cones

Good Beer Week 2014 saw craft beer enter new territories once more. Nothing was sacred, not even Victoria’s tourism icons. On the opening weekend, Hargreaves Hill took Oregon’s Deschutes on…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: Woods of the North

It was a pretty great Good Beer Week for the breweries operating out of Theobald Street in Thornbury. The brewery’s original inhabitants, 3 Ravens, were named Champion Small Australian Brewery and…

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Good Beer Week 2014 Review: De Vrolijke Boot

Short of unintended consumption when forced into cleaning out a horse’s stable once as a child or possible face plants into bales at music festivals, it is hard to recall hay having passed the Crafty…

Murray's Dark Beer Month

The Bicep is set to return! Despite Murray’s head brewer’s Shawn Sherlock’s insistence that last year’s release of the beer we initially created with the Port Stephens Brewery for…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: Boatrocker Palate Cleanser

Hmmm… Looks like there may be a bit of love for Boatrocker within the Crafty team. Here’s Pia “girlplusbeer / Crafty Pint WA” Poynton’s take on Sunday’s Good Beer Week…

AIBA 2014 Winners

The state that kickstarted Australia’s craft beer revival and the one that’s doing most to drive it forward are both celebrating following the results of the 2014 Australian International Beer Awards…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: GBW Presents Brew vs Cru

At the 2013 Good Beer Week, late into the evening at the Brooklyn Brewery Party at the Great Northern, the New York brewery’s GM Eric Ottaway said that if they could get their brewmaster to the 2014…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: Temple x Weihenstephan Brewligious Experience

The head brewer from the world’s oldest brewery, Frank Peifer of Weihenstephan, returned to Temple in Brunswick East for his second collaborative brew there. The Crafty Pint crew (VIC and WA) went…

Defining The Future

The second Australian Craft Brewers Conference kicked off at the Arts Centre in Melbourne this morning with a keynote speech from one of the country’s craft beer pioneers, Phil Sexton (above). The…

Good Beer Week 2014: Sold Out Events

Not long now until the fourth Good Beer Week kicks off and the number of sellouts is mounting. As in past years, as part of our role as the festival’s online media partner, we’re keeping an…

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Good Beer Week 2014 Review: Russian Imperial Banquet

Talk about putting the boss to shame… At some point, we plan to bring you write ups of the Masterclass of Madness and Brew vs Cru but already – within hours of the event finishing –…

Good Beer Week 2014 Review: GBW Presents Masterclass of Madness

Event: Good Beer Week Presents the Masterclass of Madness Venue: Moon Dog Brewery and Rockwell & Sons Date: May 17 Good Beer Week Stream: Beer Geek The Event: This was the third Good Beer Week local/international…

The Unholy Trinity's Back

Back in 2011, when Good Beer Week first started out, one of the festival’s founders had another spark of inspiration. As a means of bringing attention to the week and also to highlight the community…

Good Beer Week 2014 Preview: Daytime Offerings

With Good Beer Week in full swing and more visitors arriving in Melbourne by the day, for the final of our themed previews of this year’s festival we thought we would look at the daytime events on…

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…

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