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…
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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…
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…
